Archive for April 28th, 2008Shares of game publisher Take-Two were up on the heels of positive reviews of the forthcoming video game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is being released to the public at midnight Tuesday.
Take-Two plans to launch “Grand Theft Auto IV” on Tuesday. (Credit: Rockstar Games) Shares of the … source Tech news blog The nuclear winter in technology talk sparked by Marc Andreessen wasn’t exactly on my mind as I got rid of some boxes in the garage over the weekend. But beneath a tub of paperback books and snow chains I’d managed to never use, there was an archeological treasure: … source Tech news blog A Dutch hacker activist and journalist has launched the Small Sister Project which is designed to help consumers counter the privacy invasions of Big Brother. Brenno de Winter launched his project on Saturday with the aim of making it easier for people to keep their on the web communications safe from the … source Tech news blog A jury in Alameda County, Calif., on Monday afternoon found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first-degree murder in the 2006 killing of his estranged wife, Nina Reiser, according to news accounts. The jury made its decision after three days of deliberation following a drama-filled six-month trial. The jury had … source Tech news blog PALO ALTO, Calif.–It looks and feels like a square, yellow crayon. But it’s actually a lot more sophisticated than that. It’s ink in solid form (aptly called “solid ink”) made of a polymeric resin, and Xerox researchers are using it, combined with advances in print head technology … source Tech news blog Hundreds of officials from agencies around the world including the FBI, Interpol, say attorneys general, city and county police, and the Air Force are attending a three-day technology training session at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus beginning on Monday. Microsoft is training the officers how to use technologies that can … source Tech news blog  Jeff Dachis, one of the original Internet cowboys while running Web consultancy Razorfish, is again offering advice to corporate America. Venture capital firm Austin Ventures is putting up $50 million to back Dachis’ new venture, a consultancy that plans to help companies use social networks as well as sell them … source Tech news blog Lenovo first introduced its new consumer notebook line, IdeaPad, back at CES in January. Now, the smallest–and arguably best-looking–of the bunch is set to ship to consumers very soon.
The U110, Lenovo’s foray into consumer-oriented ultraportable notebooks, is now available on Lenovo.com, with other retailers soon to follow. source Tech news blog Intacct announced Monday it raised a $15 million round of venture funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners.  The on-demand financial management and record-keeping applications company also received a portion of the round from its existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures. That brings total funding for Intacct, … source Tech news blog
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Hospital techies urge limits on ‘white space’ Wi-FiPosted by: admin in Tech and GadgetsAbout a decade ago, wireless heart monitors hooked to patients at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas went on the fritz, causing much scrambling among the building’s engineering team. 
The culprit, as it turned out, was interference from a nearby broadcast television station, which was testing its digital signal … source Tech news blog |
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