Aviation giant blames a machinists strike for missing its expected first flight and first delivery dates, which now aren’t planned until 2009 and 2010, respectively. source Tech news blog Share This

Accel Partners tells The New York Times that a fresh $480 million will go toward the creation of a late-stage venture fund. The money might be for Facebook. source Tech news blog Share This

Forty years ago this week, Doug Engelbert and fellow researchers at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) gave a demonstration in San Francisco that was a prescient vision of the future: it included a computer mouse, hypertext linking, real-time on-screen text editing, shared-screen teleconferencing, and other revolutionary ideas. A massive crowd filled Memorial Auditorium at Stanford [...]

For Black Friday week, Nintendo sold about 800,000 Wii consoles and about the same number of DS systems. That’s more than double the 350,000 sold this time last year. “I see no negative signs so far,” Iwata, 49, said in an interview yesterday in Kyoto, Japan, where Nintendo is based. “Until the end of this [...]