Though the Kindle DX is an impressive e-book reader, its high price will likely turn off some prospective buyers. In spite of its larger size, the Amazon Kindle DX ($489 as of October 29, 2009) comes off as a surprisingly lean and elegant contender in …
How long is the spitting contest between Apple's iTunes and Palm going to continue? Hopefully not much longer, seeing as the seesaw battle tottered back in Apple's favor Thursday with the release of iTunes 9.0.2. …
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors behind Freakonomics, are back with a sequel, inevitably titled SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Four observations from the …
In a nod to my colleague Tom Wailgum, who wrote What Star Wars Teaches Us About Career Management, I'm waving a hand in front of mobile users and saying, "This is the Droid you're looking for"—and iPhone owners should be wishing for the same thing. …
The launch of NASA's Ares 1-X went fine. But damage to the Ares rocket occurred at splashdown. By Pete Spotts | 10.30.09 NASA's Ares 1-X rocket rises through the sky during its Wednesday test flight. NASA's Ares 1-X rocket — it's first stage, …
Why do we today celebrate today–October 29–as the Internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time–and crashed. Here is what happened: The first network had four …
The iPhone appeared to get a slow start in China on Friday night as China Unicom and Apple held a launch event largely free of the buzz and long buyer lines that have accompanied launches of the handset elsewhere. Smog hung in the Beijing air as buyers …
The organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has approved a new plan to allow non-Latin characters in Web extensions. Known as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), the system is designed …
Supporters of dedicated servers for FPS games claim that the current system is necessary to allow for a full gaming experience. Needless to say, the recent news that dedicated servers aren't being supported in the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern …
Letter by letter, UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message from his school's host computer to another computer at Stanford Research Institute. Kleinrock was trying to write "login," starting up a remote time-sharing system, …
Microsoft issued a friendly reminder in a blog post earlier this week that if you installed Windows 7 on a blank hard drive using an upgrade disc, your Windows installation is illegal. Well, maybe… but I'll get to that in a second. …
The handset maker is looking to its Google Android-based smartphones, like the Verizon Droid, to regain market share. By W. David Gardner A penny a share in profits doesn't exactly qualify as a turnaround, but in addition to two new well-received …