Archive for: April 3, 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsLooks like Dell’s plan to trim $3B in costs from its budget is going to entail even more job cuts than the 8,800 already announced — speaking to analysts nowadays, Michael Dell said that his company’s management had “identified a very meaningful opportunity” to cut costs, …

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The durable times just don’t seem to end at Motorola — the company announced nowadays that it’s laying off another 2,600 workers, for a total of 10,000 positions eliminated since the start of 2007. That’s on top of the various high-level executive departures that have been taken place lately, n…

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The FCC has just lifted its gag order on the gory details of the 700MHz Auction 73, and AT&T wasted absolutely no day setting up a press conference to discuss how it was planning to utilize its win in the so-called B Block. Bottom line: AT&T’s moving to LTE for its 4G infrastructure — n…

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The same week that Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled its LTE solution for North America comes a little nugget from Ericsson: the M700. Hailed as the “world’s first commercially available LTE-capable platform,” it promises peak input transmissions of 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up, which will undoubted…

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Microsoft will shutter its Windows XP line June 30, as planned, ceasing sales of Windows XP Professional and Windows XP domestic to retailers and direct OEMs, Microsoft confirmed to eWEEK April 3. The statement from Redmond executives ends weeks of speculation that Microsoft would extend the life of…

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We’re never going to give up the dream of wireless charging, but it looks like the high costs of developing the technology plus the battle to build it into portable devices has claimed early wireless pioneer Splashpower. We’ve been following the company since 2004, but we never really saw any co…

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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe’re never going to give up the dream of wireless charging, but it looks like the high costs of developing the technology plus the battle to build it into portable devices has claimed early wireless pioneer Splashpower. We’ve been following the company since 2004, but we n…

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“dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. It is the little brother of wmii.” And version 4.9 has been released.Original post by dono…

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The releases just keep on coming, don’t they? The GNUstep habitable CD has been updated “The GNUstep habitable CD contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was additionally the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X).” The GNUstep page can tell you more about …

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While it doesn’t precisely come as a surprise given recent developments, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has now told a House subcommittee that the Census Bureau will in fact be ditching its much-ballyhooed PDAs in favor of paper and pencil for the 2010 census. According t…

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Here’s a novel concept: rather than stressing by the choice within solar or hydroelectric capability sources to keep that green data center running, just build the thing approach a community pool. Apparently that’s precisely what’s happening in Uitikon, Switzerlan…

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