Archive for: May 12, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
We’ve got some news that’ll construct a PC gamer or two weep: the Wall St. Journal is reporting that as of next month Dell will be dropping four models of XPS performance PCs to focus solely on pushing Alienware. Certainly no surprise though, we’ve been waiting for that…

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Twelve companies pitched to the crowd at the Where 2.0 conference Monday night. Each had only five minutes each to invent their case. A full rundown of the companies is on the official Launchpad page, but here’s the Webware takeaway on the most interesting of the dozen apps (not counting Whrrl, w…

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Monday night’s Digg Town corridor, the moment in the social news site’s habitable webcast series hosted by CEO Jay Adelson and founder Kevin Rose, didn’t reply any of the really big questions. No acquisitions, no Series C funding, no dirt about Rose’s dating life.

But something it did reveal: There…

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoQuick, what’s the best way to dress up an otherwise dry piece on how companies can register non-traditional trademarks? whether you answered “mention Apple and the iPod,” you’re the big winner — and you’ve gotten yourself published in the Wall Street Journ…

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Nokia Maps on OviPlanning trips on your Nokia smartphone is about to get a lot easier. nowadays at Where 2.0, the Finnish cell phone manufacturer announced Maps on Ovi, a Web component designed to to complement its mobile mapping software, Nokia Maps 2.0. As part of the Ovi sort of Web services, whi…

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I’m at the Where 2.0 conference, looking forward to the Launchpad session tonight where I hope to see several cool new geo companies. Ahead of that I had a chance to meet with some other firms building new geo services: Plazes and Praized.

Plazes: Location reporting
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We’ve seen some pretty far-fetched efforts meant to capture the sun’s rays and convert ‘em into energy, but that one holds a special place in our hearts. Rather than consuming acres upon acres of abandon land or simply placing a plethora of panels atop some roof, ZM Architecture has an concept t…

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Yahoo is letting external Web sites use info from its own catalog of geographic data, thus allowing programmers to employ the Yahoo goods and services into their own applications.

The company now provides an interface to the info, said Dan Catt, an engineer and geotagging buff at Flickr, Yahoo’s ph…

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If you can get past the tinge of disappointment in learning that something named the BeBook isn’t actually the BeOS-based laptop you’ve been waiting for all these years, you may be only slightly less disappointed to know that it’s another fairly ordinary and somewhat overpriced e-book reader. …

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Nothing says sexy like a sleek wood trim, wouldn’t you wholeheartedly agree? Vita Audio obviously does, as it’s £499.99 ($980) R4 integrated music system just screams lavish. The all-in-one unit packs an iPod dock, slot-loading CD / MP3 / WMA-music disc player, USB port, DAB and FM tuner with R…

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Online traffic monitor comScore today released its latest metrics in the world of online video. According the Virginia-based company, the number of online videos viewed by Internet users increased 13 percent from February to March of 2008. And March 2008 was a 64 percent jump over the same month in 2007.

Google-owned sites led the pack, with an impressive 4.3 billion views--nearly 38 percent of all online videos. Ninety-eight percent of that total number was dominated by YouTube. Fox Interactive Media was a distant second, with 4.2 percent of videos (477 million). The top were were rounded out by Yahoo! and Viacom, at 2.9 and 2.2 percent, respectively.

The study estimates that nearly 139 million U.S. Internet users watched, on average, 83 videos during the month. No word on the percent of the whole dominated by skateboarding dogs, sneezing pandas, and dramatic chipmunks.

Check comScore's site for the full breakdown of the study.

Among the litany of complaints issued against Windows Vista, one of the most prominent has been the operating system's inability to play nice with all but top-of-the-line hardware. Microsoft no doubt assumed that PCs would continue in the same trajectory they've been going in since the beginning--becoming more and more powerful.

However, in the last year or so, there's been a new-found interest in ultra-low-cost PCs (ULPCs), systems that trend toward the more affordable, lower-powered end of the spectrum, like the ASUS eee PC. Due in large part to this trend, Microsoft recently announce that it would be extending support for XP until at least 2010.

The software giant recently made another major announcement: It's dropping the price on XP for ULPC manufacturers, in an attempt to compete with traditionally lower-cost Linux.

According to Computer World, the Home Edition of the OS will be made available to manufacturers for $26 in emerging markets such as India and China, and $32 in developed markets like the US and UK.