Archive for: July 23, 2008

Filed under: Desktops
Here’s the thing about PC cases — they spend a good bit of moment showing off how fantastic the external of component-filled boxes can look, but generally speaking, the innards are totally overlooked. Digital Cowboy is out to dramatically reverse the trend with its Acrylic Cow…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Storage
Western Digital has been flaunting its VelociRaptor for some moment now, but the drive you’ve been slamming into towers is now available for low-power, high-performance blade server applications. The 2.5-inch, 10,000RPM enterprise SATA drive (WD3000BLFS) is specially designed to…

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Gadgets

Filed under: CellphonesOne of the longest-running — and certainly most fascinating — soap operas in the entire wireless world, the seemingly endless patent drama amidst Nokia and Qualcomm, has finally drawn to an amicable (dare we say anti-climactic) shut. After just a individual day of arbitratio…

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Gadgets

The folks at the Technical University of Delft have already done their part for the robot cause by building a dragonfly-type bot, dubbed the DelFly Micro, with a wingspan of just four inches, but they’ve now gone one step further and strapped a tiny camera onto it. What’s more, they’ve additio…

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Robots

There are no less than five apps to turn my iPhone into a flashlight, yet I can’t turn it into a 3G-powered Wi-Fi hotspot. Why? considering the SDK has more restrictions than Guantanamo-devs can’t integrate with the OS and have to steer way, way clear of copyright and trademark issues-so the most in…

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OS

Matthew Dillon has announced the availability of DragonFly BSD 2.0. additionally HAMMER filesystem is released with the new DragonFly. Gadgets the full Release Notes.Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru)

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OS

We’ve been keeping an eye on Aldebaran’s NAO robot since before it even took its first steps, and it now looks like the little guy is finally set to try to invent it on its own in the wild world of the commerical market. That word comes courtesy of an exhaustive white paper posted by Aldebaran…

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Gadgets, Robots

For those balking at the $2,000 price tag, you should really take a look at the competition before scrunching your nose up and walking absent. That being said, two large is still a lot to drop on something that could still require at least some bodily exertion, but a recent video review by at Po…

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Gadgets, Transporation

Texas Memory has been around longer than most of you readers have been alive (or so we’re told by our resident omniscient overlord), but it’s been fairly awhile since it was talked about freely in the same breath as WD, Fujitsu, Samsung, et al. Now, however, the company is making the rounds once…

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Gadgets, Storage

We Americans have had the opportunity to pick up Sony’s Reader for what seems like eons, but you poor bookworms holed up in the UK have been neglected unjustly. No more, as Sony has just opened up the phone lines for folks keen to claim their spot in line the queue. No need in rehashing the spec…

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Displays, Gadgets

It's firing squad time for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Not literally, of course, but as far as the tech world goes, it doesn't get much closer. Tomorrow he'll have to answer to a roomful of not technology analysts—those he can surely handle—but finance experts. This gang has spent years scrutinizing the company's every move, financial statement, and stock rise (or fall).

And, truth be told, he's got some 'splainin' to do. For starters: Is acquiring Yahoo! Microsoft's sole strategy for beating Google? How long will you stick with the Zune? If Microsoft can't convince consumers and business to adopt Vista, what's the plan for accelerating the release of Windows 7?

Lance Ulanoff's got plenty (or 17) more shots on PCMag.com.

Carl Icahn backed off his proxy fight for Yahoo! earlier this week because those he selected to appoint to the Yahoo! board were "nervous about having a complete change of control," the billionaire investor wrote in a Tuesday blog post.

"By the end of last week, I realized that although many large shareholders supported me and my slate for the board, they were nervous about having a complete change of control," Icahn wrote on his recently launched blog, The Icahn Report. "From prior proxy contest experience, I have discovered that a minority position on the board can be also quite effective."

In a post titled "How I Spent My Weekend," Icahn said he and Yahoo! executives Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang were up until 5 AM on Monday, trying to reach a compromise. The two sides eventually agreed to a deal whereby Icahn would abandon his proxy contest for Yahoo! in exchange for a seat on the company's board and two board members of his choice.

Icahn said he was pleased that the deal included a provision that he be allowed to serve on any committee established to consider a merger and another that would require a full discussion on any meaningful offer.

In a July 20 "farewell note" to seven of the nine individuals Icahn had reportedly tapped to voted to the Yahoo! board, Icahn said that those who were not selected to be on Yahoo!'s board would be getting $25,000 each from Icahn himself.

The letter was addressed to Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk; former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi; former Nextel CEO John H. Chapple; Mark Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and the owners ...