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It turned out to be a damn good quarter for Microsoft, pulling in $13.76 billion in revenue—a 27 percent jump over the same quarter last year—for a net income of $4.29 billion, making it “the fastest revenue growth of any first quarter since 1999” with double digit growth in every division. (Halo 3 was mentioned…
In his 1991 book, Facing Tomorrow, author Thomas Hine opens with a decidedly pessimistic tone. The first chapter, “The End of the Future,” expresses a feeling of betrayal that the world did not provide the future humanity was promised. An excerpt from that chapter appears below. For at least two decades, no compelling, comprehensive vision…
Some “last minute bugs” will push back the OLPC production process to November 12th, resulting in a shortage of computers available for a holiday program in North America and Canada. This Give-1-Get-1 program would have allowed buyers in the US an Canada to purchase a two computer package for $400, with one of the laptops…
If we told you to picture a phone with the Adidas branding on it, would you picture something spectacular, or something more along the lines of a 2-megapixel slider with FM radio, MP3 player and an EDGE connection? Right. At least the phone, manufactured by Samsung, has actual sport functionality with a pedometer and heart-rate…
I sat down with Peter Semmelhack, CEO of Bug labs, to talk about his open source hardware gadgets. My first question for him was why open source hardware when open source software is so powerful and easier to implement? His answer explained how Bug Labs should anticipate the innovative hacks (like Lego Mindstorm), but also…
That rumor about a sub-$200 Wal-Mart HD-A2 HD DVD player from Toshiba seems like it’s true, judging from this no-reason-to-be-blurry blurry shot of an end-cap at Wal-mart. It’s not set to be sold until 11/03 and will be in the circulars for that week, and each store will get 18 units. The guy who posted…
It’s official. We knew it was coming, but as of today, Classic is no more. The System is dead, so you won’t be able to run old legacy programs in Leopard. I’m sad. A little bit. OK, I’m not. Good riddance I say. [Apple]
Don’t get me wrong, I give designer Diana Halbeisen all the credit in the world for thinking out of the box with this topless table design. However, I’m all about protecting my junk, and this thing doesn’t look like it would do a good job of it. If it wasn’t getting burned by hot food…
It’s easy to forget, reading the addictive prose, that Fake Steve Jobs is a fictional character. And Dan Lyons a Forbes Editor with a entirely separate persona. That becomes clearer when you watch the author of the Freetard-hating FSJ profess his love for Linux in this video. Dan explains that there are tons of pro…
If you are anything like me, the whole iPod dock thing is getting way, way old. However, one look at this stylish Boynq Wake Up iPod Dock Alarm Clock is (almost) enough to make you fall in love with iPod docks again. The Wake Up isn’t just a pretty face however, because it also features…
At least one Congressman is telling Comcast to take a break from its experiment proving why we need net neutrality—Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va), a consumer advocate, told CNet’s Chris Soghoian that “Comcast has made a major mistake in attempting to hinder peer-to-peer file sharing as an aspect of its network management” as “file sharing is…
Australian design firm Tiller+Tiller is hoping that their new TeleMax phone/universal TV remote hybrid concept will find its way into homes all over the world thanks to a design that’s so simple even Grandma can use it. The button controls are large enough to be seen easily by the visually impaired, and the layout is…
While Windows Vista caught Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on most core technologies, like its GPU-driven graphics system, and features, like the new search or Aero, the new Leopard arguably puts Apple ahead of the OS race once again. Microsoft is supposed to release Vista 2.0/Windows 7 in 2010, so there’s plenty of time to…
Remember that Gigantic Wenger Swiss Army Knife that had 85 distinct functions? It’s actually on sale now over at ThinkGeek, proving that all you need to stab yourself in the gut 85 different ways is $999 (plus shipping). [ThinkGeek via Boing Boing] https://gizmodo.com/wenger-giant-knife-1-0-196247
Even if you aren’t an accountant (I’m not) you can tell right off the bat things aren’t so sunny when you only see the word “sales” leading the press release bullet points, and not the words “net income” or “profit.” Such is the case with Motorola, continuing their downward spiral. The release highlights tout $8.8…
The Pitch We’ve seen this approach before, eh? Looks like one of those AT&T commercials in which a dropped call leads to an awkward situation—a mother spontaneously revealing her sexually licentious past, for example, or Roger Clemens pushing it one season too far. But this schlubby hubby’s problem isn’t poor reception. Rather, it’s the fact…
D-Link’s DGL 4500 OLED-equipped gaming router that we had a hands on with last month is now selling for $240 at the D-Link store. [D-Link] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-d-links-dgl-4500-oled-screen-gaming-route-304176
David over at Ars points out that Apple’s removed references to the iPhone inside the 300 new features page under their Mac OS X section. Where before you could see a section detailing how Notes would sync from your iPhone into Mail.app’s Notes, now you just get a small description of what Mail’s Notes can…
Oh, btw, the holographic Leopard box is everything the blurry YouTube videos promised and more. Wilson says he can’t stop staring into its starry Time Machine maw.
No surprises here, really. Profits for Nintendo’s first fiscal half were ¥132.42 billion ($1.16 billion) on sales of ¥694.80 billion ($6.09 billion), destroying the same half last year’s profit of ¥54.35 billion on ¥298.82 billion in sales. Nintendo’s feeling pretty good, obviously, raising forecasted sales of the Wii this fiscal year by one million to…