How good is it for you really? Long scorned and blamed for turning a generation into couch potatoes, computer games get a tough rap from Health Authorities.
Rumours that Apple could be on the verge of launching a touch-screen tablet computer have hotted up after a senior executive at the New York Times told staff they would be working on digital material for an 'impending Apple slate'
Oct. 26 - NASA is preparing to launch its Ares1-X rocket, but concerns about bad weather could delay lift-off. SOUNDBITES: Ed Mango, Ares 1-X Mission Manager Mission Manager, Bob Ess Kathy Winters, NASA's weather officer Gemma Haines, Reuters.
Family Guy has been dumped by Microsoft. After deciding the content of the show "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show," scheduled (and heavily advertised by Fox) to air Nov. 8th, is too raunchy, Microsoft decided to drop its sponsorship of the show.
With H1N1 becoming ever more serious as this years flu season looms closer and President Obama declaring a national emergency over the swiftly spreading virus it has become apparent that education on the subject is key. Harvard Medical School is stepping in to provide just that in the convenience of the ever growing iPhone app market. Harvard Medical School Swine Flu iPhone App
Microsoft has gone through great lengths to make a clean install with upgrade media a pain. In fact, they say you can't do it, although they said the same thing about Windows Vista and there was a way around that. There's also a way around 7's restriction as well, and a faster one than on Windows Vista.
Microsoft previously announced (or rather, trumpeted) that unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 would run just fine on a netbook, thank you. But what about the fact that most netbooks are DVD-less? Well, there's an app for that, to steal a line from Apple.
The Palm Pixi, the smaller and cheaper sibling of the Palm Pre now has a price and a launch date. The price of the new phone will be $99 (with the requisite two-year service agreement) and the launch date will be Nov. 15th, in plenty of time for the holidays.
As promised, Intel has released firmware for its second-generation 34nm solid-state drives (SSDs). TRIM is a feature of Windows 7 (and of course, that OS just launched) that will (hopefully) prevent SSDs from seeing performance degradation over time.
Will the new scheme make a difference? After the fervour surrounding President Obamas's decision to abandon the missile defence system , the Czech Republic was among the countries worried about the political and financial fallout.
Facebook gave its homepage a makeover ...again. Last Friday the social networking site quietly rolled out some fairly significant changes to the way information is displayed on your homepage.
