The announcement brings to a close EA’s long-running, but oft-rebuffed, effort to acquire Take-Two.
EA dropped its hostile bid in August after the two companies agreed to hold private talks about a potential transaction. A few days later, the Federal Trade Commission said it had conducted an investigation of a merger of the companies, but said [...]
Flickr Gallery Plus lets you go back and forth between shots with your keyboard's arrow keys. It also pre-fetches each image–letting you load it without the page re-loading.
Browser add-on Flickr Gallery Plus adds extended functionality to Flickr’s set view, allowing users to click through to see full versions of each shot without having to reload [...]
Did Apple fans get all they wanted? Will Apple fans be pleased with Monday’s announcements? CNET’s Molly Wood offers an overview of Jobs’ keynote address.
iPhone 3G makes its debut
Steve Jobs revealed the
iPhone 3G with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price, and a near worldwide release beginning July 11.
As expected, [...]
Portable navigation devices (PNDs) continued to draw a lot of interest in 2008 as more and more consumers became aware of the advantages of in-car GPS and they became more affordable. We think prices will continue to drop in the new year since the market is oversaturated with these navigation aids and the GPS manufacturers [...]
My impression is that even Red Hat isn’t certain quite how the desktop end of things will play out. On the one hand, it’s clearly less of a clean fit than is KVM. At the same time, there’s more than one reason to think that VDI and Red Hat aren’t exactly oil and water.
VDI [...]
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Only those with “pro” subscriptions will be able to publish videos, but as with photos, those with free Flickr accounts and the public will be able to watch them. The site will support videos in AVI, MPEG, and MOV formats, showing them with a Flash player but storing the original, too. Existing [...]
Got an
iPod? Rip your CDs to Apple Lossless or WAV files, and get way better sound than iTunes downloads. Buy used CDs, and save even more money.
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Steve Guttenberg)
The numbers are grim, all right, but the music industry still sells hundreds of millions of CDs each year. That’s a lot of discs, and sales [...]
