Posts Tagged ‘time’

Mark Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-President

You might have heard of companies going from strength to strength, but Oracle has just gone from one controversial executive to another. Former HP CEO Mark Hurd has been revealed as the replacement for outgoing co-president Charles Phillips. According to the company, Phillips has resigned and will...
September 7th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

Intel Finally Jumping on the USB 3.0 Bandwagon

The USB 3.0 SuperSpeed spec really is all that and a bag of Baked Lays (unless you’re not a fan of Baked Lays, in which case insert your own awesome variety of chips). For starters, USB 3.0 crushes USB 2.0 in maximum theoretical transfer rates at up to 4.8Gb/s versus 480Mb/s. But speed isn’t...
September 6th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

Avatar 3D Blu-ray Disc to be Exclusive to Panasonic 3D TVs

At the time of its theatrical release, many in the consumer electronics industry hoped that “Avatar” would usher in a new era in home entertainment, an era where 3D is no longer a novelty but the norm. James Cameron’s magnum opus didn’t disappoint and is now viewed by many as a watershed...
September 4th, 2010 | Software | Read More

90′s game hero Duke Nukem returns after delay of more than a decade

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Friday, 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced they will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC in 2011. The game was first announced in 1997 and has long been considered the most legendary case of “vaporware,” that is, hardware...
September 3rd, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

New Site Extracts and Posts Geotags From Twitter Pics

Smartphones are really amazing devices. They do so many things that many people can’t really keep track of all of them. Such is the case with the geotagging of images many smartphones do by default. A new site called “I Can Stalk U” is parsing Twitter in search of geotagged photos....
August 23rd, 2010 | Security, Software | Read More

Future Tense: The Magic of Plastic

I’ll say it again. AKPC_IDS += "4616,";Popularity: 8% [?]
August 20th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

40 Windows apps affected by critical security flaw, researcher claims

By Ed Oswald, Betanews A Texas-based researcher claimed he had discovered that about 40 different Windows apps, including the Windows shell, suffer from a critical vulnerability that could open up users to attacks by hackers. The flaw was originally discovered in iTunes for Windows, and was patched...
August 19th, 2010 | Security | Read More