Luminus announced Monday a partnership with Japanese LED company Nichia to make components for LEDs lamps that give off white light. Until now, Luminus has made chips for colored LED lights that go into projectors and TVs. Other LED companies target commercial applications as well, such as public lighting.
Even with a higher upfront cost, LEDs [...]
I wrote something like this about RIM’s BlackBerry Storm and got some heat for it, but still…where’s the music?
That’s why Microsoft’s recent justification for the Zune–it helped the company learn how to build music management software and an online store–didn’t ring as false to me as it did to some other folks.
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Other important browsers were not represented. Apple declined to send a representative for
Safari. Reps from other browser companies (like Flock) were not invited.
“It’s a problem we haven’t solved,” said Shaver of Mozilla, “but we’re getting better at knowing when to standardize and when to innovate.”
To my mind, the standout product was Opera. [...]
We also discuss the hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account, and Web 2.0 reaching middle age.
On this week’s EIC Squared podcast ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I talk about the gyrating, uncertain financial markets. Larry says that consolidation in the financial sector could result in an IT spending decline, but notes that Oracle’s latest [...]
Updated at 10:15 PST Tuesday, March 3, with comment from Nokia.
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But according to PC World, the U.S. launch has been interrupted by consumer complaints that the earpiece is not properly protected against moisture, which ruins the speaker. Users have also reported difficulties connecting to AT&T’s 3G network, and many customers have [...]
IBM has successfully obtained a preliminary injunction preventing Papermaster from reporting for duty at Apple, but it seems that’s a pretty standard decision in cases such as these. The two parties are scheduled to have a status conference regarding the case on Tuesday.
InformationWeek spotted the court documents filed late Thursday in federal court in New [...]
2009 should prove interesting for the software world. The only thing I can predict with certainty is a distinct lack of stasis. That, as well as the likelihood that Microsoft will acquire its first open-source company in 2009, probably Zend or another complementary technology vendor. The times, they are a’ changin’.
In other words, while I’ve tended to focus on all the benefit the proprietary world can glean from open source, there’s clearly also a lot of value that open-source vend
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“The size and scale of this plan demand unprecedented efforts to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending,” President Obama says in an introductory video on the site. “The important decisions about where taxpayer dollars will be invested will be yours to scrutinize.”
The White House has launched Recovery.gov, a site that intends to bring transparency to the government spending authorized in the $787 billion economic pa
