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Zune Sales Not So Bad After All 366

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 29, 2006 @11:03PM from the on-second-thought dept.

pyrbrand writes "Despite the iFanboy jabber that Zune sales were horrific, CNN has a story to the contrary. Turns out Zune was the #2 Digital Audio player in its first week of sales. Not a bad start for the challenger to the iPod throne. As others have pointed out the Amazon sales rank may have been thrown off by Zune sales being divided between the three colors."

Can the Web Survive v3.0 217

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 19, 2006 @12:46PM from the still-waiting-on-the-2.0-bugfixes dept.

robotsrule writes "The battle lines between skeptic and evangelist are already drawn. Either way, Web 3.0 will either be the new face of the Web that launched a thousand empty business plans, or the tipping point into a vastly more exciting phase of the Web. This Web 3.0 article asserts that the marraige of artificial intelligence to the infrastructure of Web 3.0 will dramatically accelerate our capacity for distributed problem solving. However, it also issues dire warnings on the potential hyper-euphoria that will accompany it."

Comment Re:TLA award (Score 1) 144

by LackaDaisy on Thursday October 26, 2006 @08:51PM (#16603306) Attached to: Slashback: SCO, COPA, AllofMP3, Navier-Stokes, and More

3 isn't a letter.

Flash Drives On a Calculator 122

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 17, 2006 @02:10PM from the fat16-should-be-enough-for-anybody dept.

aawm writes with the following news for graphing calculator fans. "As the result of a group effort between Michael Vincent, Brandon Wilson, and Dan Englender, msd8x v0.94 has been released, which allows you to use ordinary USB flash drives with a TI-84 Plus. With the appropriate cable, you can browse, modify, and copy (in both directions) files between a flash drive and the 84 Plus's RAM and/or archive."

Merom in MacBook and MacBook Pros in September? 323

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 11, 2006 @02:27PM from the time-to-upgrade-already dept.

Kevin C. Tofel writes "If you want to see where the computer industry is going, you often have to watch the computer component manufacturers, and that's just what DigiTimes did. AsusTek and Quanta both produce Apple notebooks and sources appear to have just revealed that September is the month for 64-bit Merom CPUs in the MacBook and MacBook Pro line."

A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 288

Posted by Zonk on Saturday July 15, 2006 @09:05PM from the since-when-are-big-numbers-funny dept.

zollman writes "Jonathan Richards, in the London times, explains how the introduction of IPv6 will change the Internet. From the article: 'As use [of the Internet] grew, it became clear that the old protocol, IPv4, wasn't big enough, so a new one was created using 32-bit numbers. That increased the number of available addresses to 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion -- enough for the foreseeable future.'"

A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium 335

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 08, 2006 @08:58PM from the better-stronger-faster dept.

Burlap writes "Using technology developed at MIT, 4-person startup Avanti Metal hopes to reduce the cost of producing Titanium from the current $40 per pound to a mere $3. The article discusses how a special combinations of oxides and electrolysis separates the titanium metal from the Earth's abundant titanium oxide ore."

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