Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
What can Republicans and Democrats agree on these days? The fact that wireless taxes are too high, for one thing. Two senators have introduced the "Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act" to put a stop to further increase; 15.9 percent is high enough, they claim.Read More...
Read Senators propose 5-year ban on higher cell phone taxes (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
Following a string of legal victories earlier this year, Rambus has filed suit against the company that it hopes will be its next source of income: graphics giant NVIDIA.Read More...
Read NVIDIA newest patent beatdown target for Rambus (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
The iPhone 3G launched today in the US and across Europe. Unfortunately, activation disasters have resulted in today's second coming of the iPhone being plagued with activation problems.Read More...
Read Launch woes turn iPhone Parousia into activation apocalypse (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
Intel's Health Guide: imagine your doctor and an iMac had a transporter accident. It's Intel's most significant move into the growing e-health market.Read More...
Read Sleek design meets e-health market with Intel Health Guide (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
A new open-source social web service called identi.ca aims to reshape the microblogging landscape by offering true interoperability among services through a federated messaging protocol.Read More...
Read Open-source microblogging site may become Twitter fallback (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
Looks like the FCC is getting serious about testing TV white space devices. Meanwhile, the opposition is starting to bargain.Read More...
Read FCC to begin white space wireless broadband field tests (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
A surprise new CEO and revised earnings estimates have seen VMware's stock take a battering this week. The virtualization market is changing, and the days of VMware's market dominance are over. The new CEO has a lot to do to regain that position.Read More...
Read A victim of its own success: troubled times ahead for VMware (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
The FCC's Kevin Martin announced late Thursday that he wants to act against Comcast in the ongoing debate over the company's P2P throttling scheme. If he can round up two more votes, net neutrality could soon be coming to an FCC near you.Read More...
Read Comcast loses: FCC head slams company's P2P filtering (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
The increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will soon be sold on the shelves in Best Buy. Will users pay $19.99 for what they can get online for free?Read More...
Read Canonical hopes Best Buy Ubuntu will spur Linux adoption (Links)
Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:43 am, Over one day old
Read Researchers craft bot to populate Wikipedia with gene data (Links)