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Nokia’s research and development team have kicked it up a gear with an attractive “aeon” concept phone showing up in the R&D section of the company’s website. The most prominent design feature of aeon is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone, similar to BenQ-Siemens’s Black box concept phone we saw recently. Currently mobile technology isn’t quite up to realizing this fantasy, but we’ll sleep better tonight knowing that at least one of the cellphone industry’s biggest names shares the same dream as we do — BenQ’s dream didn’t count, unfortunately.
CRN is reporting that Dell first identified the cause of the failures in Sony manufactured batteries late last year. At the time, however, Dell believed that the faulty batteries were in a small sample of notebooks and decided to recall only 22,000 units.
In letters obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the line of communication between Richard Stern, acting associate director of the CPSC and John Hodges, a lawyer for Dell, is brought to light:
“Thank you for your full report of November 10, 2005. … In your report, submitted on behalf of Dell Inc. … you indicated that some lithium-ion battery cells manufactured for Dell could contain contaminates that create an internal short circuit. An internal short circuit could result in excessive heat, smoke or flames in the battery pack and possibly beyond, creating risk of thermal burn,” wrote Stern.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.
“The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google. “Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners to offer a compelling media entertainment service to users, content owners and advertisers.”
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html
A declaration by SCO’s backer, BayStar has revealed that the software Giant Microsoft had more links to the anti-Linux bad-boy. The declaration made by from BayStar general partner Larry Goldfarb has turned up as part of IBM’s evidence to the court. Goldfarb says that Baystar had been chucking USD 50 million at SCO despite concerns that it had a high cash burn rate. He also claims that former Microsoft senior VP for corporate development and strategy Richard Emerson discussed “a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would ‘backstop’, or guarantee in some way, BayStar’s investment”. Thanks to The Inq for the summary.
If you’re already running Windows Vista on your machine, and especially if you’re dual-booting with Windows XP (or other Windows OS), you’ve probably noticed that boot.ini has been ditched in favor of Vista’s new bootloader. You can edit it directly in Vista with a program called “bcdedit.exe” via the console, or you can download and install this software instead, which is way easier and works in XP (bcdedit.exe, however, does not.)
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http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
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“There’s bits and pieces of information floating around that revolve around Iwata Asks interviews on Nintendo’s website. What I found interesting was the tidbit about the updatable operating system: ‘Wii is the first system from Nintendo that we can continue to be involved in (via operating system updates) after the customer buys it. This means that Wii will greatly expand and diversify the ways in which people will enjoy games in the future.’ The Wii is reported to operate on top of a proprietary form of the Linux kernel, although there are already efforts to make a GNU/Linux for the console. So, the answer to the age old question is that it already runs Linux.”
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/08/1754219&from=rss
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