Microsoft ponders Windows successor

A successor to the Microsoft Windows operating system, while still very much in the theoretical stage, is expected to better leverage multicore processors, for starters, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday afternoon.

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10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed

Article explains why the High Definition DVD formats have already failed, and why they wont be used any time soon.

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MIT research may spell end for the battery

A great idea in theory, but, as said in the article, it could take years to be used in anything regularly.

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New Music Distrubution Method: Blank Discs

This is definately a very interesting idea. It fixes the problem that has plagued online downloads, the lack of the album art. And also you get your media right when it is released, therefore eliminating the need to sit at Wal-Mart waiting to get an album.

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How The World Could End

It kinda scares me to imagine it, but this simulates it pretty well.

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How To Make Anything Look Like a Toy

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Genpets.com - Bioengineered Buddies! (Kinda Creepy)

OK so you take a genetically engineered... thing, and you put it in a plastic container and sell it at the toy store. I don't know but this seems a little too creepy. Is this a joke or something?

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Inventor hopes to hit big time with silent ringtone

Very interesting story. Although I'm sure the teacher might think something is awry when every single kid in the classroom covers their ears in horror. It sounds like a constant and annoying ringing.

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Ringtone only kids can hear

I can hear it quite clearly. Although i wouldnt use it as a ringtone, its quite annoying.

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50 Cent Talking With Apple About Affordable Home Computers

Rap star 50 Cent is entering the world of technology and is currently in negotiations with Apple's CEO Steve Jobs to produce a line of affordable home computers to inner-city residents.

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Bill Gates to Leave Microsoft

Bill Gates to be retiring from his spot in Microsoft in two years. Hopefully the the next person in line for the job will prove to be worthy of such a position.

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Bush Comments on a Blind Reporter's "Shade Look"

Bantering with the reporters who cover him, and assigning them nicknames, is part of George Bush's style. But at his White House press conference this week the joking went a shade too far.

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Pirate Bay Temporarily Shut Down: Promises Swift Return

Police seized the entire server farm of a Swedish file-sharing site as part of a piracy raid, but the site posted a message late Thursday promising that it would be up and running again within two days.

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The Great Microsoft Blunder

This fiasco and the great Microsoft Blunder began when Marc Andreessen, then of Netscape, made some silly, off-handed remark about how the browser would become the next platform for applications and suggested, in so many words, that Microsoft would be destroyed.

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Trash your old tech--the green way

If you started off the new year with a shiny new computer, chances are you didn't even get it plugged in before wondering what to do with the old one. It might seem tempting to dispatch that bulky PC tower and CRT to a dusty basement corner or to dump it in the trash.

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Non-Hispanics Part of Immigration Debate

As a Pakistani, Hamid Khan stood out among the Hispanics he marched alongside at a recent immigration law protest. When he told one demonstrator where he was from, the man responded: "'Then what are you doing here?'"

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42-inch plasmas for less than $2,000

The price of flat has officially fallen, and the $2,000 price point is downright magical to some people. A 42-inch high-resolution plasma TV--no EDTVs here--can go a long way toward making your TV-watching experience something special.

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Microsoft Arabia and SOIETZ for constructing new Riyadh-based technology park

H.E. Mr.

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Vista: it ain't pretty

Microsoft has instituted a scary new antipiracy policy on the forthcoming Windows Vista: if you steal it, it won't look pretty.

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Windows on the Mac | CNET News.com

Apple releases software to run XP

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Firefox 2 Alpha 1

The Alpha 1 release of Firefox 2 isn't exactly something to get excited about. Nothing really exciting or new about it, of course that's what makes Firefox safe.

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The Ultimate Gaming Machine!!!

You gotta see this thing! It's basically an Athlon FX64 chip overclocked beyond belief! And TWO Nvidia graphics cards. Check it out.

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Sony's Blu-ray Player: $1,000

An interview with a Sony rep. Player should come out in July but pricing will be around $1,000. He also mentions how the PS3 will have Blu-ray and whether or not we should wait for it.

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