TechCrunch:
Something really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial.This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They’ve raised at least $85 million in venture capital with the help of an investment bank, Financial Technology Partners. Their most recent round, a reporte (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Most of America's libraries make it a part of their mission to offer Internet access to anyone in the community, but a severe bandwidth crunch is hobbling those efforts. That's one of the conclusions reached by the American Library Association, which says that 59.6 percent of American libraries "report thei (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Chrome OS dev code only just went public, but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12, and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead. Ultimately, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 did the best, and openSUSE 11.2 also di (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 977981 in regard to public reports of a vulnerability that exists as an invalid pointer reference of Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, it is possible for a CSS/Style object to be accessed after the object is deleted, and thus, if Internet Explorer attempts t (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam" was yesterday sentenced by a federal judge in Detroit to spend the next 51 months of his life in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, and violations of the CAN-SPAM act.Not content simply to move boxes of pills or to sign people up for new mortgages, Ralsky's ope (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There's a certain type of person for whom airports and airplanes cease to be novel, and start to feel like home. This is depressing, on many levels! Which is why these people need gifts. Lots and lots of gifts. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. A good pair of in-ear phone (Read More)
PR Newswire: Technology:
LONDON, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frost & Sullivan '2009 World Security Test Equipment Technology Leadership of the Year Award' is presented to Codenomicon Ltd., one of the leading companies in the product security test market, for its proactive test solutions for new technologies. (Read More)
PR Newswire: Technology:
WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Without collaboration, there can be no technology transfer. Without technology transfer, innovation will wither and die on the vine. (Read More)
PR Newswire: Technology:
MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- AVerMedia® Information, Inc., the leading provider of digital multimedia and presentation technology, announced today the launch of a new USB flash drive bracelet giveaway. This promotion asks owners of the new AVerVision(TM) 355AF Interactive Document Camera to register their produ (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The recent embrace of digital 3D film is largely due to the efforts of an unexpected figure: James Cameron. Cameron both helped create the modern 3D camera and masterminded the spread of 3D, all so Avatar could blow your mind. Avatar dates back to 1977, when Cameron was just a truck driver determined to "out-Lucas George Lu (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[France] Tablets are destined to be the next super trendy tech device. Crunchgear regularly reports on new devices that will be launched by PC or mobile manufacturers, and Apple will one day join the dance. Analysts have announced that the tablet war will take place in 2010 so we just have to be patient.A French company cal (Read More)
PR Newswire: Technology:
HONG KONG, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- According to the findings of Frost& Sullivan 2009 unified communications user behaviour study, in which a totalof 370 CIOs and IT managers were interviewed for their views on technologyinvestments were gathered, nearly 35% of respondents indicated an interest todeploy on-premise and h (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[UK] If you are a technology startup and want to network with Silicon Valley type then one way of doing it is to go to South By South West Interactive. Those who attend in the past have informally called it ‘Spring Break for Geeks’, but it is a little more significant that that suggests. Twitter took off in the US by launch (Read More)
PR Newswire: Technology:
DALLAS, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the industry's smallest four-channel, low-power, low-jitter sine-to-sine wave clock buffer, the first device in a family of sine-wave clock buffers. The CDC3S04 can replace up to three individual same-frequency temperature compe (Read More)
Gizmodo:
We asked Maximum PC editor-in-chief Will Smith to name the best gaming PCs in four categories: monster laptop, value laptop, over-the-top desktop and "cheap" desktop. Though that last one is still a bankbuster, his picks are hot as hell: Desktop Replacement Notebook: iBuypower M865TU You want a speedy desktop replacement n (Read More)