Archives: 2008March

Tom’s hardware just featured a piece on Intel’s Atom processor. While this new low-end processor family for UMPCs and mobile Internet devices has already been well-covered by the media, the most interesting piece of the article related to the cost of the chips themselves: Our source was “skeptical” that Silverthorne [the cheaper of the two […]

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world — key technology influencers — to learn about what the company is doing in its development labs […]

Cleanliness is a part and parcel of life. People like their things to be neat and tidy, be it their house or car. Things tend to accumulate dirt over a period of time. Cleaning them helps in restoring its original grandeur.
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We left off covering the splice function which can be used for adding and removing elements from a list. We also spoke about four other functions pop push shift and unshift which are all similar to the splice […]

Way back in January of 2 7 SanDisk unveiled the new Sansa View to the world at CES. For some reason SanDisk felt that this original design wouldn t be popular in the consumer market so they went back to the drawing board to totally revamp the design of the SanDisk […]

This is an introductory article which focuses on fetching and updating databases using the DataContext object in LINQ to SQL. By reading this article you will learn how to work with LINQ to SQL manually without using a designer and with great simplicity. It should serve to give a […]

Ever since Microsoft made its initial 44 billion bid on Yahoo several weeks ago the venerable search engine has desperately tried to rebuff the software giant s advances. From behind-the-scenes bargaining with other companies to announcements that the deal vastly underrates Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been working to keep his company […]

The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever. The panel (pictured from left to right) consisted of Patrick Ross (Executive Director, Copyright Alliance), Fred von Lohmann […]

The LiMo Foundation is set to announce at CTIA its first Linux reference platform for cell phone carriers and handset manufacturers. As announced in January, and promised for delivery in March, the foundation will offer up at CTIA its first stab at a standard mobile Linux platform: LiMo Platform Release 1. It won’t be easy. […]

Laptop design doesn’t have to be boring. Although often laptops look exactly as we expect them to look like, there is a number of design solutions and approaches which are completely different — unusual, creative, beautiful and damn useful. In fact, over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which […]