| Review: New IMac Tempts a Windows User
NEW YORK — Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star. Apple's resurgence started with the first iMac, in 1998. Little by little, Apple has been persuading people to opt for Macintosh computers over Windows PCs. After Apple refreshed its iMac line last week, I decided to test one from the perspective of a Windows user. I found it to be a powerful if not completely irresistible enticement to switch. If you haven't looked at iMacs in a while, they now look like half a laptop - the display half, with the processor and other components built into the flat-panel screen. The new iMacs ditch the plasticky look that's been a hallmark of the line since the beginning, replacing it with an aluminum casing that's even thinner than before.
Olympics to use 50 Li-ion battery powered buses
About 50 buses powered by Li-ion battery will be put into ervice for the Beijing Olympics next year, running a total distance of 10.4 kilometers for athletes and officials, according to a Beijing official. The buses will be used in three loop lines in the Olympic village, the northern area of arena and the press village, according to Zheng Jichun, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission. On request of the organizing committee of the Beijing Olympics which was committed to a green Olympics, vehicles using electric power are needed during the games. All the 50 buses are solely powered by a kind of Li-ion battery which is different from various of existing hybrid electric vehicles, according to Sun Fengchun, an electric car expert with Beijing Institute of Technology.
Review: New IMac Tempts A Windows User
Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star.
Apple's resurgence started with the first iMac, in 1998. Little by little, Apple has been persuading people to opt for Macintosh computers over Windows PCs.
After Apple refreshed its iMac line last week, I decided to test one from the perspective of a Windows user. I found it to be a powerful if not completely irresistible enticement to switch.
If you haven't looked at iMacs in a while, they now look like half a laptop _ the display half, with the processor and other components built into the flat-panel screen. The new iMacs ditch the plasticky look that's been a hallmark of the line since the beginning, replacing it with an aluminum casing that's even thinner than before.
Communities rally to recycle electronic debris
One of the world's fastest-growing environmental problems is also a prime driver of the world economy: electronics. Electronic waste -- in the form of discarded computers, cell phones, TVs, VCRs, fluorescent bulbs and other products -- contains toxic substances such as lead and mercury. Some officials worry that despite strong liners under landfills, pollutants from electronics could leak into groundwater and streams. Bay Area communities are rallying to recycle such debris. A number of recycling locations exist, and many counties have organized pickup events to dispose of the "e-waste." Tossing electronics into the trash is illegal. According to state waste managers, up to 75 percent of old electronics are in storage because their owners are unsure about how to safely dispose of them.
News Brief: Overheating Cell Phone Batteries Highlight Continued Need for Battery Manufacturing Vigilance, says ...
The continuing issue of overheating lithium ion batteries underscores the need for the electronics industry to conduct rigorous testing to protect businesses and consumers, especially in view of changing demands from consumers for increasingly smaller portable devices, says Info-Tech Research Group. A year after the world's largest laptop computer battery recalls by multiple manufacturers took place due to overheating batteries, and a laptop computer battery recall by Toshiba this month, Nokia has recalled up to 46 million mobile cell phone batteries in what would constitute the largest consumer electronics recall ever. .
S.F. power outage ripples across the Web
Power fluctuations Tuesday set off a chain reaction that took down a data center that hosts Craigslist, Six Apart's blog sites, Technorati, Yelp, and others.. A power outage in downtown San Francisco and south of the city Tuesday affected some 40,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers directly and millions of Internet users from all over who were unable to access several popular Web sites that went offline. AdBrite.com, Craigslist.org, Six Apart's blog sites (LiveJournal.com, TypePad.com, Vox.com), Technorati.com, and Yelp.com were all inaccessible for part of the day. Other sites, including CurrentTV.com, RedEnvelope.com, and SecondLife.com, also experienced problems. The power failure began at about 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, according to PG&E, and power was restored to all customers within two hours.
(AFX UK Focus) 2007-08-14 15:55 GMT: TFN NEWS BRIEFING: TMT highlights to 15:40 BST
2007-08-14 15:04:10 AT&T wins 9.8 mln usd networking services contract from US Army VIENNA, Virginia (Thomson Financial) - AT&T Inc said it has been awarded a contract worth up 9.8 mln usd to provide networking services to the US Army's Fort Bliss in Texas. 2007-08-14 13:56:24 Broadcom seeks ban on Qualcomm chips SAN DIEGO (AP) - Qualcomm Inc., the world's second-largest chipmaker for cell phones, became a wireless industry powerhouse in the 1990s with its engineering prowess and skill at licensing rights to its patented technology to other companies. 2007-08-14 13:55:23 VMware sets much-anticipated IPO at $29
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced
its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc.
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