Best Buy's UK Store Opening Breaks Records
It looks like Best Buy's new store in London is doing rather well. According to reports, the new store broke the company record for opening weekends. Jeez, I didn't even know that you guys in the UK didn't have a Best Buy until now. Best Buy's first store is in Thurrock, Essex—located East of London, it's near where the 2012 Olympics will be held. While Best Buy had some decent reductions on its opening day, and a lot of fanfare, I can see it doing really well here, despite the obvious threat of online shopping on Amazon etc being strong. Comments
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Project Puts 1M Books Online for Blind, Dyslexic
I was going to be funny and write "a wen ecivres si gnieb decnounna yadot rof scixelsyd" but it's too damn hard to type backwards. A new service being announced Thursday by the nonprofit Internet Archive in San Francisco is trying to change that. The group has hired hundreds of people to scan thousands of books into its digital database — more than doubling the titles available to people who aren't able to read a hard copy. Comments
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Taiwan-Based PSU Makers Raise Prices by 10%
If this report is correct, you might want to pick up a new PSU before prices get out of hand. If you need help picking one, our recent PSU buying guide can help you find one that suits your needs. Thanks to our man Paul Johnson for the heads up. With continuous shortage of upstream materials and strong demand from system makers, Taiwan-based power supply companies have already hiked prices or are planning to do so, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. Comments
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Browser Extension Leaks Google History to Amazon
What is going on with all these oddball privacy issues lately? Seriously, it just seems like the news is packed with stories of leaks, holes, vulnerabilities and apps that leak your information for you. As the video in this post shows, when I was looking up information on a product on Google, I found shortly afterward that Amazon knew about my Google search and put the product I was looking at in my "Recently Viewed" slot when I loaded up the retail site. Comments
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VIA Launches VIA EPIA-M830
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the new VIA EPIA-M830 Mini-ITX board. Designed specifically to meet the needs of next generation kiosk, POI and POS applications, the VIA EPIA-M830 places the latest 64-bit, high performance VIA Nano E-Series processor in a streamlined, application specific Mini-ITX form factor board. Comments
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Surprised Employer Fires Sex Blogger
We've posted stories before about being careful what you post on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums etc. because it may come back to haunt you later. Well, this story is a perfect example of that…especially when you've only been on the job a month. Yikes! According to TBK, her boss – at the suggestion of top management – was Googling employees for information about them. When she arrived at work April 27, she was fired on the spot. Comments
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Microsoft Office Ultimate, Now With Built In Alarm
I tried not to laugh at this video, I really did. I think the dude on the stairs made me laugh the most but all the others were pretty funny too. Comments
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Man Wins $1M Playing Baseball Video Game
In what can only be described as the world's great Xbox 360 Achievement, some twenty three year old guy won $1 million for pitching a perfect game in MLB 2K10. It took McGilberry exactly seven tries and he didn't even listen to many of his catcher's suggestions. Instead it was his unconventional method of trying to throw 2-seam fastballs as weak as possible that won him more than twice the Major League Baseball minimum salary. Comments
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Court Fight Brews Over Unsealing iPhone Records
News organizations, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Wired and the L.A. Times, have asked the courts to unseal the police affidavit used to obtain a search warrant in the prototype iPhone case. Making those documents public could reveal whether prosecutors and Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan considered whether journalist shield laws applied to the evening raid of Jason Chen's home last month and whether they viewed bloggers working for Gizmodo parent company Gawker Media as members of a legitimate media organization. Comments
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Microsoft's DigiGirlz Program: A Decade of Inspiration
Concerned about statistics like these, Microsoft developed the DigiGirlz Technology Program series, now in its 10th year, to inspire high school girls to explore careers in the technology field. The DigiGirlz Technology Programs (which include high-tech camps and one-day events) are organized and run by Microsoft employee volunteers. Girls gain the opportunity to hear from Microsoft senior executives and community leaders. In addition to classroom learning, the girls interact one-on-one with Microsoft employees through product demonstrations, tours and job shadowing of employees with similar interests. The hands-on technology courses also teach students computer skills such as product design, graphic design and resume building. By the end of 2010, more than 13,200 students will have attended the Microsoft DigiGirlz Technology Programs. Comments
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AMD to Present at Barclays Technology Conference
AMD today announced that Dirk Meyer, president and chief executive officer, will present at the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media & Technology Conference at 7:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 in New York, New York. A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepage: http://ir.amd.com. A replay of the webcast can be accessed approximately 24 hours after the conclusion of the live event and will be available for 10 days after the conference. Comments
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New Air Force Cyberspace Badge Guidelines Released
The men and women of the United States Air Force that defend our country from behind a computer monitor now have their own special badgeÂ…the Cyberspace badge. It's about time! The Air Force's Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer said the new badge reflects the importance of cyber operations. "The Air Force's cyberspace operators must focus on operational rigor and mission assurance in order to effectively establish, control, and leverage cyberspace capabilities. The new cyberspace operator badge identifies our cyberspace professionals with the requisite education, training, and experience to operate in this new critical domain. The badge symbolizes this new operational mindset and the Air Force's commitment to operationalize the cyberspace domain," said Lt. Gen. William T. Lord. Comments
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Adobe Behind Apple Antitrust Complaints?
MacNN, citing anonymous sources, claims that Adobe is behind the complaints to U.S. antitrust enforcers. To be honest, who really cares where the complaint come from if you end up being investigated. Am I right? An Adobe complaint is the main cause behind reported federal interest in antitrust charges against Apple, according to Bloomberg sources. Apple recently changed the rules for developers, forbidding the use of third-party tools in the creation of iPhone and iPad apps. In doing so, Adobe's complaint is said to suggest, Apple has actively interfered with companies' ability to compete. Comments
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Facebook Shuts Its Chat Hole
Facebook has fixed a major chat hole as well as a glitch that allowed you to see other users' friend requests. Ironically, both vulnerabilities cropped up after Facebook implemented new security improvements. "For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users' chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the 'preview my profile' feature of Facebook privacy settings," a company representative said in an email. "When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which is now complete." Comments
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