On the technology, too, it’s true that a new market requires tight cohesion between a small core group of developers as they iterate toward a solution, but this is descriptive of open-source communities, too. There’s simply no reason that open source can’t innovate new markets and, indeed, everything to suggest that it can, and may [...]

The machine can run on either “specially promoted” hydrogen peroxide in a dual-fuel mode (available starting in August) or standard high test peroxide (available in May). A dual-fuel capable jetpack has a longer flight time (the full 75 seconds, as opposed to 45 seconds) and can go faster (75mph compared with 65mph), giving it the [...]

Like the current 7-inch Eee PC, the new model will come in both Windows and Linux versions, but the hardware is a little different depending on which operating system you choose. The Windows version has a 12GB flash-based hard drive, while the Linux version has 20GB–we suspect the difference is so Asus can offer both [...]

The event took place Monday evening at a Best Buy outlet in this city’s Mission district, an odd choice of venues for the launch of what many have been calling one of the biggest video games of the year.

‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas made a surprise appearance Monday night at the launch event in San [...]

To keep this train rolling, RIM will have to make sure it continues to upgrade its infrastructure in step with its subscriber additions, keep up with the cutting-edge of hardware design, and continue to improve the BlackBerry software. Nokia, Samsung, and Apple don’t have to worry about maintaining the Internet.
Smartphone customers keep flocking to [...]

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Fans of the Sonic the Hedgehog series have been clamoring for a traditional 2D Sonic game in the vein of the lightning-fast titles from the Sega Genesis age. With Sega officially answering that call, we’re left wondering if “Needlemouse” will be a traditional $60 boxed game or a download-only title.
While details are slim, the [...]

A recently spotted ad on HowardForums points at the possibility of a new LG slider coming out for Alltel, and it’s called the Glimmer. Engadget calls it a combination of the LG Shine and the LG Viewty, which sounds about right. It promises a 2.8-inch touch-screen display, a slider keypad, a 2.0-megapixel camera, a microSD [...]

The Taiwan-based computer maker officially purchased 75 percent of Packard Bell parent company PB Holdings for $48.5 million, according to a statement made to the Taiwanese Stock Exchange Thursday, PC World is reporting.

Through a rather circuitous route, Acer finally brought home the prize it had long been eyeing: European PC vendor Packard Bell.

Acer has been [...]

Leading the charge on this is Ronny Kohavi, who joined Microsoft from Amazon in 2005.

Microsoft is hoping a new tool can help make the testing process more methodical and, by doing so, speed things up. The company calls it the Experimentation Platform.

Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet had the scoop on this. Essentially, it is based [...]

The analyst business works the same way for all kinds of analysts– military, political, financial, and (as in my case) technology analysts.
It’s certainly useful for the Times to periodically remind us all of how analysts develop their opinions, but it isn’t so useful to provide a view of the process that is as [...]