The tech downturn: How long and how bad?
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Solid-state shift in Seagate’s future
Amid gloom, IBM sees sunny forecast

Angel investor Ron Conway is warning his start-ups to start saving up cash and reducing costs quickly. He’s not the only one who says the current economic crisis is similar and [...]

DENVER–The Democratic Party has boasted that its convention here will be “the most environmentally-sustainable” gathering in the party’s history, complete with a director of sustainability, low-power lighting in some areas, and calculations of carbon footprints.

Plus, a gathering of tens of thousands of people (and perhaps 70,000 for Barack Obama’s Thursday acceptance speech) generate a whopping [...]

The idea of requiring ISP’s to filter has picked up steam in recent months. Most notably, the manager of rock group U2, called for ISPs to more aggressively scrub copyright-infringing content from their networks.

The labels claim that the ISP has refused to implement a filtering technology by Audible Magic that would block illegal file [...]

Until then, let’s watch as the executives and the board run this company into the ground.
“Phil’s actions in the past year show that he doesn’t understand retail; he’s completely mismanaged the company, and it’s time for him to go,” said Mark Wattles, principal of the investment firm, in an interview with BusinessWeek.
But what’s more important [...]

It’s performance art, and when Marclay performs live, he’s no DJ, it’s more about manipulating turntables to make altogether new sounds–the cut-up records are the instruments. When Marclay scratches, he really scratches. Trust me on this one, you’ve never seen or heard anything like it.

Marclay’s interested in the sounds people don’t want. Every crack in [...]

So, will Mathias have to make good on his threat to get a VCR? Maybe. Indeed, plenty of DVD recorders now have built-in digital tuners, so they’ll work fine–but recording time will be limited to the capacity of one disc at a time (usually 6 to 8 hours maximum). Alternately, he could use his DTV [...]

Imagine us saying (in our best Jan Brady voice): “Intel, Intel, Intel!” The chipmaker managed to dominate laptop news this week thanks to the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, where the company heavily hyped all things small, especially its next-generation Classmate PC (see our exclusive full review) and mobile Internet devices running on the new [...]

“When people search (e-mail), they tend to be searching for information, not for things to buy. It’s not a great environment to be throwing ads in front of people,” Ascher said.

Mozilla Messaging also has named a three-person board of directors: Ascher; Chris Beard, general manager of Mozilla Labs; and Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the [...]

To put this in perspective, it turns out that the thinnest human head hair is about 10,000 times thicker than this new needle. Obviously, the majority of us won’t find any use for a needle of this size. However, this is a breakthrough device with applications for biophysical research.
When a researcher wants to place [...]

Poor little cell phones
The DVD player
Napster
TiVo
iPod
YouTube
Realistic CG characters
Digital video cameras for consumers
Flat panel TVs
Satellite radio stations
Stadium multiplex seating
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Though it started out as a good read the last article forced me to put down the magazine in disgust–I even made it past Die Hard earning ninth place in the top 100 best [...]