Acer isn’t yet an official entrant into the smartphone market and already it’s having the same problems keeping secrets as established players Apple and Palm.
On Wednesday, a smartphone called the Acer DX900 popped up for preorder on the Web site of Clove Technology, a retailer based in the U.K.
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It appears to [...]
As a result, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), a joint venture between Micron and Intel, will discontinue the supply of NAND flash memory from Micron’s Boise facility. The NAND operation shutdown will reduce IMFT’s NAND flash production by approximately 35,000 (200 millimeter) wafers per month, Micron said.
Micron and Intel have other facilities that make NAND [...]
On Tuesday, McAfee released the results of the experiment it called S.P.A.M., or Spammed Persistently All Month.
Nigerian scam e-mails are more popular in the United Kingdom than in the United States.
What is surprising, according to Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications for McAfee Avert Labs, is the amount of foreign language spam, [...]
But, he said, “since then, we’ve made tremendous progress in our expansion toward ’software+services’–from the long-term quests we’ve undertaken and customer scenarios we now envision, to the great services and service-enhanced software we’ve begun to bring to market, and the amazing projects at various stages within our development pipeline.”
Over the past decade our lives, our [...]
At TechCrunch50, the swag was mostly branded and useless junk straight from the catalogs of useless junk that marketing interns receive on their first days at work.
No matter how loaded the VC, over-funded the entrepreneur, or jaded the journalist, you won’t see many leaving a tech conference without the $15 of tchotchkes in the [...]
Other recent hit games, of course, have also had quality problems. You might recall that some players of Guitar Hero III had problems with their guitar controllers.
So one thing that will certainly help Take-Two and Rockstar get through this relatively unscathed–assuming the reports of GTA IV freezing up are real–is if they react quickly and [...]
Better Place has said it’s in talks with major automakers and would like to offer swappable batteries for any electric vehicle regardless of which company makes the car. But right now the company’s stations only service two electric vehicles: the Renault Megane and the Better Place Rogue, an electric vehicle based on the Nissan Rogue [...]
In true ironic reality show fashion, a poll running next to the article shows that 48% of the 141 visitors to the site believe “Twitter, a fad, will slowly fade away.”
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In a recent article, Alex Payne, API Lead at Twitter, claims that the internet is broken. While some of his arguments may have [...]
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Yahoo reorg centralizes power
Facebook suspends app that built peephole
Will history repeat itself? Microsoft sure hopes so. The company’s finally getting into the virtualization market, albeit relatively late. That doesn’t faze senior management and News.com’s Ina Fried explains why.
Chrysler takes Wi-Fi on the road
Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent
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Feedflix is completely free of charge, however you will need to be a Netflix subscriber (or friends with one) to make use of its data crunching prowess.
Ultimately, most of this information is useless, as with some simple math a Netflix membership tends to end up costing less per-rental after just four DVDs based on the [...]
