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By Any of Their Many Names, Roses Are a Sweet Addiction

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:24:45 EDT

NOBODY buys a house with a sitting tenant, but I did.

Channel: Do-It-Yourself Tags: rose gardening plants roses climbing roses garden

Apple: iPhone coming to 20 more countries Aug. 22

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:20:15 EDT

Even as it struggles to meet demand in existing markets, Apple plans to introduce the iPhone 3G to new countries next month. The company said that the latest iPhone would go on sale in 20 additional countries by August 22.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Apple iPhone iPhone 3G

Linux set to make mobile splash

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:34:44 EDT

Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Linux mobile OSCON

'Microhoo' saga isn't over yet

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:26:40 EDT

Even though Yahoo has settled with activist shareholder Carl Icahn, Microsoft is still circling. And Jerry Yang's job may not be safe.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Yahoo Microsoft Microhoo

Musicians' unions stay out of digital debate

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:59:04 EDT

Will the music industry ever get organized?

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: music digital music industry cd digital downloads ringtones

Intel asks FCC to mandate Ethernet ports for set-top boxes

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:36:57 EDT

Two representatives of the Intel Corporation visited the Federal Communications Commission last week to boost the idea requiring IP capability on cable-set top boxes.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Intel FCC set top boxes cable Ethernet

WiMax at Sea, the Journey Begins

jeremytoday — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:29:03 EDT

Ships that call on Singapore can now use WiMax instead of satellite to connect to the Internet.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: WiMax Singapore Internet

New "telescopic pixel" displays could outperform LCD, plasma

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:47:08 EDT

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) have become the overwhelming choice for both desktop and mobile computing because they offer the best combination of image quality, price, and power efficiency of the current display technologies.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: telescopic pixel Microsoft University of Washington optical telescope displays LCD

Green isn't Great, Study Says

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:32:18 EDT

The notion of green computing is an unhelpful one, making it harder for companies to implement carbon reduction policies.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: green guidelines study

AMD revving up Atom competitor, but details remain foggy

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:11:15 EDT

Last Thursday, newly appointed AMD CEO Dirk Meyer confirmed that AMD was building its own low-power CPU core to compete with Intel's Atom.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: AMD Bobcat CPU Atom Intel low power

One-Third of the World will be Online Soon

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:54:12 EDT

Almost a quarter of the world's population -- roughly 1.4 billion people -- will use the Internet regularly in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 billion unique users, or 30 percent of the world's population, in 2012, according to IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Internet world mobile worldwide Internet users online

Mount McKinley tour goes green

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:35:43 EDT

For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquillity with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: green tour hybrid bus Mount McKinley air pollution

Avant Yard: 20 front yard Don'ts

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:28:57 EDT

Your front yard doesn't have to be perfectly manicured or professionally landscaped to look good. It is, however, your public face -- of sorts.

Channel: Do-It-Yourself Tags: yard lawn front yard plastic

Web pioneer Gross revitalized by green energy

jeremytoday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:37:36 EDT

In 1973, when Bill Gross was 15 and cars were lined up at every gas station in Southern California, the aspiring engineer wanted to do something about spiking energy prices.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Bill Gross energy green solar

Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot

jeremytoday — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:11:44 EDT

ROBOTS already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: GigaPan robots panorama camera Carnegie Mellon University

Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools - Pt. 6

jeremytoday — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:36:08 EDT

Have you ever looked in a real DIYers toolbox? Or maybe even the toolbox of someone who's pretty handy, but who has a messy streak?

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: web tools Linux editors web development ftp

Chips fall where they may in the 'More than Moore' era

jeremytoday — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:25:51 EDT

Chip and semiconductor equipment makers are at a crossroads as they face an era that might be called "More than Moore."

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Moores Law chip consumer electronics power

'Dark Knight' Forgoes Digital Techniques

jeremytoday — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:16:10 EDT

In a digital world, the newest Batman saga tells its story with traditional cinematography.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: The Dark Knight camera Imax Imax cameras

If I Had a Hammer, I Wouldn't Watch TV

jeremytoday — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:18:48 EDT

In the world of DIY all measurements are precise, and all edges fit. Couples do not bicker. This is a world in which all problems get solved.

Channel: Do-It-Yourself Tags: DIY TV do it yourself

Dell Upgrades Linux PCs To Ubuntu's Hardy Heron

jeremytoday — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:13:34 EDT

Dell on Friday launched two notebooks and a desktop with Hardy Heron, the version of Ubuntu Linux that was released in April.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Dell Ubuntu notebooks laptops Linux Hardy Heron Ubuntu 8.04

Sync and Back Up Your Data with Conduit for Linux

jeremytoday — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:02:06 EDT

Admit it-even if your desk could be the cover shot for Organized Worker Monthly, your data is all over the place.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Linux Conduit sync data

Going Up: Slow Progress on 'space Elevator'

jeremytoday — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:25:16 EDT

Disney World, Epcot, Universal Studios and ... Space Orlando. In the future, Florida could be the site of a simulated "elevator" that allows people to check out life on a space station, virtually.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: elevator space virtual space elevator

HP's grand vision: measure everything

jeremytoday — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:38:12 EDT

Imagine walking down the supermarket aisle with a cheap device you could hold up to a tomato. If the sensor detects a pesticide residue, you'd know the "organic" label is a lie.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: HP Hewlett Packard CeNSE nanotech measure

Huge rise in malware this year

jeremytoday — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:11:36 EDT

Malware has risen by a staggering 278 percent in the first half of 2008, thanks in part to the large number of Web sites comprised last month, so says a new study by ScanSafe.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: security study Web security

Perpetual Remodeling Syndrome: All about siding

jeremytoday — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:08:21 EDT

All homes have exterior surfaces that are designed to protect the home from the elements. There are many different types, but the two general ones are brick and siding. Some homes have a combination of the two.

Channel: Do-It-Yourself Tags: siding vinyl wood aluminum

Taking Green Builds to New Heights, Rainforest Exhibit Goes Solar

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:57:04 EDT

In San Francisco, fog is more prevalent than sunshine. Hearty grasses may thrive, but the dry ecosystem is hardly an oasis for lush, tropical vegetation.

Channel: Science Tags: California Academy of Sciences solar rainforest exhibit green energy

Sirius-XM merger may get OK from FCC

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:29:53 EDT

The commissioner with a deciding vote says he'll endorse the buyout if the satellite-radio companies agree to tougher conditions.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: FCC Sirius XM satellite radio merger

Apple now third largest PC vendor in the U.S.

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:27:13 EDT

Apple is moving up the charts, toppling Acer to become the third largest PC vendor in the U.S., according to a survey from Gartner.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Apple Acer PC vendor third survey

Advanced Micro Chief Steps Down After Another Loss

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:02 EDT

Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that its chief executive, Hector Ruiz, was stepping down, to be replaced immediately by Dirk Meyer, the president and chief operating officer.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: AMD Advanced Micro Devices chipmaker Intel

Texas Approves Major New Wind Power Project

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:05:45 EDT

Texas commission approves nation's largest wind power project to get energy to urban areas

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Texas wind wind power wind energy wind turbines

GM researches high-tech windshields to aid vision

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:55:29 EDT

General Motors Corp. researchers are working on a windshield that combines lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to take what's happening on the road and enhance it, so aging drivers with vision problems are able to see a little more clearly.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: GM General Motors lasers windshields windshield roads display

Report: 81.5 percent of all e-mails sent in June were spam

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:24:36 EDT

Almost everyone hates spam. The only people that don't hate it are the ones that make vast amounts of money from sending it.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: spam june security web email

Microsoft 4Q profit jumps 42 percent

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:20:57 EDT

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 percent, helped by strong sales of its Office and Windows software, but investors sent shares down on disappointing first-quarter guidance.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Microsoft 4Q Windows Office

Picking Accessories for the Plants

jeremytoday — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:16:33 EDT

For some people, plants aren't enough; they feel the need to populate their gardens with concrete puppies, fiddle-playing frogs, stones with Zen inscriptions and cutesy planters. The result can be an eyesore.

Channel: Do-It-Yourself Tags: garden flowerbeds pathways plants ornaments gardening

Microsoft updates Live Calendar with birthdays, holidays, iCal subscriptions

jeremytoday — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:14:53 EDT

Microsoft is adding birthday reminders and several other new features to its Windows Live Calendar service.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Microsoft calendar Live Windows Live Calendar

NASA moon capsule running late, full of problems

jeremytoday — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:19:21 EDT

Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday.

Channel: Science Tags: NASA moon Orion capsule

Airlines Get Ready to Test Fledging Wi-Fi in Flight

jeremytoday — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:34:52 EDT

In-flight Wi-Fi will eventually take off for passengers aboard some U.S. airlines, but it won't happen before months of testing and slow rollouts of the wireless service.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: WiFi airlines wireless test fuel

Symbian says could expand ties with Google

jeremytoday — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:59:18 EDT

UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian said on Wednesday it could expand its collaboration with Google Inc to the operating system level as it moves to grant free and open access to its software platform.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Google Symbian smartphones applications open

Web-based program gives the blind Internet access

jeremytoday — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:47:11 EDT

Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: WebAnywhere University of Washington blind

Robotic art commemorates Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary

jeremytoday — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:41:49 EDT

A green roller coaster twists above the entrance to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. But this attraction isn't for human riders - the coaster's cars are filled with plants and a solar panel that triggers the ride to stop and start.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Pittsburgh Robot 250 museum BigBot robotics anniversary