Month: October 2009

Apple Introduces the Multi-touch Magic Mouse

Apple today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch… Continue reading Apple Introduces the Multi-touch Magic Mouse

Apple Unveils New iMac With 21.5 and 27-inch Displays

Apple today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors… Continue reading Apple Unveils New iMac With 21.5 and 27-inch Displays

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Trailer

In Werner Herzog’s new film BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs — while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get… Continue reading Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Trailer

Study: 88% of corporate PCs support minimum Windows 7 hardware

After conducting an analysis of actual inventory data collected from more than 450,000 corporate PCs between November 2008 and August 2009, Softchoice (via ComputerWorld) has concluded that 88 percent of them meet the minimum system requirements to run Windows 7. The sample consisted of 248 individual organizations representing a wide range of industries from across… Continue reading Study: 88% of corporate PCs support minimum Windows 7 hardware

Mozilla disables vulnerable Microsoft plugin for Firefox

Mozilla has temporarily disabled Microsoft’s WPF plugin for Firefox in order to protect users from a security vulnerability that was recently uncovered in the component. The vulnerability can be exploited when users visit malicious Web pages that contain specially crafted XAML content. Microsoft issued an Internet Explorer patch to fix the vulnerability through its Windows… Continue reading Mozilla disables vulnerable Microsoft plugin for Firefox

Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser

Researchers have figured out how to recreate the environment near a black hole in order to understand the processes that cause them to emit high energy X-rays. Black holes are famous for having a gravitational field that is so potent that light cannot escape its pull. But that same gravitational pull causes nearby matter to… Continue reading Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser

Windows 8 to debut 128-bit OS version?

Windows 7 is due to launch in just two weeks time, but Microsoft have been working on its immediate and distant successors for some time now.  Details about so-called Windows 8 and Windows 9 (perhaps unlikely to be their real release titles) have emerged thanks to a LinkedIn profile of one of the team members involved.… Continue reading Windows 8 to debut 128-bit OS version?

Verizon Goes on Offensive Against iPhone Again With 'Droid Does' Teasers

Just weeks after attacking AT&T’s 3G network and indirectly the iPhone with a “There’s a map for that” ad campaign, Verizon has rolled out a new campaign for a yet-to-be-introduced device from Motorola known as the “Droid”, focusing on what it perceives as deficiencies in the iPhone. The new television commercial, introduced yesterday, features iPhone-like fonts… Continue reading Verizon Goes on Offensive Against iPhone Again With 'Droid Does' Teasers