my latest gadget....Sprint's HTC Hero

phonescoop.com review of Sprint's HTC Hero...

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Merry Christmas to all!

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Every Nuclear Explosion on Earth since 1945...

Everyone's got a notion of how the last century went, in terms of nuclear explosions. There was Hiroshima, then Nagasaki. There were some nuclear tests out in the desert, and the ocean. But would you believe there've been over 2000? Read more...

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Microsoft reminds 2000 and XP SP2 users: The end is near...

Microsoft reminds 2000 and XP SP2 users: The end is nigh

Microsoft has a message for people still running XP: if you haven’t got service pack 3 by next July, you’re on your own.

The firm is reminding users that support for both XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 ends on 13 July 2010. While the systems will, of course, continue to work, anyone who needs any assistance dealing with problems with them will have to hope Google provides the answer. That’s not really much of an issue for home users, but should be taken as a sign for businesses that it’s time to sort things out. Read more...

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Apple Strikes Deal to Buy Lala

Apple Strikes Deal to Buy the Music Start-Up Lala

By BRAD STONE
Published: December 4, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — In the most recent sign that Apple is looking at alternative ways for people to store and play their digital music, the company has agreed to buy Lala, a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, Calif., a person with knowledge of the deal said Friday. Read more...

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Complicated Apple-Verizon deal unlikely

Given the dissatisfaction of iPhone users with AT&T, and the fact that Verizon has a much better network, it has been hoped that Apple would strike a deal with Verizon. One analyst is saying no.

Analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros thinks that it is more likely that the iPhone will be carried by T-Mobile or Sprint in 2010 than by Verizon, something that would disappoint many current and potential iPhone users. Shaw says one major stumbling block is that both Apple and Verizon have grown their businesses through close control of their customers and that this shared trait may keep the two apart. After all, both parties cannot really control a shared customer. Read more...

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27-inch Quad Core iMacs well worth the wait...

27-inch Core i5 iMac (with Core i7 option)

Top-of-the-line iMac takes the crown as fastest stock Mac model ever

by James Galbraith, Macworld.com

When Apple announced new iMacs last month, it included a major step forward amid the subtle-but-welcome refinements in most of the models: the first ever iMac to offer a quad-core processor. The new high-end 27-inch iMacs are the first to use Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7 quad-core processors, and they were not available at the time of the announcement. But finally, the wait is over, and the Core i5 and Core i7 27-inch iMacs have arrived—and let me tell you, it was worth the wait. more...

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