First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers
(AP)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:36:38 GMT
 AP - The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night.
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Solar car completes 1st ever round-the-world trip
(AP)
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:12:50 GMT
 AP - If a solar-powered car can drive 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) around the globe without using a drop of oil, perhaps it can be forgiven for not having a coffee cup holder.
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Review: MiBook is cheap, colorful e-book reader
(AP)
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:14:12 GMT
 AP - Electronic books are the persistent wallflowers of the gadget world. Consumers have snubbed them again and again in favor of a 500-year-old technology: ink printed on paper.
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Icahn facing huge loss unless Yahoo stock rebounds
(AP)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:54:56 GMT
AP - If activist investor Carl Icahn is going to profit from his $1.8 billion bet on Yahoo Inc., the billionaire needs the struggling Internet company's stock to more than double in value.
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Audio slideshow: Star pitcher goes through the motion capture
(CNET)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:14:04 GMT
CNET - It's been a busy year for San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum. Throwing a Major League-leading 265 strikeouts during 2008, his first full season in the league, he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, was selected to play in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and was recently named the 2008 National League Cy Young Award winner.
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Amazon.com Feeds Impulse Shopping Frenzy with iPhone App
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:23:02 GMT
PC World - Just in time for the busy holiday shopping season, Amazon.com has released an iPhone App that gives users a direct portal to the Website without the Safari middleman. After you sign into your account, the Amazon App lets you search, buy items with a single click, access your wish list and account information, and basically do everything the regular website offers.
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Macs and Malware: The Straight Dope
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:28:51 GMT
PC World - Earlier this week, Washington Post blogger Brian Krebs stunned the computing world with the revelation that Apple had quietly been recommending anti-virus software for users of Mac OS X.
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Swiss Army Knife of Smartphones to Debut Next Year
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:28:51 GMT
PC World - A U.K.-based mobile phone maker plans to start selling next year a novel smartphone originally built for the British military called the Icephone.
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Symbian Foundation Says It's on Track
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:05:49 GMT
PC World - The Symbian Foundation is on track to take over Symbian as an open-source operating system in 2010 and will put out its first distribution of software for developers in the first half of next year, its executive director said Thursday.
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AT&T Hopes for Single Smartphone OS
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:28:50 GMT
PC World - AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the next few years, a company executive said Thursday.
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Entellium Files Bankruptcy, Intuit Eyeing Assets
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:28:44 GMT
PC World - Troubled CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Entellium filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday, and Intuit is interested in buying the company's assets, according to documents filed in a Washington state U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
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Wii Fit, IPhone 3G Among Japan's Top Impulse Buys in 2008
(PC World)
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:23:11 GMT
PC World - Nintendo's Wii Fit game and Apple's iPhone 3G are among the top 20 products Japanese consumers confessed to buying on impulse in 2008.
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