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  MIT develops an even more augmented reality device

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 11:30pm CET

  On Wednesday at the Technology Entertainment and Design Conference, Dr. Pattie Maes, founder and director of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT, presented a smart device with ordinary parts that can turn any surface into a touchscreen.
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  Android gets native support for Broadcom's wireless combo chip

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 10:55pm CET

  Broadcom said today that combo drivers for its Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/FM wireless chip have now been ported to the Android operating system. As a result, designers of future Android phones should be able to easily build the chip -- known as BCM4325 -- into their devices. The company's combo chip becomes the first in the industry to achieve native support in Android, according to Broadcom officials. The chip provides advantages in space, power, cost and coexistence among wireless technologies, the company maintained in a statement. "We expect a plethora of products and applications to evolve from the connected Android platform in the not-so-distant future," predicted Chris Bergey, Director of Broadcom's Embedded WLAN line of business.
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  Microsoft on Win7 UAC: 'Take the emotions out of the discussion'

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 10:24pm CET

  The latest blog posts from Windows 7 engineers reveal this quandary: If the whole point of accelerating Win7 was to eliminate the Vista complaints, and the tool to accomplish that is generating more complaints, what do they do?
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  Lenovo posts Q4 loss, fires its CEO

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 10:24pm CET

  In announcing a fourth quarter loss of $96.7 million, China-based PC maker Lenovo today ousted former Dell exec Bill Amelio as CEO and handed the leadership reins back over over to company founder Liu Chuanzhi.
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  Mandriva community called to communicate

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 10:24pm CET

  The long strange tale of Mandriva, that fascinating French Linux distro, continues -- and perhaps, soon, in a more organized fashion. Pending a vote by members of the community, the Mandriva Linux Assembly is at hand.
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  Woz gets a job!

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 6:13pm CET

  A producer of high-speed solid-state storage devices announced this morning that the legendary Steve Wozniak, the co-designer of the Apple I and II computers and the keeper of the technological spirit of that company during its formative years, has joined the company as its Chief Scientist. A Fusion-io statement this morning quotes Woz as saying, "The technology marketplace has not seen such capacity for innovation and radical transformation since the mainframe computer was replaced by the home computer. Fusion-io's technology is extremely useful to many different applications and almost all of the world's servers." Fusion-io creates and produces networkable, high-capacity solid-state storage systems that can be integrated into storage networks.
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  Ceasefire called in Norway's battle over iTunes for non-iPods

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 5:53pm CET

  Yesterday, Norway's PMP interoperability champion, Consumer Ombudsman Bjørn Erik Thon, said there is no reason to continue his fight against Apple now that iTunes is DRM-free.
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  AP stakes a claim on 'Hope,' literally

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 5:35pm CET

  It is perhaps the first truly iconic poster to be produced in the 21st century: the steadfast and upward-looking face of a presidential candidate, produced in a rich combination of just four colors, emblazoned with the word "HOPE." It has come to stand for the new president, Barack Obama; and its artist, poster painter Shepard Fairey, is being honored with awards and even documentary coverage from USA Network. But now that it's all pretty much done, the Associated Press is claiming it is the rights holder for the photograph on which Fairey's work is based. Though it has not sued Fairey, as other sites are reporting, its attorneys have sent Fairey correspondence which apparently seeks compensation.
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  A private Web site tries to clean up the public DTV coupon mess

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 5:08pm CET

  The US DTV transition debacle has become almost comical in its exposure of the failure of bureaucracy, but an announcement this morning only serves to underscore it even more: A social Web site is offering to collect unused government converter box coupons being distributed to citizens who did not actually request or need them, and distribute them to citizens who have requested coupons but did not receive them.
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  Tech firms battle US job protection laws while importing workers

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 4:31pm CET

  On the one hand, importing more foreign workers into the US for lower wages than US workers might earn, would save companies money. On the other, exporting US workers to foreign soil could save them money too.
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  Orange loses its iPhone exclusivity appeal in France

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 4:25pm CET

  Yesterday, after Orange lost its appeal to retain its position as the exclusive iPhone carrier in France, complainant rival mobile operator Bouygues Télécom was reportedly ready to move on and start offering its own iPhone deals.
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  Intel software engineer: Is Win7 on netbooks worth the premium?

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 4:14pm CET

  It may be the clearest demonstration to date that the working relationship between Intel and Microsoft is about as loosely coupled today than at anytime in the companies' histories. A very frank but official blog post from Intel software engineer Josh Bancroft, dated Tuesday, warns prospective netbook buyers that one of the elements not revealed by Microsoft's not-very-revealing announcement on Windows 7 SKUs earlier this week concerns licensing fees.
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  Windows 7's ability to selectively elevate privileges is under scrutiny

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 2:02am CET

  In Microsoft's ongoing effort to alleviate users' discomfort with Windows Vista's security nags, the company may be re-introducing a potential powder keg of new problems, as researchers continue to discover.
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  New Guitar Hero record set; no music harmed

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 2:01am CET

  From the Okay, But Is That The Best Use Of Your Time? files, the Guinness world-records people want you to know that there's a whole new collection of gamer scores in print, ready for videogame pikers to look upon and despair.
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  Akamai profit up by double digits

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 1:07am CET

  Internet acceleration-and-management firm Akamai announced on Wednesday that the company's fourth-quarter profit exceeded analysts' estimates, climbing 13% year-to-year. As announced in November, the company will lay off 110.
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  Cisco head gives emphatic thumbs-down to layoffs

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 1:06am CET

  John Chambers isn't crazy and he isn't unaware of the market, but Cisco's CEO wanted to make something quite clear Wednesday: Restructuring and realignment, not layoffs, are the path Cisco intends to follow through this crisis.
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  YouMail: Free visual voice mail free for BlackBerry, with some kinks

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 12:41am CET

  While visual voice mail through Verizon carries an additional charge, and is only offered on select devices through others, YouMail today launched its carrier-agnostic free visual voice mail app for BlackBerry. Betanews took a look.
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  House bill would strike radio's exemption from performance royalties

  Publié: février 5, 2009, 12:20am CET

  In the first round of a new chapter in the music royalties debate, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has proposed a fresh bill that would excise language in US law exempting terrestrial radio stations from paying royalties.