Some PC makers now have an extra four months to sell Windows XP.
The BBC reported Monday that Microsoft has extended the deadline for smaller PC builders and resellers to obtain licenses for the discontinued operating system from the previous deadline of January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009.
“Microsoft is making accommodation through a flexible inventory [...]
In an aggressive response, unofficial Mac clone builder Psystar has made a controversial claim that Apple doesn’t legally own the US rights to protect Mac OS X, invalidating a major component of its lawsuit.
he addition to Psystar’s mounting defense was filed last week in the Northern District of California San Francisco court playing home to [...]
Recent U.S. Census numbers show Nashville’s suburbs have become dramatically more diverse over the last seven years.
For instance, in La Vergne, the Asian and Hispanic populations more than tripled and the black population doubled, according to the numbers released last week.
Smyrna also has seen a surge in its Asian population, with the numbers increasing by [...]
Just how many online news sources have to repeat a piece of information before it becomes, by default, true? That’s the question faced by literally everyone, including BetaNews, who reported on Microsoft’s revelation earlier in the week of what was believed to be the existence of new attacks affecting its Web browsers.
Based on what we [...]
The problem with defining Net neutrality so the government can regulate it is a little like the problem of defining obscenity so the government can ban it: You know it when you see it.
That shorthand didn’t work very well for the U.S. Supreme Court, and it’s not working that well for Google, as a report [...]
Sea dragon has been released by Microsoft on Saturday. It is the first iPhone app from Microsoft, the giant company with a mobile platform of its own, Windows Mobile. Seadragon describes itself as an image browsing application for the iPhone. It is also originally the graphics engine for Microsoft’s Photosynth, which allows users to stitch [...]
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Human Smuggling Unit stopped another load vehicle late Wednesday, this one with 12 suspected undocumented immigrants inside, according to deputies.
The stop was made on I-17 near Anthem Way after deputies spotted the van traveling with a rear brake light out.
Human smuggling detectives interviewed the occupants and determined that each agreed [...]
In another nod to his alleged “free-market” principles, President Bush has expressed disapproval of the free nationwide Wi-Fi proposal being considered by the FCC and Congress.
It’s an inauspicious time to decry helpful, even vital democratic initiatives in favor of ideology — after all, many of our most outspoken critics of federal mandate and regulation have [...]
KB Toys has returned to Chapter 11 bankruptcy, says the Wall Street Journal, and will be liquidated by its parent company — Prentice Capital Management.
“Going out of business” sales will begin quickly at the chain’s 277 retail outlets, 40 larger KB Toy Works stores, 114 outlet stores and 30 temporary “holiday stores.”
The WSJ says the [...]
President-elect Obama and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich clashed over whether to appoint a senior Obama adviser to replace him in the Senate, according to a criminal complaint filed with a federal district court.
The adviser at the center of the dispute appears to have been Valerie Jarrett, whom Obama has tapped to serve as White House [...]