Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 24, 2005 at 10:50:04 PM
Check out my review of another useless mod product. »http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=160
Commercial space travel by start of 2007. I'd love to go into space.
Apple drops firewire cable from iPod boxes.
Microsoft appologizes. It doesn't matter what for, just that they did!
AMD demos the dual core Athlon.
An analyst downgrades search engine companies.
How about using wind to power your cell phone?
Commercial space travel by start of 2007. I'd love to go into space.
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The spaceliner’s first commercial passenger flight is projected to be early 2007. The plan calls for Rocketplane XP to depart from the Oklahoma Spaceport located in Burns Flat and whisk customers skyward to over 60 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. At that height, a spectacular view is promised, along with "over the top" weightlessness for up to four minutes. The company also envisions transporting innovative scientific experiments and valuable payloads to sub-orbital space and beyond.
Apple drops firewire cable from iPod boxes.
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Although Apple's embrace has been gradual over several years, it is still a big shift for a company that helped develop the standard behind FireWire, technically known as IEEE 1394, and has been one of its biggest proponents.
Microsoft appologizes. It doesn't matter what for, just that they did!
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"Microsoft has posted a notice on the Web sites of Microsoft Netherlands and Microsoft Belgium that includes an appeal to download the new version of Windows AntiSpyware and provides an apology for the difficulty this issue may have caused Startpagina.nl and its users," the representative said.
AMD demos the dual core Athlon.
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The dual-core Athlon 64 is being fabricated in a 90 nm semiconductor process at AMD's new manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany. Today's announcement is the latest in a long-running battle of one-upmanship between AMD and Intel. The two companies have been vying for multicore mindshare since last year, when both firms pledged to release dual-core versions of their respective processors.
An analyst downgrades search engine companies.
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Shares of both companies fell roughly 5 percent each in late morning trading, pushing Yahoo to $30.49 a share and Google to $185.25. The broader markets, however, were up during morning trading. "We had hoped that momentum in paid search from the fourth quarter would carry through to first-quarter results," Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said in his research note on Yahoo. "But now we believe otherwise."
How about using wind to power your cell phone?
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The specially designed turbine, which costs about Rs 200 to be developed inside a laboratory, is so small that it could be easily kept in a pocket, he said.