Presidential Hopeful John McCain has proposed that the US Government offer a $300 Million dollar prize to develop a new battery aimed directly at automobiles. This idea isn’t new, the Department of Defense’s DARPA has offered prizes in the past to develop certain projects such as autonomous self driving vehicles. On the surface his proposal sounds [...]

Everyone’s favorite, Not-Apple, Leopard running computer is making headlines again. Psystar has taken firm aim at Apple’s Enterprise solutions and released two “Xservers”. Unlike the first box, they’ve gone one step further and attempted to out do Apple by adding not only a 1u form factor, but a double height 2u rack mountable box. Configured [...]

5 billion! Really! They said that the iTunes store wouldn’t be popular but there it is. That’s a 5 with lots of zeros after it. I wonder how long until the number of songs hits the National Debt? Buried in the article above is another interesting stat. 50,000 movies are rented and sold per a [...]

I’m not sure why this didn’t get covered more, but on April 14, 2008 John Canfield, Senior Director for Trust & Safety policy management (which sounds like something out of Dilbert) announced that eBay would now track which computers you are logging in to eBay from and track that information. After they fully cut-over, sellers [...]

No, the iPhone isn’t going to take over the world, but it still has the other guys running scared. Coinciding with today’s announcement that Asia is finally going to see the iPhone we get two other announcements that are interesting in their own way. High Tech Computer in Taiwan has released the Touch Diamond, touted by [...]