17th January 2009 Archive

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Internet to Obama: 'Pass the joint'

Online suggestion box goes to pot

President-elect Barack Obama has promised change. And there's one change that internet-happy Americans want more than another other. In an age of crippling recession, skyrocketing unemployment, and a looming threat environmental armageddon, their primary request is this: Pass the joint, yo Obama's Change.gov site will close …

Government 17 Jan 00:17
Infineon unleashes 4G chip

Chalk one up for LTE

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies is sampling a new multi-standard transceiver chip sure to heat up the ongoing 4G contest between LTE and WiMAX. Thanks to a push from companies like Intel, Sprint, Clearwire, Google, and others, the WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) standard has already hit the …

Mobile 17 Jan 01:29
EU says Microsoft violated law with IE on Windows

US anti-trust ruling no good here

Microsoft has violated European competition law by including Internet Explorer with Windows, according to the European Commission. The Commission said other browsers are prevented from competing with IE because Windows includes Microsoft's own browser. Furthermore, the remedies put in place under the US government's landmark …

Channel Register 17 Jan 01:32
Silverlight to follow Obama into US presidency

Change you can watch

Barack Obama's inauguration as US president next week will be broadcast online using Microsoft's Silverlight browser-based media player. Microsoft said Friday that Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee had selected Silverlight to stream live coverage of his swearing-in from its site, scheduled for Tuesday in Washington DC …

Applications 17 Jan 04:09
Symantec boss on US Commerce Secretary shortlist

Even money shot

Symantec boss John Thompson is on a two-person shortlist to fill the role of the next US Commerce Secretary, the final unfilled vacancy in President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet. Thompson, 59, chairman and chief exec at Symantec, recently announced that he would step down from leading the security and storage software giant in …

Government 17 Jan 04:13
LG shows off quad-band GSM watchphone

Video Dick Tracy reference unavoidable

See a bandwidth-friendly version of this video here Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com Our Most Popular CES Video Reports... Nokia N97 touchscreen webphone demo'd Samsung boffins demo transparent OLED screen Palm Pré demo of WebOS and UI Boffins offer plastic printing service Sony Vaio P …

Reg Hardware 17 Jan 09:02
Hitachi highlights gesture-controlled HD TV

Video You are your own remote

See a bandwidth-friendly version of this video here Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com Our Most Popular CES Video Reports... Nokia N97 touchscreen webphone demo'd Samsung boffins demo transparent OLED screen Palm Pré demo of WebOS and UI Boffins offer plastic printing service Sony Vaio P …

Reg Hardware 17 Jan 13:02