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Nintendo Lifts Forecast on Strong Sales of Wii
30 08 2008 The video game maker raised its fiscal-year profit forecast by 26 percent from an earlier figure, citing healthy sales of its Wii home console and DS hand-held game machines.
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Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads
30 08 2008 Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users, a move certain to create tension.
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With Software, Till Tampering Is Hard to Find
30 08 2008 Thanks to a software program called a zapper, even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners can siphon cash from registers and cheat tax officials.
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Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
30 08 2008 The increasing flow of data around the United States may have intelligence, and possibly military, consequences.
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Results at Novell Are Better Than Expected
29 08 2008 The business software maker Novell posted a quarterly loss but its results were better than expected, helped by an increase in sales of Linux software.
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Advertising: Cable, Quietly, Introduces an Anytime Elections Channel
29 08 2008 The cable industry has introduced an experimental political channel that gives advertisers a uniform way to buy time and measure the number of people watching.
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Bits: Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis?
29 08 2008 Judy Estrin, a serial technology entrepreneur, says in a new book that Silicon Valley — and the country — are facing a crisis of innovation.
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AT&T’s Rivals Are Happy to Attack Over iPhone’s Network Woes
29 08 2008 The debut of Apple’s iPhone 3G cellphones has been a public relations headache for AT&T, after complaints of dropped calls and poor network connections.
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Dell’s Profit Drop Surprises Investors
29 08 2008 Dell stunned investors with a 17 percent decline in quarterly profit and a warning that a slowdown in technology spending in the United States had begun to spread to Asia and Europe.
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Dell’s Earnings Fell 17% in Quarter
28 08 2008 The computer maker’s results surprised investors and caused a sell-off in Dell stock in after-hours trading.
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A U.S.B. Cable for Splitting Screens and Sharing Files Between Two Computers
28 08 2008 Iogear’s new U.S.B. Laptop K.V.M. Switch, a double-ended cable that connects two Windows PCs or laptops together, lets you use one PC to control the other and even drag files between the machines.
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Phone Smart: Freeing Those Snapshots Trapped Inside the Cellphone
28 08 2008 Carriers and device manufacturers have only lately figured out that users need a single button that says, “Send my new photo now.”
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Basics: For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology
28 08 2008 The companies that are successfully marketing new technologies to older people are the ones that have learned to create products that span generations, providing style and utility to a range of age groups.
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Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice
28 08 2008 Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.
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State of the Art: New Nikon Holds a Secret
28 08 2008 The Nikon D90 camera, arriving in stores next month, has the features and performance of a single-lens reflex, and can record high-definition video.
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For the Next Global Mission (or Hike in the Woods), a Watch Loaded With Gadgetry
28 08 2008 The Suunto X10 watch hides a G.P.S. unit, stopwatch, compass, barometer and altimeter into a package not much bigger than 007’s favorite Omega.
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Reasonable Volumes Built Into the Earbuds
28 08 2008 With parental concerns in mind, the LoudEnough earbuds from Ultimate Ears have volume-limiting safeguards built into the hardware.
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Give Yourself or Others a New Look, Digitally
28 08 2008 Combining a graphics tablet with a built-in camera and a computer-based set of creativity tools, Stylin’ Studio is the latest thing in face-editing technology.
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A Mouse to Aid Warriors in Their Arena of Choice
28 08 2008 Made with the needs of videogame fans in mind, the Avatar mouse from NZXT comes with seven programmable buttons that can be custom-configured for different types of games.
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Bits: Why a New Browser From Microsoft Matters
28 08 2008 IE 8 is Microsoft’s answer to the renewed browser challenge. Firefox is now a credible competitor to IE, with its share of the browser market having climbed to 19 percent.
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Front Row: Designer Collections Packed Into an iPhone
28 08 2008 Style.com, the online home of Vogue, is introducing an iPhone application designed to enable dedicated followers of fashion to watch runway shows during New York Fashion Week.
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Bits: I'm in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets
28 08 2008 Sharing documents with your coworkers via Google Docs sure is convenient. But one little typo can turn into a big security problem.
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Tip of the Week: Adding RSS Feeds to Your Screensaver
28 08 2008 Want to turn the Mac’s screensaver into a dynamic billboard for news headlines, favorite blog feeds or even Facebook notifications?
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Troubleshooting a Slow Network
28 08 2008 My wireless home network used to be fine, but I have noticed that it has recently gotten periodically slower. What might be causing this drop in speed?
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Adding Memory to Your PC
28 08 2008 I have a Dell Dimension 4500S that came with 256 megabytes of memory, and I added another 256 MB myself. Can I replace one of the modules with a one-gigabyte chip without any problems?
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