MEGATech Biz: Steve Jobs Will Be Sorely Missed. RIP. Love him or hate him, Steve Jobs came to represent the near limitless potential of human spirit and endeavor. His brash and abrasive manner left scores of detractors in his wake, yet it's hard to argue with... Continued
Art and ArmA II Imitates Life We've all heard the saying that life sometimes imitates art. Recently, a case of art imitating life has come to light, and the example is even more glaring for the fact that the gaffe was propagated by medi... Continued
Samsung’s Semiconductor Unit Soldiers On… Gets the Last Laugh Over Apple Despite all the legal back-and-forth with Apple, and the loss of Apple as a major customer, Samsung's semiconductor business unit continues to pound out ever greater devices for their future consumer smartp... Continued
KISS Me – Apple’s iPhone 4S Makes What’s Old New Again Apple finally revealed their secret iPhone sauce today at their iPhone media event, and it was honestly something of a letdown. After all the hyped-up internet speculation regarding the iPhone in the run up... Continued
MegaTech Biz: China Unicom Upstages Tim Cook with Leak… D’oh! The Chinese are notoriously tight-lipped concerning state secrets, but that doesn't appear to be the case with OPI (Other People's Information). In a presentation given last Wednesday by China Unicom's Depu... Continued
Making Monkeys Out of Shakespeare An age old mathematical probability theory called the Infinite Monkeys Theorem hypothesized that with enough time, typewriters and monkeys, all the great literary works of the world can be recreated. Recent... Continued
iPhone News in a Nutshell (Peanut Gallery v2.0) I will be the first to come clean and admit that I wasn't entirely right in my predictions for the next iPhone. However, consider that through most of August, there were two distinct opinions on the matter ... Continued
Portal for PCs and Macs Free for a Limited Time! Just a few months after releasing Team Fortress 2 for free to PC and Mac users, Valve is back at it again, this time giving free dibs on highly acclaimed puzzler, Portal. As part of Valve's "Learn with Port... Continued
Carbon Nanotubes May Replace Electrical Cables of the Future Enrique Barrera, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Rice University, has recently proven the viability of substituting carbon nanotubes for metals used in electrical cables. The ca... Continued
AMD Ships Bulldozer CPUs to the Server Market, Desktops to Follow in Q4 A few days ago, AMD started revenue shipments of the first Bulldozer CPUs to the server market. The current Bulldozer version in question is the Interlagos, which features two 8-core Bulldozer CPU dies on a... Continued
Gamer and Modder Shows The True Meaning of Hardcore Many of us gamers like to think of ourselves as hardcore. We all own multiple consoles from each generation, and we play all the hardcore, triple-A titles that come out every year as well as the exclusives ... Continued
Can You Hear Me Now? Doubling Wireless Capacity with Full Duplexing Ashutosh Sabharwal, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, has come up with an innovative solution to an age-old problem in the telecom space that has set the industry on its e... Continued