American Airlines Adding Streaming Video Services to Flights This Summ
Passengers on American Airlines flights are about to get a new perk. Instead of craning their necks to catch reruns of "Monk" and excerpts from "The Tonight Show" on tiny aisle TV sets, they'll be able to wirelessly stream content to their personal devices from the comfort of their own seats.
Best Buy Adds Free Smartphones (With Contract)
Don't want to dish out several hundred dollars just so you can have a phone to surf the Web and check your e-mail on? Best Buy is offering three free smartphones when signing up to a wireless account, including the BlackBerry Curve 8330.
IBM Turns Forbidden City into Web Simulation
Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.
Microsoft 'Surface 2' Details, Um, Surface
Microsoft's Surface project was always about looking into the future. With that in mind, it's perhaps fitting that, before the company has really managed to the first generation of the device, it's already looking down the road at a followup.
Windows Mobile Chief Knook to Join Vodafone
Vodafone has launched an Internet Services unit and appointed Microsoft veteran Pieter Knook as its director to further develop the group's mobile Internet strategy, it said on Thursday.
ADV: Stopping Crimeware and Malware: How to Close the Vulnerability W
Computer users can no longer wait for a new vaccine every time a new security threat appears. TruPrevent is an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that caught and killed all variants of the recent Zotab worm without requiring updates or generating false positives. This whitepaper describes how TruPrevent achieves this level of accuracy.
EMC Boosts Bid for Data Domain
EMC Corp boosted its bid to buy specialty storage maker Data Domain Inc by more than 10 percent to $33.50 per share, raising the stakes in a bidding war with rival NetApp Inc.
Toshiba Debuts New Portégé, Tecra Laptops
Toshiba refreshed its line of business laptops as well as adding a new, affordable ultraportable, the Portégé A600-S2201.
Herding Wandering Windows
I have a relatively new Dell XPS 400 with dual TV tuners running Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition. When I try to use a normal, resizable window, nothing shows up.
Open Multiple Home Pages
You can take advantage of Firefox's tabbed interface right from the get-go, setting it to open multiple, tabbed pages on start-up—a handy tool for anyone who likes to sign on to a few favorite Web sites every day.
