By Scott McNulty I’ll admit it, even though I am more than thrilled with my fairly-recent Mac Pro purchase (chronicled here and here), when the new Mac Pros were announced I had a moment of weakness when I thought, “I wonder how much I can get for my Mac Pro, and how much overnight shipping .
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service Months after the issue first surfaced, Hewlett-Packard laptop owners continue to complain about defective Nvidia graphics cards that could cause laptops to fail. Some customers say that they have been treated unfairly by HP, in part because their laptops are not included on a list of affected machines that .
By Mark Hachman – ExtremeTech Apple has hired Bob Drebin, the former chief technology officer of AMD and designer of the Nintendo GameCube’s graphics chip, according to an update to Drebin’s LinkedIn profile. Drebin’s hire was first reported by The Inquirer. Drebin’s claims to fame also include serving as chief engineer of Silicon Graphics from .
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – The recording industry has agreed to accept $7,000 to settle a piracy lawsuit it brought against a suburban New York family. If a judge approves it, the settlement will end a four-year tussle between record companies and Patricia Santangelo. She was accused of illegally downloading .
BOSTON (Reuters) – Exploiting worries over the swine flu outbreak, spammers flooded the Internet on Monday with millions of e-mails peddling counterfeit drugs as remedies and seeking to steal credit card data, a security firm said. Many of the e-mails direct recipients to websites for fake online pharmacies, according to McAfee Inc, the world’s second-largest .
JAPAN, one of the biggest victims of the global economic downturn, may also be one of the first countries to exit recession as its stricken export engine sputters back to life, analysts say. But prospects for a full-fledged recovery from the country’s worst slump since World War II appear dim given weak consumer spending and .
JAKARTA INDONESIA has an option to buy about one million tonnes of rice from Vietnam in the next three years if it needs to build up rice stocks and ensure domestic food security, Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said yesterday. “We don’t have to import if it’s not needed,” Pangestu said. “The government’s priority is to .
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Snoop Dogg told jurors on Monday that he didn’t hit a man suing him for millions of dollars with a brass-knuckle microphone during a melee at one of his 2005 concerts. The rapper (real name: Calvin Broadus) took the stand for nearly two hours and .
LOS ANGELES – Authorities have allowed the son of Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett a brief visit with his ailing mother. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore says a judge allowed 24-year-old Redmond O’Neal to leave jail briefly on Saturday to visit the cancer-striken Fawcett. O’Neal’s family paid roughly $1,300 so that deputies .
NEW YORK – Think twice before crossing Melissa Rivers — her mother might just step in and chew you out. Joan Rivers unleashed an earful of insults after Donald Trump fired her daughter on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Rivers’ targets: poker champ Annie Duke and Playboy pinup Brande (BRAND-ee) Roderick. Melissa Rivers, who appeared with her .
