Balmer denies throwing chair; not so sure about cussing

September 9th, 2004 I would like to point to a very readable and thoughtful article - How Microsoft lost the API war. Be warned however that the article is a bit too long.

July 28th, 2005 I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun.

August 9th, 2006 The University of California is joining Google's book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement. The deal covers all the libraries in UC's 10-campus system, marking the biggest expansion of Google's effort to convert millions of library books into digital form since a group of authors and publishers sued last fall to derail a project launched 20 months ago.

April 21st, 2005 Dr Martin Panter, a medical doctor and international president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, alleges the Burmese army was using chemical weapons against rebel fighters from the Karen ethnic minority. Now this is the type of news that gets good 'ol big brother (aka USA) all riled up and angry.

November 14th, 2008 Who wants to be an astronaut again? NASA devices an unique way to help astronauts bond with each other (and to preserve water I presume) by drinking communal piss, ewww. Why didn't estranged couples think of this earlier? The best or the worst part is that NASA engineers are loving it, so much so that NASA's Bob Bagdigian has kept few bottles in his freeze.

August 18th, 2006 Don’t you just love it when evidence emerges challenging unprovable religious preconceptions espoused by the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, hardline Islamists, not to mention beloved President George Bush and his own fundamentalist Christian supporters. What they all believe is that at the instant when an embryo is formed by fertilisation of a human egg by a human sperm, a “soul” gets installed in the entity to make it a true human being.

September 24th, 2005 Hurricane Rita plowed into the Gulf Coast early Saturday, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, threatening to flood low-lying regions and knocking power out to half a million people as transformers exploded. Rita struck just east of Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana line, bringing a 20-foot storm surge and up to 25 inches of rain according to National Hurricane Center said.

August 18th, 2009 PS3 price cut by $100; slimmer model to comeNEW YORK — After months of rumors and anticipation, Sony Corp. is slashing the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 in hopes of boosting sales of the console ahead of the important holiday season.

July 30th, 2009 Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next?Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one since last fall, when they picked up "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." Since then? "Nothing really interesting came out," said Byrnes, 23.

August 22nd, 2009 Apple denies 'rejecting' Google Voice for iPhoneSEATTLE — Apple Inc. told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device — yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google's application outright.

October 8th, 2009 Tech industry braces for more antitrust scrutinyWASHINGTON — After eight years of light antitrust scrutiny under a Republican White House, the technology and telecommunications industries are bracing for stepped up oversight by the Obama administration's Justice Department. Christine Varney, the head of the department's antitrust division, vowed in a May speech that her office will take a tough look at potential abuses of market power across some of the nation's biggest industries, including high tech and telecom.

January 7th, 2006 So your Mom recently handed you the task of replacing your "grandmother's ancient Macintosh with something she could use to connect to the Internet just to send email". Background: Your grandma is 89 years old, has a touch of Alzheimer's, and for the last decade or so, she has been running Macintosh System 7.5 on an old LC II.