Archive: May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007
A New Deal For Notebooks
On Wednesday, Intel rolled out two new families of laptop components--integrated bundles of processors and other core system modules--designed to boost battery life and performance. This set of components, called "Santa Rosa" in development, now goes by the names Centrino Duo, intended for personal-use machines, and Centrino Pro, aimed at...
By Rob Pegoraro | May 11, 2007; 10:25 AM ET | Comments (4)
A State of High-Definition Denial
What do this t-shirt, this picture puzzle, this song (MP3) and this collage of highway signs have in common? They all include the 32-character code that a trade group called the AACS LA has been struggling to get taken off the Web. The utter futility of that effort gave me...
By Rob Pegoraro | May 10, 2007; 8:46 AM ET | Comments (15)
Dell's History at Home in D.C.
Earlier this afternoon, Dell founder Michael Dell stopped by the Smithsonian Castle to hand over one of the first machines his company made--a squat desktop built in 1985, when the firm went by the name "PC's Limited" and made its home at an Austin office park's cul-de-sac. This computer--a "Turbo...
By Rob Pegoraro | May 9, 2007; 3:41 PM ET | Comments (16)
How Many E-Mail Addresses Do You Need?
Since Web-mail seems to be such a hot topic, I thought I'd broaden the discussion a little bit. I'll start with the question one reader asked in a comment on yesterday's post: Why don't you use a web-based mail service for personal mail? What do you use, your ISP's mail?...
By Rob Pegoraro | May 8, 2007; 1:58 PM ET | Comments (39)
Hotmail Web-Mail Beta Test Ending
That's a headline I thought I'd never see--up there with "NASA Deems Pig Test Flight Successful" or "Nationals Take NL Pennant" (sigh). But it's true: One of the three Web-mail services is about to dump "beta" from its name. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that its replacement for Hotmail--first named Live Mail,...
By Rob Pegoraro | May 7, 2007; 11:45 AM ET | Comments (53)
