PC World reports here at the Washington Post website: Systems that were overpriced and underpowered, parts that failed two days after the warranty expired, marathon phone calls with brain-dead tech support staff–over the years we’ve suffered more than our share of ills, and so have millions of other innocent PC users.
The Top Ten Worst PCs [...]
CNET News.com reports here: Hybrid air conditioner, which can be run on solar panels, from a wall socket or, in a pinch, batteries, consumes less power.
BBC News reports here: Hollywood war epic 300 has remained the number one film in North America for the second week, with its estimated takings now exceeding $100m (£51m).
North American Top Ten at the Box Office
1. 300 - $31.2m
2. Wild Hogs - $18.8m
3. Premonition (pictured) $18.0m
4. Dead Silence - $7.8m
5. I Think I [...]
BBC Click explores here the issues surrounding Digital Rights Management - is it saving or killing music sales?
Spiegel Online reports here: German automakers will introduce hybrid cars into the market later than planned. Carmakers underestimated the difficulty of developing the sophisticated, environmentally friendly technology.
BBC News reports here: Technology designed to receive TV signals through mains electricity cables is unveiled at Cebit tech-fair.
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: HANOVER, Germany The Blu-ray disc association said on Thursday it aimed to become replace the DVD media storage format within three years.
AP reports here at Yahoo News: Most digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives — the same kind of data-storage mechanism found in computers — to reproduce documents. As a result, the seemingly innocuous machines that are commonly used to spit out copies of tax returns for millions of Americans can [...]