From CNET: Silicon Valley powerhouses including Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have agreed to pay $324.5 million to the plaintiffs who accused the companies of using noncompetitive hiring practices to keep wages low.
Though the settlement figure was previously reported, court documents filed...
From DailyTech: It looks like the earlier reports were [partially] true: Microsoft has announced a new low-cost version of Windows 8.1 that will be pre-loaded on new computers. The newest SKU is simply called “Windows 8.1 with Bing” and according to Microsoft will allow its hardware partners to...
Which is a better vehicle, a Honda Civic, or a Ford F-150? The way I see it, this is a pretty poor question, because it compares two completely different products for two completely different markets. If you are looking for a compact, economical, reliable, and fuel efficient sedan that is fun to drive, you would buy a Honda Civic. If you are looking for a truck for work that can easily move lots of things around, can rock in the mud as well as it...
Near the end of last month, I headed down to Seattle with a few of my friends to attend an anime/Japanese cultural convention called Sakura-con. Let's just say I learned quite a few things I did not know about my friends and some "online acquaintances" as well. I have always been taught with the common adage of "don't judge a book by its cover" and "there is more than meets the eyes." These words could not have rang any more true, as I spent two...
Yesterday evening, Lenovo Canada posted a sale offering several laptops, including the popular Y410p, for a significant discount to $279 CAD before taxes (See screenshot at the bottom of this article). This news quickly caught on with many Canadian bargain hunting websites such as RedFlagDeals, and...
From InfoWorld: CoreOS, a new lightweight Linux distribution customized for massive server deployments, has found a home on the Google Cloud Platform, giving organizations an easy way to test and use the software for their clusters and distributed computer programs.
CoreOS will be offered in the...
From PC World: Hewlett-Packard reported increased profits Thursday as its PC business turned in a strong quarter, but the company will slash thousands more jobs to reduce costs.
HP has already cut 34,000 jobs as part of a plan to boost profits announced two years ago. It will now cut an additional...
From CNET: Google has a new tablet in the works that incorporates advanced vision capabilities that can capture more precise three-dimensional images of objects, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday.
Sporting a 7-inch display, the tablet will come equipped with two rear-facing cameras...
From InfoWorld: Dell is making a line of PCs using plastics obtained by expanding its recycling program.
The company has expanded the hardware take-back program to more places worldwide, aiming to collect and reuse more extracted plastic and metals in PCs, monitors, hardware panels, and other...
From PC World: An older version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has an unpatched software flaw that could allow rogue code to run on a computer, the second such flaw found in a month.
Microsoft was told of the flaw in October, which was discovered by Belgian researcher Peter Van Eeckhoutte...
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