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- Bringing back Mickey Mouse's dark side
- CNET News - November 4, 2009
- Well-known video game designer will get a chance to show the world the mischievous side of the world-famous cartoon icon in Disney's Epic Mickey, a game for the Wii scheduled for a fall 2010 release.
- Gmail outage blamed on capacity miscalculation
- CNET News - September 1, 2009
- Google's nearly two-hour Gmail outage was the result of a cascading failure in which too much traffic was directed to servers that had recently been reconfigured.
- How turf wars and miscues crippled SpiralFrog
- CNET News - August 11, 2009
- Before the doors closed at the once-promising start-up, money got tight, and the payroll went unpaid. Management squabbles made a bad situation even worse.
- Comb Filtering: Popular Misconceptions
- eCoustics Articles - June 4, 2009
- Acronis miscalculates data on users' bad backup habits
- CNET News - May 20, 2009
- Acronis misinterpreted its survey data and showed an alarming percentage of people back up only once every two or three months. But it turns out the stats aren't as bad as you think.
- Google Street View gives UK police a mean idea
- CNET News - April 6, 2009
- British police, inspired by the effectiveness of Google Street View camera cars, decide to create their own versions in order to catch more motoring miscreants.
- ZOMG! Pranksters hit MacRumors keynote coverage
- CNET News - January 6, 2009
- Mischievous Internet forum 4Chan appears to have hacked into one of the Web's most popular Apple blogs just as executive Phil Schiller took the stage at the Macworld Expo.
- 7 Common HDTV Myths and Misconceptions
- eCoustics Articles - September 28, 2008
Qualcomm In Compempt of Broadcom Injunction- Digital Trends News - August 29, 2008
- U.S. District Judge James Selna has found that telecommunications gear maker Qualcomm has violated an injunction by continuing to use and support WCDMA chips in its QChat walkie-talkie products that allegedly infringe on three Broadcom patents. Now, ...
NEC Debuts Budget Commercial Displays- Digital Trends News - August 12, 2008
- Plenty of companies build commercial-grade displays that will run nonstop, survive high temperatures, rain, spills, public mischief, but all that torture testing never comes cheap. Most run for many times as much as their consumer-grade equivalents. ...
- 13-foot grass next hope for ethanol production?
- CNET News - July 30, 2008
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers say that a sterile grass known as Miscanthus gianteus proved to be significantly more productive than other biofuel crops like corn in the making of ethanol.
- Week in review: Yahoo merges with...Icahn
- CNET News - July 25, 2008
- Activist investor agrees to join the Internet company's board, though Microsoft appears ready to move on. Also: An Apple a day.
- Week in review: Yahoo snubs Microsoft--again
- CNET News - July 18, 2008
- Microsoft and Carl Ichan double-team Yahoo, while it seems that everyone got their day in court. Also: Earnings season heat.
- Week in review: Microsoft seconds Icahn bid
- CNET News - July 11, 2008
- Steve Ballmer and Carl Icahn team up to oust Yahoo's board, while the release of the new iPhone draws crowds worldwide. Also: A major flaw in Internet gears.
- Week in review: Microhoogle intrigue
- CNET News - July 4, 2008
- Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.