Archive for March, 2010
Teflon Tim remains untouchable
As we come back from the break, Ryan is wishing both Tim and Didi luck. And the person in danger of going home is Didi Benami. “Congratulations, Tim,” Ryan tells him, before letting Didi know it’s time to sing for her life. Didi chooses to reprise Rhiannon for the save, but you know it’s not [...]
YouTube Redesign Focuses On Search And Conversation
YouTube began pushing out the site’s redesign Wednesday after testing the format since January. The cleaner, stripped-down version, which comes after a year of planning, more closely resembles the style and design of pages from parent company Google. The changes might seem subtle at first, but that’s only because the site sports a cleaner look. [...]
Arsenal Pulls Off Miracle Draw Against Barcelona
There’s a magic about soccer that sometimes feels like hypnotism. Whenever a goal is scored, it’s almost as if everything that happened before it is erased from the person’s mind. On Wednesday night, never mind the fact that Arsenal was outplayed for 75 minutes in their Champions League match against Barcelona. Instead focus on the [...]
Toyota to Extend Offers, May Expand Free Maintenance Offer
April 1 (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp., attempting to rebound from record recalls, plans to extend no-interest loan and discount lease offers for at least another month and may make free maintenance standard for all U.S. buyers. The company will announce its plans April 5, when its current incentives expire, Bob Carter, group vice president [...]
Bank of Japan’s tankan survey shows improvement
TOKYO (MarketWatch) — The Bank of Japan’s quarterly tankan survey of business sentiment released Thursday showed significantly less pessimism among the nation’s biggest firms, even as obstacles to recovery remained. The tankan’s headline diffusion index for large manufacturers improved to minus 14, matching the forecast of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires, and rising from [...]
Reviews: Love It or Not? Looking at iPad From 2 Angles
In 10 years of reviewing tech products for The New York Times, I’ve never seen a product as polarizing as Apple’s iPad, which arrives in stores on Saturday. “This device is laughably absurd,” goes a typical remark on a tech blog’s comments board. “How can they expect anyone to get serious computer work done without [...]
LG 50PJ350 Plamsa HDTV Review
Latest LG Plamsa HDTV review on LG 50PJ350 50-Inch 720p Plamsa HDTV with 50-Inch Plamsa HDTV,the LG 50PJ350 which provides realistic smooth flowing images and higher color accuracy, thanks to its Dual XD Engine processors and advanced 600Hz Sub Field driving technology.The 50PJ350 also sports a mega contrast ratio of 3,000,000:1 and other features Intelligent [...]
Dell Inspiron 545 i545-2062NBK Desktop PC Review
The New Dell Inspiron 545 desktop PC offers the Dell Inspiron 545 i545-2062NBK Desktop PC with a 21.5-inch Dell widescreen monitor, which offers a full 1080p HD resolution, fast 5ms response time, amazing 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for deeper blacks and brighter white tones, and an onscreen brightness of 250 cd/m2 that is comfortable for [...]
HP Pavilion P6310F Desktop PC Review
Latest HP Pavilion desktop PC’s review on HP Pavilion P6310F Desktop PC with Windows 7 Home Premium,the HP Pavilion P6310F has power by AMD Athlon II 630 Quad-Core Processor (2.8 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 4000 System Bus),1 Terabyte (TB) Serial ATA hard drive, SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology,6GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM memory (3x2048MB) [...]
The software brains behind the particle colliders
The LHC today began running 7TeV collisions for the first time. In the instant that its detectors register the events associated with a collision, the challenges move from the hardware realm into software, as the LHC will literally produce more data than we can possibly handle. We have to figure out what to hang on [...]
