Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:01:00 Why you shouldn't get too excited IF YOU WERE wondering why Nvidia put out the GTX260-216 with a stupid-sounding name instead of the saner 270 moniker, here is your answer. There

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 08:48:00 Hardware Rounds Synology's DS408 leaves an impression A NAS SERVER is a thing to behold, in particular when it does just about everything you can imagine for your network. Olin, over

When commentators invoke 1929, I am dubious. According to most historians and economists, that depression had more to do with overlarge factory inventories, a stock-market crash, and Germany's inability to pay back war debts, which then led to continuing strain

Asset freezes. Threats of litigation. Expressions of mystification about the intentions of a foreign government. The latest round with another axis of evil country? No: the current state of relations between the UK and Iceland. As we were saying before

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:07:00 All you ever wanted THE PEOPLE at YouTube have decided that it is not bad enough you have to read the moronic comments under each clip, it is now vital you

INQUIRER Newsdesk the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:30:00 Number one TAIWANESE OUTFIT Acer is putting it about that it sold more laptops than both Dell and HP during September. The firm is telling its mates in Taiwan that it

Charting the 30-day reports in top Texas contests

Republican John Cornyn has a new ad running statewide in his reelection bid for U.S. Senate. The subject: Energy.

Ready for a little voter registration road trip?

Democrat Rick Noriega has an ad playing off his opposition — and his opponent's support — for a Wall Street bailout.

A political action committee funded largely by the racetrack and slot machine industries (that mostly placed safe bets during the 2006 election cycle) is upping the ante considerably this year.

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 08:57:00 More augmented reality than Top Gear BOFFINS at the Berlin University of the Art have created a game based on what you see as you drive your car. Carcade is a

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 06:57:00 MySQL co-founder walks DAVID AXMARK, co-founder of MySQL, has quit Sun because the place is too big. In his resignation letter, Axmark said he quit Sun Microsystems because he hates all

Sony will offer downloadable Sackboy versions of Metal Solid 4's grizzled antihero and Final Fantasy's silver-haired swordsman.

Despite the Xbox 360's limited success, corporate VP and Xbox Live chief says sales are increasing in the "very important" market.

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:48:00 Volish cloud becomes Strata IT LOOKS like Microsoft does not really like the idea of being too literal about the name of its long-rumoured cloud operating system. When the shy and

over PostgreSQL? I've just read through this document:MySQL vs PostgreSQL and it's obvious paragraph after paragraph that PostgreSQL is the better database. Performance, features and community are all in PostgreSQL's favor. There is almost nothing in MySQL's favor apart from

INQUIRER Newsdesk the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:48:00 Scrapheaped HP SAID it is to cut 3,378 jobs in its UK EDS operations after buying up the company (Electronic Data Systems) last year. The company is culling some 24,600 jobs

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 11:12:00 Put some clothes on, at least YOU'VE HEARD of "hijacking" and more certainly the word " click", but you may not have heard of the most ridiculous word blend of the

Egan Orion the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:28:00 Shutters 18 service providers THE CHINESE Ministry of Information and Information Technology (MIIT) has ordered 18 cellphone service providers to suspend operations due to "irregular activities", a local news service reported