The development of paid fantasy gaming occurred when sports sites discovered their ad revenues drying up. It is clear from this that gaming of all kinds will become a big revenue stream on the internet as broadband proliferates.
The device, which Redmond originally envisaged as an ultra-mobile PC - with all-day battery life, yet small enough to fit in a pocket and much cheaper than a laptop - has not lived up its original brief.
Intel unveiled its laptop for schools in developing countries on Wednesday, with CEO Paul Otellini calling on governments to spread technology's reach around the world. Otellini demonstrated an Intel-developed teaching application on the Eduwise...
Testers of the operating system have reported significantly lower battery life with Vista than with XP running on the same machine. Microsoft has said it hopes to have nearly the same battery life with XP by the time Vista launches.
Secondly, in the same period Windows XP has suffered well-publicised security woes and its replacement Vista has been much delayed and is viewed by many with apprehension. Late in 2006 silicon.com's CIO Jury said they'd hold off from upgrading to...
I lament the passing of XP, having recently bought a Vista equipped laptop, I wish Microsoft would listen to its customer base and merely continue to improve XP. First thing on readers' hit-lists this month was the government plan for prisoners to...