2007 October

The Associated Press (via AOL) reports:
“Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has withdrawn the two remaining appeals related to an EU antitrust order that it now says it will stop fighting.”
Microsoft finally dropped its appeal against the huge fines (280.5 million euros) given by the EU in July 2006 for not sharing its technical information with [...]

Whee, at last, AMD thought about launching a new processor named Phenom to the desktop market. It has native quad core, with frequencies between 2.1GHz, and 2.8. AMD is surely gonna place its bet on the 2.4 GHz version, being a sweet spot, and probably launching a new price war between Intel and [...]

[tags]Great Britain, secret services, spies, recruiting[/tags]
As I was browsing through some local news websites i stumbled upon a very interesting news:”The British secret services recruit young kids from video games, as stated from the London press.The target group is made out of teenagers who play mostly spy, secret agents, and commando unit games are most [...]

[tags]HP, Dell, Apple[/tags]
Dell and HP hold half of the US PC market according to a survey from IDC.Dell holds 28%, while HP gets second place with 24.3%.Apple is third on the list with 6.3%, the top beeing completed by Gateway and Toshiba with 5.2% each.Dell deliverd 5.01 million PC’s in Q3 of this year, recording [...]

[tags]technology seed, mac, OSX[/tags]
I really have been thinking about buying a Mac.But it’s really hard for me beeing a PC user all my life.I’ve heard the Mac Mini is great for users making a transition from PC to Mac so I thought I’d give it a try.Browsing the Apple store, I saw the 2.0GHz Intel [...]

[tags]life, education, Romania[/tags]
Many Romanian children never saw a personal computer, not even at school.Statistics show that in Romania, 55% of the schools, dont have a internet access.
Due to severe conditions in  the coutry side, not even banks go out empty, but so are the schools.In 2005 the Romanian education lost 9000 teachers.
There is a small [...]

[tags]Chris Pirillo, Lockergnome, Gnomedex[/tags]
I would like to say a warm welcome to everyone here at Lockergnome, and especially to Chris, who adviced me to make a blog here.It’s a great oportunity for me to be able to post here and I hope I will do well :).
It would be fair to introduce myself:I’m Alex, 16 [...]