On schedule and as we exclusively reported, Apple announced its Joint Venture service this weekend to Apple Store employees. The new offering aims to bring small business customers into retail stores, providing more business-centric and personalized services. Users can enroll in Joint Venture for an annual fee of $499. What does that steep fee get you? The [...]
D2S and NuFlare Partner to Reduce Write Times for Complex 22-nm Photomasks D2S Option to NuFlare EBM-7000 System Enables Design for E-Beam (DFEB) Mask Technology PR Newswire SAN JOSE, Calif., March 1, 2011 SAN JOSE, Calif., March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Fellow eBeam Initiative members D2S™, an emerging supplier of computational design platforms, and NuFlare [...]
An anonymous reader writes “Next month, the first space probe in nearly 40 years will approach the planet Mercury, with an array of instruments that could help answer fundamental questions about how planets form. The mission is called MESSENGER, for Mercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging. On March 17 it will pull into orbit [...]
Today we’re putting the latest sub-$200 CPUs into a cage match armed with nothing but the latest DirectX 11 games (plus a helping of StarCraft 2) to see how they fare. Can AMD’s familiar Athlons and Phenoms stand up to the new Sandy Bridge-based CPUs? Original post by Janet Cloninger
iPhone & iPad Application Lets You View 20,000 Loose Diamonds & 1,000 Stunning Rings PR Newswire NEW YORK, March 1, 2011 NEW YORK, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — James Allen‘s new iPhone and iPad application enables you to view more than 20,000 actual diamond photos from the convenience of your mobile device. Using the custom-built [...]
Free iPad Screen Protectors From LeatherTree.com While Supplies Last PR Newswire ISLAND LAKE, Ill., March 1, 2011 ISLAND LAKE, Ill., March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — LeatherTree.com, a leading online supplier of leather backpacks, briefcases and office accessories, is giving away free Apple iPad screen protectors, a $12.99 value, with any purchase of an iPad case with [...]
Michelin Offers Consumers More With New Promise Plan for Passenger, Light-Truck Tires Free Flat-Tire Assistance, 30-Day Guarantee and Additional Mileage Warranties PR Newswire GREENVILLE, S.C., March 1, 2011 GREENVILLE, S.C., March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Call it the real wheel deal. Starting today, consumers who purchase a set of MICHELIN® tires will automatically receive the [...]
CWmike writes “Intel announced a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) on Monday that are based on the serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 specification, which doubles I/O throughput compared to previous generation SSDs. Using the SATA 3.0 specs, Intel’s new 510 Series gets 6Gbit/sec. performance and thus can take full advantage of the company’s transition to [...]
U.S. wireless provider Sprint has announced a new mobile application available to subscribers of its Total Equipment Protection (TEP) program, titled Protection App. Protection App — available to Android and BlackBerry users — will allow customers who have lost their smartphone to locate the device using a web portal, remotely lock the device, erase address [...]
The Gmail team says no emails were lost-as-in-gone during the weekend glitch, and backup copies are being restored to the 0.02 percent of users affected—from tape, no less. The official post has more hows and whys. [Gmail Blog] More » Original post by Kevin Purdy
