When companies take on new projects and they choose open-source infrastructure such as the LAMP stack, what’s the most common reason you’re hearing behind that choice? Mickos: The first reason is that it’s free. We talk about all these principles and philosophies, but for the majority, it’s free. But you should ask separately, what [...]

Yeah…sorry about that call. It’s canceled. The slopes are calling.
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For those coming out to ski this weekend (you know who you are!), I just had to get even more snow for us. You’re welcome.

Creative is clearing out a mess of refurbished gear, including 1GB Zen Stone MP3 players for $13.99, 2GB Zen Stone Plus players for $21.99, and my personal favorite: the 4GB Zen for $64.99. All prices include shipping!
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Creative's 4GB Zen media player is a ridiculously good deal [...]

Chiesa, Ryan, and Anderson at an Electronic Frontier Foundation panel.
Another excerpt from the presentation distributed to thousands of Defcon attendees on CDs.

CNET News.com’s Elinor Mills contributed to this report.

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One portion of the MBTA’s legal complaint that drew jeers from the Defcon crowd came in its odd claim that “A CharlieTicket standing alone [...]

GreenFuel Technologies has reached an agreement to build an algae-to-fuel plant in Europe, which could be worth as much as $92 million, according to a report.

Xconomy on Friday reported the deal, saying that it was apparently brokered by former CEO Cary Bullock who was replaced by Bob Metcalfe last year in a company shake-up.

Update 12:18 [...]

A couple of the most recent Blu-ray players (the combo players from Samsung and LG) can be updated from Profile 1.0 to 1.1 with a downloadable firmware update. But the
PlayStation 3 is, supposedly, the only existing Blu-ray player that will be fully upgradeable to Profile 2.0. So if you don’t want your Blu-ray player to [...]

Is this idea so great I’m going to start a music label ? No chance. I wouldn’t get in the music industry if you paid me. However, as a customer and a buyer of music, if I knew that my favorite artists were releasing music weekly, I would certainly check by every week or listen [...]

  smc Pentax DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED; May; $399.95
  smc Pentax DA* 300mm f/4 ED (IF) SDM; May; $1,299.95

  smc Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL II; ships with K200D in March; $199.95

No dSLR launch is complete without a gaggle o’ glass to accompany it. Here are the lenses Pentax announced in conjunction with its 2 [...]

Digital video recorder TiVo is set to release a software upgrade that will let users access YouTube videos on their televisions, the company announced Thursday. The deal with the Google video-sharing site, originally announced in March, is scheduled to start rolling out in a few weeks.
And as my colleague John Falcone has put it: now, [...]

The styles from Europe this year are decidedly green and small.

Designer Gordon Murray, best known for his work on Formula One racing
cars, detailed on Monday a new city car design called the T.25 that is aimed at reducing congestion and lowering pollution.

The planned T.25 in green compared with (going left to right) a VW Golf, [...]