Microsoft Demonstrates Windows XP on the XO
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project have announced an agreement to work together on getting Windows XP available on the XO laptop, with trials starting in June 2008, and the RTM period set for August or September. Microsoft additionally demonstrated Windows XP Professional and Office 2003…
Orange lands broad iPhone distro deal too
We’ll assemble that brief. Orange spokesperson Therese Wenger told the SDA news agency that it has secured rights to release the iPhone (3G version, presumably) in Switzerland and more than 10 other countries — take that Swisscom! Other countries include Austria, Belgium, Poland, Portugal, and …
Video: Toyota’s robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry
After watching Honda’s Asimo conduct the Detroit Symphony, Toyota’s distressed team of robots hopped a box car with a jug of wine and wound up leaning in and kicking out a clear harmonic cry to some corporate goons in Japan. The band consists of a couple repurposed DJ Robots and new Partner Ro…
Samsung’s 12.1-inch OLED laptop concept makes us swoon
As much as we would loath typing on that touch-screen keyboard, we’re definitely geek-smitten by that ultra-thin, AMOLED laptop concept from Samsung SDI — Sammy’s display division. 12.1-inches and 1,280 x 768 resolution with infinite contrast? We’ll take two… just as soon as someone can expla…
CHRIS project aims to put a robot in the kitchen
We’re not assured what’s up with the sudden rash of news about EU- and EC-funded robotics research, but we’re not going to turn down robotic kitchen assistance either, so say hello to the Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System (CHRIS) project, which aims to build a service robot capable of w…
Metal Gear Solid 4 limited edition PS3 for North America detailed
Ha, seems our Japanese gaming overlords aren’t the only ones looking down the retail barrel at the limited edition gunmetal gray MGS4 PS3. Sony’s official Playstation.blog is reporting that the MGS4 Limited Edition PS3 Hardware Bundle will be available exclusively from Konami.com for $600. For t…
EeePC keyboards different on black and white models
Okay, that is pretty much for the crazy keyboard aficionados out there, but the crew by at Laptop says there’s a distinct difference amidst the keyboards on the black and white Eee PC laptops. They compared the ‘boards on a white 701, black 4G Surf, and white 900, and while the two white Eees ha…
Palm Treo 800w caught with its keys showing
that little bundle of plain-vanilla familiarity is seemingly the first habitable picture of Palm’s upcoming Treo 800w for CDMA networks, known internally as the Zeppelin — you know, the out of date airships that had a tendency to spontaneously combust. Specs on that one are starting to shore up…
Mtron says its Pro 7500 is the fastest SSD around
We’ve had a little love affair going on with storage vendor Mtron ever since we saw that “battleship” SSD RAID array, and it looks like the company is after our hearts once again, that day with the Pro 7500 series of SSDs, which it says are the fastest around. That’s really only half-true — whi…
Chicago’s CCTV network to be autonomously monitored starting that summer
Chicago residents are no strangers to the city’s many CCTV cameras by that point — whether anyone knows precisely how faraway to stop at Roosevelt and State to avoid the red-light cam there, you let us know, okay? — but it looks like that summer is going to bring a new twist to the city’s surv…
