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TV is slowly getting replaced with the internet, and that’s probably for the best. But even if TV has been plagued by decades of mediocre shows, it doesn’t mean we can’t..."

A flight simulator on a phone. No wait. A Space Shuttle flight simulator on a phone. Just think about it for a minute. Think about the progress since the Wright Brothers made their first..."

Interview with Jimdo co-founder Matthias Henze

The days when you needed to be an HTML expert to create a website are over. Thanks to companies like Google or Yahoo!, even smaller businesses took conscience that the web was a powerful..."

Top 5 TV shows for tech lovers

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iPhone App: F-Sim Shuttle

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Interview with Jimdo co-founder M...

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11/19/09

Posted by Calixte Pictet | 2880 commentshttp://techhaze.com/2009/11/icds-vega/ICD%27s+Vega2009-11-19+13%3A55%3A26Calixte+Pictet

ICD’s Vega

“Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), a world class design and engineering company in the mobile and computing industry, today unveiled Vega, their first in a future line of Android products of low priced, full featured High Definition entertainment and information devices that feature 3G connectivity, a Tegra processor, full streaming media, and a touch interface. [There will...

11/18/09

Posted by Raimondo Pictet | 2682 comments2009-11-18+09%3A50%3A02Raimondo+Pictet

“Atlantis, Houston, go at throttle-up”

Cape Canaveral. Launchpad 39a. Novermber 16th, 2009. 2:28 p.m. EST. A swarm of heat surged from the boosters of 24-year-old space shuttle Atlantis as she beautifully abandonned us yet another time to explore outer space. A crew of 6 men and women will spend 11 days in orbit. The mission’s main goal is to bring many spare parts to the ISS (International Space Station). When...

11/17/09

Posted by Calixte Pictet | 2279 commentsOur+GUI+is+getting+old2009-11-17+15%3A51%3A04Calixte+Pictet

Our GUI is getting old

Image: The Xerox Star desktop, released in 1981, two years before Apple releases Lisa Did you ever wonder why your computer seems so much similar to your first box back then in your youth? Did you ever wish some witty invention could re-revolutionize the desktop just like the graphical user interface did back then when Apple released Lisa? The problem is that our interfaces...

11/17/09

Posted by Calixte Pictet | 2193 commentsMicrosoft+patents+Sudo2009-11-17+08%3A58%3A18Calixte+Pictet

Microsoft patents Sudo

“Here we have the perfect example of why software patents must die.” writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet. I have not always agreed with this assertion, but this time he may have more than just a point. Apparently, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has patented a sudo-like feature. In Unix and Unix-like systems (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.), sudo is a command that gives root...

11/16/09

Posted by Florian Wardell | 2065 comments2009-11-16+17%3A44%3A56Florian+Wardell

Watch NASA’s live launch feed of STS-129

Enjoy a live feed of today’s space shuttle launch, STS-129. This will be the last shuttle launch in 2009. Then we will only have five more launches: • STS-130 Endeavour: ISS assembly flight 20A: Node 3 and Cupola. February 4, 2010 • STS-131 Discovery: ISS assembly flight Utility and Logistics Flight 4: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. March 18, 2010 • STS-132...

11/16/09

Posted by Calixte Pictet | 1920 commentsAMD+and+Intel+settle2009-11-16+06%3A42%3A02Calixte+Pictet

AMD and Intel settle

AMD (NYSE: AMD) And Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) have reached to an agreement concluding disputes. The joint press-release says it all (I emphasized some points): November 12 2009 Under terms of the agreement, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new 5-year cross license agreement, Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement, and Intel will pay...

11/15/09

Posted by Florian Wardell | 1728 commentsWhy+I+switched+to+Mac2009-11-15+17%3A01%3A04Florian+Wardell

Why I switched to Mac

I was raised with PCs. My dad used to work for IBM. I remember being intrigued by this mysterious “Internet” that we had at home when still very few people had access to it. My dad would refer to it all the time. I remember the monstrous Thinkpad, resting on that desk, in the dark, with all the little LEDs changing colors and stuff, the sound of the modem. I also...

11/15/09

Posted by Florian Wardell | 1534 commentsThere%27s+water+on+the+moon%212009-11-15+13%3A24%3A08Florian+Wardell

There’s water on the moon!

October 9th, 2009. What a day. Obama gets his Nobel prize, a clown broadcasts live from the ISS with U2, and NASA shoots an empty rocket stage into the moon, followed by a probe designed to analyze the composition of the plume that the impact generated. The whole purpose of the mission was to basically see if water was present in large quantities on the moon. Spaceflight was a the...