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The Debian project will now freeze development in December of every odd year , which means we can expect a new Debian release in the spring of every even year, starting with 'Squeeze' in 2010.

The race to build a 'smarter' electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities. There are many benefits to upgrading the nation's electricity networks.

Andriasang.com is reporting that Amazon Japan is planning to start bundling Final Fantasy VII (via download code) with different versions of the PSP-3000 from August. The deal will be hard to refuse for those wanting Sony’s handheld due to the fact the price is the same as buying the PSP on its own. The cost will [...]

Moore's law has seen computing power grow exponentially for 40 years - but soon economics, not physics, may stop it. Jack Schofield reports on the search for a solutionFor the past 40 years, the whole of modern electronics - not just computers, but games consoles, mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, personal video recorders and so on - has been driven by Moore's law: the observation in 1965 by Intel's co-founder Gordon Moore that manufacturers can put roughly twice as many transistors on a chip every two years. This has produced a stream of smaller, faster and cheaper chips, advancing at an exponential rate. But Moore's law could soon come to an end. And not because, as frequently predicted, we've run into insurmountable technical problems - but because chip factories cost too much to build.We have not got to that stage yet. Intel is spending $7bn (£4.2bn) upgrading its seven US chip fabrication plants (AKA fabs), and last Friday, Global Foundries started building a new $4.2bn

Sprint, the nation's third-largest wireless provider, said its loss widened in the second quarter but fewer subscribers defected as it started selling Palm's popular Pre smartphone in early June.

Model 4865 LAN instrument interface utilizes VXI-11 protocol to communicate with any VXI-11.3-compatible instrument, searching for and linking to instruments automatically, or linking to instrument at fixed IP address. Once linked, unit acts as application client and converts GPIB commands/device messages into appropriate remote procedure calls and sends them onto instrument. It can be configured over Ethernet interface with any web browser. This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Ethernet Networking Accessories | Ethernet Adapters

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider - hearkening back to a conclusion the company's co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s....

When Apple opened up the iphone to developers, O'Reilly books noticed a big jump in sales of its long-neglected titles on Cocoa and Objective C. These elegant dialects never caught on outside of Apple, but when the iPhone SDK appeared, the world started studying up again. If you want to work in Rome, learn Latin.