Slackware 12.1 Released

When it comes to showing off power of innovating and coming up with new products every day, entangling the Internet in a web of products, all branded, Google cannot be matched. Microsoft is trying its best, making its engineers work towards different goals at the same time, but the Mountain View based company clearly owns the stage. A recent Fortune and Hay Group survey asking 3,700 experts from dozens of industries to select their top 10 companies they admire the most has come up with very i... more

Buddha means ‘awake,’ and some Buddhist monks seem to have taken the name a tad too far and literally. On Tuesday, Thai officials have asked monks to avoid using social networking sites to woo women, according to Reuters. One advocacy group found that some of the holy men, instead of sharing their enlightenment, were actually trying to convince women to come to their temple and have sex with them. I remember the peons in Warcraft III saying "I’m awake!" when idle and clicked upon, and there'... more

Could it just be that Apple's releasing two new models of its iPod player three years ago has somehow triggered an increase in the U.S. crime rate? Even though Apple is just one of the companies rolling out new goods during that period, researchers believe the iPod alone is responsible for a 50 percent (or higher) increase in robberies. Well, not the iPod itself of course, but the favorable approach victim - steal goods - getaway situation that robbers usually keep an eye out for... more

Samsung is planning on delivering increased capacity hard-disk drives, and the company might release a 256 GB version in 2009. The new capacity will quadruple the company's current offering that can offer as much as 64 GB per solid-state drive. According to Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing for Samsung Semiconductor, the company has just implemented its 64 GB version in Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 ultra-portable laptops and will start sampling its first 128 GB units in the ... more