http://www.gadgetandtech.com From a Gadget and Tech lover to a Gadget and Tech lovers Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:09:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Three major electronics manufacturers have agreed to plead guilty to a price-fixing conspiracy and pay $585 million in criminal fines for their roles in the pricing of LCD display panels, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Justice Department said LG Display Company, previously LG Philips, will pay by far the largest ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/11/13/sharp-lg-and-chunghwa-to-pay-585-million-for-lcd-price-fixing/ Federal District Judge Kenneth Karas has ordered that Mark Papermaster “immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc until further order of this court.” IBM had sought the injunction citing an agreement with Papermaster in which he would not work with any competitor for a year after leaving the Armonk, N.Y.-based ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/11/10/new-ipod-exec-ordered-to-stop-working-by-court/ Lala is a site for online music since 2005. Lala users can swap used CDs using prepaid envelops for only $1 per trade and later it allowed users to browse for music. Now Lala has announced that will let its users stream music for 10 cents per song. If the ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/22/stream-music-for-10-cents-a-song/ Temperatures in the Arctic last fall hit an all-time high - more than 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Centigrade) above normal - and remain almost as high this year, an international team of scientists reported Thursday. "The year 2007 was the warmest year on record in the Arctic," said Jackie Richter-Menge, ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/17/arctic-temperatures-hit-record-high/ Mozilla has just pushed out Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 to their servers, marking the first major step toward the official 3.1 release. They haven't yet officially announced the beta release yet. Firefox 3.1 will introduce geolocation to the mix, streamlining the process required to get information from web sites based ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/14/firefox-31-beta-now-available-for-download/ Richard Garriott, famed video game developer, is following in his father’s footsteps and has launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. Richard’s father Owen Garriott is a former NASA astronaut who completed two space missions during his career. Richard is the the first second generation American ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/13/game-developer-in-space/ http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/13/windows-mobile-running-on-an-iphone/ Zoho made some significant changes to a core part of its cloud-based application suite Friday: its online mail application now works offline and with Apple's iPhone, and the beta test is now publicly available. The offline and mobile features are major areas of development for Web-based applications, and cloud computing advocates ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/13/zoho-out-of-beta/ Google’s Picasa photo editing tool for Linux has caught up to its Windows sibling with a new beta 3 release. The latest version of Picasa for Linux packs in all the features from the recent Windows beta, save one — there’s no slideshow movie feature. The lack of slideshow movies is ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/03/picasa-for-linux-30/ Samsung will start shipping two ultra-low power desktop PCs soon, the MV100 and the MZ100 Slim Tower. Both will use Intel’s G43 chipset with support for Intel’s Core 2 Duo, Quad and Celeron processors, though exactly which CPUs Samsung will ship the PCs with is unknown. The desktops’ main selling ... http://www.gadgetandtech.com/2008/10/03/samsung-eco-friendly-desktop-pcs/