The government has argued that Nacchio knew Qwest was in financial trouble, while presenting a much rosier scenario to shareholders and analysts before he sold his own shares in the company.
Nacchio’s lawyer argued that he was upbeat about the company’s prospects during this period because he knew of impending lucrative, secret contracts with the government. [...]

I’ve always wondered about the hardware vendors that create multitudes of laptops that all run Windows. Now I wish there were other options for
Mac OS.
The bigger issue is that Apple came out with some great new machines that don’t provide nearly enough options.
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Link to CNET coverage: Apple polishes up its MacBook line
Link to [...]

A Department of Energy representative issued a statement saying only that the agency needs to reassess the project because of rising prices and technological advances.

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to pull its support of a $1.8 billion project to build a power plant that captures pollution underground, according to published reports.

Separately, Energy Secretary [...]

It’s possible this ad buy was simply the product of thinking “Oh, InfoWorld = enterprise, let’s advertise there”, but InfoWorld has also become the online champion of the SAVE XP!!! campaign, also known as “OMFG, who could have possibly foreseen that Microsoft would kick its clients in the nuts like this?!” or Vista Affectedness Disorder [...]

As a second Twitter exploit began circulating on the micro-blogging site Sunday, a teen-ager from Brooklyn told CNET News he created both worms because he was bored and wanted to draw attention to the Twitter flaw.

“I’m done with Twitter,” he said, adding that he was feeling a bit overwhelmed. “I’ve been getting too much [...]

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Of course, users will be the ultimate judge of whether Microsoft meets this goal. It set out many of the same objectives with Vista.

On Monday, I had a chance to talk with Windows VP Mike Nash about Microsoft’s approach with
Windows 7. In addition to his comments for this [...]

I counted 67 different features, though more are being added all the time. While technically free, ExTools is officially donationware; the developer requests a donation of $5 or more, so if you find it useful, drop a few dollars in the e-hat to help ensure that the features keep on coming.

Keep people from viewing the [...]

Techcrunch reported that Microsoft paid $115 million for the site, a figure Microsoft declined to confirm. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer had said last week that Farecast had been sold for more than $75 million, but didn’t name the buyer.

The travel site’s CEO, Hugh Crean, also posted a brief blog on Farecast’s site announcing the sale to [...]

When it ships in October, the 50D will sport a 15.1 megapixel sensor, up from 10.1 megapixels in the current 40D. The increase in megapixels is nice for the poster-print and microstock-sales crowds, but what’s most notable is the increase of the top ISO from 3,200 to 12,800.

First is live view. Canon claims its latest [...]

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It looks like Facebook is taking a slow approach to make sure that it can handle the increased load and scaling as users start playing with Chat, which is apparently just on a few networks so far.
Facebook on Sunday began a slow roll-out of its new Chat service. [...]