Jordan Ostreff

Jordan Ostreff

Russian Satellites To Challenge America’s GPS Monopoly

Russia’s space agency is preparing to launch eight satellites that will nearly complete a system designed to compete directly, by 2009, with the existing global positioning system technology of the United States. GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System), is expected to…

Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives which were commercially introduced early this year. Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 200GB platters and ten heads, has a 7200RPM motor as well as a…

Goodbye DVI and VGA, DisplayPort is Here

While it still may be a few years before we can officially wave goodbye to VGA and DVI, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced approval of DisplayPort 1.1 as the new industry standard for flat panel displays, projectors,…

gSyncIt

gSyncit keeps Microsoft Outlook and your Google calendar in-sync. After installing gSyncit and starting Outlook you’ll find a new toolbar available in Outlook to configure and synchronize your calendars.Features: Simple and easy to use interface and configuration Synchronize Google to…

April Fools Roundup

If you can’t beat them, join them – or in this case, umm, compile a list of URLs?It’s April 1, 2007 and a Sunday at that, meaning the particularly slow news day has turned into a joke news day; we’re…

Bulgaria celebrates Palm ‘Sunday

The mostly Christian population of Bulgaria celebrates this beautiful spring holiday with many rituals. They go to church and take home willow twigs for good health and to protect them from evil and sickness. Those willow twigs replace the palm…

Ballmer joins Linux Foundation board

In what many long-time observers of free and open source software consider a natural progression, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is to join the board of the Linux Foundation.A statement issued by Carl F. Rowe III, a spokesman for the…