The creature you see standing before you is a 22-foot tall Styrobot constructed entirely from spare polystyrene packing materials, and no, each piece didn’t just show up that way. Michael Salter managed to whittle away on this beast until its completion

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In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors, Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its iPhones and iPods from Samsung Electronics. Apple huge order is in place to support an increase in iPhone production.

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A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. It appears that Mac OS X could soon be listed in the double digit-range, while Windows could fall below the 90% mark.

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Verizon’s chief Ivan Seidenberg reveals interesting details about plans to leapfrog AT&T to become the largest wireless carrier in the US. In a rare interview Seidenberg commented on rumors that Verizon is up for a sale and fired a couple of jealous shots at Steve Jobs.

Although 80 percent of the US population now owns a mobile phone, Seidenberg says wireless carriers have discovered a new revenue stream in form of high-volume data traffic over the cell network for email and web surfing activities popularized…

AMDs Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia’s very best.

Mountain House (CA) ? AMD?s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards…

Computerworld’s annual list of best IT workplaces is out for 2008. The list of 100 companies is based on responses from over 30,000 IT employees, with finalists were selected for diversity, training, career development, retention and benefits. Use the interactive map to find your next employer.

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George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research Inc., sees a subtle slippage in Microsoft’s standing vs. rivals such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. as Gates has disengaged himself from the company ? and implies that the slippage could accelerate once Gates is even more out of the picture.

The fire to Gates' ice, Ballmer emerged long ago from Gates' shadow — and more recently became a YouTube star, thanks to stunts such as jumping out of an oversized birthday cake on Microsoft's 25th anniversary, dancing and…

Microsoft hopes to fill the big shoes of Bill Gates vision and power with social media efforts of employee bloggers… Microsofts situation is no different from that of any other large technology company. In a rapidly changing social media-centric world, even the largest companies can communicate personally,?

Regardless whether or not Gates, still the companys chairman and largest shareholder, remains involved on the backend Microsoft needs to develop a stronger accessible community presence for its consumer and B2B customers. The who? is less…

Here are nearly 50 Photoshops envisioning Bill Gates in retirement. They range from the hilarious to the mean-spirited to the downright-insane, and are all pretty damned awesome.

Last week, I asked you to create visions of Bill Gates in retirement. You responded. As per usual, the easiest joke had the most entries (this time, it was Bill Gates working at the Apple Store/at the Genius Bar), many of which were left…

A new service called Evernote gives you a photographic memory — literally. Simply take screenshots or pictures (say, with your camera phone) of information you’re like to remember. Evernote finds and indexes words in those pictures, and puts them online for easy (and total) “recall.”

The first thing I did with Evernote is that I took a picture of the side of the box my new BlackBerry Pearl came in. The box shows five long strings of numbers, including the all-important EMEI number and PIN number for the phone. These…

“Virtual sticky notes” — better known as “virtual graffiti’ — are messages associated with a physical space. It’s a great idea, and one whose time has come. Here’s why you’re going to love “virtual sticky notes”: It’s the ultimate mobile communication application because it turns the physical world into a virtual Internet.

Three trends conspire to make the world safe for this awesome concept. First, the recent and widespread inclusion of GPS electronics in cell phones provide location awareness to the masses. Second, the rise in social networking (and the desire…

Steve Sires has been impersonating Bill Gates for a decade now, and following him into retirement might not be any different. Sires, who has a trademark on the name Bogus Bill, is toning down his second career, looking only to cherry-pick assignments that either pay well or bring him to a part of the world he has not seen.

His most dramatic Bill-gig was playing the Microsoft co-founder in a 2002 mockumentary about police misconduct and cover-up in Los Angeles called “Nothing So Strange.” In the graphic opening scene Gates/Sires is fatally shot…

Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop

Steve Jobs didn't make BusinessWeek piss all over Vista yesterday.”Charles Di Bona, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and a noted bull on Microsoft (MSFT), said in a June 10 report that “dampening” adoption of…

When NASA needs an operating system for a Mars lander does it go knocking on Bill Gates door? The answer is no. The newly arrived on the planet Phoenix Lander is powered by a variation of Linux running on a specially hardened CPU and motherboard produced by IBM.

NASA gets around the 20 minute time lag by sending a whole days worth of tasks at one time, I guess you could call it a daily ‘To Do’ list. This list is in the form of computer code written in a programming language called…