Microsoft cozies up to open source, donates $100,000 to Apache
25 Jul 2008 9:30pm GMT As part of a renewed embrace of open source, Microsoft will contribute $100,000 annually to join the Apache Software Foundation, as well as pledging new protocols to the Open Specfication Promise and contributing a patch for ADOdb.
Scientists turn car exhaust into electricity, twice as efficiently
25 Jul 2008 9:27pm GMT Scientists from Ohio State University have created a new material called thallium-doped lead telluride, which has been designed to convert car engine exhaust heat into electricity.
Nearly 7 years after original, a new Windows XP goes gold
25 Jul 2008 9:11pm GMT On August 24, 2001, Microsoft released to manufacturing the final version of Windows XP. 6 years and 11 months later, a new version of XP has gone gold, this time for the OLPC XO computer, also known as the "$100 laptop."
After legal fight, 11-year-old ordered to turn over Narnia.mobi domain
25 Jul 2008 8:32pm GMT An 11-year-old Scottish boy who received a dream birthday present that later turned into a legal quagmire must now turn over his narnia.mobi domain name back to the estate of C.S. Lewis.
Beta release of Office Outlook Connector adds calendar syncing
25 Jul 2008 8:20pm GMT A beta release of Office Outlook Connector 12.1 adds syncing between Windows Live Calendar and Microsoft Outlook.