There’s the name too. Real IKEA product names never make sense. They always seem to resemble a fair to middling Scrabble hand–for example, KLIPPAN or LYCKSELE. LEKO is far too meaningful.
The LEKO (L’eco, get it?), allegedly has the backing of the World Wildlife Fund in France. Which might mean the fund has put money into [...]
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Ugh. Arsenal appear to have hit a wall. While Manchester United are on a tear, routinely trouncing teams by four goals, Arsenal can barely find the net at all. Today Arsenal scored twice - once for Aston Villa (thanks, Senderos!) and once in the last minute of the match (I dislike you less than [...]
This is a big move for Rockstar Games because it opens up GTA IV to an even bigger audience than could already play it. And that likely means many more millions of units sold to players who feel they simply don’t want to put down the cash for a next-gen video game console like the [...]
They pack more than double the number of servers in a typical rack while using 40 percent less electricity.
It’s the confluence of the two hip tech trends: “green” IT and cloud computing.
Vendors are in a race to provide the on-ramp to cloud computing for start-ups and established Web companies. In addition to scalability, they [...]
Here’s part 1, in which Rose talks about open standards, dodges those pesky acquisition rumors, waxes philosophical on the site’s active community, and declines suggestions from the restaurant staff to check out the cocktail menu, because lunchtime is apparently the new happy hour.
Continue reading at part 2 of the Kevin Rose interview.
How’s that going [...]
“It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up,” the Associated Press article quoted Salinger as saying.
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Say it ain't so! Climate change could make even PBR get more expensive!
An Associated Press report details the findings from climate scientist Jim Salinger, who presented his research at the [...]
The fix:
“The cloud view was originally designed to help the Digg community parse through larger volumes of stories. As the sheer the volume of content in the Upcoming grew, now over 15,000 submissions a day, the stream became too active for cloud view to be a good user experience (which had a small number of [...]
The partnership with MySpace is another sign that the music industry has decided to embrace the Web and digital technology instead of waging war against it. As CD sales continue to shrink and piracy expands, the labels are moving toward the inevitable: a redefining of how they make money from music. With MySpace Music, [...]
We’re currently testing new netbooks from Acer, Asus and Sylvania, so stay tuned for a serious netbook shootout to find which one is right for you.
Now we hear that the 6-cell version is on the way, already popping up for pre-order in several online stores. There’s a catch, though; the new battery jacks up [...]
But Apple has invested so much in the software that runs the iPhone that I would be surprised if it changed the game so early in the life of the product. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said several times that the beauty of the touch-screen approach is that any button you need can be [...]