Month: January 2006

Napster executives do the math, consider selling or shutting down, layoffs imminent

Ahead of a Napster earnings call scheduled for early February, reports of a dire company situation have emerged. According to sources close to the situation, a substantial round of layoffs are now imminent. In comments to Digital Music News, the sources noted that executives at the company are also reportedly considering various exit options, including a fire sale or liquidation

Originally from osViews | osOpinion

Table for six with chairs that disassembles to fit in a small box

Cory Doctorow:

The Mealbox is a Japanese-style dining-room table with six seats that cleverly disassembles to fit in a 43cm X 68cm X 77cm box. It’s made from birch plywood and carbon nanofibre, with neoprene seats. When boxed, you can use it as a coffee table.

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(Thanks, Alice!)


Originally posted by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing

Just how Different are Intel-Macs from Intel PCs?

The very first Apple computers, distributed nationwide in 1977, had a hood you could pry off to reveal the CPU, the memory, and the motherboard. But almost three decades later, the company that pioneered “open architecture” with the Apple II, even with thousands of admirers looking on, was reluctant to pry the back panel off its new Intel Core Duo-based iMacs and MacBook Pro portables.

Originally from OSNews