Stories About Bill Drake

• Current Mobile Players Dominate India 3G Auction The bidding for 3G licenses in India has attracted only existing service providers in the country.
• Etude Offers Sheet Music, Piano Instruction For the aspiring musician without the paycheck to take lessons, computers have really opened up the traditional teaching field. Sure, programs like Garage Band's...
• Need an IPad Case? Take Your Pick So you've pre-ordered your iPad, or there'll be one with your name on it at the local Apple Store. You've combed apple.com/ipad more times than you can count...
• Make Firefox Immediately Switch to a Newly Opened Tab While we're on the subject of new tabs (see yesterday's post), why not tweak Firefox to automatically switch to them?
• The Great Nintendo DS School Invasion Mario creator and Nintendo R&D guru Shigeru Miyamoto says he's game to introduce the Nintendo DS to the education system, and working to make it happen.
• Ncomputing's Chip Brings Windows Applications to TVs Ncomputing announced a chip that will turn devices like TVs or set-top boxes into virtual desktops.
• Palm CEO: We Could Have Been Bigger Than Droid Palm's CEO says had Verizon been selling his company's Pre, the Droid might not have been such a hit. Meanwhile, Palm's death spiral accelerates.
• Bugs & Fixes: Ringtones Won't Play in ITunes An Apple support article acknowledges a bug that affects playing ringtones in the latest (9.0.3) version of iTunes. The symptom is that, if you attempt to play...
• YouTube and Viacom Go to Battle The accusations are flying -- and the public squabble makes some of us squirm.
• Windows 7 XP Mode Loses Hardware Requirement Microsoft has removed the requirement for hardware-assisted virtualization in order to take advantage of Windows 7 XP Mode.
• Facebook Beacon Lawsuit Settled A judge approves Facebook's offer to pay $9.5 million for a privacy foundation that promotes online privacy.
• IBM Adds DB2 to Lotus Foundations SMB Package IBM's Lotus appliance will now feature the DB2 database.
• Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 The first major update to Windows 7 is in the works, but no word yet on the beta release.
• Apple Files Mobile Social Networking Patent Request A patent request shows Apple may be developing a mobile social networking application for the iPhone.
• Create Stop-motion Animation Those who've spent much time watching jittering Lego blocks on YouTube, Wallace and Gromit shorts on an iPod, or recent Tim Burton animated films in the theater...