Assassins Creed Launches Establishing New Franchise Blending History and Parkour
Ubisoft Montreal launched Assassin’s Creed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 13-16, 2007, establishing a new franchise blending historical fiction…
Super Mario Galaxy Launches on Wii, Revolutionizing Platforming with Spherical Gravity Mechanics
Nintendo released Super Mario Galaxy on November 12, 2007 exclusively for Wii console, revolutionizing 3D platforming genre through spherical planetoid-based level design…
Intel 45nm: The High-k Metal Gate Breakthrough
Intel 45nm shipped the first high-k metal gate transistor in volume, hafnium dielectric and metal gates built gate-last on dry 193nm litho,…
Barcelona shipped. It’s not hitting the clocks AMD promised.
AMD's Barcelona quad-core chip has launched, but disappointing clock speeds around two gigahertz fall short of expectations and Intel's offerings. While its…
Google Announces Android Operating System for Mobile Devices
Google announced the Android operating system on November 5, 2007 revealing comprehensive mobile platform strategy integrating operating system, middleware, and application services…
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Launches, Revolutionizing FPS with Contemporary Setting
Infinity Ward released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on November 5, 2007 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC revolutionizing…
The hypervisor will be free within three years
VMware went public in August and the shares nearly doubled on the first day. The market has decided that running several operating…
If it is cheaper, say cheaper
Everything has a green label on it now, and the label is doing work that a simpler word would do better. Take…
No mobile platform has solved getting paid
There are five mobile platforms worth naming and the comparisons all run on the same axes. Symbian has the share. BlackBerry has…
Toshiba cannot outspend a games console subsidy
Toshiba has HD DVD players at around two hundred dollars. The cheapest Blu-ray machine you can buy costs roughly twice that, and…
Valve Releases Orange Box: Portal and Team Fortress 2 Redefine Puzzle, Multiplayer Gaming
Valve Corporation released The Orange Box compilation on October 10, 2007 bundling Half-Life 2, Episodes One and Two, Portal, and Team Fortress…
eBay bought Skype so strangers could phone each other
eBay has written down its Skype purchase by one and a half billion dollars and the founder has left. The company paid…
The labels just proved DRM was never about piracy
Two things happened this month that ought to be read together, and I have not seen anyone put them side by side.…
Airbus A380 Uses Digital Mock-Up to Redefine Aircraft Development
The A380 delivery in 2007 shows how full digital mock-up and composite design turn a massive industrial program into a tech strategy…
Open source won because it needs no purchase order
Open source software is now running a serious share of enterprise infrastructure, and almost none of it got there by being chosen.…