Local Tech News in a compact, digital format....

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Dwight Watch Dwight Silverman, local tech guru, tackles installing the first service pack for Microsoft Vista. Dwight installs it on various platforms with various results. Dwight's also has been blogging about a workaround for Comcast's unethical treatment of bandwidth, he also unboxes the MacBook Air and touches on what could be the nail in the coffin of the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray saga. Local Calendar Feb 19:......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format....

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Dwight Watch Local tech guru, Dwight Silverman is enjoying the sunny, dry desert of Las Vegas while he attends CES. You can keep up with him on Twitter and through his Flickr account. Houstonians Sue Microsoft Three local XBOX Gamers have sued Microsoft claiming breach of contract after not being able to connect to XBOX Live, inhibiting their ability for online play. Microsoft sold over 4......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • Recent Katy Freeway closures are sure to cause a few headaches. As of 10 p.m., Friday night, the Katy Freeway eastbound ramp to Beltway 8 northbound will be closed until April 2008. The westbound ramp to Beltway 8 northbound will be closed until August 2008. • Three Houston area residents have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for breach of contract because they......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. City Duped By New Court Technology City officials are threatening a lawsuit against Maximus Inc, the company that was hired to supposedly make things easier for the municipal court system. Officials are giving the company until Thursday to come up with a plan to work out the bugs. The city has already dropped a cool $10 million into this flawed system. Continental Allows Cellphone Check In......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Keyboard Reviews Dwight Silverman over at The Chronicle has reviewed a couple of keyboards. One from Microsoft and another from Logitech. Check out his article for the lowdown on this new hardware. Raawwr! Leopard Unleashed The latest OS from Mac, Leopard 10.5 is on the loose. JKOnTheRun, Dwight Silverman and Dr. Mac have all recently run articles on this revolutionary new operating system from Apple. Metro......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. AIR Houston Names Richard Yoo Chairman From our friends at abc13.com comes this story about local bazillionaire, Richard Yoo, founder of Rackspace and Hush Labs being named chairman of AIR Houston. AIR Houston is The Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) which hosts a one-day competition in which web professionals team up with non-profit organizations to help design websites for users with disabilities. We know AIR Houston will......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Comcast Raises Your Rates In October Get ready to dig deeper to pay your cable bill because the amount you pay will be going up. Yes, that's right, Comcast will be raising your cable rates starting with your October bill. How much is this rate increase? Comcast says bills are going up 6.1% for all its subscribers. What are you getting for this 6.1% increase? Increased......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor eschipul. It's everybody's favorite technology writer and author, Dwight Silverman of The Chronicle and Technology Bytes fame striking a pose in the bowels of the Chronicle building in front of the old presses. The old presses are no longer used since the paper is now printed in the old Post building off of 59 and 610. If you have a passion......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Chronicle Tech Round Up The tech guys over at the Chron are pumping out the technology news and we are going tell you about it. ---Dwight Silverman Dwight Silverman reviews and discusses the newest version of the popular image editing software, Photoshop. The new version is called Photoshop CS3. Dwight also informs us that Houston is the 5th most e-mail-addicted city in the U.S. A fact......

We've long known that Houston was a popular place for singles to relocate (and rightly so), but here's some new news: according to this map, we've got more than our fair share of single men. A LOT more than our fair share - that big blue dot = 20,000 - 40,000 more single men than women. Men in Austin and the DFW metropolis suffer similarly. So why the disparity? Creative Class commenters had a few......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

On Tuesday, the American -ists will be celebrating democracy and hitting the polls, letting politicians know what they really think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for? Londonist votes for better skincare, alternative spaces for art, cute little birds and the men who keep them, and concrete. Lots of concrete. Shanghaiist votes for one of the Bee Gees and Air Supply (it's a double-ticket),......

It’s always fun to track the way pop culture lingo is evolving from year to year. Sunday the Global Language Monitor, a word-trend group, named the top buzz words of the year, which include originals from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert is known for his short segment “The Word” (as well as taking on talking heads like Bill O’Reilly). “Truthiness,” which according to GLM means the truth unencumbered by the facts, and......

The Crew at Lifehacker, is, to put it mildly, right on the pulse of the modern technology movement. The already cult status website's latest find is Gliffy, a web-based challenge to Microsoft's multipurpose diagram program Visio. From wireless network diagrams to your dream home layout, Gliffy's Beta release is ready to handle most any 2-dimensional project you desire. You can even add fellow diagram editors for team based projects, or publish them on Gliffy's......

Rip out those video cards and upgrade your RAM, because Windows is about to go on steroids. We know that Houstonians are quite tech-savvy, but it is going to take alot of patience, and even more computer power to make this up-and-coming rendition of Windows sail smoothly. While Microsoft has published minimum PC requirements to run Windows Vista, Dwight Silverman from the Chronicle says to throw the minimums out of the proverbial...er...window, and go all......

Massachusets Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte wants every child to have a $100 laptop to promote and inspire education. Despite facing continued criticism from Intel and Microsoft, Negroponte has some huge backers on his side — Google, Quanta Computer and News Corp. (and Rupert Murdoch), to name a few — which have contributed $29 million for Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child Nonprofit Association. The modified laptop would use just 2 watts of electricity,......

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi’s tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy’s most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use for......

Microsoft has unveiled what could be the next wave in semi-pointless online mapping features: the Windows Live Local driving mode, which lets you "drive" around downtown Seattle or San Francisco with three street-level views and an aerial shot. For Houstonist, who hasn't been to Seattle in a while, taking a virtual tour was kind of nostalgic. We were able to visit some of our favorite spots, and we think we even saw a few......

During his second day on the witness stand, former Enron Broadband Services head Ken Rice said his company might have had potential to perhaps succeed, maybe, sometime in the future if it had survived Enron's 2001 collapse. On his first day on the stand, prosecutors focused Rice largely on what was wrong at the company. On Tuesday, Rice said he and Skilling misrepresented the financial health of the failing broadband business to help a stock......