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Cisco Systems announced that it has closed on the acquisition of Starent, which makes mobile infrastructure solutions for service providers. Starent now becomes a key part of Ciscos new Mobile Internet Technology Group. The announcement comes a day after U.S. regulators gave their approval to the purchase. - Cisco Systems has completed its $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile infrastructure vendor Starent Networks, which will become a key part of Ciscos new Mobile Internet Technology Group. Cisco announced the completion of the deal Dec. 18, a day after the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commiss...

The status quo for the netbook has not shifted much since the Eee PC took over the world, but now Marks & Spencer has come along to revolutionize the segment with the Elonex-sourced MSNB-2009. Delivered using the company's typically overstated advertising techniques, the machine is said to be "stylishly designed for life on the move," "both portable and powerful," and "style and sophistication" wrapped in a "glittery high-gloss finish." What's inside is rather less sparkly, the same 'ol 1.6GHz Atom and 160GB HDD configuration that put us to sleep years ago. M&S calls this "an aspirational laptop for the modern lifestyle" and we totally agree: if you buy this you'll aspire to buy something better. Available now in three shocking colors for "only" £279 -- about $450. Marks & Spencer exclusive netbook offers lots of hyperbole, little substance originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Elonex | Email this |...

Filed under: Software, Productivity Cinch is a new Mac utility from Irradiated Software. It helps keep your desktop windows organized by snapping them into predefined sizes and locations when you hold them near an edge of your screen. While its toolset is limited in comparison to its big sister, the keyboard-based SizeUp (which we covered a while back), Cinch is designed as a quick-and-easy window organization tool for users who prefer to stick with their mouse for such things. When you run Cinch, it shows up in your menubar. When you drag any window to a top, left or right edge of the screen, it "snaps" (or cinches) to take up the full width or height of the screen: top half stretched horizontally if dragged to the top, and a vertical half for left or right. It's handy, and it's easy to get so used to it that you forget it isn't built into the operating system. Cinch works with multi-monitor setups, and there's no configuration necessary. Just run it and start dragging windows where...

Mozilla has made available for download Firefox 3.6 revision 5.

See that shiny thing? That's a lake. But it's nowhere in Earth. It's in Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, 80% more massive than Earth, and the only satellite with a dense atmosphere. According to Bob Pappalardo, from NASA's JPL: This one image communicates so much about Titan - thick atmosphere, surface lakes and an otherworldliness. It's an unsettling combination of strangeness yet similarity to Earth. The image of the lake was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 8. The probe was looking for this image since it arrived to Saturn in 2004. Previously, Cassini detected liquid methane lakes using infrared data, but this picture shows the 400,000-square-kilometer Kraken Mare lake in a way that has never seen before. So beautiful. [Wired Science]

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The MySQL developer community has released the first public iteration of what will be the next version of MySQL, version 5.5.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command has a mystique fueled in part by how little the public knows about its facilities. Now, NORAD has posted a video offering a peek.

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Column about Larry Ellison's vision of where Oracle is headed and how that points to the future of the entire IT industry and computer industry.

Among the many changes in OS X 10.6 was a simplification of the font smoothing options to a yes or no toggle. If your monitor text isn't quite right, Macworld offers up a quick terminal tip to get...

We have lots of Palm new for you today, since the company released its quarterly results yesterday. The company also opened up public beta access to Ares, its browser-based integrated development environment for the webOS. Which to me, as a non-developer, looks totally awesome. webOS 1.3.5 is also on its way, which will bring battery life and performance improvements, among other things.

Google's book scanning plan hits a another bump, this time in Europe: Read the rest of this story » See Also: Google Launching E-Book Service In JapanGoogle Books Deadline Is TonightGoogle Goes Into The Book Printing Business

Reuters - A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitizing books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers.

Google was ordered to pay $430,000 in damages and interest to the publisher La Martiniere, and to pay 10,000 euros a day until it removes extracts of the French books from its database.

A total of 17 CPUs, along with three new chipsets and seven microprocessors providing Wi-Fi and WiMax support will be available early next year.

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Barry Collins / PC Pro: Mozilla: Firefox Mobile will kill off app stores  —  Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk.  —  Mozilla is releasing the first version of Firefox Mobile (codenamed Fennec) …

cram writes in to let us know of a filmmaker/post production guy in Uruguay who spent a grand total of $500 to make a 5 minute "robots attack the world" movie that he put on YouTube, and, in response, has now been given tens of millions of dollars by a Hollywood production company to do something more significant: There are a few things that are a bit unclear from the story, which alternates at points between dollars and pounds, so you may question the validity of the details. However, watching the video is quite compelling, yet again. We've seen other top amateur films with amazing special effects made on the cheap, and this is another one to add to the pile. Hollywood keeps insisting that it needs to produce $200 million movies, and studio insiders, who like to hang out in our comments and dismiss amateur special effects as being worthless, will -- of course -- mock this as being nothing special. And, sure, you can definitely see that the quality of the $500 effort is not the same...

A feature at Gamasutra examines one of the foundations of many MMORPGs — the idea that class roles within such a game fall into three basic categories: tank, healer, and damage dealer. The article evaluates the pros and cons of such an arrangement and takes a look at some alternatives. "Eliminating specialized roles means that we do away with boxing a class into a single role. Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat. Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate. This design isn't just about having each class able...