Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

It's quarterly report time, and we doubt the boys in Redmond mind taking a little shine off Apple's big day with their third quarter results -- especially since Microsoft posted profits of $4.3B on revenues of $13.7B, an increase of 23 percent over last year. The company attributed the great quarter not only to a 90-percent spike in Xbox 360 demand due to what the what analysts are amusingly calling the "Halo effect," but also to strong performance by both Vista and Office -- Microsoft says demand for Vista is "encouraging," especially in markets like Brazil, India, and China. There wasn't much mention of the company's recent investment in Facebook or how Bill and the boys plan on reversing the online division's loss of $264M, but when you're playing around with four billion in profits, we suppose you can ignore pocket change like that.

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Wired News talks with Darl McBride, head of SCO Group, who is widely reviled as the man who tried to shake down Linux. We learn why an unrepentant McBride believes his company was right to fight and what it's like to be hated by open-source geeks.

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Well, what do you know. Turns out the iPod Touch is a reality after all. While we initially assumed that Mr. Jobs wouldn't be so kind as to bless us all with two new full-fledged iPods in a single day, we're elated that he had other ideas. The new flagship iPod has "the same size screen as the iPhone, but it's even thinner" (eight-millimeters, for those taking notes), and it also touts the "same multi-touch interface" found on the the firm's handset. Additionally, it boasts a 3.5-inch widescreen display, the ability to "flick through your photos," and you even get the "slide to unlock" feature, too. And yes, this thing actually has WiFi.

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The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago has been traced to a giant 'mother rock' that gave rise to a family of asteroids

Blog: British newspaper suggests that the media company may be willing to give MySpace to Yahoo for a 25 percent stake in the struggling dotcom.

The new sites — in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Dutch — will feature local language home pages.

A device that can hold hundreds of atoms in a 3D array, and image each one individually, has been developed by scientists in the US