Top tech turkeys of 2010 (photos)

A year of Apple, scandals, and bad ideas
There was that pretty good new smartphone with a pretty annoying problem. There was that (non-Apple) tablet computing device that should have stayed in the napkin doodle stage. There was an aggregation site that coulda been a contender--we herewith present CNET's not-quite-scientific list of top tech industry misfires, misfits, and misbehavior.
As we peruse our list, it occurs to us that Apple has utterly dominated tech news over the last year. From the launch of the iPad to the case of the purloined prototype iPhone to that annoying antenna problem and smoking the peace pipe with the Beatles, Apple has been top-of-mind for all of us. Mea culpa. For what it's worth, it gets on our nerves sometimes, too. To those tech companies that perhaps did not command as much attention we can only offer this advice for next year: Get into a scrap with Apple. We'll be all over it.

Green-tech taxpayer Thanksgiving (photos)

Who should be the most grateful this year to U.S. taxpayers? Thousands of companies have benefited from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was distributed through more than 20 U.S. government agencies. Here are some of the largest awards of the Department of Energy's ARRA funds, according to the DOE's most recent list of Recovery Act awardees.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
The largest recipient to date of Department of Energy funds via ARRA is not so much green tech as it is cleaning up after old tech. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions manages the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., for the DOE. The 310-square-mile former nuclear weapons manufacturing plant is now a nuclear research and waste disposal facility. The private company was awarded more than $720 million for its transuranic waste and solid waste recovery project, $415 million for decontamination and decommissioning of the site's P and R Area facilities, $235 for soil and groundwater recovery, and $199 million for liquid waste tank infrastructure. It's a total of about $1.5 billion.
Photo by U.S. Department of Energy
Caption by Candace Lombardi

IE9 beta patches bring stability, feedback fixes

The latest beta of Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser has two new fixes out that the company says will improve stability, as well as squash a feedback bug some users had been experiencing.
The stability fix, which rolled out as an automatic update to IE9 beta users mid-day yesterday, should address some of the issues users have had with the browser crashing. Microsoft did not go into detail on if this was tied to any specific usage behavior, or any add-ons, just that it "improves the reliability of Internet Explorer 9 Beta in various scenarios."
The feedback bug, on the other hand, was a more localized issue, affecting users on 64-bit machines with Windows Live Essentials 11 installed, who could not use IE9's built-in tool for sending feedback.
At last month's PDC, Microsoft said the beta of IE9 had been downloaded more than 10 million times in six weeks. Last week the company also rolled out another platform preview of IE9, the seventh so far.

Lowrider Knowledge

To quote the group War? On lowrider is one to answer. For almost one hundred years, lowriders have been not only one to see, but one to answer. Arising from old Mexican ritual, which is called paseo horses the utmost symbol of prestige, reducing the stock of cars almost sidewalk level and processing sharply develop the same kind of status symbol.

From Mexico to Los Angeles to Chicago and in the rest of the world, the art of processing on a stock car in lowrideris one evolution. In 1940? And lowriders only graced the streets on Sunday. As their popularity began to growlowriders not only become more surpluses, but they became the tool of choice for anyone who wants attention and accolades and cruised to highways on a daily basis.

George Barris became the early face of lowriders by combining creativity with his passion for cars and developing one of the first companies to customize lowriders for sale. George and his brother, Sam, used their knowledge in the work of the body Straighten fenders, bolt on accessories and the use of paint schemes that were unheard of in the meantime. Lowrider creations of Barris brothers flourished in many business. George used his business without introduce lowriders for Hollywood, as a result of not only the use of lowriders in many well-known films, such as high school confidential, but it helped him to become? The person? to contact Hollywood, where stars wanted to become their personal vehicles in lowriders.

The original lowrider artists focused mainly on the processing of cars, Chevrolet, because they are more expensive than other producers? vehicles at the time. Today, any mark, make, model, or the vehicle is fair game to become alowrider. In the art of creating a lowrider also developed well after using heavy weights and chopping springs to bring the body close to the ground. Lowriders modern hydraulics function, which not only raise the car and lower, but also to make Hop, and tilt it from the country.

Until today? And standards, changes in the Barris Brothers made famous for its activities Kustoms of America, it seems quite small. Today? A lowrider can function triple dipped chrome accessories, gold metallisation, spectacular paint schemes, two side pipes, spot lights, and everything from custom-spoked wheels for great spinners. The same pride that motivated the beginning of the Mexican horse owners to sacrifice their own needs to do more glitz in their horses, still manages contemporary lowrider owners to spend little happiness to create a vehicle which is a great source of satisfaction .

Remember the beginning of the Mexican-American Sunday phones to become full rap video stars and most great way to show status by car, lowriders have come a long way from its modest beginning. Then it is only little effort and little time to establish a lowrider vehicle that will turn heads. Now lowrider enthusiasts spend thousands and thousands of dollars along with numerous hours of body work and modifications to create their show stoppinglowrider-masterpieces. The methods may have changed, but madness is the same? On lowrider is one to answer!

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Hollywood's MGM Studio Goes Bankrupt

The Hollywood movie studio that produced well-known films like the James Bond series and "The Wizard of Oz" has filed for bankruptcy.

For decades, MGM has been making films that begin with the distinctive picture and sound of a lion roaring.

The studio is to be restructured and given new leadership, but it will continue making movies. Executives from a rival film company, Spyglass Entertainment, will now run MGM.

The creditors included billionaire Carl Icahn, who was pressing for a different company to take over the failing studio. After lengthy negotiations, the creditors agreed to exchange about $4 billion in debt for shares in the new company.

The studio was hurt by some expensive films that sold too few tickets to make a profit, slumping sales of DVDs, and a heavy debt burden.

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