The world’s first quartz wristwatches were miles ahead of electric and mechanical wristwatches by most standards of the time, their accuracy was unprecedented and the batteries typically lasted ...

The Xteink X4 is a compact eBook reader that’s smaller than most smartphones. In fact, it’s so small that the company positions it as an eReader that sticks magnetically to the back of a phone, ...

I have two PowerMac G5s. Both are dual CPU (2.5GHz), liquid cooled. Both have firmware locked via Apple's Open Firmware Password utility (I know the password). Both running 10.3.9.<BR><BR>One was ...

When Apple Computer Inc. introduced Open Firmware with the first G3 Macintosh computers, it was big news because it allowed Apple to easily modify system information previously stored in ROM. This ...

As cloud computing and data center industries accelerate the adoption of open architecture and open firmware, the traditional firmware ecosystem is undergoing deep restructuring. AMI and Taiwan's ODMs ...

For most of us, the first soldering iron we pick up to start working on electronics has essentially no features at all. Being little more than resistive heaters plugged straight into the wall with ...

I've got a Lombard PBG3, which works fine but is hopelessly stuck in OS9.1. Initially I had a bad cd module that would take 5 minutes to read any CD, and then the other day I miraculously found an ...