When it comes to understanding IT, groupthink only gets you so farEarlier Friday I was speaking with a CIO when the conversation turned to the subject of Microsoft. There's been no small amount of reaction to the publication of Gartner Group's gloomy report on Windows. But this exec was not buying into the notion of a flavip Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:47:06 +0000
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Adobe Courts IPTV With Media PlayerI've been playing around with the new Adobe Media Player (AMP), which made its way out of Adobe Labs to receive a formal 1.0 release yesterday. It's an interesting entry into the fast-moving market for streaming digital media, and definitely something tlavip Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:58:41 +0000
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PS3 Firmware 2.30 Provides HD-DTS AudioFirmware update 2.30 for the PlayStation 3 will be arriving as soon as Sony is done upgrading the PlayStation Store, which should be next week some time. The unofficial date is April 15 - as supplied by SCEJ, but nothing official from SCEE or SCEA - and alavip Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:56:17 +0000
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Amazon gives $50 to each HD-DVD customerOnline retail giant Amazon has given $50 credit to all customers who bought an HD-DVD player before 23 February, the date Toshiba officially surrendered the format war. In an email sent to relevant customers Amazon wrote: "New technologies don't alwlavip Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:54:40 +0000
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news:FCC Calls for Mobile Alert SystemThe U.S. Federal Communications Commission has moved to set up a system that would send text alerts to people on their mobile phones in case of natural disasters and other emergencies. With an order released Wednesday, the FCC adopted technical requirelavip Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:52:30 +0000
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MySpace Signs Deal to Aim Its Content for Overseas TVPositioning the social network as a breeding ground for television series, MySpace has signed a deal with a British-based production firm, ShineReveille International, to distribute its video content overseas. Skip to next paragraph Related Timeslavip Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:50:34 +0000
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Home automation system, YouTube nab burglarsFans of home automation systems controlled by a personal computer like to speculate about how their software might be able to snare intruders. An Indiana man named Fred Thompson actually did it. Court documents show the story started after Thompson's holavip Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:28:19 +0000
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Olympic torch protesters, rallied by Net, challenge ChinaSAN FRANCISCO--Wearing T-shirts reading "Free Tibet," hundreds of protesters raised their fists here Tuesday to protest the Beijing Olympic torch relay's arrival to the city. Most were from the Bay Area, but some came all the way from New York alavip Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:25:18 +0000
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Homeland Security secretary proposes 'Manhattan Project'Risks from cyberattacks are increasing and the consequences are so great that the country needs a "Manhattan Project" for network security, Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said in a keynote on Tuesday atlavip Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:22:36 +0000
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Yahoo extends Flickr with videoIn a bid to broaden Flickr if not actually crush YouTube, Yahoo is adding videos to what has just been a photo-sharing site. The change, which the company plans to launch publicly later Tuesday, is a modest but significant extension of Flickr's featureslavip Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:20:30 +0000
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Laptop makers adopt 3G Gobi chipsetDell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo are to incorporate Qualcomm's Gobi chipset into their laptops later this year. Gobi, which Qualcomm released in October 2007, is a chipset that allows travelers to connect to both High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Evolavip Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:42:29 +0000
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Report: Microsoft's own 'Wiimote' due this yearMicrosoft is reportedly working on its own version of Nintendo's Wiimote and plans to introduce it by the end of the year. The report comes from MTV News, which attributes the information to a developer "who has been brief on the project" but solavip Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:40:53 +0000
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Pizza.com domain name fetches millionsWho would've thought a generic domain name would still have the capacity to pull in big bucks? Chris Clark, the seller of "Pizza.com," seemed a bit in shock after he managed to rake in $2.6 million from the auction of the domain name. "Itlavip Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:39:08 +0000
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A glimpse into the XP version of the Asus Eee PCThe anticipated Windows XP version of the Asus Eee PC has landed at Best Buy as well as CNET Labs. We had hoped our Windows-based Eee PC review unit would arrive by way of the forthcoming 9-inch model, but alas, the hardware remains the same as the 7-inchlavip Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:36:25 +0000
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Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data soonerIn a move that seems destined to invite tension with major American search engines, a European Commission advisory body has suggested that those companies delete data collected about their users after six months--a far cry from what most companies currentlavip Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:33:36 +0000
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'The Sims Online' is officially reborn as 'EA Land'For anyone familiar with The Sims Online, the poorly-received virtual world launched by Electronic Arts in 2002, take note: EA is relaunching it under a new name and for a new price: free. Born as The Sims Online, it will now be called EA Land. Onlavip Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:31:25 +0000
