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- Whither Blu-ray?
- Whither Blu-ray?It's the lack of HDTV ownersand the ignorance of those who do own that I think is the biggest issue. People who don't have HDTV would see no benefit to spending extra money on BluRay, and those who do own will never believe there is a difference unless you...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- 300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
- A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Dishing It Out
- There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- PowerPlugs: SuperShapes for PowerPoint (exe)
- PowerPlugs: SuperShapes adds television-style still and animated shape effects to your PowerPoint presentations. SuperShapes goes beyond the static 2D world of PowerPoint's AutoShapes with artistically designed, colored and animated 3D shapes such as arrows, buttons, text frames, banners, separators and more. These professional-quality shape effects will visually direct your audience's...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ850U
- Ever since we gave the Panasonic TH-50PZ800U an Editors' Choice award as our favorite plasma HDTV so far, we've been bombarded by variations of the same question: "Is the more expensive TH-50PZ850U better?" After finally getting the chance to review the 850U, our answer is "no." The TH-50PZ850U is the...
- Product reviews 2008-07-01
- Is an Xbox 360 price cut inbound?
- Is an Xbox 360 price cut inbound?This would put a hurting on SonyConsidering the PS3 has cost Sony billions in losses that it is still hoping to make up for in software sales this would put them in a bind. MS can afford to drop the price since they are...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easier
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easierWow!This is a really big deal for Flash developers. We've been waiting a long time for this. No more alternate content solutions and having SEO dweebs trying scab your clients over this issue.Now, all we need is Flash on...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- The Steve Jobs Premium
- This is a sidebar to The Steve Jobs Standard. It was about the simplest shopping list one could imagine: an audio cable to connect my iPod to the Bose stereo in the family room. My search on the online Apple Store yielded only...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean
- Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic OceanThey're having similar problems on Mars.Seems the polar ice caps on Mars are warming and thawing as well.It must be all of those CO2 spewing space probes we've sent there.Funny thing is...the level of CO2 in the Martian atmosphere is something to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- What do the British really believe about global warming?
- What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Russian hackers planning attacks against Baltic countries and Ukraine
- Recent Tweets on Twitter are pointing to grumblings in the blogosphere around suspicion of a planned attack against Baltic countries and the Ukraine. An article posted at The Baltic Course describes the planned attacks, as originally reported by Estonian television channel ETV24: Recently, there have been multiple appeals in Russian Internet forums, calling for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Shaolin temple kick starts online store
- China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to flog its wares. SHANGHAI--China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to...
- News items 2008-06-25
- Cheat High Tech Cheaters
- Cheat High Tech CheatersOld-fashioned wayOh, heck, consider the old-fashioned way. Years ago a Japanese father got caught dressing up as a girl to take his daughter's exams that are used to determine which high school the child can enter. Of course, the best universities basically only take students...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- iSobre MacBook Air sleeve
- Remember the Manila Mac AirMail sleeve that was announced just after the MacBook Air in January? It's the one that looks like the manila envelope featured in the MacBook Air television commercial. I wasn't too fond of the AirMail when I reviewed it on 21 March 2008. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auctionHmmm....Is Porn illegal? If not is this not a governmental nose-snubbing at freedom of speech, making it highly illegal ?Do we really WANT this sort of action by our government?Do we want to become China?I dunno. I'm just askin'...The moral crusaders :)Ok,...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- MacPhobia vs. PCPhobia
- There is apparently, still, a lot of phobia out there about changing over from one computer operating system to another. Even after nearly a quarter century where the main camps have been largely the same (Windows on the PC side and Macintosh for the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- MIT students making solar power realistic
- While most solar power installations involving standard photovoltaic cells are simply too expensive to be practical for most installations, a group of MIT graduate students just completed the first "parabolic" solar energy collector. Our algebra and pre-calculus students will remember that beams of light reflected from a parabola will...
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Googlenomics, Shrugged
- Come the morning of September 7, you'll probably go to the Google search box and find a fun-loving in-house artist has replaced the first "o" in the company name with a symbol that looks like a "1" and the second "o" with a slightly altered version...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
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