Archive for June, 2007
“Apple’s already famous iPhone is set to go on sale at Apple retail outlets and AT&T corporate stores in the U.S. at 6:30 PM local time. The iPhone has been the subject of a steadily building media frenzy, but was even being heralded as an industry-shifting device back in January when Apple announced it at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Pundits and prognosticators are full of opinions about whether the iPhone will succeed or fail in the marketplace, but one thing’s for sure: Apple has certainly managed to capture the attention of the mobile industry worldwide…” (Read full article here)
June 29th, 2007
“As expected, AMD has finally introduced mainstream derivatives of its flagship Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card. These derivatives include Radeon HD 2600 XT, Radeon HD 2600 Pro, Radeon HD 2400 XT, and Radeon HD 2400 Pro models. The 2600-series cards are based on the 65nm RV630 graphics processor, while the 2400-series models are based on the 65nm RV610…” (Read full article here)
June 28th, 2007
“Google has finally released a long-awaited native Linux application: Google Desktop for Linux. As with the already shipping OS X and Windows versions, Google Desktop enables Linux users to search for text inside documents, local e-mail messages, their Web history and their Gmail accounts. The first version supports many popular versions of Linux. It comes in the form of both RPM and a DEB distribution packages. The RPM can be installed on Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and Mandriva distributions. The DEB will install on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The program works with both KDE and GNOME…” (Read full article here)
June 28th, 2007
“As promised, MySpace has just launched its YouTube-inspired video sharing site MySpaceTV. It’s a faithful YouTube clone: videos appear at the top left and the tabs, upload button and related videos all mimic the appearance of the more popular video sharing site. There’s no doubt that the developers were given a link to YouTube and told “clone this”…” (Read full article here)
June 28th, 2007
“According to a new Internet and Multimedia 2007 report by Edison Media Research, the internet has passed radio to become Americans’ second “most essential” medium and is quickly closing in on television since the subjects were last studied five years ago. The study surveyed consumers ages 12 and older to choose the “most essential” medium in their life, the report revealed 36 percent of consumers chose TV, followed closely by 33 percent choosing the Internet, while radio and newspapers sat at the bottom of the list with 17 and 10 percent respectively…” (Read full article here)
June 27th, 2007
“New complaints claim out-of-country repair centres are now being used due to unprecedented demand. Microsoft’s UK repair centre in Havant is now redistributing faulty consoles to foreign repair centres in order to clear an overwhelming backlog and keep up with the 1,500 to 2,500 Xbox 360s arriving at its doors on a daily basis, according to customer reports. According to Lee Sherman (Gamertag, Toxic Daywalker), who sent us details of his horrible experience, his Xbox 360 had been sent to Prague for repair, which has extended the repair time considerably…” (Read full article here)
June 27th, 2007
“AMD has released Catalyst 7.6 hot on the heels of Catalyst 7.5. The team headed by Terry “Catalyst” Makedon, delivered the June version right on time, after gruelling work to get the WHQL certification on time for release during June. Getting WHQL certification is a long process. The guys’n'girls did not go to sleep after release of 7.5, and the release notes for 7.6 tell the tale of dozens of errors being fixed and even more important, a lot of performance improvements…” (Read full article here)
June 26th, 2007
Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine pulley, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators found anabolic steroids in the house and want to know whether the muscle man nicknamed “The Canadian Crippler” was unhinged by the bodybuilding drugs, which can cause paranoia, depression and explosive outbursts known as “roid rage…” (Read full article here)
June 26th, 2007
“TorrentSpy decides to not block US visitors and chooses to filter pirated content from its search results instead, something which ISOHunt plans to do as well. It’s a sad day for those in the US who use TorrentSpy or ISOHunt, two of the world’s largest public trackers sites, to find movies, music, and more to download for it seems the party’s nearing an end. It’s being reported today that TorrentSpy and ISOHunt plans to use a hash-based system called FileRights to automatically filter BitTorrent trackers that link to pirated content from its search results to help satisfy a suit brought against them by the MPAA for the illegal facilitation of copyrighted material…” (Read full article here)
June 26th, 2007
“The video gaming industry is poised to overtake the music industry in the US, with global spending on video games surpassing music spending as soon as this year, according to consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC released the data in its annual “Global Entertainment and Media Outlook” report covering 2007 through 2011, which outlines expected growth in the entertainment, film, music, and video game industries, among others…” (Read full article here)
June 25th, 2007
“”A friend hooked me up with it.” This is what a fifth-grade teacher told his class right before he showed them a bootlegged copy of Shrek the Third. And he may have even gotten away with it if one of his female students didn’t run home and write Dan Glickman a scathing email. Okay, I’m kidding — but she did tell her father what had happened, and he subsequently told MSNBC that he is pissed..” (Read full article here)
June 25th, 2007
“Thousands of U.S. webcasters plan to turn off the music and go silent this Tuesday, June 26th, to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country’s Internet radio industry. In March, the Copyright Royalty Board announced that it would raise royalties for Internet broadcasters, moving them from a per-song rate to a per-listener rate. The increase would be made retroactive to the beginning of 2006 and would double over the next five years. Internet radio sites would be charged per performance of a song. A “performance” is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener; thus a station that has an average audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 “performances” for each song it plays…” (Read full article here)
June 24th, 2007
“Google is threatening to shut down the German version of its Gmail service if the German Bundestag passes it’s new Internet surveillance law. Peter Fleischer, Google’s German privacy representative says the new law would be a severe blow against privacy and would go against Google’s practice of also offering anonymous e-mail accounts. If the law is passed then starting 2008, any connection data concerning the internet, phone calls (With position data when cell phones are used), SMS etc. of any German citizen will be saved for 6 months, anonymizing services like Tor will be made illegal…” (Read full article here)
June 24th, 2007
“US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues’ work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI. Federal agents are visiting some of the New England’s top universities, including MIT, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts, to warn university heads about the dangers of foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive academic research…” (Read full article here)
June 24th, 2007
“Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions. Writing in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature, they said they coated a special type of liquid surface with a layer of silver to make a highly reflective mirror like one that could be used in any future, moon-based telescope…” (Read full article here)
June 23rd, 2007
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