Archive for January 12, 2007

Mozilla: Apple’s Safari browser coming to Windows

Will Apple release a version of its Safari browser for Windows? The Mozilla Foundation seems to believe such a move is a distinct possibility. The outlook is buried in the wiki information the Mozilla Foundation posted this week about its future plans for Firefox.

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Company with a camera that sees through walls gets $14 million

Camero, a company out of Israel that has developed a camera that can “see” things through solid walls, has raised $14 million, bringing the total is has raised to $20 million.

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Bill Gates: “It [XBox-360] is a general purpose computer”

“It [the Xbox 360] is a general purpose computer. [W]e wouldn’t have done it if it was just a gaming device. We wouldn’t have gotten into the category at all. It was about strategically being in the living room.” Sounds familiar to what Sony got ROASTED for here on digg right? This story surely wont get dugg and if it does I’ll cancel my account.

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YouTube Considering Creating a TV Show, Channel

YouTube is pondering the possibility of producing its own TV shows, even thinking of creating a TV channel with selected clips chosen from the millions that are hosted by YouTube online.

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Carry a PC Repair System on a USB Drive

The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that’ll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)

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PeerGuardian 2 MPAA Fake Torrents Tracker!

(http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-caught-uploading-fake-
torrents/) Add this to your PG2 list. It blocks the IP ranges for the fake torrents listed in the recent Digg article. Just trying to save you some time. Special thanks to whiterabbit.

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Picture of AT&T’s Monster “Global Network Operations Center”

This is picture of AT&T Headquarters Network Monitoring room. It features 144 screens monitoring all of AT&T’s voice and data lines worldwide. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was a movie set or fake but it’s real. Pretty amazing, I wonder what the overall screen resolution of their screens is? 1,000,000,000×100,000?!?!?

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Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation - Browsers Heading Apart Again

Firefox 3 and IE8 are both in the works. It’s obvious that IE will continue to hook into the advanced functionality that Vista offers, while Firefox will become more of a vehicle for independent web services (particularly those from Google). So with IE8 and FF3 we will likely see the two biggest browsers head off into different directions.

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CBS-Google: Deal Is ‘Imminent’

Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen says that a “wide-ranging” partnership between Google and CBS may be imminent. Google is believed to be in negotiations with CBS over how to monetize the network’s television content through YouTube.

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South Park World of Warcraft Episode Becomes Reality

At least on the Dunemaul World of Warcraft server, the new character (Highlord Kruul) introduced by the patch on Tuesday (January 9, 2007) attacked Ironforge early in the morning on January 10, 2007. No one was prepared for him. No character can defeat him. Several raid groups were formed, but none could bring him down. You can’t get in or out.

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Sparking an Indie Game Revolution

Manifesto Games shirks huge brands and gloss to deliver the gaming equivalent of the DV indie film.

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Apple may introduce Cheaper, ‘Lower End’ versions of the iPhone

Apple could also, analysts said, follow a similar model with the iPhone that it did with the iPod: Apple may introduce cheaper, “lower-end” versions of the iPhone, much as it did with the iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano. The 4-gig Nano is currently the best-selling iPod, not the more capacious, “original” iPod, now in its 5th generation

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