Craig Eisler, General Manager of the MacBU and proud Canadian, contacted TUAW with some news about Microsoft’s much anticipated Universal release of Office, Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac.
65nm will be in 360’s very shortly…unlike the previous digg topics would have you believe.
Acer did not preinstall the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but instead is installing a different version of the open source operating system, local dealers said.
PS3’s quest to become a media megalith continues with TiVo-esque functions hopefully coming by 2008. If you watch that worthless pap that is TV, this may be a rather neat addition.
“At Mozilla, since the whole world can see what we’re doing, [we thought] maybe we can package it up, make it available, get some feedback on it, have people contribute, and have other projects use them.”
Microsoft’s ongoing attempt to establish its own photo format as a JPEG alternative (and potential successor) took another step forward today when the JPEG standards group agreed to consider HD Photo (originally named Windows Media Photo) as a standard.
Discovery Communications has announced the acquisition of TreeHugger.com for what is believed to be $10 million.
With the release of Hot Shots Golf (Everybodys Golf) 5 this week PS3 sales have increased by 187% to 37,524 units - HSG 5 sold 185,000. Mario Party 8 was the top seller overall with 280,000 units sold. Oblivion set the 2nd highest opening ever for Xbox360 with 45,000 units. DS dominated hardware sales with over 170,000 units sold this week!
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The humble office laser printer can damage lungs in much the same way as smoke particles from cigarettes, a team of Australian scientists has found. An investigation of a range of printer models showed that almost a third emit potentially dangerous levels of toner into the air.
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The Oxygen team has announced that they are running a contest to get a wide array of beautiful, usable and new wallpapers for inclusion in KDE 4.0. See website for submission details. Must be open source licensed and original content, with Photos preferred. Good luck!
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A Georgia man is facing the prospect of years in prison and fines of $750,000 after he admitted being involved in the ‘camming’ of movies and removing ‘copyright management information’ from DVDs. The cost of removing management information from a DVD in the US? 5 years in prison, 2 more than for camming movies.
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Using a new program to analyze images and videos for changes may reveal hidden terrorist messages
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