The Samsung hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD player–the machine already poised to put an end to the format war–just got even more ultimate: it’s compatible with Blu-ray BD Profile 1.1, meaning it has the required dual audio and video tuners, internal memory and more, unlike the long line of half-baked Blu-ray players we’ve seen to date.
Even if you waited until April 2007 to buy, you’re up about $100 per share. Happy Birthday iPod.
Comcast is trying to go on the offensive against the discovery that the ISP is blocking traffic from BitTorrent, Gnutella, and Lotus Notes. Comcast’s defense and continued traffic shaping may may end up providing precious ammo to net neutrality advocates.
Russian outfit Elcomsoft has just filed for a US patent which leverages GPUs to crack passwords. Their approach harnesses the massively parallel processing capabilities of modern graphics cards to make minced-meat of corporate-strength password protection.
Some retailers have already received their shipments of Mac OS X Leopard. HardMac publishes photos of the Mac OS X Leopard Retail installation DVD:
It appears that some have already obtained legitimate copies of Apple’s latest Mac OS X operating system. Meanwhile, many customers are report…
There are at least two reasons why this is not just your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill file sharing copyright infringement: this involves music that has not yet been commercially released, and money changed hands.
A recent bug report for Ubuntu Linux has confirmed that both the Feisty and Gutsy versions of Ubuntu cause some unnecessary wear and tear on a hard drive.
To celebrate the release of GIMP 2.4 and to scratch and item off the Long Overdue list, the Gimp team have refreshed the web site and released Gimp 2.4. Grab it now.
According to reader Todd, there are quite a few customers are finding their “Orange Box” games have been deactivated by Valve because they bought them from a seller that wasn’t authorized to do business with US customers.
What a rumor! A Virtual Console/Wii Ware service for the DS.
