Apple Updates MacBooks to Santa Rosa, GMA X3100
As rumored, Apple has quietly updated the MacBook tonight to the Santa Rosa architecture with mild speed bumps and the new GMA X3100 integrated video.
Archive for November 2, 2007
Mininova Closes Distribution Deal for TV-Show
The “old media” is slowly realizing that BitTorrent is a great distribution platform, and above all, an excellent marketing tool. Today, The Red Band Film Company and Mininova announce the first official deal to distribute a TV-show on the popular BitTorrent site.
Russian hackers find a way to uncensor Manhunt 2 on PSP
Russian hackers have found a way to uncensor Manhunt 2 on the PSP. The process requires an ISO image of the game, the deletion of strings and the replacement of some ini files.
On the so-called Apple OS X “Trojan”
Make no mistake — this is not the same kind of threat that we’ve faced in Windows over the years. That threat is very specifically the drive-by installation of software without the user knowing or having a chance to stop it.
Messenger 9: GTalk Integration, Messenger API, New Client for Mac OS X
“In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech graduate Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store”
Sony Gets Head in the Game with New PS3 Ads
Sony America finally gets their damn head in the game to sell some PS3s with a new ad campaign for this holiday. And in a shocker for Sony, they actually show the games in the ads.
Punishing Innocent Downloaders Violates Free Speech, Professor Argues
“Internet users face a sort of “copytrap” when they encounter a Web site that falsely represents the downloading as legal. With no way to know whether a Web site’s representation is true, a downloader is likely to be deceived and thus face harsh penalties under the law.”
Apple Researching Touch Surface Keyboard
During the build up to Leopard’s release, we overlooked a very interesting patent application from Apple that appeared last week. This latest application is another product of Apple’s Fingerworks acquisition from 2005. Fingerworks had commercialized versions of multi-touch interface input devices,…
Ubuntu Developer Summit lays out vision for strong Hardy Heron release
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Boston, developers are making plans for Hardy Heron, the next major release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution
—one that will be supported for three years on the desktop. Ars attended the Hardy Heron desktop roundtable session to bring you the inside scoop.
Apple to drop iTunes 7.5 sometime next week
A new version of Apple Inc.’s iTunes media software due as early as next week will deliver a number of small refinements, but is not expected to introduce any major new features, AppleInsider has learned. Due for release as iTunes 7.5, the software update will offer increased stability and better management of duplicate song and video entries, peop
PS3 Gets ‘Largest Ever’ Campaign; 80GB Sees ‘Phenomenal’ Sales
Sony Computer Entertainment America VP of Marketing Peter Dille has proudly unveiled two new TV spots for the PS3 and noted that the 80GB model has seen great sales growth at $499.
Signed Java Applets broken on Vista
Windows Vista’s new security model for it’s Internet Explorer browser breaks existing signed Java applets. This arises out of newer security restrictions on add-ons in IE. The Dekoh Desktop installer gets around this by using an exe installer.
