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Archive for December 18, 2007
Nintendo Year-End Report Card
It’s been a gigantic year for Nintendo. It reclaimed the living room console throne for the first time in forever with the Wii, and continued to dominate the portable gaming space with its DS. But how did it do on a scale of A to F? Did it earn good marks for quality games or did it get points off for truancy?
Student Arrested For Planned Shooting in CoD4
Where better to discuss how you’ll shoot up a school than in a shooting game online with strangers? Next time: using Grand Theft Auto to illustrate how you plan your dates for the weekend.
RIAA versus Grandma, Part II: the showdown that wasn’t
A grandmother and survivor of Hurricane Rita accused of sharing tracks by 50 Cent and Usher over KaZaA has settled a lawsuit filed by the RIAA. The RIAA’s loss in a similar P2P lawsuit filed against an Oklahoma woman may have encouraged it to settle without a damage award.
Internet Hoax - Student WAS NOT Suspended for using Firefox
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student.
Jiggy: Roll your own iPhone apps
Simply put, Jiggy is the easiest way to create applications for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). JiggyApps run natively on the iPhone, so there is no messing around with HTML and the limitations of Mobile Safari. At the same time, you don’t need a compiler or even a Mac, because JiggyApps are written in JavaScript.
Google vs. Microsoft
On office: “Needless to say, we are going to do everything we can to remain the leader in this space,” he adds. “And whoever comes our way, we’ll certainly be waiting for them.” –Microsoft
Vista #1 biggest tech disappointment of 2007 — by PC World
First PC World gets all up on the soapbox that (until a certain date) the MacBook Pro is the fastest PC the mag had tested, but consider the next step taken: PC World has boldly declared Vista #1 with a bullet in in their Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007.
GStreamer brings HTML5 video support to GTK/WebKit
Collabora developers have added HTML5 video support to GTK/WebKit using GStreamer.
PS3 firmware 2.10 tomorrow, includes DivX and WMV support
Details on tomorrow’s PS3 update.
The coming exaflood, and why it won’t drown the Internet
For most of 2007, pundits have warned that a coming surge in traffic could threaten innovation and lead to “brownouts.” We’ve heard these claims before; are they any truer this time around?
QuickBooks for Mac is eating user Desktop files
Bad day for Intuit. Best thing to do is turn off auto-update feature until they get things sorted.
