The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a landmark federal lawsuit in Arizona, claiming that it is illegal for users to make copies of CD tracks to their computer for personal use.
The handheld, stand-alone projector — mysteriously code-named SHOW — is based on the company’s PicoP display engine, and is capable of projecting a 12-inch to 100-inch, 848 x 480 WVGA image for up to 2.5 hours on a single charge.
An astute camera-phone photographer caught this little gem at his local Walmart.
From the article: “Obviously Microsoft is paying big money for these endcap displays, and I can’t help but feel they might have a problem with this.”
Bad guys use sophisticated testing to create malware that can evade even the best security programs.
Security in an OS refers to a process, not a product. This article discusses the features of Linux which makes a secure process possible when used by a knowledgeable user, namely better patch management, stronger defaults, modularity, better tools against zero day attacks, transparency and diversity of environment.
An unnamed Microsoft contact told the site:
…we will definitely be doing something for our Gold members that weren’t able to get online over the last week.
Now you can turn your Wiimote into an axe, a pistol, a scimitar, a sword, two daggers, and even a shield.
Macrumors is reporting that the rumored ultraportable Macbook we’re hoping for at Macworld 08 is to have Multitouch trackpad and external optical. The optical makes sense, and is welcome.
According to new PR for Sony’s upcoming CES showing, Skype is officially coming to the PSP.
Things seem to be going from bad to worse, for Minnesota’s Jammie Thomas. After incurring a hefty judgment in the October trial vs the RIAA, she is now having to look for new representation.
For December as a whole, Apple Inc.’s machines accounted for 7.3% of all systems that browsed the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications Inc., up significantly from 6.8% during November. At the beginning of 2007, Net Applications pegged Mac OS X’s share at 5.7%, putting the one-year growth rate at about 28%.
We’ve long known the NIntendo DS to be a capable of downloading content like demos from kiosks, but “complete games” will soon be downloadable through the Wii, and then Wi-Fi transferable to the DS, according to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime’s interview with the NYT.
