Archive for January 9, 2008

Geeks.com Website Hacked, Customer Data Stolen

If you used a Visa card at Geeks.com in the past year or so, check your statements! On Jan 4th. the company sent out an email to customers alerting them that sometime last month there was a security breach on their e-commerce site.

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Jay-Z, HP’s star endorser, uses a Mac

Jay-Z and girlfriend Beyonce seem to be Apple fans. No surprise there: Plenty of musicians use Macs. What is surprising? Jay-Z was in one of those Hewlett-Packard “hand” ads last year touting HP laptops.

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Asus Says Eee PC is Most Successful Product Ever

The Eee PCs huge sales numbers are well known by now, but Asus just announced that the Eee PC is their most successful product ever! That’s huge news from such a large company!

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Apple Announces Penryn Mac Pros and Xserve

Apple today revised the Mac Pro and Xserves with a new architecture and the recently released Penryn Processors. The Mac Pro combines two 45-nm Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2GHz and up to 4TB of internal storage. The standard 8-core configuration starts at $2799.

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OpenVZ joins forces with Ubuntu

OpenVZ and Ubuntu Linux developers on Tuesday will release pre-built Ubuntu virtual machines, designed to allow system administrators to deploy a specialised Ubuntu system in about a minute.

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The 3-D printer that can print a 3-D printer.

The RepRap is an open source 3-D printer - a self-replicating machine that will one day be able to print out all of its own parts.

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HD DVD is Really Dead: Paramount also going to Blu-ray-Only

Financial Times is reporting that Paramount has a clause in its HD DVD exclusivity contract allowing them to bail from the sinking HD DVD ship if Warner defected to Blu-ray, and they are “poised” to do so.

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New Apple Mac Pro: 8 Cores, Count Em Baby

Apple’s got a second release that just hit the wires: A Mac Pro with two intel 45nm Quad-Core Xeons.

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Copying CDs could be made legal

Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under new proposals from the UK government.

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Macworld Big News: DVDs to include iTunes Videos?!

If this is true it would be a very daring move for Apple to take over the desktop video player space…

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Mitsubishi’s Laser TV Looks Stunning

Mitsubishi put together quite a spectacle to introduce its Laser TV last night at the Moon Nightclub at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, unveiling a 65-inch rear-projection set that uses a unique laser backlight. The result is some of the most vivid color we’ve ever seen on any TV

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Google and Facebook Join Dataportability.org

Dataportability.org, the effort to introduce open standards to social networks got a big boost today.

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