2007 saw Nintendo once again slide comfortably into the number one position in the gaming industry, but sales for everyone were up as the gaming industry saw a 43 percent increase in sales over 2006.
PackageKit aims to be a cross-distribution solution for installing software, using each distributions native package management tools - i.e. Yum in Fedora and Apt in Ubuntu. It uses technologies like PolicyKit and DBus to make the whole process suck less and is being developed rapidly! Screenshots and a developer interview in this article.
Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you’ll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who’s next? MSN!
The command line. It strikes fear in the hearts of many a new Linux user. They open their terminals reluctantly, and there the prompt sits, with the cursor blinking in rhythm with their racing hearts… All right, so maybe it’s not horror movie material. But it is intimidating for many new users.
The PS3 is an amazing piece of machinery, but the PS3 Megabox Homebrew Project isn’t waiting for Sony’s inevitable firmware updates to make their dreams to come true.
Well, for those of you who hate the pain of cell-phone charging, there is now a promising new technology that could get rid of the messy problem of cellphone chargers once and for all, AND eliminate 30 to 40 percent of the toxic heavy metals that are currently found in cell-phone batteries.
A North Dakota judge issued a ruling in Sierra Corporate Design v. Ritz that has some pretty stunning implications about the use of the “host -l” command when accessing DNS records. In the judgment (which was prepared by the plaintiff’s counsel and sent to the judge), the use of the “host -l” command is tantamount to computer hijacking and hacking
Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii.
US researchers are designing software that will allow doctors to carry out simulated surgery using the console’s novel control system.
Seems like on Engadget they are saying if you bought your touch after January first, which lots prob got it for Christmas, but those that didn’t might be eligible to get the new apps for free
While the Air is undoubtedly a singular machine, is it really worth the $1799 price tag when you can get much of the same functionality with Asuss $400 Eee?
David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking.
With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting.
