730,000 players,recorders, and drives lost to the format war
HD DVD casualty report
Archive for February 20, 2008
Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements
Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.
Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database
The CoS can delete auctions from eBay with no supervision, and has used this to delete all resale of the e-meters Scientologists use. This is to stop members from buying used units instead of buying from the official (and very expensive) source. Given Scientology’s record of fraud and abuse, should eBay give them this level of trust?
Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player
Finally, HD DVD users now have the empirical evidence they’ve been looking for to prove that the universe really is conspiring against them…
HP’s UMPC 2133 revealed
hp,s new laptop
Is This the PDF Killer? Scribd Launches iPaper.
iPaper is a lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader that streams documents in your web browser similar to YouTube videos. It’s fast, free, and won’t crash your browser. iPaper also lets you put ads in documents for the first time ever.
Samsung-releasing,Google-branded Android phones
According to man-about-town, Robert X. Cringely, Samsung is readying not one, but two separate Android-based phones, one of which is due in September, with another model following around Christmas.
Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute
The RIAA, Big Cable and the telcos are lining up back Comcast and oppose FCC “neutrality” oversight over network management, but Sony, Vonage, and other want the FCC to make sure the playing field stays fair
Intel preps ‘Centrino 2′ for mid-year launch
The fifth-gen mobile platform, codenamed Montevina, updates every element of Centrino. Combo WiFi N and mobile WiMax, tiny motherboards, and more. Also in the works: a pint-sized 45nm Penryn processor for the MacBook Air and other super-slim subnotes.
