According to the internal memo announcing the demise of the format, they will either give customers a Blu-ray player
—paying the price difference, if any—or a gift card. The trade-in, however, will not be widely promoted and it will be only made available if the customers asks for it.
Denver International Airport is the biggest in the world to offer free Wi-Fi. But now a Denver newspaper reports that the connection is censored. The airport actually blocks blogs like BoingBoing and other “potentially racy sites.”
The size and position of the panel can now be configured, the visability of a number of options is now improved to make it easier to discover how Plasma works and what it provides. Farsi and Icelandic translations added, others improved. Numerous bugfixes and performance improvements. Several stability issues have been fixed.
Microsoft’s IE8 page is up with download links to boot. The links to download aren’t working at the moment, but we can probably expect them to as MIX08 gets rolling today.
The MPAA claims that piracy is causing dire harm to the movie business, but the combination of a record $9.63 box office take in 2007 and overheated piracy rhetoric lead us to wonder how bad off the motion picture industry really is.
I didn’t know about this…and its actually recommended by Microsoft
The Thunderbird developers aim to release the first Thunderbird 3 alpha next month. Plans for the new version include integration of Gecko 1.9 and user interface improvements for configuration and extension installation.
The technique is called EPIC, short for Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits.
Maxis have already showcased The Sims 3 in a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) event with press, the blockade is said to end on March 19.
Wasting no time to rally the Sim communities around their latest expansion-spawner ‘The Sims 3′ website has launched promising more once the March embargo is lifted.
Using the new “Activities” XML feature in IE8, users can right-click on any page and “ADD TO DIGG”. Check out the screenshot on Microsoft’s site! Other new IE8 features: Atom feeds in normal web pages using Microformats, Data URI support (fast page renders), CSS2.1 fully supports, and of course, tons of bug fixes…
Live blog from Engadget
So with hardware accelerated 3D graphics, an integrated database API, tightly integrated performance monitoring tools, and a highly specialized version of the Cocoa framework tweaked just for the iPhone and rechristened as Cocoa Touch, the iPhone’s just-announced SDK sounds like a winner.
