Why Steam Works
“We’re talking about Valve becoming the platform holder and guardian of the PC as a gaming system over the next two years,” says Stephen Gaffney, Business Development Manager of Splash Damage.
Archive for March 28, 2008
Apple Forbids Windows Users from Installing Safari
As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than “a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.” This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you’re violating the license.
Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix
WiMax is going nowhere fast but that is not stopping a consortium of cable and tech companies from considering a plan to invest $3 billion more into a proposed bailout-through-merger of Sprint Nextel’s WiMax business (known as Xohm) and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire. ($1 billion),and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire.
Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June
Mozilla officially announces when Firefox 3 will be out.
BitTorrent Plugin Detects ISPs Raping Your Torrents
Azureus actually operates a legit video delivery business using torrent, so they’ve been among the most vocal opponents to ISPs throttling torrents. To help build their case and create a detailed log of every ISP that scrambles torrents, along with their particular poison
—short-circuiting uploads or general bandwidth caps, for instance—they’ve rele
GTA IV Street Map Leaked!!!
The title says it all…
Eee PC 900 MacBook Air Style Multi-touch Trackpad Revealed
The new Asus Eee PC 900’s manual reveals it’s got a MacBook Air/Pro style multi-touch trackpad, with two-finger pinch zooming, and two-finger scrolling.
Microsoft prepares ‘Albany’ to compete with Google Docs
Facing pressure from hosted productivity suites like Google Docs and Google Apps, Microsoft is planning a new package of low-end productivity software and hosted services through a secretive project code-named Albany.
AMD announces tri-core, tweaked quad-core Phenoms CPUs
AMD has formally unwrapped its three-core Phenom X3 8000 series, along with new versions of its existing quad-core Phenom X4 processors, now known as the 9050 line.Interestingly, the The 8650 is 27 per cent faster than the 6000+ at converting an “HD video file” to a mobile screen-sized MPEG 4 file.
TorrentSpy Shuts Down
Little over a year ago TorrentSpy.com was still the most visited BitTorrent site, but times have changed. After an expensive two year battle with the MPAA, TorrentSpy decided to throw in the towel and the site has now shut down permanently.
WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build
“…WebKit has become the first publicly available rendering engine to achieve 100/100 on Acid3.”
Comcast, BitTorrent To Work Together On Network Traffic
Comcast is in talks with BitTorrent on ways to run the file-sharing company’s technology more smoothly on its broadband network. The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent’s technology more smoothly on Comcast’s network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the future.
