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Joshua Topolsky Year:by , posted Jul 7th 2008 at 12:41PM Source Site:engadget
If youve been stuck waiting on Sony to get its act together concerning firmware 2.40, you might not have to hang back much longer. According to ComputerAndVideoGames, reps from the console-maker say that an update to the broken, PS3-bricking system software will be headed out to users "midweek." The company hasnt made an official announcement yet, but it certainly is looking like 2.41 will become a reality sooner rather than later, which should be music to the ears of a lot of deeply annoyed gamers.
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Engadget Year:1 day ago Source Site:technorati
From the IT channel ?
Study says more than 10,000 laptops go missing at US airports each week
http://www.engadget.com/ 2008/ 07/ 06/ study-says-more-than-10-000-laptops-go-missin...
Study says more than 10,000 laptops go missing at US airports each week by Donald Melanson, posted Jul 6th 2008 at 11:05AM As weve seen, laptops have a tendency of getting stolen from even the most unsuspecting places, but a new study has now found one not entirely surprising place where your laptop is particularly unsafe: the airport. According to the Ponemon Institute, more than 10,000 laptops are reported lost at the 36 largest airports in the US each week and, of those, 65 percent are not reclaimed. They also reported a further 2,000 laptops lost at medium-sized airports, with 69 percent of those ...
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Darren Murph Year:by , posted Jul 7th 2008 at 12:41PM Source Site:engadget
So maybe your stress level isnt sky high just yet, but even after an extended weekend, all it takes is that one email to get you right back where you were last Wednesday. As if you really needed something to tell you that (and if you dont have time to wait for Sweety to become a reality), a host of researchers have created a sensor-laden vest that will be able to inform wearers just how stressed they are. Developed as part of the EUs CONTEXT project, this sure-to-be-hip vest packs ultra-sensitive electrodes which register changes in muscle tension as individuals get more and more stressed, and in theory, letting someone know whats happening will allow them to simmer down before they further jeopardize their health (and the livelihood of colleagues, if you dig). Eh, we still prefer th...
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Posted by Robin Harris @ 10:52 pm Year:July 6th, 2008 Source Site:zdnet
July 6th, 2008
Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
Posted by Robin Harris @ 10:52 pm
Categories: Software, Marketing
Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows
The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 netbooks like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux.
Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million 7 to 10 inch screen netbooks this year! And a billion in 2018.
Appliance computing
In an article in the Asian business publication Tech-on reporter Tomohiro Otsuki writes:
Retailers and contract manufacturers in Taiwan say that novice...
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Marguerite Reardon Year:July 7, 2008 4:00 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Video may have killed the radio star, but it doesnt have to kill the Internet.
That is if Internet service providers can figure out how to keep up with the video-driven bandwidth demand on their networks. Peer-to-peer technology provider BitTorrent says it can help.
Video consumes more network resources than any other media distributed on the Web. Even poor-quality video from YouTube eats up more bandwidth than e-mail, music downloading, and voice over IP services. And when you throw full-length high-definition video into the mix, youre talking about even more bandwidth. Depending on the compression used, a single HD video stream can eat up 20 megabits per second worth of bandwidth.
And as consumers subscribe to faster and faster broadband connections at home and sites like YouT...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Year:1 hour ago Source Site:technorati
From the Gadgets channel ?
O2 iPhone pre-orders not going well
http://www.tuaw.com/ 2008/ 07/ 07/ o2-iphone-pre-orders-not-going-well/
Filed under: iPhone O2, the sole provider of the iPhone in the UK, sent out emails and text messages to its customers offering to send them the new 3G handset to arrive on Friday, the worldwide launch date. Figuratively billions of people wrote us to say that the site was crushed under the load of people trying to purchase the iPhone 3G. Moreover, O2 very quickly sold out of the 16GB model, leaving only the 8GB version on offer. Now, O2s website says that all models of the iPhone 3G are "currently out of stock online." Customers are encouraged to "come back on 10 July for more information." Instead, many are participating in an Apple Discussions t...
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Posted by Heather Clancy @ 7:13 pm Year:July 6th, 2008 Source Site:zdnet
July 6th, 2008
Far out! Another power management option for my Mac
Posted by Heather Clancy @ 7:13 pm
Categories: green tech, energy, conservation
Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Power Management, Power Save Mac 2.0 Software, Report Generator, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Heather Clancy
The marketing and communications types over at developer Faronics of San Ramon, Calif., very gently informed me a few weeks ago that they have a very well established power management utility for the Macintosh platform. I had despaired of the few choices for the Mac a few months back when I wrote a blog about BigFix , a patch manager gone power manager. What about Faronics? they asked.
Indeed, Faronics is on version 2.0 of the PowerSave software product line, whic...
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Joshua Topolsky Year:by , posted Jul 7th 2008 at 12:41PM Source Site:engadget
According to the overactive internet rumor party line, T-Mobile is planning to take its currently limited 3G service nationwide come October. TmoNews claims -- thanks to an anonymous tipster, of course -- that on October 1st, the telco will bring speedy service to 27 of its top markets, including Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Miami, amongst others. Of course, right now this is pure speculation and hearsay, until we get confirmation from T-Mobile (or at least some hard evidence), well just have to keep our fingers and toes
crossed.
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Posted by Zack Whittaker @ 5:14 pm Year:July 6th, 2008 Source Site:zdnet
July 6th, 2008
Students and the browser war
Posted by Zack Whittaker @ 5:14 pm
Categories: Open source, e-Learning, Downloads, Security, Social networking, Discussion
Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker
Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband wont be set up for a while, so had to resort to dial-up which is proving troublesome. Ill do my best, considering this is essentially my income, as lack of posts means I cant pay the rent.
For the last decade or so, there has been an ongoing war between Netscape (now gone), Microsoft and Mozilla, over which browser is the best and who uses it. Microsoft brough...
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Danger Room - Wired Blogs Year:1 day ago Source Site:technorati
From the Technology channel ?
The Microwave Scream Inside Your Skull
http://blog.wired.com/ defense/ 2008/ 07/ the-microwave-s.html
The U.S. military bankrolled early development of a non-lethal microwave weapon that creates sound inside your head. But in the end, the gadget may be just as likely to wind up in shopping malls as on battlefields, as I report in New Scientist. The project is known as MEDUSA ??? a contrived acronym for Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio. And it should not be confused with the Long Range Acoustic Device and similar gadgets which simply project sound. This one uses the so-called "microwave auditory effect": a beam of microwaves is turned into sound by the interaction with your head.
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Darren Murph Year:by , posted Jul 7th 2008 at 12:41PM Source Site:engadget
Wait a second -- are absurdly large, overdecorated gaming desktops making a comeback? With Acers Aspire Predator and ASUS ARES CG6155 lighting up eyes everywhere, were beginning to think yes -- particularly when you take one glance at Packard Bells elephantine ipower X2.0. Revealed at the Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris, this beast features a tremendously large, high-gloss chassis, a liquid cooling system, a dedicated lock to keep PCB snatchers at bay and a nice array of components including Intels Core 2 Quad / Extreme processor, a Blu-ray optical drive, hybrid TV tuner, up to 3TB of storage, a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2, a 21-in-1 card reader and a gaming keyboard / mouse. Somehow, Packard Bell is managing to offer this thing up for anywhere between ?999 ($1,979) and ?infinity, b...
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