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- Has Steve Jobs dropped the iTunes ball?
- Has Steve Jobs been too focused on the iPhone over the past six months and allowed problems to develop over in an established part of Apple's business - iTunes. The New York Times reports today that Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, In the news, Gadgets, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- If AMD gets out of the fab business, the future's going to be a lot gloomier
- It's been a really rough year for AMD. Losing market share to Intel is bad enough, but doing so at a time when the company took on $2 billion of debt and lost $1.2 billion over a six month period is really bad. AMD is now looking for ways to...
- Tags: In the news, Hardware, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Attention desktop Linux users - Are you a typical user?
- OpenSUSE.org has published the results of a three-month survey of over 27,000 participants. The results are interesting:A typical Linux desktop user is a guy in his twenties whos computer savvy but may very well not be an IT professional. Professionally speaking, an openSUSE Linux desktop user tends to be...
- Tags: Linux, In the news
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- AACS vs. The bloggers
- The BBC is carrying the story that the AACS Licensing Authority AACSLA plans to fight the bloggers who "crossed the line" and posted the processing key which can be used to break the copy protection on HD-DVDs."It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we...
- Tags: Thoughts, Legal, Industry, In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- The Digg HD-DVD processing key debacle
- Who would have thought that one 16 digit hexadecimal string could cause so much upset. Im talking about the HD-DVD processing string. But its all a fuss over nothing. Digg or no Digg, the information is out there in the public domain and theres nothing anyone can...
- Tags: In the news, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- So, you want some Feisty Fawn with that Dell?
- So, its official. Dell is to offer Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" on a select range of Dell PCs. Lets face it, Ubuntu was the obvious choiceAll the details are over on the Direct2Dell blog. Theres not a lot of substance to the announcement:The Linux distro of choice...
- Tags: Linux, Industry, In the news, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft's continued dominance
- Yesterday Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab now head of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, gave analysts and journalists an update on the OLPC project. Two big changes were announced - the $100 OLPC is now the $175 OLPC, and...
- Tags: In the news, Industry, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Has AMD busted itself trying to beat Intel?
- Bad news from AMD yesterday - the company posted a staggering quarterly loss. Has AMD busted itself by trying to beat Intel rather than concentrating on developing new exciting products?AMDs price war with Intel has taken a toll on the company. Margins are down dramatically, falling to 31...
- Tags: Industry, In the news, Components, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Making sense of "mean time to failure" (MTTF)
- Last week researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a paper which examined the real-world reliability of hard drives. It concluded that hard drive failure rate was much higher by a factor of about fifteen times higher than that expected based on mean time to failure MTTF information supplied by...
- Tags: mean time to failure, hard drive
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Are you ready for DST changes?
- This year sees Daylight Saving Time in many jurisdictions of the United States and Canada move as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 from its usual slots of the first Sunday in April and and the last Sunday of October to the second Sunday in March and the...
- Tags: Industry, In the news, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Lenovo recalls 205,000 notebook batteries
- Lenovo has issued a worldwide recall of 205,000 notebook batteries. Are you affected?The recall comes after four customers complained that their batteries had overheated after being dropped, incidents that caused minor eye irritation to one user and severe damage to the notebooks in all four cases.The batteries affected are...
- Tags: News, In the news
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Alcatel/Microsoft MP3 patent row - Apple could be the next target
- The MP3 patent row that erupted between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent could have an enormous effect on the entire MP3 industry. The Federal District Court in San Diego ruling that Microsoft must pay Alcatel $1.52bn the largest patent award in history could see hundreds of other firms, such as Apple...
- Tags: In the news, Industry, Legal, Microsoft, News
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- What Dell customers want - Linux, no craplets, more RAM, no offshored tech support
- Last week Dell launched a new site called Dell Ideastorm. The idea behind Ideastorm is to leverage the "Web 2.0" wave to get feedback from web users on what they want to see from Dell. Some of the ideas are pretty obvious and Dell could have found out...
- Tags: Industry, Marketing, In the news, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- AMD heading for cash-flow crisis
- A few months back I expressed concerns that AMD was in trouble on several fronts. I went as far as saying that the outlook was gloomy. Now an analyst has expressed what he describes as "increasing concern" that AMD is heading for a cash-flow crisis.Oddly enough, investors still...
- Tags: In the news, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- AACS - BUSTED!
- [Updated: Feb 13, 2007 @ 4.15 pm] Ive just found out that SlySoft have a beta version of AnyDVD HD in the pipeline. This application is able to rip HD-DVDs (but not Blu-ray discs). Details here and here. AACS took years to develop and millions of dollars to...
- Tags: In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Pogue busts the megapixel myth but over-simplifies the issue
- In an article by David Pogue in the New York Times busts the myth that the more pixels or megapixels a digital camera has, the better the output.Overall, I agree with the article, the number of megapixels that a camera has more to do with marketing than anything else. ...
- Tags: camera, Gadgets, In the news, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Vista upgrade could lead to woes
- Reports are circulating that the upgrade versions of Windows Vista wont allow users to "clean install" the operating system. If this turns out to be true then its time to image your old Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems, buy Vista Ultimate or Business or by the full version...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Microsoft, In the news, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Blu-ray discs now crackable too
- The group hacking effort, lead by an anonymous programmer going by the alias "muslix64", claim to have been able to decrypt and play commercial Blu-ray media as well as HD-DVD discs.Yesterday "muslix64" made the following post of the Doom9 forum:In less that 24 hours, without any Blu-Ray equipment, but with...
- Tags: In the news, Blu-ray, Blu-ray disc, Blu-Ray Media, muslix64
- Blog posts 2007-01-20
- Will a federal monopoly suit against Apple be good for consumers?
- It seems that with success attracts lawsuits and huge success attracts antitrust lawsuits. Apple is currently facing a number of lawsuits, and one in particular has the potential to be on a similar scale to the federal antitrust battle that hammered Microsoft.The charges leveled against Apple are very serious...
- Tags: In the news, Legal, Thoughts, Apple, Apple Computer Inc., Apple iTunes
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- HD-DVD AACS hacked
- A hacker going under the alias "muslix64" has written a utility which is capable of decrypting a AACS Advanced Access Content System protected HD-DVD discs.The decryption tool, called BackupHDDVD, is a Java-based command-line utility which decrypts the .evo video files found on a HD-DVD disc and saves them to your...
- Tags: In the news, Copyright, HD-DVD AACS, BackupHDDVD, HD-DVD
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
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