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The strange journey of HD disc formats

The strange journey of HD disc formatsSomebody still has some sand in their vag....The author appears to be a spurned HD-DVD adopter. The "war" has been over for awhile, but this guy seems to still be awfully bitter. Both formats were close in quality, and technically Bluray is...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, HD-disc format, strange journey, HD-disc, HD-DVD, BluRay

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

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Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks

Here's something that fans of building their own PCs will be interested in - OCZ has launched a build-it-yourself gaming notebook kit. The idea is simple. You buy a kit (currently there's no word on pricing but the wording on the OCZ website suggest that this will...

Tags: Game, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

More on the Vista DVD playback issue

I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...

Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15

News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Happy Family Electronic Album (rar)

Happy Family Electronic Album help you manage your pictures, photos, with 150 transform effect, and generate a complete electronic photo albums or VCD, DVD format paper to facilitate burning of CDs. The CD which will be able to directly broadcast. It is simple that Happy Family Electronic Album operate ,...

Tags: Theme, Picture, Photograph, GuangZhou HwaFull Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-05-15

With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw

So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys.  Well, HD Moore set a new record...

Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Content Protection madness on Vista

[UPDATE: For more on this issue, check out this post.] I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people. ...

Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows Vista, Cintiq, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-14

ConvertVid (exe)

ConvertVid is software product for converting videos from one format to another. If you have iPod, mobile phone or want create DVD this product is just for you. With ConvertVid you will be able to convert any video file to DivX, XVid, AVI, WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, H.264, FLV, RealVideo, 3GP,...

Tags: Apple iPod, Nuclear Coffee, ConvertVid, Digital Media, Digital Music, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Cool Midi To Mp3 Wav Converter (exe)

Midi To Wav Mp3 Convertor is an easy-to-use tool for converting MIDI files to Mp3 or Wav format with CD quality without sound recording.Support Set the start position and end position of source file to convert part of the file. Support batch conversion, which means very fast.The main advantages of...

Tags: MIDI, WAV, Position, MP3, CoolMp3Tool, Digital Music, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-05-14

iRadeo

iRadeo is a free online radio platform that allows anyone to stream their MP3 / WAV files. Once installed on your web site, iRadeo will automatically detect and stream any supported file format that has been uploaded to your specified directory. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Radio, Txtms, iRadeo, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Video to PSP Converter (exe)

Video to PSP Converter can convert all popular videos DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, AVI to PSP video MP4 format, and also converts video and popular audio files (WMA, AAC, M4A, AC3, OGG, etc) to PSP MP3. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Video, Sony PlayStation Portable, MiniVideoConverter, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Disketch CD Label Software (exe)

Disketch is a CD and DVD disc labeling software. It allows you to create CD and DVD disc labels as well as cover images for CD and DVD jewel cases. You can import your own art work, or set a simple background colors and organize artist information along with track...

Tags: Software, CD, Disc, NCH Software, Disketch, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-05-14

No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?

No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?Three Thoughts1) When Office 2007 is compliant (validated by neutral 3rd party) to the ratified and soon to be released standard, they could lift the ban. In fairness to MS, there has not been time to evolve to the new standard, however, they should...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?

InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13

The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues

Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-13

UK education agency nixes OOXML

UK education agency nixes OOXMLSo because Open XML is not open enough ...... schools should save their documents in the far more closed and proprietary .doc and other file formats. And people are worried about the US educational system!Agree with this moveIt isn't a good idea to expect all the...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), UK education agency, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, ODF app, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

UK education agency nixes OOXML

Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today

Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine.  The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself.  To be fair to...

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-13