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Netflix arriving on PlayStation 3 next month

Hail PS3!! PS3 is on the roar.. After beating XBox after a long time in console sale, they are back in news again after a successful deal with netflix.I was expecting this deal a year before. But its never too late. All the things will turn out to be good...

Tags: Game players, Linux, Right Now IT, XBL, Sony PlayStation 3, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Can Spider-man help Microsoft win online gamers?

Can Spider-man help Microsoft win online gamers?Can Spider-man help Microsoft win online gamers?Thats pretty cool. Lets wait and see what Stan Lee has to say about this first. I have ever tried a MMO on a console, but it does make me wonder if people still talk a...

Tags: Games, XBL, MMO, game, Wolverine, X-Box, console, Doc Ock, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-14

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Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live

Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...

Tags: Game players, Linux, Games, EULA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, hardware functionality, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Facebook beats the 'spam king'

Good luck collecting that judgment award. ntntRE: Facebook beats the 'spam king'Ive always wondered why governments/courts don't do more on tackling spam. Surely regardless of where they are based, some pressure can be exerted by the government, onto local governments, if they don't comply, limit/block the whole countries internet...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Government, INTERNET, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, e-mail, Facebook, spam king, spam

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Netflix lands Sony PS3 distribution deal; Bolsters streaming footprint

Ineteresting but...Wont be available in Canada... as Usual.Not even a regular video and TV storeI've read before that a lot of video distribution companies don't want to deal with Canada because of piracy - namely, the center of all piracy in the Western world: the Pacific Mall in Markham.Requires a...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Sony Corp., piracy, CRIA, Sony PlayStation 3

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Spket IDE 1.6.18 (Windows)

It is editor for JavaScript, XUL/XBL, Laszlo, SVG, Silverlight and Yahoo Widget development. The JavaScript editor provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting and content outline that helps developers productively create efficient JavaScript code. It can run as Standalone application or as Eclipse plugins.

Tags: JavaScript, Microsoft Windows, Spket Studio, JavaScript Editor, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-19

Mozilla patches a dozen Firefox vulnerabilities

Mozilla has shipped a refresh of its flagship Firefox browser to fix a dozen documented vulnerabilities that expose users to URL spoofing, cross-site scripting, code injection and code execution attacks. The most serious fix (MFSA 2009-14) covers four browser engine and JavaScript engine crashes where Mozilla's developers...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Attacker, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Memory Corruption, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-04-22

1 million Xbox LIVE members activate Netflix

1 million Xbox LIVE members activate Netflix1 million activations - but how many cancellations?I was one of the folks that was excited by this and took advantage of the free trial offered by Netflix.That excitement disappeared rapidly, and I wound up canceling the trial within 24 hours after signing up.Now,...

Tags: Game players, Cable, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox Live

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Analyst: 6.6 million AppleTV units in 2009; an Apple-connected TV on the horizon

Analyst: 6.6 million AppleTV units in 2009; an Apple-connected TV on the horizonNothing to see here folks, just Apple leveraging its monopolyAnyone notice how Apple is leveraging its iTunes / iTMS monopoly (over 90% of the downloadable media market, if that isn't a monopoly, nothing is) to break into the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., Apple TV, AppleTV unit, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

Mozilla plugs 7 security holes in Firefox

Mozilla's flagship Firefox 3 browser has undergone another security makeover to fix at least 7 documented security vulnerabilities that expose users to malicious hacker attacks. The Firefox 3.0.6 upgrade patches at least two critical Firefox flaws that may lead to arbitrary code execution attacks and another "high...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Attacker, Vulnerability, JavaScript, Severity, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 2 Release, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Creating Simple Firefox "Add-Ons" With Ubiquity: Developing Add-Ons for Firefox Can Be Tedious, But It's Not Hard

Making add-ons for Firefox is not hard, but development can be tedious, especially as there is no formal development IDE for making them (Venkman comes closest, but it's not very close). So, if the developer creates a component, he or she has to build the XUL supports and overlays, bind...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Ubiquity, Jupitermedia Corp., Add-on, Web Browsers, CSS, Internet, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-10-29

Comcast sets 250GB ceiling

Comcast sets 250GB ceilingRE: Comcast sets 250GB ceiling[i]"..Comcast won't be releasing any programs that will let you easily monitor your bandwidth usage.."[/i]doesnt that directly violate the FCC order requiring Comcast to be fully transparent with their customers? To me this is still leaving them in the dark. IF they want...

Tags: INTERNET, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., ceiling

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experienceNow, why can't they get their OS right?I'm probably too old to be a fan boy here, especially since I love about every game platform. But as a XBL user I can say Microsoft has seriously earned some respect points with the whole...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Xbox 360 experience, new Xbox 360, PC, hard drive, Microsoft Xbox 360, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Microsoft touts sale of 17 million Xbox 360s

Microsoft touts sale of 17 million Xbox 360sYet they can't keep XBox Live running....Anyone who tried to use XBox Live starting the weekend before christmas and through, well, now as far as I can tell, knows what I'm talking about.The service was effectively down during the entire holiday period.It's disappointing...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, game, Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

XUL Reference 1 (Windows)

XUL Reference allows you to highlight names of xpcom/xul/xbl components and interfaces in Web pages, then right-click and go straight to its page on xulplanet.com, which is the best xul reference out there. This is more than a search engine plugin because the extension knows the names of all XPCOM...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, XUL, Einar Egilsson, XUL Reference, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-09-21

Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraud

Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraudWell thenget the authorities involved, if you're credit has been breached. Maybe the laws of your states provides that more immediate and stronger tactics been undertaken by you and the company at hand.This has happened to me before...This is no surprise to me that...

Tags: Litigation, Game players, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

Will lame hardware cripple Vista?

Will lame hardware cripple Vista?The lesson is to dump the lame hardwareYou can get a nice Vista premium capable machine for $400 easily. Simply take a discounted $250 machine and add some RAM and graphics power to it and you're done.Just as a contrast...---I have come to accept as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware, OS Upgrade, Aero, operating system

Discussion threads 2006-09-15

Cleaning up a bad e-mail reputation

Cleaning up a bad e-mail reputationPrint advertising......subsidises the costs of magazines and newspapers. TV and radio advertising subsidise the TV and radio programming. What does email advertising--spam--support? Nothing.I pay 100% of the costs associated with receiving my email and spam is basically theft of the service I'm...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Sender Reputation, spam, e-mail, spammer

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

What's the next security threat?

What's the next security threat?The next security threat is:"WINDOZE"Oh, wait, WINDOZE has been a security threat for 20 years. OK, the next security threat is Vista - another MICROSUCKS abortion.The next security threat has a name and it isVista.... it's not out yet so we are still secure until it...

Tags: Web browsers, exploitation, security threat, Mozilla Firefox, security, JavaScript

Discussion threads 2006-04-17

Three million Xbox 360s in three months?

Three million Xbox 360s in three months?Flash back timehttp://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-808159.htmlRep is taking care of me...My rep verified XBOX 360's are shipping all over the world on boats, trains and planes. My rep is going to grab me one of these babies. He is going to an old church steeple here in...

Tags: Game players, Rep, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation 3, rep, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-08