While Fox has gone all out with eight Blu-ray title announcements, Warner Bros has opted to six Blu-ray and four HD DVD titles.
The company has said it will launch the 10 high definition titles on the 26 September 2 months before Fox releases its titles in November.
The Time Warner unit will release Tim Burton’s Corpse […]
Apple announced the appointment of Google CEO Eric Schmidt to its board of directors this week.
The move seems set to reinforce exisiting relationships between the two firms, and Wall Street analysts are beginning to consider what other advantages the strategic move may create.
The appointment of Schmidt reinforces the link between Apple and another high profile […]
Sony may be forced to drastically cut its PS3 unit shipments for the launch of the console in November, due to a shortage of blue laser diodes.
The manufacturing arm of Sony has reportedly suspended shipment of the diodes to its customers making HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movie players, in order to use them in the construction […]
A new feature of the search engine’s online book program makes out-of-copyright works available for downloading and printing.
ake note, Joe College: It won’t cut it anymore to say that the university bookstore has sold out all copies of Silas Marner. On Aug. 30, Google announced an escalation of its book program. Now, in addition to […]
If Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. weren’t already at each other’s throats, Google’s move into the lucrative office market this week has put the two high-tech giants at war.
After much speculation, Google introduced Google Apps – a package that includes its e-mail, calendar, instant-messaging and Web site creation services. Later this year, Google plans to […]
The Wi-Fi Alliance originally planned to hold off certification of 802.11n products until the IEEE finished ratifying their standards for the wireless technology. But they can wait no longer.
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is taking longer than planned to produce Draft 2.0, the fully ratified standard covering 802.11n, the successor to today’s […]
A new, legal BIOS setting allows overclocking on “locked Core 2 Duos.”
Those of you fortunate enough to own the high-end Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 have had the added bonus feature of a processor that is unlocked, meaning you could overclock it out of the box. This has not been true true of its […]
Advanced Micro Devices recently unveiled the next version of its Opteron processor and said it has taken a significant step toward delivering a quad-core processor next year.
Now shipping, the Socket F Opteron processors are AMD’s first to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 memory. Rival Intel has been offering virtualization acceleration in some of its server […]
They did this last Friday, too: Prices for AMD dual-core processors are taking another pre-weekend dip, according to the latest data from PriceGrabber, with the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ falling the furthest since Monday: down $47 (13.1%) to $313. The trouble for AMD is, Intel prices are continuing to fall at the high […]
Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research, doesn’t think that this confusion over whether Vista users will or will not be able to play Blu-ray or HD DVD movies, will derail the Vista project. “It’s more of an ‘oh, that’s too bad,’ rather than an ‘oh, that’s terrible,’” he said.
Will it or won’t it? […]
