Archive for January, 2007

Wii News Channel offers an interactive way to track news

The Wii News Channel launched today, allowing gamers a unique way to keep up to date on current events in an interactive way. The new channel, originally planned to be available alongside the console’s launch in November, completes the initial list of online applications for Nintendo’s new game console.
Nintendo pushed back the release of the [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Vista’s coming, so how should PC users handle it

It is the countdown to Microsoft’s most important product launch in at least five years and Microsoft has sky-high hopes. It expects Windows Vista to be its most successful PC operating system yet.
But the sheer size of the next-generation software - it packs dozens of new features - and lingering questions over security have caused [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Firms Large and Small Labor to Refine Video Search

Type Hillary Clinton’s name into one of the big online video search engines — Google’s, Yahoo’s or AOL’s — and the official “I’m in” clip that announced her candidacy for president is not among the top results.
The popularity of sites like YouTube and the widespread rollout of high-speed Internet connections have accelerated video’s presence on [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Is Fox Preparing to Fight YouTube?

It had to happen! Fox sent a subpoena to YouTube requesting that the site provide identification info on the user who uploaded the first episodes of 24’s sixth season, as well as 12 episodes of ‘The Simpsons.’
The subpoena reads: “On or about January 8, 2007, Fox became aware that a subscriber (”The Subscriber”) of YouTube [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

The State of Enterprise Linux

For more than 20 years, Unix played the role of the 800 pound gorilla in the server space, especially in enterprise, scientific, government and academic environments. But traditional Unix vendors have faced increasing competition on two fronts. Microsoft Windows Server products have made significant inroads, particularly in the business back-end. To a lesser extent, but [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Hacker Opens Crack In High-Def Movie DRM

Authorities may take legal action against whoever posted decryption keys that allow code compromises in Blu-ray or HD DVD formats.
A hacker has partially cracked the code used to decrypt high-definition movies, the licensing authority for copyright-protection technology acknowledged Friday.
The AACS Licensing Administrator says several movie titles would be at risk; however, the group says [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Nintendo Signs Exclusive Contract with AP for Wii News Channel

Wii is becoming more than a gaming console for the masses: Nintendo announced that starting Saturday the Wii Channels will feature a special section of news from Associated Press.
The success of the DS and Wii tops even the most optimistic expectations of Nintendo’s officials. Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime even confessed that “I’ll be [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Fox Goes After YouTube for ‘24′ Leak

Legal experts say that Fox’s move to subpoena YouTube and LiveDigital is simply the first necessary step in the process of obtaining information that would identify the uploaders of the episodes of “24″ and “The Simpsons,” and hold them responsible for copyright infringement.
In a move to uncover who uploaded pirated episodes of popular television series [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007

More Euro countries enter battle over iTunes DRM

France, Germany, and the Netherlands are all teaming up with Norway to pressure Apple into opening its iTunes music format for the sake of compatibility, according to news reports.
Compounding Apple’s existing troubles, three of the most influential European nations have now said that they too supported Norway’s pursuit of the iPod maker over concerns that [...]

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Sony sets European release date for PS3

Sony today announced that it will launch a high-end version of its Playstation 3 for the European market. About 1 million units of the newer model, which features a 60 GB hard drive, will be on sale in Europe starting March 23 and will come with a US $775 price tag, which comes out to [...]

Thursday, January 25th, 2007