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Home Entertainment Networking: The Future?

[url=http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69989-0.html?tw=rss.index]Wired[/url] takes a critical look at the various home entertainment network technologies that were revealed at CES last week, revealing a general lack of standards and interoperability. Add comment

Symantec Caught With Norton Rootkit

Symantec has admitted to including a functionality in Norton SystemWorks that operates suspiciously like a rootkit. Add comment

Apple’s Share Price: $80.86

The day that Apple officially announced its use of Intel processors, its share price closed at $80.86, mirroring Intel's first x86 CPU, the 8086. Add comment

Stardust@Home: Search For Cosmic Dust

The UC Berkeley sponsored Stardust@Home project allows participants to search for grains of interstellar dust among the items captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Add comment

Apple Announces New Laptop Lineup

Today Apple announced the MacBook Pro line of laptops. Filling a gap in their outdated laptop lineup, they also changed the name to reflect the end of the PowerPC line. Add comment

Apple Announces Intel-Based iMac

Almost live from MacWorld 2006, we have just received word that Apple is rolling out Intel-based macs earlier than expected. Add comment

AMD Ships First Dual-Core FX CPU

AMD has begun shipping its first dual-core FX-series CPU, the FX-60, which runs each core at 2.6 GHz. Each of the processor's cores sports 1 MB of L2 cache. Add comment

Google Opens Online Video Store

Google is to start selling video online, offering a way for people to search for and buy TV shows and more through its site. Add comment

Gaming Year-In-Review “2010”

Wired has posted a farcical review of 2010's gaming picture, including marketing for the PS4 and details of the Nintendo Apocalypse's controller, or lack thereof. Add comment

Pfizer Adds RFID Security to Viagra

In a move to combat counterfeit drugs, Pfizer has announced that it will start including RFID tags in genuine Viagra packaging. Add comment

Interview With WMF Hero

[url=http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/176]SecuriTeam[/url] has interviewed Ilfak Guilfanov, the author of the temporary patch for the Windows Metafile vulnerability. Add comment

Yahoo Wants to Be on TV… and the Phone.

Yahoo has unveiled a service that allows users to utilize the company's web services from mobile phones and televisions. Add comment

Intel Eyes Entertainment Market

The chip giant Intel has made its pitch to be at the heart of digital entertainment with its Viiv technology. Add comment

Critical: Microsoft Release WMF Vulnerability Patch

Following up from [url=http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?p=345324#post345324]this[/url] report, Microsoft have now released an official fix for the WMF Vulnerability in Windows. Add comment

Xbox 360 To Get HD-DVD

Yesterday at CES, Microsoft's VP Peter Moore said that they plan to produce an external disc drive that will read Toshiba's HD-DVD disks. This comes as huge news, as tech critics have slammed Microsoft's lack of including a 'next-gen' DVD player on their system. Add comment

NEW IntelliPoint & IntelliType 5.5

Microsoft has released new versions of their IntelliPoint and IntelliType software for use with their keyboard and mice range of peripherals. Add comment

Windows XP Home: Obsolete Sooner Than You Expect

[url=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060103-5891.html]Arstechnica[/url] is reporting that Microsoft have stated that Windows XP Home will be without further security updates from January 2007 onwards. Add comment

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Show Off at CES

Toshiba and Sony are displaying the fruits of their High Definition labors in Las Vegas this week. Both companies have toted video players of their favorite high-def format to the show. Add comment

Gates pops Vista’s hood at CES

Bill Gates showed off Vista's video and entertainment features, and stated that software will be the unifying factor in the anticipated convergence of entertainment platforms - obviously, Microsoft wants Vista to be that unifying software. Add comment

Broadcom & Microsoft in the Format Wars

In announcements released in time to influence the pace of events at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show, Broadcom has announced a chipset that supports both the Blu-ray and HD-DVD standards, while Microsoft has announced native Windows Vista support for HD-DVD only. Add comment

Lego Goes Open Source

Utilizing the talents of a team of expert Lego users known for their ability to 'hack' Lego's first and second generation robot kits, the company has made its next release, the Mindstorm NXT, a solid product that the company would not have been able to create alone. Add comment