January 12th, 2006 – GHoosdum
[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.
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January 12th, 2006 – GHoosdum
Symantec has admitted to including a functionality in Norton SystemWorks that operates suspiciously like a rootkit.
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January 11th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 11th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 10th, 2006 – primesuspect
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 Filling a gap in their outdated laptop lineup, they also changed the name to reflect the end of the PowerPC line.
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January 10th, 2006 – primesuspect
Almost live from MacWorld 2006, we have just received word that Apple is rolling out Intel-based macs earlier than expected.
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January 10th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 9th, 2006 – Spinner
Google is to start selling video online, offering a way for people to search for and buy TV shows and more through its site.
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January 9th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 6th, 2006 – GHoosdum
In a move to combat counterfeit drugs, Pfizer has announced that it will start including RFID tags in genuine Viagra packaging.
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January 6th, 2006 – GHoosdum
[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.
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January 6th, 2006 – GHoosdum
Yahoo has unveiled a service that allows users to utilize the company's web services from mobile phones and televisions.
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January 6th, 2006 – Spinner
The chip giant Intel has made its pitch to be at the heart of digital entertainment with its Viiv technology.
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January 5th, 2006 – Spinner
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.
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January 5th, 2006 – Spinner
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.
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January 5th, 2006 – Spinner
Microsoft has released new versions of their IntelliPoint and IntelliType software for use with their keyboard and mice range of peripherals.
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January 5th, 2006 – Spinner
[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.
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January 5th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 5th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 5th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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January 5th, 2006 – GHoosdum
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.
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