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George Hotz modified his iPhone, but is there anything Apple can do about it?
We’re pleased to be joined today by Brian Banner, an attorney with Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck who has been following the story of the teenager who recently modified his iPhone.
DDJ: Brian, George Hotz, a 17-year-old from New Jersey, recently posted a […]

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Starting sometime Friday, August 24th, Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage servers began having problems, and some Windows users began to report having difficulties validating their copies of Windows XP and Vista. A few users even suffered the “reduced functionality” fate that the Windows anti-piracy system imposes on users it deems to be running illegitimate copies of […]

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Via Technologies has unveiled its 500MHz Eden CPU which it claims is the most power-efficient x86 processor yet produced.
The new chip draws a single watt of power when in use, and just 0.1 watt when idle, and joins Via’s ultra-low voltage processor family designed primarily for ultra-mobile applications.
Because of its very low power draw the […]

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Microsoft has retooled its online Linux FUD campaign, killing the “Get the Facts” site and replacing it with a softer Linux FUD site that takes at least a small step toward normalizing relations with the Open Source Software (OSS) community. The new “Windows Server/Compare” site still hammers the total cost of ownership, security, and complexity […]

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Sony announced Thursday at their headquarters in Tokyo that their company has developed a bio battery that can generate electricity from sugar. The battery makes use of the enzymes in sugar to act as catalyst. According to Sony, these enzymes are produced through the application of power generation principles found in living organisms.
The bio battery […]

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Leave it to a Jersey teen to screw with one of the largest exclusivity deals in modern technological history. Up until now, anyone who wanted to use one of Apples superstar iPhones had to join the AT&T wireless network.
But thanks to George Hotz, a 17-year-old from Glen Rock, thats no longer the case. Using software […]

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Massive Windows reboots knocked out the peer-to-peer VoIP service network
The two-day outage last week of Skype peer-to-peer VoIP services was triggered when users of the software installed Microsoft patches and rebooted their computers, which also serve as nodes in Skypes network.
The incident demonstrates a reliability weakness in the companys network architecture and indicates that Skypes […]

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This video on the web thing is going to be big I tell ya!
Read/Write Web is reporting that Adobe will be releasing an updated version of their Flash Player 9 beta tomorrow which has some new features aimed squarely at video on the web. The two biggies are:

H.264 playback support. You might recall that Apple […]

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The new desktop part is the 6400+, clocked at 3.2GHz, fitted with 2MB of L2 cache and priced at $251, as previously forecast.
The 6400+ is available to buy in both tray-packed batches and individually in boxes that describe the part as the “Black Edition” X2.
AMD is also offering an Athlon 64 X2 for notebooks. With […]

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As part of an ongoing strategy to keep printing relevant as the business world becomes more mobile and Web-driven, HP Labs has developed a system that allows users to print from any available printer — anywhere in the world.The New York Times reported Monday that HP researchers spent several months developing the system, dubbed Cloudprint, […]

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This news might be “semi-old” … but it is worth mentioning again.
The government gave a failing grade to a prototype device that Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Dell Inc. and other technology companies said would beam high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves.
The Federal Communications Commission on July 31 said the devices submitted by the technology […]

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This week, private equity firm Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) reported its Q2 earnings. Well, as should be no surprise, compensation costs were higher (not cheap to hire investment gurus). In fact, there was a net loss of $55.1 million. Although, the firm thinks a better metric is “pretax distributable earnings,” which came to $143 […]

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When software virtualization company VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) went public this week and shares went directly into the stratosphere, the concept of “virtualization” suddenly became part of the common media jargon overnight. VMware basically sells products that create “virtual” computing environments from vast, interconnected resources. Why have a bunch of local and unused computing machines […]

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AMD made available a new specification describing Light-Weight Profiling (LWP), a technology designed to increase the performance of software applications by providing a mechanism that allows software to more effectively leverage the benefits of multi-core processing.
The LWP specification describes the first technology that supports a recently introduced initiative called Hardware Extensions for Software Parallelism, which […]

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A move on Wednesday by the manufacturers of the open source MySQL database to shut off access to the source code of its commercial edition MySQL Enterprise Server, has led to a new round of debate in the open source community over whether the group is gradually abandoning its commitment to free software.
“Our intention is […]

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