Posted in News, Music, Business, People, Friends, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 31st, 2007
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 […]
Posted in News, Business, People, Tech News, Links, General on Aug 30th, 2007
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 […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, People, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 29th, 2007
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 […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Places, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 28th, 2007
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 […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Tech News, Links, General on Aug 27th, 2007
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 […]
Posted in People, Video, News, Business, Fun, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Aug 26th, 2007
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 […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Friends, Family, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 23rd, 2007
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 […]
Posted in News, Business, Friends, Family, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 22nd, 2007
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 […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Friends, Family, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 21st, 2007
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 […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Friends, Links, Tech News, General on Aug 20th, 2007
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, […]