One thing for sure the boys at Microsoft had better get busy as the boys over at Apple are going to start putting the hurt-locker on Microsoft. The announced features to MAC OS X Tiger are not due to be out until 2005 but I even had to say wow. One thing I find very [...]
I love these stories when Spammers get taken to court and then get body slammed. In a court ruling in Paris a spammer has to pay a fine of around 13,000 Euro’s along with their legal fees (ouch). He has to advertise the court ruling on his own website and pay for advertising on the [...]
“A major security hole discovered in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer last week has become a golden marketing opportunity for alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera unaffected by the flaw.”
lockergnome.com
Intel has taken some hard knocks in the past for their integrated graphics, and deservedly so. The new GMA 900 graphics technology in the just-released 915 chipset aims to change all that and raise the bar for baked-in graphics tech.
extremetech.com
Intel’s dual-processor 32-bit Xeon includes 64-bit extensions, enabling it to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications equally well.
eweek.com
It’s perhaps the biggest launch of any MMORPG in the past several years and now City of Heroes, the long awaited super hero MMORPG from developer Cryptic Studios and publisher NCSoft is racking up huge sales and subscribers, along with solid reviews. HomeLAN got a chance to chat with NCSoft’s Chris Julian to find out [...]
Another indication that Warner Bros. is, in fact, putting the kibosh on DC Superhero Fan Films at the upcoming Comic-Con International comes from Rich Johnston’s column today. Johnston writes, “Sandy Collara, the creator of…’Batman: Dead End’ that got so many people talking last year has just done a kind of sequel, this time with Batman [...]
Hungarian researchers reportedly plan to announce their findings at an international conference this week that carrying cell phones can lower men’s sperm counts by as much as 30 percent. Other researchers, contacted by cell phone, said in high falsetto voices that they’re skeptical about the Hungarian claims.
mikeslist.com
Software for analyzing genomic data has been woefully inadequate, leaving scientists in a DOS-like wasteland. One company is solving the problem with a video-game sensibility. By Kristen Philipkoski.
wired.com
Movies recorded on tape and disc for home viewing, bought or rented from stores or delivered by mail.
Sara will give me one of those adolescent “Oh, Dad, you dinosaur” looks when I try to tell her that high-definition movies weren’t always available on demand through an ultra-high-speed Internet connection for download in three minutes.
Then she’ll [...]
