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This page lists all news articles written by James Delahunty
during September, 2009. News
articles are sorted so that the latest article appears at the very top of the page
and the oldest article appears at the bottom of the page.
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September, 2009
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According to sources close to the talks, Warner Music Group and Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing website are finalizing an agreement that will allow Warner music videos to be featured on ...
29 Sep 2009 11:20 PM | 2 comments
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The SD Association will lead a public technical discussion at CEATAC on October 7. Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) cards come in the same size card as regular SD cards, but have the ...
29 Sep 2009 10:58 PM | 6 comments
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Nero has unveiled the Nero MobileSync software for smartphones. MobileSync is the first offering from Nero's new "hardware-agnostic" platform of products for mobile handsets, Netbooks, gaming ...
29 Sep 2009 10:47 PM
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Several hundred comments have been posted on an official Sony blog post announcing the v3.01 firmware release. Some of these comments are complaints, and seem to focus on issues with the console's ...
28 Sep 2009 10:27 PM | 46 comments
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Palm's webOS 1.2 update for the Pre didn't launch as expected last week, but is expected to become available sometime during this week. It is reported that a test of a revamped App Catalog is ...
28 Sep 2009 10:26 PM | 3 comments
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JVC has introduced the new PICSIO GC-FM1 in Japan. The 5.8x2-inch camera features an 8-megapixel still photo sensor that can record video at 2.03 megapixels in a 4:3 aspect ratio at 1080p (or ...
28 Sep 2009 10:25 PM | 1 comment
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The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in the United States is seeking input from industry players before October 23rd on an attempt to expand the wireless spectrum as part of the National ...
28 Sep 2009 10:24 PM | 3 comments
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As if things weren't bad enough for the proposed acquisition of the Pirate Bay by Global Gaming Factory X, the company's chief executive officer Hans Pandeya has lost control of his assets. ...
28 Sep 2009 10:23 PM | 2 comments
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Toshiba UK announced the new Qosmio X500 intended to be used by gamers. The Qosmio X500 offers high performance processing power, combined with the latest graphics capabilities, to deliver a ...
28 Sep 2009 3:13 PM | 3 comments
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The people at Xiph.org have released Theora 1.1, a year after releasing Theora 1.0. The format itself hasn't been altered; existing Theora videos will be decoded fine with the new decoder and ...
28 Sep 2009 2:56 PM | 1 comment
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Microsoft Corp. has reportedly informed wireless carriers by letter that they can no longer use the Musiwave mobile tunes service once their contracts expire, a source told The Register. Musiwave ...
26 Sep 2009 2:50 PM
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A meeting that was called for British musicians to discuss UK government proposals on how to tackle illegal file sharing has come to a consensus that file-sharers should have their bandwidth ...
26 Sep 2009 2:32 PM | 15 comments
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Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles last week in Japan totaled 51,055, toughly an 8 percent drop from 55,344 units the week before. The result is relatively stable considering the release ...
26 Sep 2009 2:18 PM | 5 comments
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Intel Corporation showed off three high-performance quad-core Core i7 mobile processors (code name Clarksfield) at the Intel Developer Forum. They debuted alongside the new Intel PM55 Mobile ...
26 Sep 2009 2:09 PM | 3 comments
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In a letter to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), AT&T accused Google of ignoring FCC regulations and called the company a hypocrite over its policies with the Google Voice application. ...
26 Sep 2009 1:55 PM | 1 comment
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Earlier this week, AMD launched its most powerful processor to date (based on raw compute horsepower measured in FLOPS), found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards. ...
26 Sep 2009 1:38 PM | 4 comments
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Users of Apple's iPhone 3G and 3GS are finally able to use the MMS functionality added to the handset with the iPhone 3.0 software update on AT&T's network. The capability came at 1pm Eastern ...
26 Sep 2009 1:17 PM | 5 comments
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Apple is reportedly ready to introduce a new 2009 Mac product line with a new family of iMacs, according to AppleInsider sources. The new iMacs were reportedly finalized early in September and ...
26 Sep 2009 1:02 PM | 4 comments
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In yet another bizarre demand, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is demanding that mobile operators pay licensing fees because their customers use ringtones. ...
25 Sep 2009 2:34 PM | 6 comments
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Intel Corporation demonstrated the anticipated Larrabee graphics processor earlier this week at the Intel Developer Forum. Sean Maloney, chief sales and marketing officer for Intel, showed off ...
25 Sep 2009 2:19 PM
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Valve is appealing a decision by Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification that denied Left 4 Dead 2 a rating in the country, effectively banning the game in the territory. In ...
25 Sep 2009 2:03 PM | 14 comments
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has confirmed to Kotaku that PlayStation Portable (PSP) owners will not be able to exchange their games on Universal Media Disc (UMD) media to PSPGo ...
25 Sep 2009 1:56 PM | 11 comments
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The European Commission is preparing a mandate for the manufacturers of portable media players (PMP), to address concerns about consumer hearing loss due to noise levels of players. Meglena ...
25 Sep 2009 1:46 PM | 2 comments
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Nintendo has revealed a new Wii Sports Resort bundle that includes two MotionPlus accessories instead of the previous one. The extra controller will add $10 to the price tag, which would be ...
25 Sep 2009 1:36 PM | 1 comment
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Intel Corporation has invested in TransGaming's GameTree.tv service, which will provide games-on-demand for High-definition television (HDTV) screens from the second quarter of 2010. It will ...
25 Sep 2009 1:28 PM
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Apple Inc. has updated its main websites with information about the environmental impact of its products, and what the company has done, and is doing, to improve its line of products from an ...
25 Sep 2009 1:22 PM
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Toshiba Corp.'s first television to feature the Cell processor (also used with the PlayStation 3 console) is on track for its intended release this year. The product is to hit the Japanese market ...
24 Sep 2009 8:48 PM | 3 comments
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At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Corporation executives Eric Kim and Justin Rattner discussed what is needed when the full Internet converges with broadcast networks, laying out the opportunities ...
24 Sep 2009 8:40 PM | 2 comments
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Finnish mobile handset giant Nokia has found itself in the midst of a legal dispute in Brazil over its Ovi brand. Brazilian firm Ouvi Divulgacao e Marketing em Celulares Ltda claims that Nokia ...
24 Sep 2009 8:32 PM
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Microsoft Corp. has responded to the release of Google's Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer with criticism. The company has argued that the plug-in, which adds support for HTML 5 and speeds ...
24 Sep 2009 8:25 PM | 8 comments
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At the Tokyo game show press conference on Wednesday, Gran Turismo producer Kaz Yamauchi jumped on stage to give out new details on the anticipated PlayStation 3 (PS3) title. The biggest detail ...
24 Sep 2009 8:10 PM | 12 comments
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Microsoft has dismissed rumors that the company is planning to bid for game publisher Electronic Arts. "We have no plans to acquire EA," Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game ...
24 Sep 2009 7:59 PM
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Lily Allen appears to have decided to completely gut her music career because she apparently cannot make any money from recorded music anymore. The performer said she has no plans to tour or ...
24 Sep 2009 7:50 PM | 29 comments
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Nintendo has issued a press release confirming that the price of the Wii console will be cut $50 to $199 in the United States starting on September 27. Nintendo finally made cuts to the price ...
24 Sep 2009 7:35 PM | 1 comment
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Appeals court judges have called the $290 million damages awarded to i4i in a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. i4i had originally won its case against Microsoft, which resulted ...
23 Sep 2009 7:57 PM | 4 comments
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John Donahoe, Chief Executive of auction-giant eBay Inc., said that despite recent lawsuits over the underlying technology used in Skype, the $1.9 billion sale of majority interest in the Internet ...
23 Sep 2009 7:46 PM
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AMD has confirmed to Maximum PC that it will release a Hexa-core (6 cores) processor (codename Thuban) next year that will be backwards compatible with AM3 and AM2+ socket-equipped motherboards. ...
23 Sep 2009 6:57 PM | 14 comments
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There have been some calls lately for fees to be introduced for viewing TV shows episodes and other content on the BBC's popular iPlayer. Lorraine Heggessey, chief executive of TV production ...
23 Sep 2009 6:40 PM | 8 comments
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UK retailers GAME has announced that in the six months to July 31, it earned GBP £177.3 million in sales of pre-owned game titles, accounting for a quarter of all revenue during the period. ...
23 Sep 2009 6:28 PM | 3 comments
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Apple Inc. and Eight Mile Style LLC, Eminem's music publisher, are set to decide a 2007 lawsuit by a jury-less trial later this week in Detroit unless a late settlement is reached. Eight Mile ...
23 Sep 2009 6:15 PM | 5 comments
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Intel has surprised some industry experts by showing off working 22-nanometer SRAM chips, proving that Moore's Law still has some fight left in it. Moore's Law, applied to chips, predicts a ...
23 Sep 2009 6:02 PM | 13 comments
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The Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) proposals to ensure all traffic on the Internet is treated equally has come under fire from some wireless providers and politicians. The FCC wants ...
23 Sep 2009 5:51 PM | 7 comments
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A letter sent by the USB Implementers Forum to both Apple Inc and Palm has stated that Apple has the right to alter its iTunes software to block Palm's Pre device from syncing. When the Pre ...
23 Sep 2009 12:02 AM | 3 comments
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Microsoft has confirmed that it is working on a new wireless adapter for the Xbox 360 console that is compatible with the new 802.11n specification. The current (original) WiFi adapter is compatible ...
22 Sep 2009 11:48 PM | 19 comments
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Having already seen changes to the palette availability in the Nintendo DSi range in the United States and Japan, Nintendo has confirmed that it will offer the Nintendo DSi in more colors in Europe.
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22 Sep 2009 11:39 PM
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A leaked Sega U.S. document has indicated a date for the release of motion control technology for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console. It also additionally included details on the availability of ...
22 Sep 2009 11:33 PM | 6 comments
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British artists have been commenting on some proposed measures to tackle illegal file sharing of music in the region, with the likes of Radiohead and Annie Lennox being opposed, and Lilly Allen ...
22 Sep 2009 11:23 PM | 5 comments
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News Corp.'s MySpace is to launch a new video service within the next several months with the help of Hulu.com. Rupert Murdoch had commented earlier this year that he plans to reshape MySpace ...
22 Sep 2009 11:14 PM
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NEC Electronics has announced its new USB 3.0 (or, SuperSpeed USB) system-on-a-chip (SOC) design solution that could bring forth USB 3.0-equipped hardware very soon. The company's new SOC is ...
22 Sep 2009 11:04 PM | 3 comments
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Corel Corporation announced the availability of WinDVD 2010 last week, the latest version of the world's most widely used DVD playback software. The software improves its Blu-ray and BD-Live ...
22 Sep 2009 10:40 PM | 2 comments
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The founders of the P2P VoIP Internet communication service Skype - Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom - have filed a lawsuit against the former chairman of Joost, Michael Volpi, for allegedly ...
21 Sep 2009 11:13 PM
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Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the new Adobe Flash Platform Services, which enabled content providers and advertisers to measure and monetize applications across social networks, desktops ...
21 Sep 2009 11:01 PM
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Netflix has paid out a $1 million reward to a seven-member international research group after the group won a contest held by Netflix to improve its predictions of movies a customer might like ...
21 Sep 2009 10:50 PM | 1 comment
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Apple Inc. is investigating battery issues arising from updating an iPhone to the v3.1 operation system, following a lot of messages about the issue being posted on the Apple support forums. ...
21 Sep 2009 10:37 PM | 8 comments
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Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone operator (in terms of revenue), has inked a new deal with Warner Music Group that completes its collection of deals with major music labels.
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21 Sep 2009 10:25 PM | 2 comments
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Microsoft's Bing search engine took more market share from Google Inc. during August, according to new data. A research note from JPMorgan cited data from industry tracker comScore to show that ...
21 Sep 2009 10:15 PM | 11 comments
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Seagate has shipped the new Barracuda XT hard drive with 2TB of storage capacity, 64MB cache, spindle speed of 7200RPM and its most notable feature of SATA 3.0 - or put another way - up to 6Gb/s ...
21 Sep 2009 10:06 PM | 10 comments
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At the Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum 2009 in Taipei, ArcSoft showed off its PowerMobia Mobile Broadcast TV application. It is designed for users to watch live TV broadcasts on their portable ...
21 Sep 2009 9:53 PM
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A Cuban man has been freed after being sentenced to two years in prison for posting a YouTube video protesting a food shortage in the country. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos was sentenced last ...
18 Sep 2009 4:13 AM | 6 comments
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Microsoft Corp. has filed a number of lawsuits against companies that use malicious advertisements in order to trick Windows users into installing useless "security" software. Scareware ads ...
18 Sep 2009 3:24 AM | 14 comments
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has appealed to regulator Ofcom to be allowed to use encryption on Freeview HD data to prevent piracy. Of course, the request was immediately criticized ...
18 Sep 2009 3:01 AM | 8 comments
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On the day of its release in the United States, Microsoft confirmed that the Zune HD media player will function as a games device, with 3D versions of Project Gotham Racing: Ferrari Edition, ...
18 Sep 2009 2:24 AM | 4 comments
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Iowa senator Tom Harkin recently became chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, following the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. On Monday, Harkin vowed to look into ...
16 Sep 2009 3:19 AM | 9 comments
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A leaked Toys R Us catalog has sparked reports that Nintendo will drop the price of the Wii console in the United States to $199, a cut of $50 from the price tag. The new price is expected to ...
16 Sep 2009 2:31 AM | 6 comments
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Swedish Internet Service Provider (ISP), Black Internet, was ordered by a Stockholm court to cut off the Pirate Bay from its service or face a fine of up to 500,000 kronor per day.
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16 Sep 2009 2:29 AM | 4 comments
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According to data released by iSuppli, Intel Corp. has built on its lead in the global microprocessor market. Intel received 81 percent of all revenue made from microprocessors in the second ...
16 Sep 2009 2:27 AM | 3 comments
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A federal judge has dismissed a 2007 lawsuit brought against online video site Veoh Networks Inc. by Universal Music Group. The lawsuit alleged that Veoh was aiding and abetting copyright infringement ...
15 Sep 2009 2:03 AM | 2 comments
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SanDisk Corporation unveiled its new Extreme Pro CompactFlash memory cards on Monday, designed for professional photographers and other pro-users. The new cards on offer from SanDisk range in ...
15 Sep 2009 1:52 AM | 8 comments
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If you think back a few short years, you might remember a very controversial copy protection technology (XCP) used on a number of Sony BMG CD titles. The DRM used a rootkit to bury itself deep ...
15 Sep 2009 1:40 AM | 4 comments
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Academics at the University of Warwick have taken advantage of the Xbox 360 GPU chip's parallel processing abilities to crunch data as part of scientific study. The Warwick team harnessed a ...
15 Sep 2009 1:18 AM | 8 comments
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The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) is pushing for an agreement with music download sites and other entities in Japan that would see digital rights management (DRM) copy protection ...
14 Sep 2009 7:44 PM | 5 comments
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Another Guide has been added to our collection in the latest round of additions and updates. This one shows how to use an application called Synergy to control multiple computer systems with ...
13 Sep 2009 8:01 PM | 3 comments
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According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph, Germany group Deutsche Telekom is on the verge of submitting a bid for the third largest mobile phone operator in the United States, Sprint Nextel.
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13 Sep 2009 7:49 PM
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The NPD Group followed up its recent sales figures for the U.S. games industry in the month of August with a new study titled "Kids & Cross-Entertainment Behaviors." It suggests that a way for ...
13 Sep 2009 7:34 PM | 20 comments
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A European Union investigation into online retailers that sell electronic goods has found that over half of the 369 websites checked were breaking European laws and regulations that exist to ...
13 Sep 2009 7:08 PM | 1 comment
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Porn companies from the United States and Japan have been very disappointed with the outcome of a complaint made against 10,000 Internet users in South Korea they accused of pirating their content. ...
13 Sep 2009 6:47 PM | 4 comments
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We've been working on updating some of our stone-age guides (yes, we get the complaints ;-) ) and adding a few new ones as well, for anyone who is interested. Decided just to mention a couple ...
13 Sep 2009 6:27 PM | 1 comment
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It was something of a mystery as to why Apple's latest changes to the popular iPod Touch did not include a video camera as expected, while the iPod nano did. Rumors and a mounting pile of evidence ...
12 Sep 2009 10:41 PM | 1 comment
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A recent "tweet-tirade" from Courtney Love following the likeness of deceased Nirvana front-man, Kurt Cobain, appearing in the latest installment of the Guitar Hero gaming franchise, included ...
12 Sep 2009 9:59 PM | 14 comments
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Vivid Entertainment, the largest adult entertainment video production company in the world, is interested in distributing pornographic content through the PlayStation Network (PSN), and then ...
12 Sep 2009 9:27 PM | 18 comments
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Microsoft has confirmed to Ars Technica what the blogosphere has reported as rumor for the past few weeks; Microsoft has no plans to sell the Zune HD portable media player outside of the United ...
12 Sep 2009 9:15 PM
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In a blog post in the Skype Developer Zone, titled "The future of Skype Extras", the company announced that they will shut down the Skype Extras program. Skype will no longer certify any new ...
12 Sep 2009 9:06 PM
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The IEEE announced on Friday that its Standards Board has ratified the 802.11n-2009 amendment, designed to help the data communications industry address the escalating demands placed on enterprise, ...
12 Sep 2009 8:56 PM | 9 comments
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On Friday, Motorola Inc. shares rose 9 percent on the hopes that the new Cliq "Google Phone" could reverse its string of loss making. The phone, which it developed with Google Inc., pleased ...
11 Sep 2009 9:41 PM
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An update for the Wii console has caused the BBC iPlayer to stop working on the platform, according to the BBC itself. After the update was released on September 1, forums began to fill with ...
11 Sep 2009 9:26 PM | 2 comments
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Microsoft Corp. has dodged paying Alcatel-Lucent damages of $358 million for patent infringement for now. A federal appeals court rules that Microsoft does not have to pay the damages because ...
11 Sep 2009 9:08 PM | 8 comments
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A music pirate that was allegedly the head of a piracy syndicate operating across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific was yesterday sentenced to 15 months jail and 300 hours community service ...
11 Sep 2009 8:58 PM | 4 comments
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Starting on Wednesday, Apple pushed out 47 separate fixes for its Mac OS, iPhone and QuickTime products. Some of the fixed issues had the potential to allow attacks seize complete control over a system.
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11 Sep 2009 8:31 PM | 4 comments
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Mozilla Corp. pushed out updates for its Firefox web browsers yesterday to address four separate security bugs and several stability issues. Three of the four security bugs have been considered ...
11 Sep 2009 8:18 PM
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As predicted, Apple blocked the use of the Palm Pre with iTunes in the latest update for the multimedia application, iTunes 9. Previously, Apple had locked out the Pre handset from iTunes with ...
10 Sep 2009 8:04 PM | 10 comments
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Speaking to the New York Times, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that the iPod Touch did not get a camera upgrade in the new 2009 iPod line-up for marketing and cost reasons. Basically, Jobs said ...
10 Sep 2009 7:50 PM | 6 comments
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Apple revealed changes to its iPod line-up during its media event today. Before this, at the event, Apple had also announced they have sold 30 million iPhones, served 1.8 billion Apps, and sold ...
9 Sep 2009 2:14 PM | 11 comments
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So far at Apple's media event, the company has touted its 30,000,000 iPhone sales figures, 1.8 billion apps downloads, 75,000 apps available, iTunes 9, 100 million accounts with credit cards, ...
9 Sep 2009 1:52 PM | 5 comments
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs arrived at the "Rock n' Roll" event today and was greeted with a long standing ovation from the audience. Speaking about his health experience in the past couple of years, ...
9 Sep 2009 1:38 PM | 1 comment
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Some pirates of the new Eidos title, Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC version) might be surprised when they realize a certain "problem" in the game prevents them from advancing through it properly. ...
9 Sep 2009 11:34 AM | 35 comments
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Microsoft Corp. has been hit with another lawsuit over the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software that is used as an anti-piracy tool for Windows XP. The latest lawsuit - filed in a Washington ...
9 Sep 2009 12:06 AM | 22 comments
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Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday included five updates this time that address some critical bugs in the newer versions of the operating system. Microsoft did point out, however, that none of ...
8 Sep 2009 11:49 PM | 5 comments
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The International Trade Commission (ITC) sided with Funai Electric Co back in April by ordering a list of companies that includes Vizio, AmTran, TPV Technology, Top Victory Electronics, Envision ...
8 Sep 2009 11:36 PM
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Concept code has been published that takes advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's implementation of Server Message Block (SMB), which is a protocol used in File and Printer sharing ...
8 Sep 2009 11:20 PM | 4 comments
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Netgear has launched the latest multimedia set-top box in its Digital Entertainer Live line-up. The EVA2000 is an easy-to-use and affordable Internet set-top box that enables viewers to play ...
8 Sep 2009 11:06 PM | 1 comment
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At a news conference in Taipei, Intel showed off a range of new stuff, including several high-performance desktop and low-cost server processors, the new single chip P55 chipset and a range ...
8 Sep 2009 9:28 PM | 14 comments
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Japanese mobile operators may be forced into packet inspection on their mobile networks to identify and cut off pirates. A user who was found to be sharing infringing files over the mobile network ...
8 Sep 2009 12:31 AM | 10 comments
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Asus is planning to bring two ebook readers to the market to take Amazon and Sony head on, according to reports. Asus is one of the world's biggest consumer electronics companies, and in the ...
8 Sep 2009 12:21 AM | 4 comments
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AppleInsider cites a reliable source that has suggested that either camera-equipped iPods won't be shown at the media event on September 9 hosted by Apple, or that they will be unveiled but ...
8 Sep 2009 12:04 AM
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Psystar, the infamous Apple clone maker and public enemy number one for Apple at this time, has revealed in a blog post that it is working on ensuring the recently released OS X Snow Leopard ...
7 Sep 2009 8:00 PM | 4 comments
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Mozilla's recent product roadmap has dated the release of Firefox 4.0, the next major update of the popular web browser, for October - November 2010. The version will offer a new user interface ...
7 Sep 2009 7:40 PM
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Spotify recently made its way onto mobile phones with the iPhone and Android applications for premium users. However, Spotify put up an article explaining that they didn't, "want to leave out ...
7 Sep 2009 7:26 PM | 1 comment
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On it's U.S. PlayStation Blog, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has confirmed that it is aware and is actively investigation isolated reports of PS3s behaving badly after the latest ...
7 Sep 2009 12:48 PM | 35 comments
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CyberLink Corp. has announced the availability of MediaShow 5, which helps users to easily organize, fix/restore and share photo and video content with each other. MediaShow 5 is created for ...
7 Sep 2009 12:24 PM
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Nokia has revealed its first Internet modem supporting Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. LTE is generally marketed as 4G, since it is the last step toward the 4th generation of radio technologies ...
7 Sep 2009 12:06 PM | 2 comments
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Following a disastrous week for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) platform in Japan in the week ending August 30th, which witnessed just 1040 unit sales, the PS3 Slim has injected new life into the platform. ...
7 Sep 2009 11:29 AM | 22 comments
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In Canada (and many other countries), levies are places on the sale of blank media (CDs, DVDs etc.) that are collected and distributed to artists and record companies to make up for lost revenue ...
7 Sep 2009 11:01 AM | 24 comments
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According to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), the vast majority of pedophile activity on the Internet now takes place on public and private P2P networks. Additionally, ...
7 Sep 2009 10:08 AM | 9 comments
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Ocean Blue Software, based in the UK and Hong Kong, has developed "talking" digital TV technology in conjunction with The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). The technology is developed ...
6 Sep 2009 9:11 PM
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In an Open Letter sent to The Times last week, the heads of the major Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the UK, as well as representatives of the Open Rights Group, Which? and Consumer Focus, ...
6 Sep 2009 9:01 PM | 5 comments
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At IFA in Berlin, Samsung is currently showing off a 7-inch touchscreen remote control that can browse through other TV channels than the one showing on your TV screen. The concept remote needs ...
6 Sep 2009 8:46 PM
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Toshiba has introduced a new user interface software designed to share content across a home network from a single area. It can connect to a wide variety of multimedia devices and will make ...
6 Sep 2009 8:37 PM
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Nokia's Ovi Store has reached just 10 million downloads in its first three months, according to Kai Oistamo, Nokia's EVP of Devices, with the average user reportedly downloading 6 applications. ...
6 Sep 2009 8:23 PM | 1 comment
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A report in the New York Times focused on the effects that bandwidth usage with Apple's iPhone have had on the AT&T network over the past couple of years. The report dug up details on the history ...
6 Sep 2009 8:09 PM | 5 comments
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At Apple's press event next week, the company is expected to add pre-made ringtones for iPhones, available from iTunes. The company is hoping to get a cut of the (strangely) large revenues generated ...
6 Sep 2009 12:39 AM | 10 comments
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AT&T has "soft launched" its own TV portal service, offering TV Shows and feature-length movies to users. The site also promises more content for U-Verse subscribers as it evolves. The site ...
6 Sep 2009 12:18 AM
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Mozilla Corp. has confirmed that with upcoming versions of the Firefox browser, 3.5.3 and 3.0.14, users will be prompted via the "What's New" landing page if they have outdated and possibly ...
5 Sep 2009 11:57 PM | 3 comments
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China has implemented more rules and restrictions for online music stores in the country. The changes apply to foreign-sourced tracks. The Chinese government will have to approve each song that ...
5 Sep 2009 11:37 PM | 10 comments
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Deluxe Digital Studios, an authoring firm which has developed more than 700 BD Live-enabled discs, has said it is very pleased with the pace at which BD Live usage is growing. Over 25 million ...
5 Sep 2009 11:19 PM | 2 comments
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AT&T has utilized YouTube to post an instructional video that explains how the AT&T network works, what upgrades will be made within the coming years and to defend itself against the myriad ...
4 Sep 2009 11:03 PM | 7 comments
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Amazon.com has once again apologized to Kindle owners by e-mail for the controversial removal of George Orwell's classics, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, after customers had paid for ...
4 Sep 2009 10:11 PM | 5 comments
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When a recent report from the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property - a UK government advisory board - claimed seven million people in the UK use file sharing for illegal downloading, ...
4 Sep 2009 9:50 PM | 5 comments
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Toronto-based i4i has responded to U.S. Court of Appeals ruling granting a stay of an injunction on sales of some Microsoft Office products. The company sued Microsoft for infringing a 1998 ...
4 Sep 2009 9:19 PM | 2 comments
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Dish Network and Echostar Corp. have been ordered by a federal Judge to pay about $200 million to TiVo Inc. for violating a permanent injunction that stemmed from a 2004 lawsuit. The lawsuit ...
4 Sep 2009 8:58 PM | 2 comments
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Microsoft Corp. has successfully managed to get the U.S. Court of Appeals to grant a stay of an injunction imposed on the Redmond software giant that would have blocked the sale of some versions ...
4 Sep 2009 12:39 AM | 12 comments
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We added a couple of new entries to our Guide section lately. One of these new guides is a relatively simple guide on running potentially harmful executable files safely in Windows. It could ...
4 Sep 2009 12:18 AM | 20 comments
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While users of Research in Motion's Blackberry, or Windows Mobile handsets, and a large amount of other Smartphones available were able to send Multimedia Messages (MMS) for years now, AT&T ...
3 Sep 2009 8:05 PM | 13 comments
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is set to start including Descriptive Video Service features to upcoming Blu-ray Disc releases. DVS is an audio feature that can help those with vision problems ...
3 Sep 2009 7:51 PM | 3 comments
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Toshiba Corp. has unveiled a bunch of new products at the IFA Consumer Electronics Tradeshow (2009) in Berlin, including it's first Blu-ray stand-alone player and Blu-ray equipped multimedia ...
3 Sep 2009 3:54 PM | 3 comments
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Retailer HMV has announced that it will buy a 50 percent stake in online music store 7Digital, making 7Digital the supplier of all HMV's digital operations, which will include a new e-books ...
3 Sep 2009 11:22 AM
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Tokyo-based marketing research firm, BCN Inc., has said that Sony Walkman players managed to outsell Apple's iPod line-up in Japan last week - the first time it has happened in four years. Despite ...
3 Sep 2009 11:06 AM | 15 comments
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After a dispute that arose over royalties early this year, YouTube began blocking music videos to users in the UK. Google, YouTube's parent company, had at that point failed to agree a fee with ...
3 Sep 2009 10:50 AM | 5 comments
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When a game modder found a piece of locked away code within the 2004 blockbuster Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and produced patches to unlock it, who would have thought it would cost Take-Two ...
2 Sep 2009 9:21 PM | 24 comments
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed another request for the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to give a waiver on the 2003 "plug and play" order which prohibits altering ...
2 Sep 2009 9:02 PM | 8 comments
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The past two weeks in Australia has brought piracy of music and movies to the country's attention, starting with a case before the Superior Court in Australia - the first ever "physical piracy" ...
2 Sep 2009 7:55 PM | 4 comments
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Sony Corp. will attempt to fight off the declining growth in demand for flat televisions by launching its first 3D-compatible BRAVIA TVs from next year.
At the IFA electronics trade show ...
2 Sep 2009 7:36 PM | 3 comments
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Vevo, an announced music video website to be driven by YouTube's technology and supported by Universal Music Group, is reportedly in talks with broadcasters NBC and CBS. Citing information from ...
2 Sep 2009 7:00 PM
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A Nokia World 09 on Wednesday, more details of Nokia's recently announced Booklet 3G 'mini laptop' were revealed. When it is released, it will be the first "computer" product offered by Nokia ...
2 Sep 2009 5:44 PM | 4 comments
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While the PS3 Slim announcement was generally welcomed by most gamers last week, some weren't very happy about the lack of backwards compatibility, and the dropping of the "OtherOS" option which ...
1 Sep 2009 10:30 PM | 43 comments
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Google Chrome has gotten itself a bit of a boost in the global Internet browser market. Sony announced on Tuesday that it plans to include Google's Chrome browser as the default Internet web ...
1 Sep 2009 10:15 PM | 14 comments
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Nintendo has decided that the Internet Channel - the Wii's Opera Internet browser - should be free to all users. Up until now, Nintendo charged users (expect for lucky early downloaders) 500 ...
1 Sep 2009 10:06 PM | 14 comments
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Nokia Corp., the world's largest handset maker, has revealed that it will delay the launch of its "Comes With Music," service in the United States despite previously having planned to launch ...
1 Sep 2009 9:57 PM
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Internet Auction giant eBay has announced it will sell a majority stake of Skype - amounting to 65 percent of the unit - in a deal with $1.9 billion. The majority stake is being bought up by ...
1 Sep 2009 9:47 PM
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Opera Software, the Norwegian developer of the Opera web browser, has released a stable Opera 10 update. The new update promises to provide its users with faster downloads and browsing, along ...
1 Sep 2009 9:31 PM | 5 comments
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Computer security firm Symantec has issued a warning following the public release of concept code for a Trojan that can record Skype conversations and transfer them to an attacker. Trojan.Peskyspy ...
1 Sep 2009 1:37 AM | 16 comments
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According to Forrester Research, more than a third of all consumers living in Western Europe will use mobile phones to access the Internet by the year 2014. The research, published by Forrester ...
1 Sep 2009 1:25 AM
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Rockstar Games revealed on Monday that it plans to release the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Beaterator titles for the Apple iPhone.
GTA: CTW was released for the Nintendo DS platform ...
1 Sep 2009 1:11 AM | 2 comments
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Electronic Arts CEO Rich Hilleman has revealed that he expects Sony and Microsoft to develop hardware updates for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (PS3) before they move on to the develop the ...
1 Sep 2009 12:58 AM | 18 comments
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Apple Inc. has revealed that it will play host at a media event on September 9, where the company is widely expected to show off a new updated line of iPod portable media players. Of course, ...
1 Sep 2009 12:42 AM | 1 comment
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South Korean consumer electronics giant, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd announced on Monday that it would open an online store for smartphone applications, following the overwhelming success of ...
1 Sep 2009 12:27 AM
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Windows 7 surpasses Mac OS X in market share
TiVo, Virgin make DVR deal in UK
Mininova removes all illegal torrents 
Call of Duty franchise surpasses new milestone
Lenovo to buy back mobile phone business
DSi LL boosts Japanese hardware sales
Wii controls female console market, says Nintendo
Kindle 2 firmware update is now available
Royal Navy giving out PSPs to engineers for training purposes
Rich? Buy the iPhone 3GS Supreme for $3 million
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