Technology Magazine

Apple/Mac

Apple’s Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay

An anonymous reader writes “According to an article on OSWeekly.com, Apple missed a big opportunity by not releasing Leopard soon. They could’ve taken advantage of Vista’s losing streak and one upped Microsoft, the author suggests. ‘It’s not uncommon for Windows users and technology consumers in general to say that Microsoft missed out on making the most of Vista both before and after its launch. Longtime fans of Windows... 

Cell Phones

Shares in Ericsson plunge about 24 per cent after 3rd quarter shock warning

Canadian Press - STOCKHOLM, Sweden - LM Ericsson shares plunged nearly 24 per cent Tuesday as the wireless network company unexpectedly cut its third-quarter forecast, the latest cellphone technology company to feel the pinch of slowing sales worldwide.  Read More →

Digital Music

Apple lowers price of DRM-free songs

AP - Apple Inc. is lowering the prices of songs it sells online without copy-protection to 99 cents from $1.29, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.  Read More →

Enterprise Tech

Protecting Customer Privacy in On-Demand CRM

NewsFactor - Many companies have turned to hosted or on-demand CRM for its multiple benefits, including robust support, cost effectiveness, and frequent updates. Having a vendor host the application, rather than trying to control it in-house, can take pressure off an I.T. department and help meet budget goals to boot.  Read More →

Gaming

Computer Characters Tortured for Science

Rob Carr writes “Considered unethical to ever perform again with humans, researcher Mel Slater recreated the Milgram experiment in a immersive virtual environment. Subjects (some of whom could see and hear the computerized woman, others who were only able to read text messages from her) were told that they were interacting with a computer character and told to give increasingly powerful electric shocks when wrong answers were given or the ‘woman’... 

Google

Looking forward to 2018, let’s hear your predictions

Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen so fast should be enough […]  Read More →

Hardware

FCC Looks To Offer Consumers More Wireless Choice

An anonymous reader writes “The FCC is butting heads with wireless phone companies over ‘wiggle room’ the government organization wishes to allow consumers. Along with the move to the auction system, the government is removing restrictions on pieces of the wireless spectrum, which will allow a freedom of choice not usually seen with wireless communication devices. ‘In the past, when the F.C.C. auctioned spectrum for cellular... 

HD DVD & TV

Ready for your close-up? Some stars fear HDTV’s clarity will show every flaw

Canadian Press - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vanity, thy name is hi-def TV.  Read More →

Internet

China’s Hu and Wen get own “fan” website

Reuters - Does Chinese President Hu Jintao give you goosebumps? Got the hots for Premier Wen Jiabao? Then Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily has the answer — join their online fan club.  Read More →

Linux/Open Source

Researcher: Mac OS, Linux probably have URI issues too

InfoWorld - This week Microsoft said it would patch Windows to reduce the risk of a new kind of Web-based security vulnerability, but security researchers say that other operating systems are probably at risk too.  Read More →

Microsoft

Bill and Jerry Chat as Confusing Windows Blitz Begins

NewsFactor - Microsoft’s Seinfeld campaign launched Thursday night. The $300 million campaign starring the well-known comedian Jerry Seinfeld, however, didn’t say anything about Windows.  Read More →

Mobile & Wireless

Tech Group, Broadcasters Slug it Out Over Spectrum

PC World - A technology trade group has accused U.S. television executives of conducting a "misinformation campaign" about wireless devices designed to operate in unused portions of the television spectrum.  Read More →

Personal Tech

Report: New Xbox 360 CPU Delayed

NewsFactor - Chartered Semiconductor, a chip manufacturer, will reportedly postpone the mass production of its quieter and more efficient central processing unit (CPU) for the Xbox 360 game console.  Read More →

RSS & Blogging

China’s Internet controls tightened ahead of sensitive political congress

Canadian Press - BEIJING - At first, Liu Xiaoyuan just fumed when his online journal postings disappeared with no explanation. Then he decided to do something few if any of China’s censored bloggers had tried. He sued his service provider.  Read More →

Security

Serious zero-day vulnerability threatens RealPlayer users

A new zero day vulnerability has been discovered in both RealPlayer and RealPlayer 11 Beta that could allow a remote exploit on computers running the affected music player software. According to Symantec, the vulnerability is being actively exploited. The vulnerabilities affects an ActiveX object called “ierpplug.dll”…  Read More →

Software

David Berlind has not used Windows Home Server

David Berlind has posted a response to my post on Windows Home Server over on ZDNet. He also responded to me directly via e-mail on Friday. Unfortunately, in both cases, he failed to answer my question of whether or not he had used Windows Home Server. Finally,…  Read More →