YouTube Turns Five!
YouTube turns 5 today, and it’s time to reflect on what seems like a very long 5 years.
Read MoreMay 17, 2010 | 0 |
YouTube turns 5 today, and it’s time to reflect on what seems like a very long 5 years.
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The computer storage giant Seagate has released more details about their new 3TB hard drive and its release later this year. The problem that Seagate was able to overcome was the logical block addressing standard, which is unable to give addresses to any storage block greater than 2.1TB. The first edition of LBA standards gave an address to each 512-byte sector, the smallest physical block of data on a drive. The solution was moving to Long LBA addressing, which increases the number of bytes used for an LBA address. Seagate says that this update will be usable in the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista, and some versions of Linux, but it isn’t available for Windows XP. It has been speculated that Windows XP couldn’t recognize 2.1TB of a 3TB drive. To make this even more difficult, for those two operating systems to boot to a GPT partition on the drive, the motherboard must have Unified Extensible Firmware Interface suppport rather than BIOS-based booting. It will be very interesting to follow how other drive makers overcome this problem as hard drives start to move past the 2TB...
Read MoreMay 16, 2010 | 1 |
Google has recently announced big changes to their smartphone, the Nexus One, saying that they are closing their online cell phone store and will not sell the Nexus One online to consumers any longer. The Vice President of Engineering at Google posted on the company blog “While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not,… It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters, but it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from.” Google opened the online store in January, and said that there would be more to come rather than just the Nexus One. Verizon and Sprint recently made plans to support the phone, but they were ended shortly after. Analysts claimed that Google was moving ahead in the competition with smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion, and this effort to make the Nexus One even more well known is very likely to have an impact. The Nexus One will now be sold in stores across the nation, due mainly to the fact that users wanted an interactive, hands-on experience with the phone rather than seeing it on a web...
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The microprocessor company AMD has released details about their new Fusion CPU. The Fusion combines both the Central Processing Unit and the Graphics Processing Unit into one quad-core processor. AMD merged with the computer graphics company ATI in 2006, and was looking to expand their share of the market. The concept behind the Fusion is pretty simple, they are just placing the two separate dies into one processor. AMD is among the companies that are looking for ways to break new ground in the netbook...
Read MoreMay 14, 2010 | 0 |
The battle between Apple and Adobe just got a little more intense. Adobe rekindled the fight after it was decided that the iPad wouldn’t support Flash. The battle started when the iPhone was first released. The first generation iPhone didn’t support Flash, but Adobe decided to make it available in the App Store. It would now seem that Flash will never be available on the iPhone. Recently, Adobe launched an ad campaign saying that they love Apple, but what they don’t love is “…having restrictions placed on what you create…”, obviously talking about Flash. Adobe then decided to take out ads in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and made a comment to the company saying that they were stifling competition. Adobe issued a statement saying ‘We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs,’ The letter also read ‘No company — no matter how big or how creative — should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web.’ Apple then slammed Adobe’s Flash program, saying that it had major technical drawbacks. People connected with the ongoing issue said that US antitrust enforcers also may investigate Apple after a complaint from...
Read MoreMay 13, 2010 | 0 |
Microsoft announced this week that they will end the support program for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Windows XP is still being run by thousands of businesses not yet ready to make the switch to Windows 7. This now presents a challenge in finding a download of SP3 or upgrading to Windows 7. In 2004, Windows XP SP2 was released and represented a ton of new advances in the Windows OS. Some people had issues with the illusive download of SP3, saying it crashed their systems. This will most definitely have an impact on the businesses still running, and even a jump in Windows 7 sales. Microsoft has made Service Pack 3 widely available to those who prefer not to make the jump to Windows 7. The download is being sold on Microsoft’s website for...
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For those waiting to upgrade to Windows 7 until the first Service Pack is released, now is the time. On Wednesday, the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 beta was leaked to a foreign technology website. People had wanted to wait until the first service pack was released to make the switch from Vista, so this may lead to the Windows OS gaining more market share. As you may remember, Windows 7 took more market share than all Mac OS versions in a short period of time. The fixes in SP1 are mostly minor, and nothing really groundbreaking, but the really big deal with SP1 is that most businesses wait for the first Service Pack before upgrading. The service pack will most likely lead to a big jump in sales among the Business Edition. The full service pack is rumored to release some time this summer, and will add even more to the Windows 7 experience. SP1 will be the next and newest step in the Windows 7...
Read MoreMay 12, 2010 | 1 |
This morning, Tech Crunch reported that Facebook had hired former FTC Chairman, Timothy J. Muris to represent them against the growing scrutiny in Washington over new Facebook privacy policies. Powerful Anti-Trust lawyer, Muris held his FTC chairmanship under the Bush administration and is the creator of the U.S. Do Not Call Registry. The negative reactions to Facebook’s new Open Graph API, announced in the past two weeks has been growing in furor . Several members of Congress and at least 14 Advocacy Groups for Privacy have joined in asking that the FTC regulate Facebook’s new policy that is currently an opt-out to force it to make Open Graph an opt-in. The supposed hiring of of Muris would seem to be a good step in light of the direction from which this negative response is coming. But later today we learned that Facebook is denying that they have, in actuality, hired Muris as of yet. This would be a formidable job that Muris could well-handle, especially in tandem with Facebook’s recently hired, director of public policy, Tim Sparapani who is an ex- American Civil Liberties attorney. There has been much made of Facebook’s new plans in the media. On Saturday Morning, Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online., was interviewed on The Early Show and gave her list of 5 Dangers of Using Facebook”: Your information is being shared with third parties...
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If we are to believe what was posted this week on the Vietnamese website, Tinhte.comthen there has been another iPhone 4G prototype escaped to the wild, captured, dissected then put online for all to see. Unlike the prototype found all alone in the Silicon Valley bar in March, this phone was working when it was found. When it was turned on, it displayed a background screen with a fireball on it and the word “inferno”. From the pictures posted online, the components seem reveal that the phone has the Apple A4 microprocessor very similar to the iPad processor. In the pictures and video shown below it would also indicate that it is the real deal. [fpg...
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Fujitsu’s Electronic paper, currently used on most e-readers such as Kindle and Sony, is a type of display that attempts to mimic the appearance of ink on a sheet of paper. The screens are often flexible and use very little power because energy is only required when the image is being written to the screen. Once written the image remains without the need for a power supply. Fujitsu is now coming out with a new e-paper screen that they say will be easier on the eyes and has several improvements over the older prototypes. It will be on exhibit at the company’s Fujitsu Forum exhibition in central Tokyo this week. The screens should be out to the Japanese consumer later this year. The latest model features a 7:1 contrast ratio – a threefold improvement over previous models – and a page turn speed of 0.7 seconds based on an image size of 1,024×768. If these new screens are all that they are projected to be, it could mean a revolution in e-reader technology. For a history of Electronic paper, go here :...
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