Author: Robert Schaeffer, Senior Editor

Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech Announce Google TV

Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech Announce Google TV

Posted by | May 21, 2010 | |

Google just can’t stop moving ahead! After the 5th birthday of Youtube, which has been known as Google’s smartest buy ever, they announce a new Google TV with Intel, Sony and Logitech. Google’s conference in California was coming to a close on Thursday, but not before huge news was dropped. Google is going to take the concept of the Apple TV, but make it way better with the introduction of apps, screen customization and channel searching. Google also has some other big names that are on board, such as Dish Network, Best Buy and Adobe. The TV itself is...

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Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Fraud

Posted by | May 21, 2010 | , |

The CEO and co-founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has been having a tough time. To make matters worse, he was accused of securities fraud on Thursday. This case dates back to the Facebook legend that he stole code from other Harvard students. These allegations have been around since he went to school at Harvard, when he was hired by a student-owned dating site called Harvard Connection, which at the time was like Zuckerberg’s website The Facebook. The owners of Harvard Connection filed a lawsuit against Facebook in 2003. They settled for $65 million in 2008 and gave Harvard Connection over to...

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The Pirate Bay: Up and Down and Up Again

Posted by | May 18, 2010 | |

The German Internet Provider that was the ISP Host for the peer-to-peer downloading website The Pirate Bay shut the site down on Monday afternoon. However, as of the next day, the site is up and back at full power. The new host for the website is the internet service provider, Swedish Pirate Party. The Swedish Pirate Party’s leader Rick Falkvinge issued a statement regarding The Pirate Bay, saying “When other politicians appoint committees and try to pass the buck, the Pirate Party instead takes responsibility and acts with its own resources to protect the nation’s information safety and fundamental freedom of speech. We are now The Pirate Bay’s Internet service provider,”. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, the man who ran The Pirate Bay’s first ISP, said that he would love to fight, but he was facing jail time and fines of almost $307,000 if he had continued to host the website of The Pirate Bay. They had three options, and the one that they chose was that The Pirate Bay could get another ISP. They chose the Swedish Pirate Party, and no charges were filed against the German...

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Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive

Posted by | May 17, 2010 | , |

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...

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Google Stops Sales Of The Nexus One

Posted by | May 16, 2010 | |

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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