Today is the official end of the “grace period” for Blu-ray manufacturers, which means that all Blu-ray players released from now on must comply with Blu-ray Profile 1.1 (also known as Final Standard Profile and BD-Video Profile 1.1). Of course, that doesn’t mean that Profile 1.0 …
WASHINGTON–Despite demands from President Bush to shield telephone and Internet companies from surveillance-related lawsuits, key U.S. senators are reluctant to offer legal immunity. But they may force taxpayers to pick up the legal tab instead.
Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), the co-chairmen of the Senate Judiciary …
We wrote about Fisker Automotive’s sporty plug-in hybrid last week and now here is a picture.
The company is planning to come to market in about 18 months with a high-performance, high-end plug-in hybrid sedan. The car will cost $80,000. It will go about 50 miles on a
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An update to make Lightroom 1.2 fully compatible with Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 should be available mid-November, Adobe has announced.
The company says photographers can continue using the photo management software in Leopard without too much issue, but stressed that the current version of Lightroom 1.2 …
It’s happening again.
If you thought one minute past midnight the day after Thanksgiving was too early to choke out your fellow shoppers in the name of a great deal, you were wrong.
An Acer laptop will be one of the featured items offered at Black Friday-like prices Friday,
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Foote Partners LLC has noted that non-certified Linux professionals make more than their certified peers. This possibly may be a reflection that the market is able to separate the wheat of real-world experience from the chaff of a paper certification, but SearchEnterpriseLinux collects a few other opinions:
Bernard Golden, CEO of the open source software systems integration firm Navica, Inc., says the trend is very interesting but ultimately makes sense. While he recognizes that there is a need for certification and that certification is still very much in demand by both organizations and professionals, Golden points out that certification is only good for demonstrating ability in established, commodified skills.
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The $198 Google-approved Web 2.0 gPC.
(Credit: Everex)
On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198, low-powered, Linux-based PC that’s designed primarily for running Web 2.0 apps.
When users first fire up their gPC, they’ll get a Mac-like desktop with a series …
Transition and evolution are a constant in the tech industry as niche products evolve into enterprise infrastructure. This is exactly what’s happening with wireless local area networks (WLANs) in large organizations.
It first started awhile back with a few wireless access points in conference rooms. Intel’s Centrino processor …
Google’s shares kissed the $700 mark in early morning trading Wednesday, marking a new first for the Internet giant and its soaring stock price.
Google’s stock rose to more than $701 a share, following reports that it is pitching its “Gphone” to Verizon Wireless. The stock was up $…
(Credit: DARPA)When it comes to international quagmires, it would be nice to know if the natives are restless before you send in the cavalry.
Apparently, the U.S. military is not happy with the briefings it gets before being dispatched to police deadly fiascos around the world. So it …