Today’s Tech News - Feb. 28, 2007
Sony Slices Its Blu-Ray Price, Cheaper Model Confirmed - Carib Journal
The world’s largest consumer electronics maker, Sony Corp said today that it is planning to sell a cheaper Blu-Ray player model to consumers this summer.
Corel releases beta of WordPerfect Lightning - CNET News.com
Corel introduces its free, downloadable WordPerfect Lightning public beta, designed to serve as a key component in its online services model.
Youths Confess: They Tracked MySpace Users - ABC News
Defendants Shaun Harrison, right and Saverio Mondelli, appear in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday, Feb. 26, 2007. The New York computer programmers have been accused of plotting to extort money from the operators of MySpace.
Going backwards - The Age
The outrage and disappointment surrounding the removal of hardware-based backward compatibility from the Australian and European PlayStation 3 is understandable.
Google set to challenge Microsoft’s office monopoly - Register
By Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates → More by this author. Comment Google is now head-to-head with Microsoft in the Office Apps market, as you may have guessed from the recent Google Apps announcement.
An Apple TV a day is only a few weeks away - iTWire
Expected to ship in February, last-minute delays to Apple’s TV set-top box should now see it launch in mid-March instead to genuine worldwide interest.
Conan Game Confirmed For PlayStation 3 And Xbox 360 - Playfuls.com
by Stokky. The Conan gaming franchise has a long history that goes way back to 1984, and yet over the last two decades only three games have taken advantage of Robert E. Howard’s barbaric character]
Wi-Fi Access Increases Time Spent Online - ClickZ News
Americans increasingly access the Web via Wi-Fi from work, home, and elsewhere. Roughly 34 percent of Internet users have gone online wirelessly, according to a report on wireless Internet access released by The Pew …
Dell Starts Selling Linux-Powered Desktops and Laptops - Playfuls.com
by Dan Nicolae Alexa. After last year’s estimated $1 billion deal with Google, Dell is now providing customers with another type of pre-installed software on its desktops and laptops: the Linux OS.
Sony Brings High-Definition Photo Viewing to the Living Room - Playfuls.com
Designed to make photo-viewing crystal clear, Sony today announced a new line of digital cameras featuring a high-definition component output.
File-sharer that plagued Hollywood goes legitimate - Independent
BitTorrent, the file-sharing technology company which unleashed a wave of illegal downloading of music and video, has gone legitimate, with the launch of its own Hollywood-approved film store.
Parallels updates virtualisation suite - ZDNet.com.au
Virtualisation software vendor Parallels has released an update to its Parallels Desktop virtualisation software for Intel-based Apple Macs.
Flaws in tech support tools open PCs to attack - ZDNet
Multiple flaws in commonly used technical support tools can open Windows PCs to cyberattack, security experts have warned.
Firefox, IE7 open to URL spoof - Computerworld
Although Mozilla Corp. patched one more Firefox bug last week than first reported, the researcher whose work has plagued the open-source browser for weeks has released details about another flaw.
