Today’s Tech News - Mar. 7, 2007
Apple releases patches for ‘critical’ iTunes, QuickTime flaws - The Money Times
Apple on Monday has released a collection of 8 updates for both the OS X and Windows versions of its QuickTime multimedia software and also issued a security update for its digital jukebox software iTunes.
Nikon Announces DX Telephoto Zoom Lens - Popular Photography Magazine
By Aimee Baldridge. Nikon has introduced a compact new telephoto zoom lens. The 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor is made exclusively for Nikon digital SLRs that use the company’s DX sensor format.
A Zettabyte by 2010: Corporate data grows 50-fold in three years - Computerworld
Over the past three years, Fortune 1000 companies have on average seen their data grow from 190TB to 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes) and data at America’s 9000 midsize companies has grown from 2TB to 100TB during the …
Xbox Live reaches six million user milestone - TG Daily
The new target has been reached four months sooner than the company originally had predicted. The number includes subscribers to the original Xbox Live service, as well as both the free (silver) and $50/year (gold) versions of the Xbox 360 service.
Adobe announces upcoming CS3 announcement - iTWire
If you’ve been waiting for Adobe Creative Suite 3, you’ll discover on March 27th that you’ll still be waiting a few more weeks before you’ll be able to get your hands on it.
Sony’s console dominance to slide, EA predicts - CNET News.com
Sony will win the new console war, but with a less commanding lead than the last time around, says Electronic Arts’ outgoing CEO.
Microsoft attacks Google on copyrights - Xinhua
Microsoft, which is increasingly competing with Google in business software and other areas, accused the Silicon Valley giant of a “cavalier” attitude to copyright, media reported on Wednesday.
Microsoft Research shows off what’s next for search - ZDNet
New Microsoft Research (MSR) search techniques and technologies under development were a hot topic at the March 6 kick-off of Microsoft’s TechFest 2007 research showcase.
Microsoft Announces Six Million Xbox Live Users - DailyTech
Microsoft announced a goal during E3 2006 to try and have six million people connect to the Microsoft Xbox Live service by June 2007.
Archos 704 WiFi - CNET Reviews
The good: The Archos 704 WiFi multimedia player features smooth video playback on a bright, reasonably sharp screen. The PVP offers a good viewing angle, and A/V recordings are very high quality.
Turtle power battles its way onto Xbox 360 - Digital Spy
A forthcoming CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is also due to be released as a video game for the Xbox 360.
Fujitsu 2.5in HDD Breaks Size/Speed Records - TrustedReviews
Just six weeks ago Fujitsu was crowing about a major advance in hard drive technology and already it looks to have delivered on that claim.
Fake professor in Wikipedia storm - BBC News
Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.
BBC plans to compete online with iTunes - Telegraph.co.uk
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has unveiled ambitious plans to compete with music and video download service iTunes.
‘Commodore’ to return to the high street - Digital Spy
Once the darling of the home computer industry, the Commodore brand name is to return to the high street via a new range of gaming PCs.
