Today’s Tech News - Mar. 8, 2007
Web 2.0 Is Old News! Sony Gives You Game 3.0 - Playfuls.com
Despite rather modest sales up until now, PlayStation 3 is still far from being defeated in the gaming console war.
Turkish court shuts down YouTube - Financial Times
By Vincent Boland in Istanbul. Turkey’s largest internet services provider shut down access to the YouTube video-sharing web site yesterday after a court ruling that some of its content insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.
Editor scandal rocks Wikipedia - National Post
The anonymous user-driven encyclopedia Wikipedia is struggling to regain people’s trust after one of its most trusted and prolific editors, who claimed to be a professor of religion, was exposed as a 24-year-old from Kentucky.
HTC Adopts Yahoo Go - PC World
Yahoo has teamed with High Tech Computer (HTC) to put a suite of Internet software applications on millions of Windows Mobile handsets, the companies said Wednesday.
Microsoft Xbox 360 Patch - Who Does it Hurt? - GizmoCafe
Recently, Microsoft slammed Xbox 360 hackers with a rather sketchily-defined patch. Although the measure promises to simply fix certain, unnamed “online issues,” instead it completely disables any attempt to establish a secondary or alternative …
Study: World needs more data storage space - Computerworld New Zealand
The amount of data that is created globally is set to increase to 988 exabytes (that’s 988 billion gigabytes) by 2010 while the capacity of storage systems is predicted to be just 600 exabytes, …
Nintendo’s 2nd Quarter Release Dates - Gaming Age Online
Nintendo revealed some release dates for upcoming games on the Wii and Nintendo DS. While there’s not anything too surprising on the list, it’s worth noting that Nintendo is bringing over the DS web browser so people can surf the Internet from their DS …
Microsoft vs. Google: More at Stake Than Books - TechNewsWorld
Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin on Tuesday accused Google of taking a “cavalier approach to copyright” and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people’s copyrighted creations.
Apple Updates iTunes and QuickTime - PC World
Apple today released updates for its digital jukebox software iTunes, as well as an update for QuickTime. Apple on Monday released updates for its digital jukebox software iTunes, as well as an update for QuickTime.
Samsung Samples First Hybrid Hard Drive to OEMs; Retail ‘Soon’ - PC Magazine
Samsung said Wednesday that it had begun shipments of its first hybrid hard drive to select OEMs, and that retail shipments would begin “soon”.
Image scrimmage - Manila Standard Today
BACK when the speed of PCs was measured in megahertz, most serious graphics design work was done on powerful and expensive workstations.
Microsoft Set to Deliver Enhanced VoIP Solutions - Playfuls.com
In a keynote address at VoiceCon Spring 2007, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft Corp.’s Business Division, today predicted that in just three years, the average voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) solution for business will cost …
GDC 07: Project Epoc brings mind control to games - GameSpot
Emotiv Systems introduces new helmet that could allow gamers to leave behind joysticks and buttons in favor of thoughts and emotions.
Adobe to release two versions of Photoshop CS3 - Macworld
Photoshop is about to become a one-two punch. Adobe will unveil two versions of its flagship image editor when it announces the rest of its Creative Suite 3 bundle on March 27, the company plans to disclose Thursday.
Analysts: Apple to Use More NAND Flash Memory - Channel Insider
By Scott Ferguson. Apple will likely introduce more NAND flash memory in several of its future products, including a sub-notebook that should hit the market by the second half of this year, according to a March 7 report by American Technology Research.
