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Spyware Bill Passes House of Represenatives May 23, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

The House of Representatives passed an antispyware bill Tuesday on a voice vote. This is the first hurdle it had to face. Next is the bill will be sent to the Senate for approval.

The bill, sponsored by Zoe Lofgren (California Democrat) and Bob Goodlatte (Virginia Republican), would make it illegal to access a computer without authorization to commit another federal crime, such as a computer scam. Such offenses could lead to up to five years in prison, while obtaining or transmitting...

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T-Mobile tries to one up Apple iPhone May 22, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

T-Mobile has beaten Apple to the punch with a Wi-Fi mobile phone. Developed by Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., the T-Mobile Wing is also the first U.S. phone to run Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 operating system.

The Wing, like Apple's iPhone operates on relatively slow GSM-based wireless infrastructures; Wi-Fi technology gives the phones access to high-speed data networks.

The Wing, which features a full slide-out qwerty keyboard, was developed exclusively for T-Mobile....

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VIA Brings Pico-ITX Mainboard to Market with VIA EPIA PX May 22, 2007 - Carl Bloor - Permalink

VIA has been working to release an ultra small motherboard/system to market and here it is. Bundled with all the capabilities of a regular budget PC this thing's looking to be a recipe for a home media player (maybe even HD player) given its hardare acceleration of mpeg2 and 4 video as well as WMV9, a built in HD Audio codec, network and choice of SATA or IDE hard drives. It'd be nice to see this used to make say, an AppleTV competitor perhaps?

Press Release:

World's...

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An Interview with a Pirate. Yarrr! May 20, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

A special treat for our readers today. I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter from The Pirate Bay. I hope you enjoy the questions and answers as much as I did.

Sheri: When did The Pirate Bay launch?

Peter: Late 2004 I think

Sheri: What where the initial goals of the project?

Peter: To promote the new technology of bittorrent to the world and to make sure people had a place to actually share their...

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Blizzards Starcraft 2 Officially Announced May 19, 2007 - Carl Bloor - Permalink

Today (May 19) Blizzard officially announced the much awaited sequel, Starcraft 2. Boasting an enhanced custom designed game engine with physics and advanced AI oozing out of every orifice, Blizzard have gone to town on the updated graphics and characters that make up their latest masterpiece.

The press release blurb:

SEOUL, South Korea – May 19, 2007 – Blizzard Entertainment® today unveiled StarCraft® II, the sequel to its award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft,...

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Crytek Announces their Newest Studio May 19, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

Crytek GmbH, the leading independent German game developer behind the critically acclaimed game Far Cry and the highly anticipated game Crysis, today announced the opening of their newest studio in Budapest, Hungary as part of their continuing strategy to leverage their CryENGINE 2 technology and expand the number of gaming genres for which they are developing new products.

"After considering a number of different options over the last two years, we chose to open our next studio in...

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From Rumours to Facts; Dells new Latitude Tablet May 19, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

Dell has made it official. They will be launching a new latitude tablet. A video on the
Direct2Dell Blog shows off this thin beauty.

Jeff Clark, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dells Business Product Group, said in the short video that Dell is confirming rumours that they are entering the market place with a latitude tablet. He says it is one of the industries lightest weight, convertable...

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El Cheapo Linux PCs for all May 18, 2007 - Carl Bloor - Permalink

MadTux and Vector Linux have teamed up to offer the masses a cheap and affordable Linux PC (all be it without Monitor, CD-ROM, keyboard and rodent) at a staggering price of just $139.

Preloaded with Vector Linux, the PC is a regular AGP class system housed in a less than exciting generic case. Ogle the specs below for more detail:

- VIA C7 1.5GHz processor
- 256MB DDR2 RAM included
- 13.5GB 7200RPM Hard Disk (Say wha?)
- 100Mbps fast-ethernet port

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Google Launches ISP version of Apps May 18, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

Google Inc. has released a version of Google Apps that is geared towards Internet service providers and Web portals.

Google Apps Partner Edition will feature Gmail, Google Talk, Docs & Spreadsheets applications, Page Creator, Calendar for schedules and task management, and the Start Page suite entry point.

Standard and Educational additions will be free. The Premier Edition will cost $50 per user per year but it comes with uptime...

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AMD's Next-Generation Mobile Platform May 18, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

Today in Tokyo Japan AMD announced there next-generation open platform for notebook computing. The platform codenamed "Puma" is designed to deliver enhancements in battery life, graphics and video processing. It is also said to improve overall system performance for a better visual experience.

Puma consists of two new key technologies; AMD's new notebook processor code named "Griffin" and the new AMD "RS780" mobile chip set. Notebooks based on the Puma...

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