With the immanent shut down of the site thinksecret.com, a victory is granted to apple against the leaks about apple’s future products and it enrages many to retort aggressively against the company. So does this mean that tall free speech is questioned upon by the closure of a site that encouraged free journalism? Apple filed a lawsuit against the site in 2004 for preventing the site from leaking out its trade secrets. In response to this the filed a lawsuit against apple making a motion field under the California doctrine that is meant to prevent any baseless law suites that inhibit the right to free speech.
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We heard about USB planning to increase its speed by 10 fold from the current USB 2.0 back in September with USB 3.0 specs complete by mid-2008, but FireWire apparently had no intention of sitting back and being outdone. The 1394 Trade Association announced last week a new specification for FireWire that uses the same connections and cables but promises 4 times the speed of the current FireWire bringing potential speeds of up to 3.2 Gbps.
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Google engineers have tackled e-mail, mapping, blogging, and just about every other Web project under the sun. Their next venture is a Wikipedia-style community-based encyclopedia. This will be called the Google Knol. One major difference between Knol and Wikipedia will be Google’s emphasis on the author. Read the rest of this entry »
Opera the maker of the popular opera web browser has filed an anti-trust law suite against Microsoft in the EU courts. According to the statement from Opera, it accuses Microsoft of making it harder for other browsers by using its dominant position to package Internet Explorer which is the Microsoft Browser along with the Microsoft OS. This according to Opera harms the sale of other browsers as Microsoft gives the users a hand given choice in the web browsers. Read the rest of this entry »
The Winamp remote is a new piece of software by Orb. This software is made for the iPhone or the iPod touch. This software allows you to access your music collection which is in your home computer from anywhere that has a WiFi signal. This can be done without even hacking your iPhone. You can now listen to your favorite songs stored in your home computer on your iPhone through fast streaming. The entire process is done through a web browser and the streaming of the songs is very fast.
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Now you can enjoy the two most widely used social networks simultaneously without taking the pain of logging into each one. Recently through a blog I found a Facebook application that will surely make your social networking life much faster by letting you managing both profiles simultaneously.
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Tired of getting no internet access on the planes? Well fear no more. Jet Blue Airways have now announced that soon along with Yahoo and RIM they will also be offering their passengers internet access through Wi-Fi during their flights. The users can now use the yahoo messenger during the flight as well as check their email. The users can also use their blackberry phones to check their mails. However, making phone calls using a mobile phone is strictly still prohibited on flights.
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After much development mozilla finally has decided to release a bug fix for its browser that would repair a long standing security flaw in the software. Mike Schroepfer who is mozilla’s vice president of engineering has said that the current update that will be update 2.0.0.10 has undergoing through much testing and is now gong through the final development stages to make sure that there are no issues with this update.
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Everything about computing, at home, at work or while on the road is all set to change drastically as a host of technological changes are taking place all round us. Blindingly fast chips or may be the flexible display or the way the electronics is cooled through nanotubes are the changes that are imminent. Changes in technology around us are happening at an increasing rate and is going to affect all aspects of our already hectic life.
Innovations are coming thick and fast. Tabletops charging up your laptop or a wall mounted Pc that recognizes not only your face but your hand gestures too is no more science fiction but technologies that are ready to break into real life products. Pockettable devices will emerge to miniaturize devices that could not fit into a briefcase earlier, a projector, a printer are close enough. Next generation internet technologies are going to change everything from the TV to the refrigerator is on the way. Ever faster processing building blocks happening is a phenomenon that is already upon us. Multiple cores, denser and denser hard drives, there’s already a terabyte drive on the market, is a trend that is so evident.
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Interactivity supposedly allows you many new possibilities between your TV and your high-def movies, but is these features ready for prime time? Plus: The head of Paramount Studios rushes in. Los Angeles - In today’s world Interactivity is a hot topic in the world of high-def movie discs. All the new interactive features allow you to do lot more from your TV, but the question is are they ready for prime time? Read the rest of this entry »
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