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06/05/2006 - Apple brevetta un'interfaccia audio di navigazione - La casa di Cupertino ha registrato un brevetto per un sistema di navigazione audio da implementare in iPod |
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06/05/2006 - Anche Command & Conquer 3 all'E3 - Electronic Arts ha finalmente svelato la lista dei giochi che presenterà all'E3. A sorpresa, compare anche Command & Conquer 3. |
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06/05/2006 - Atari: così all'E3 - Anche Atari rende noto il line-up di videogiochi che presenterà al prossimo E3. Spiccano Alone in the Dark, Test Drive Unlimited e Neverwinter Nights 2. |
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06/05/2006 - Undici compagnie per Digital Data Exchange - Formata un'organizzazione che si prefigge lo scopo di standardizzare i dati relativi alle vendite dei brani digitali scaricabili legalmente |
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05/05/2006 - Radeon X1900GT: è ufficiale - E' Powercolor il primo partner ATI ad annunciare la disponibilità della nuova scheda video di fascia medio alta |
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05/05/2006 - Il 2007 con Colin McRae Rally - Codemasters ha svelato di essere al lavoro sull'ennesimo episodio della popolare serie di simulatori di rally. |
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05/05/2006 - Le Iene: foto e primi dettagli - Eidos ha divulgato le prime informazioni del tie-in del grande film di Quentin Tarantino. L'uscita è prevista in autunno. |
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05/05/2006 - VESA ufficializza lo standard DisplayPort - L'associazione VESA ha ratificato le specifiche 1.0 dello standard DisplayPort, l'erede di DVI che unficherà connessioni audiovideo anche per il comparto consumer |
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05/05/2006 - Il nuovo Call of Duty e Rainbow Six Vegas solo su console - Gli ultimi episodi di due serie tradizionalmente legate al mondo PC faranno la loro comparsa solamente sulle console di nuova generazione. |
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05/05/2006 - Un notebook da 400 dollari per Intel - Intel mostra i primi prototipi di notebok a basso costo, un'iniziativa che mira all'informatizzazione di aree a basso sviluppo tecnologico |
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05/05/2006 - Inizio d'anno positivo per VIA - Caratterizzati dal segno più i risultati finanziari della taiwanese VIA per i primi 4 mesi del 2006; forte spinta dal settore embedded |
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05/05/2006 - Dettagli su SiN Episodes - Ritual Entertainment ha rivelato nuovi dettagli riguardo l'imminente SiN Episodes, tra i quali una nuova modalità multiplayer definita Arena Mode. |
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05/05/2006 - Schede Ageia: in arrivo il 9 Maggio - In concomitanza con l'E3 di Los Angeles verranno messe in commercio le prime schede video per l'accelerazione geometrica sviluppate dall'americana Ageia |
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05/05/2006 - The Outsider svelato visivamente - Frontier Developments ha rilasciato i primi sbalorditivi screenshot di The Outsider, gioco d'azione previsto su PlayStation 3 e XBox 360. |
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05/05/2006 - ATI e Nokia: l'accordo è fatto - Nell'ottica di migliorare sia l'hardware che i servizi, ATI e Nokia stringono una partnership con alla base i telefoni cellulari di prossima generazione |
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05/05/2006 - James Bond passa ad Activision - Activision ha acquisito i diritti per lo sfruttamento dell'immagine di James Bond e dei film nei quali appare il celeberrimo agente 007. |
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05/05/2006 - Dischi Blu-Ray: il debutto è per il 20 Giugno - Slitta di circa un mese il lancio delle prime soluzioni Blu-Ray: hardware e software disponibili quindi contemporaneamente in commercio |
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05/05/2006 - Electronic Arts posticipa Medal of Honor: Airborne e Superman - Electronic Arts ha reso noto che ritarderà il rilascio di due dei prodotti più importanti che la compagnia nord americana sta sviluppando. |
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04/05/2006 - Intel chiede al giudice di rigettare l'azione legale di AMD - Ulteriore episodio nella vicenda legale tra AMD e Intel: quest'ultima richiede alla Corte del Delaware di non accettare il procedimento legale mosso dalla rivale |
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04/05/2006 - Line-up E3 di Ubisoft: Rayman 4 su Wii - Lo stand Ubisoft sarà uno dei più ricchi al prossimo E3. Rivelato ufficialmente il quarto episodio di Rayman, insieme a nuovi dettagli. |
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04/05/2006 - Battuta di arresto per il Wi-Fi MIMO - Bocciato in prima battuta la bozza del futuro standard 802.11n. |
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04/05/2006 - MacBook Pro: problemi alle batterie - Emergono ulteriori problemi per il portatile professionale di Apple: questa volta si segnalano problemi alle batterie degli esemplari prodotti nelle primissime settimane di disponibilità |
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04/05/2006 - Lara Croft anche su GBA, DS e GameCube - Eidos ha svelato le nuove piattaforme per le quali sarà pubblicato Tomb Raider: Legend, il quale proviene da un grande successo economico. |
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04/05/2006 - Ghost Rider anche sui monitor - Oltre che al cinema e sui fumetti Ghost Rider farà un'apparizione sulle console di nuova generazione grazie a 2K Games. |
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08/05/2006 - BearShare cede e paga la RIAA - I produttori di una delle piu' celebri applicazioni P2P su Gnutella evita un costoso procedimento legale accettando una sanzione da 30 milioni di dollari e la cessione di tutte le proprie attivita' |
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08/05/2006 - Contrappunti/ Moscerini negli occhi - di Massimo Mantellini - Il brevetto Philips per blindare la tv e costringere alla visione della pubblicita' fa il paio con gli spot da stadio che distraggono dalle partite. Ma la nuova rotta l'ha tracciata chi si occupa di fondoschiena |
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08/05/2006 - Microsoft: la PA italiana torni ad investire - Qual e' il rapporto della maggiore softwarehouse con la PA italiana? Come vive le pressioni dell'open source? Su quali settori punta per conquistare quote di mercato? PI intervista Giovanni Stifano di Microsoft Italia |
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08/05/2006 - OpenDocument entra in Office - Il formato dei documenti open source fara' il suo ingresso in MS Office per la porta di servizio. OpenDocument Foundation ha infatti sviluppato un plug-in per Office capace di importare ed esportare i documenti ODF |
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08/05/2006 - Ancora ritardi per Blu-ray - La nuova generazione DVD voluta da Sony accumula ritardi sulla rivale HD DVD: il lancio dei primi film Blu-ray e' stato rimandato alla seconda meta' di giugno. Quando debutteranno i player compatibili |
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08/05/2006 - VESA svela un successore di DVI - La celebre associazione americana ha partorito e ratificato un nuovo standard di interconnessione per monitor che ambisce a sostituire l'attuale connettore digitale DVI. La nuova interfaccia se la dovra' vedere con la rivale UDI |
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08/05/2006 - Sun, c'e` Linux nel futuro di Java? - Molti ritengono imminente il rilascio del Java Runtime Environment sotto una licenza piu' vicina ai principi cardine dell'open source. Nuova mossa di Sun verso il pieno appoggio al mondo open? |
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08/05/2006 - VMware, un'alleanza per la virtualizzazione desktop - La celebre softwarehouse ha dato vita ad un consorzio che mira ad accelerare l'adozione e l'implementazione di infrastrutture virtuali per il desktop. Ecco come si muovera' per contrastare Microsoft |
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08/05/2006 - Domani si parlera` con le SIM di Auchan - A cominciare dal mercato d'oltralpe, la grande catena di super ed iper mercati francese varera' una propria offerta di telefonia mobile |
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08/05/2006 - MS reinventa la censura audio - I ricercatori dell'azienda di Redmond hanno inventato un sistema per censurare automaticamente i flussi audio digitali. Il sistema, ancora in attesa di brevetto, potrebbe rivoluzionare il broadcasting radiofonico digitale |
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08/05/2006 - Google accusato di lucrare sul pedoporno - La piattaforma di marketing online di Google arricchisce gli speculatori della violenza sui minori? Lo sostiene un avvocato che ha denunciato il motore di ricerca. Google nega ogni coinvolgimento |
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08/05/2006 - Warner, 14 denunce per i prezzi dei brani online - Sono molte le class-action condotte nei confronti di Warner Music Group. L'accusa: la major ha cospirato ai danni dei consumatori perche' ha fissato arbitrariamente i prezzi della musica digitale venduta su iTunes |
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08/05/2006 - USA, allarme per i videogiochi del terrore - Il governo statunitense condanna gli autori dei mod-pack che trasformano videogiochi di successo in strumenti di propaganda fondamentalista ed antiamericana. Vengono diffusi - dicono le autorita' - su siti di ogni genere |
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08/05/2006 - Internet? Mondo virtuale di censura vera - Reporters Sans Frontie'res lancia l'allarme con il suo Rapporto annuale: la censura su Internet sta diventando lo strumento preferito dai dittatori ed e' sempre piu' diffusa |
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08/05/2006 - ECDL e open source - Iniziativa |
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06/05/2006 - Microsoft Ships Vista build 5381.1 to Testers - Microsoft has issued 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista build 5381.1, which is a preview of the Beta 2 version of Vista the company intends to ship later this month to millions of users worldwide.
Windows users who are eager to test Windows Vista don't have much longer to wait: Microsoft will ship Beta 2 to millions of consumers sometime in late May. Currently, the company still plans to ship Beta 2 on May 22. Attendees of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2006, which runs May 23rd through the 25th, will receive Vista Beta 2 on DVD.
 Download: Microsoft Connect
 News source: Windows IT Pro
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06/05/2006 - Windows Live Mail M6 Coming Soon - The Live Mail Team gave us a pretty extensive update for Windows Live Mail as they near releasing Milestone 6 (M6) to Beta Testers.
They will be Policy Changes (such as expiration of accounts unusued for 30 days), Performance fixes, Signatures are back and much more! They are releasing a bunch of stuff in M6.
For the complete extended list of updates coming for Windows Live Mail M6 checkout the Hotmail team blog.
 View: Web mail musings from the Hotmail team
 Link: Disscusion Thread
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06/05/2006 - MPAA: Online piracy cost Hollywood $2.3 billion - A study ordered by the Motion Picture Association of America has claimed that Hollywood missed out on $6.1 billion last year in lost revenues due to piracy, with the internet denying copyright holders $2.3 billion of that figure.
The study was the first of its kind to measure the impact of the internet on the movie industry's profits. The counterfeiting of goods, or bootlegging, alledgedly accounted for $2.4 billion in lost revenues whilst illegal copying (which included individuals creating copies for their own personal use) totalled $1.4 billion in lost revenues.
Figures for the US showed that copying DVDs was the most common form of movie-theft, as opposed to other countries in which online piracy and the sale of fake goods reigned supreme.
Todd Chanko, an analyst at Jupiter Research (who conducted the study on behalf of the MPAA) remarked: "As bad as peer-to-peer copying on the internet is, it's nothing compared to overseas factories producing pirate DVDs."
He told BBC News: "The MPAA has been throwing these kinds of figures around for years, it's interesting information, but impossible to verify for the average person."
Unsurprisingly the MPAA recorded highest losses in China, where bootlegging rages rampantly. The otherwise global increase could perhaps be blamed on the coming-of-age of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent. The MPAA has targetted BitTorrent before, closing down many of the tracker sites that make the network such an attractive prospect for filesharers.
View: MPAA.org
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05/05/2006 - Crank Calls with Motorola - Fairly soon you may be able to crank call (isnÂ’t it really called a prank call?) using your Motorola phone, literally. Andre Minoli has created a very unique hand-cranked cell phone to be manufactured by Motorola.
The new phone, dubbed Motorola PVOT, is aimed more at developing countries. However it could have a nice market in the US as well. How many times have you been somewhere and needed to make a phone call, only to discover your battery was dead.
Motorola’s PVOT will give you approximately 1 minute of talk time for every 25 “cranks” of the handset. Your cranks charge up a single AA battery which is then used as power for the phone. It also features a 125x125 dot matrix LCD screen and odd looking keypad.
One can only wonder if you will be allowed to crank during calls or the maximum cranks per battery. As cell phone companies offer more and more minutes for less money, your worries may shift away from using up all your minutes. The phone call of the future might go something like this, “Mom, I have to call you back. I didn’t crank up enough minutes. Yes, I know I should have cranked more than 25 times, but I was in a hurry.”
What about dialing 911? If you have an emergency will you have to crank before dialing 911? That could pose a major issue.
View: AndreMinoli.com
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05/05/2006 - Pimp My Laptop - No, not that kind of pimp, get your minds out of the gutter. HavenÂ’t you always wanted to have the most pimped out ride laptop? These guys allow you to upload your own image and they will create a sticker that fits perfectly on your MacBook, PowerBook, or iBook. At this time they do not have stickers for Dell, Sony or HP/Compaq. All orders will be received within a week and are shipped from Finland. Sticker prices start out at around $20 USD.
View: PimpMyLaptop.com Product Page
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05/05/2006 - Intel hunkers down 'in survival mode' - Intel Corp. may still be one of the world's most profitable companies, but investors have shown little patience with the biggest maker of computer chips as it loses market share. The stock is down more than 20 per cent this year, less than half the analyst community rates Intel worthy of an investment right now, and one analyst describes the $39-billion (U.S.) company as "in survival mode."
Last year proved a banner year for Intel, with sales hitting a record $38.8-billion and profit $8.7-billion. But this year the company is forecasting a 3-per-cent decline in sales. Worse, its juicy gross profit margin is slipping. In the first quarter, the figure decreased to 55.1 per cent from 61.8 per cent in the previous quarter, and Intel management warns of a further decrease through 2006.
Just down the street from the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, the story at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is very different. The shares have rocketed more than 125 per cent in the past 12 months, including 10 per cent this year.
The combative AMD has been an irritant to Intel for years. But at one-sixth the size, it has rarely been a threat. That changed in the first quarter, when AMD secured substantial market gains, pushing Intel's hold down to less than 80 per cent for the first time in years. AMD's market share for PCs increased to 22.4 per cent in the first quarter, up from 16.4 per cent in the fourth quarter, according to Mercury Research.
 News source: The Globe and Mail
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05/05/2006 - Microsoft Snags A 'Google Analytics' Of Its Own - Microsoft says it has made a significant investment into DeepMetrix, a 15-year-old Web traffic analysis firm. The acquisition is likely in response to a similar one arch rival Google made a few months back. Microsoft's Internet division, MSN, plans to ultimately incorporate the DeepMetrix Web analytics tricks into future releases of Microsoft adCenter, Internet search, Office Live and MSN Spaces, a Microsoft rep said.
DeepMetrix makes a number of different software applications, including graphical bulletin boards. But what most attracted Microsoft is its feature to provide real-time information about the traffic visiting a Web site, details Web operators greatly benefit from knowing. "Microsoft chose DeepMetrix because of its great technology that delivers superior web analytics software," a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an email. "It is the best target for this space."
News source: eWeek.com Weblog
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05/05/2006 - Bill Gates Wishes he Wasn't so Rich - The corporate leader says he doesn't like the attention of being the world's richest man.
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday he wished he were not the world's richest man. "I wish I wasn't. There is nothing good that comes out of that," said Gates, whose personal fortune sank by billions since last week when the software giant disappointed investors by saying new investments would crimp earnings.
The corporate leader who made Microsoft into the world's largest software maker - and who is also one of the biggest philanthropists - is seen as a man who does not like publicity. He explained that he did not like the attention of being the world's richest person. "You get more visibility as a result of it," he said during an interview conducted by CNBC reporter Donny Deutsch in front of a crowd of people attending a Microsoft advertising event.
News source: CNN Money
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05/05/2006 - UN Broadcasting Treaty seen as severely limiting Freedoms - A remarkably unacceptable treaty proposal is currently being pushed through the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, seemingly concieved by the RIAA and MPAA and backed by traditional old-line media businesses. The Broadcasting Treaty, currently undergoing review at a UN convention in Geneva, Switzerland, contains passages that would severely restrict the concepts of fair use and freedom of speech—on a global level. IP Watch has an excellent overview of the issues:
The proposed broadcasting treaty would create entirely new global rights for broadcasting companies who have neither created nor own the programming. What's even more alarming is the proposal from the United States that the treaty regulate the Internet transmission of audio and video entertainment.
It is dangerous and inappropriate for an unelected international treaty body to undertake the task of creating entirely new rights, which currently exist in no national law, such as webcasting rights and anti-circumvention laws related to broadcasting. A global treaty is not the place for experimentation with new rights, but rather for the harmonization of existing legal norms. WIPO treads on shaky ground by proposing to create new rights that no elected body in the world has yet agreed to.
News source: ars technica
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05/05/2006 - New Group to Standardize Digital Music Data - In an effort to better track digital music sales, several big-name record companies, digital music services and music rights agencies have founded a consortium called Digital Data Exchange. The purpose of DDEX (pronounced "dee-dex") is to establish standards for the meta-data in digital music files, mainly for sales and rights-tracking purposes.
Founding members of the consortium include artists' rights group ASCAP, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and EMI Music, as well as several other music rights societies and agencies from the U.S., U.K. and Europe. Apple Computer, Microsoft and RealNetworks, which all provide digital music services, are also charter members.
News source: C|Net News.com
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