It looks as though the once though anti-aircraft software glitch that killed multiple people in South Africa, actually wasn’t software based. But was human intervention and software that caused the incident.
A very in-depth article about how Microsoft is planing its new Operating System, an engineer from Microsoft comments and agrees on how bloated Microsoft’s current kernel is.
AMD’s reports for the third quarter of 2007 show a strong revenue increase of 18%, however AMD is still show negative in earnings.
Have you found Digg slow during the peak hours? Well peertopress.com has a top 10 for Kevin Rose on how to speed up Digg. The article was put on Digg’s front page, and the comments left on peertopress.com website are pretty hilarious.
EA Games Head of International Distribution Florin, wants a single and open platform. Instead of having 3 or 4 different platforms for each game they release, they want to stream line it. He also goes on to talk about set top boxes and how they will be the next generation console.
Apple has released a guided tour of their next release of OS 10 dubbed leopard. You can view the tour at the below link:
If you buy a song off iTunes, you’ll be paying a 3 cents for each song in tax. Then new tax is to compensate artists for the reproduction of their songs.
Vito Pilieci, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, October 19, 2007OTTAWA — The Copyright Board of Canada has approved new taxes on digital MP3 music files – at least for files that are downloaded legally.
Siver Seal has launched its anti-bacterial and dishwasher safe keyboard and mouse. Not the first in the world, but a valuable product for all those hypochondriacs out there.
Microsoft is pumping out more free software for the masses. I’ve never heard or seen Windows Live Photo Gallery, but I thought about downloading and installing this application to give it a whirl. During the install, I asked to install a bunch more Windows Live applications. Specifically the Mail component, since my MSN account is attached to my Hotmail. After installing everything, I ran the Windows Live Photo Gallery, and it was pretty amazing.
Never really thought and still don’t think Powerline based Networking would take off. With the increase in speed to 400Mbps, this will defiantly give a lot of fiber technologies a run for their money.