Microsoft to Remedy ‘Family Discount’ Tragedy
It looks like Microsoft is ready to settle the score with customers who took advantage of the Vista Family Discount offer earlier this week. As reported on Wednesday, anyone who purchased Windows Vista Home Premium using the keys provided by Microsoft’s Vista Family Discount was unable to use the keys.... Read on »
Vista 'Family Discount' Bites Back
In the past, early adopters of new Windows versions have had some small hurdles to overcome. Such hurdles may be software incompatibility, or lack of driver support. These sorts of things are almost expected with each new Windows launch. But what would you do if you bought Windows Vista and... Read on »
Wal-Mart Zune Comes With Free Porn
It's not the first time, nor the last, that people will find porn on (supposedly) new or recycled consumer electronics. This time it happened to a family in Southside Chicago who purchased Microsoft's Zune from the local Walmart for their 12 year-old daughter. The daughter, who says the box looked... Read on »
Microsoft and Ford Team Up In-Car Computing
Remember Microsoft's Blue&Me project with Fiat, the one that equipped select models with an in-car computer system with all kinds of connectivity... Read on »
Dish Network Rumored to Start IPTV Service
The DISH Network is rumored to be soon announcing an IPTV service. DISH already has the IPTV section of its website ready... Read on »
Samsung's Plan for Terabit Flash Memory
Researchers at Samsung, one of the leading producers of flash-memory chips, recently announced a new chip that can hold twice as much data as before, and without an increase in its footprint on a circuit board. They were able to double the data capacity by building chips with multiple layers... Read on »
HP Reveals 'Crossfire' 19-Inch Touchscreen Media PC
Looks like AMD has a sweet new rig they're readying for January launch, and word on the street is Bill Gates wants to launch it personally. It's the IQ770 "Crossfire," the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC we've seen, surely good for taking advantage of Vista's integrated tablet functionality. The... Read on »
Sheriff's Department Building Kids Iris Database
When it comes to finding missing or abducted children, police have had few tools to help identify them with certainty when they are found. Now the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department has become the first department in the state to buy a device that takes a picture of the iris, the... Read on »
Wal-Mart Launches Digital Movie Downloads
Wal-Mart Stores announced Tuesday that it will launch its own video downloads service this week beginning with an exclusive "Superman Returns" DVD bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD. Wal-Mart currently accounts for about 40 percent of all DVD sales in the United States. By... Read on »
BlackBerry Pearl Available to Cingular Premier Customers
Apparently today was the agreed upon date to launch (or "prelaunch," anyway) svelte new mobiles that we'd been waiting ever so patiently on, as this discovery comes just hours after Motorola officially released its MOTOFONE F3. While we've known the BlackBerry Pearl was coming, sneaked a few peeks of it... Read on »
Apple and ViewSonic Ready 17-inch Widescreen Monitors
LCD vendors such as ViewSonic and Apple are set to launch 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors by year-end or the first quarter of 2007, according to industry sources. LCD monitor vendors expect 17-inch widescreen monitors to replace entry-level and middle-range 15-inch and 17-inch LCD monitors in the future. The prices for... Read on »
HP Releases Price and Ship Date for 30-inch LCD
The competition is really heating up in the 30-inch display space. Dell keeps slashing its own 3007WFP prices to ridiculous extremes (we just spotted it for $1,274 on Dell's own site), Apple finally got its 30-incher under two grand in August, and now HP is busting out its own aggressively... Read on »
Cell Phones to Report Real Time Traffic Information
There are two companies who say they have a system that can monitor traffic on roads and highways. They say their systems are based on tracking the signals of cellphones that are inside cars while on the road. IntelliOne and AirSage rely on data provided by wireless companies from their... Read on »
Xbox 360 Update Adds DRM 'Features'
A couple of members have notice a new addition to their 360's since the update this morning. Media is now tagged with a "Does not expire" message. Obviously this could only mean one thing, DRM for downloads. Our best guess is that new media downloads will now contain expiration's dates... Read on »
Studio Sues Over Copyright They Don't Own
Shawn Hogan has received plenty of attention in the last year for his decision to fight the MPAA over the lawsuit they filed against him, claiming he had shared the movie Meet the Fockers via a file sharing program. The problem? Hogan didn't actually share the movie, has never downloaded... Read on »
Will Vista RTM be Build 6000?
With the way previous build numbers have stacked up, I don't see why this would not happen. Microsoft has always kept things nice and even in the past. What better way to release Windows "6.0?" In the source article Paul Thurrot writes, "According to my Microsoft sources, the current internal... Read on »
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