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MySpace Purchases Photobucket
It’s the deal you never thought would happen: MySpace acquiring Photobucket, the “parasite†that fed off MySpace traffic and hosted a massive number of MySpace photos. There’s no word on whether the $300M price tag, which Photobucket was being shopped around for, was met.
Is MySpace becoming the next Google? Probably won’t matter, as it wouldn’t be surprising to see Google snatch up MySpace in the future. They already own most everything else!
Source: Mashable
XP vs. Vista – A Tale of Framerates
Seldom has the rumor mill turned faster than when gamers talk about gaming in Vista. Some folks are staying away from the new OS simply because they feel it doesn’t game well. We set out to put some hard numbers on those claims.
HardOCP takes a fresh look at gaming on Vista. Things should be better now than at launch, right? Yes, but it appears we still have a little way to go.
Source: HardOCP
OCZ Technology Announces the Worlds First AM2 Optimized Memory Kit
Sunnyvale, Calif.—May 7, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today unveiled a unique memory kit for AMD enthusiasts and power users. The new PC2-5400 Titanium modules were designed exclusively for the AMD AM2 platform and are custom-tailored to the extended column address range of the AM2 memory controller.
Source: OCZ Press Release
Dell Joins Microsoft and Novell Collaboration
REDMOND, Wash., and WALTHAM, Mass. – May 6, 2007 – Microsoft Corp. and
Novell Inc. today announced that Dell Inc. is the first major systems
provider to join the business collaboration that was formed by Microsoft
and Novell in response to customer demand for greater interoperability
and intellectual property (IP) assurance. As part of the agreement, Dell
will purchase SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft
and establish a services and marketing program to migrate existing Linux
users who are not Dell Linux customers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Flash Earth
I am always on the lookout for cool new sites, and Flash Earth is one of the better ones I’ve stumbled on recently. As you might have guessed, it’s completely flash based and works similarly to Google Earth. Except here, you can change the services on the fly, in case one has a better image than the other. Currently they offer Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps, Microsoft Maps and a few others.
Definitely worth checking out if you are a Google Earth fan, but bear in mind that a few images are not as recent as Google Earth might have.
Source: Flash Earth
World of Warcraft Visa
No, this is not an in-game item for making in-game purchases. It’s a real world plastic Visa card. While I think that a credit card with an MMO face is needless, the bonuses is that you can earn game time… about one month worth for every $150 charged on a qualifying purchase, if I understand it correctly.
Accrue World of Warcraft gametime at the rate of 1% of every dollar in qualifying purchases. The World of Warcraft Rewards Visa is the only card that pays you to play.
As strange as an MMO credit card is, I guess it’s no more odd than Everquest 2’s now-defunct /pizza command.
Source: Official Site
Pirated Movies at Circuit City
Found on Digg, one stealthy shopper went into a The Source By Circuit City store in Canada and noticed one of the TVs had two DVD rips loaded into the menu. It wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see a store rip their own DVDs and display them on their TVs, except that these file names had aXXo in them, the name of the largest DVD rip uploader on BitTorrent networks.
Is the MPAA just going to sit around? Might be hard since this took place in Canada. But we’ll see.
Source: Picture
Pidgin 2.0 Reviewed
Pidgin 2.0 is a highly extensible and cohesive platform for multiprotocol Internet communication that includes broad support for essential instant messaging features and common protocols. Rigged with a versatile plug-in system and an assortment of advanced features, Pidgin 2.0 is capable of competing with commercial instant messaging applications like Trillian Pro.
I have been using Pidgin since it’s release last week and have not been let down. Though, it’s not far different from the last version of GAIM. If I had any complaints, it would be the new emoticon set. It’s… not for my tastes.
Source: Ars Technica
AT&T Charges Up To Eight Minutes For A One-Minute Phone Call
AT&T is charging users of its prepaid calling cards up to eight minutes per minute spent making an in-state call. The practice began in February and affects in-state calls made from every state except Illinois, Indiana, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
How is it that this was not discovered sooner? Eight minutes for every one that you talk? That’s extreme! The list of States and their rates are listed on the page.
Source: Consumerist
English Premier League Sues YouTube
The English Premier League is to sue video-sharing site YouTube for alleged copyright infringement. The football organisation said YouTube had “knowingly misappropriated” its intellectual property by encouraging footage to be viewed on its site.
It just doesn’t end for YouTube, but that’s no surprise for a website that ranks in the top ten on the planet. Still, how is it that the EPL is losing money because clips wind up on YouTube?
Source: BBC
Top 20 Strangest Gadgets and Accessories
Not your ordinary speakers, these “Talking Lips†actually have moving lips that synchronize with your mobile phone or online chat conversations (Skype, etc.). They come in three different colors (silver/black/red) and connect to your phone or computer via USB. Fortunatley, there’s an on/off switch on the bottom that will come in handy after the few seconds of entertainment are up.
Wow… just wow. This is one weird gadget, but they only get weirder…
Source: TecheBlog
AOLs User Passwords… Not That Secure
It turns out that when someone signs up for an AOL.com account, the user appears to be allowed to enter up to a 16-character password. AOL’s system, however, doesn’t read past the first eight characters.
This is a horrible oversight on AOL’s part. Anyone on AOL should go and re-think their password if it’s more than eight characters long.
Source: Washington Post
Split-Screen Tech Doubles Computer Use
New technology from Microsoft Research India in Bangalore could end the waiting game in offices with limited computers. Researchers are developing software that splits a computer screen in two halves, each side with its own operating system, desktop, applications, cursor and keyboard.
Although this doesn’t seem that interesting, it could save a lot of time and money for those business owners in developing lands. Two computers in the same space as one? It’s a good deal.
Source: Discovery
Dreamhost Sucks At Hosting
I’ve concluded that Dreamhost sucks phenomenally at hosting websites that generate any kind of traffic. Sure, their $9.99 a month plans with massive savings coupons are enticing, but if you knew what you were getting yourself into, you’d stay away. Dreamhost sucks like you’d want to suck on a knife covered in chocolate–which isn’t very much.
If you are looking to set up a site at Dreamhost, you may want to read this first. I have never dealt with them before, so I can’t speak of any experience. I sure wouldn’t want to head there after reading this though. One of their shared servers has 1,200 users!
Source: Elliott Back Blog
Discover New Music With Musicovery
I’m always on the lookout for new music, so this site caught my attention quick. It allows you to jump to a random song depending on genre and then mood. If you feel like a positive sounding metal song (it happens), it will bring you straight to one. Then if you like the song you can follow through with a purchase on iTunes or Amazon.
It’s not perfect, as it declared Black Eyed Peas – Shut Up to be a dark rap song, but hey, can’t win em all. The overall music library doesn’t seem that large, but it it fun to play around with for a while.
Source: Musicovery
GameTap Goes Free With ad Support
Starting May 31st, GameTap, a subscription-based video game on-demand service owned by Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), will offer thirty to sixty of its classic video games for free via a web-based application launcher called the Lite Player.
This sounds like a great deal! Ads to play a game doesn’t seem to bad. I guess it depends on just how annoying and frequent they will be.
Source: Daily Tech
Apple iPhone to launch June 15th?
According to an official letter sent to all corporate AT&T employees, the Apple iPhone launch will take place on June 15th with the launch period extended until the 15th of July. AT&T isn’t even approving their employees from taking any vacations during that timeframe, due to what the company is referring to as “the biggest selling period we have seen in a few years.”
All you iPhone iPhans can prep for the launch in 39 days!
Source: Boy Genius Report
Does The MPAA Simply Make Up Piracy Numbers Out Of Thin Air?
Remember in the last few months how the movie industry was hyping up the idea that Canada was the center for camcording movies? This was bogus for many reasons — with the biggest being that movies recorded in theaters on camcorders are a tiny, tiny part of the counterfeit market. It’s much more common to actually get a movie leaked from an insider and then have the real copy spread around.
The MPAA first blames Canada for 50% of the camcorder problem and then 40% to New York. Something doesn’t add up.
Source: Tech Dirt
Dells Ubuntu PCs To Cost Less Than Those With Windows
Dell plans to start offering Ubuntu as an option on selected consumer PCs in the coming weeks, said Jeremy Bolen, a Dell spokesman. Ubuntu is free, and machines pre-installed with it will be less expensive than PCs of the same configuration that come with Windows, Bolen said.
I would love to know how much cheaper these PCs will be with Ubuntu installed. If only we could have notebooks without an OS at all… installing Ubuntu on your own accord is free.
Source: Seattle Pi
Steve Jobs Highest Paid CEO
Steve Jobs’ $1 salary was dwarfed by $646 million in stock compensation for 2006, Forbes magazine said today, ranking the Apple Inc. CEO as the highest-paid executive in the U.S. In its annual CEO paycheck scorecard of the 500 biggest U.S. companies, Forbes said the $646.6 million for Jobs was more than twice the compensation of the next person on the list — Ray Irani of Occidental Petroleum, who took home $321.6 million — the bulk of it from exercised stock options.
With $315K per hour, he could easily afford a gaming PC!
Source: Computer World
IBM To Lay Off 100,000 Employees?
But this week’s “job action,” as they refer to it inside IBM management, was as much as anything a rehearsal for what I understand are another 100,000+ layoffs to follow, each dribbled out until some reporter (that would be me) notices the growing trend, then dumped en masse when the jig is up, but no later than the end of this year.
Ouch. Will this lead to IBMs demise or skyrocket their stock? It’s hard to say, but Robert Cringely isn’t so confident about either.
Source: PBS.org
openSUSE Survey Results Online
openSUSE have announced that the results from the openSUSE survey are now online. The survey was live for almost 3 months and more than 27,000 users participated, making it one of the largest Linux distribution surveys ever.
There are many interesting results found here. 98% of the people who filled out the survey were male. Linux needs more women! 70% dual boot both Linux and Windows, which is one high percentage. Higher than I would have thought.
Source: Slashdot
Spidey 3 Online Ahead of U.S. Release
It’s official: Spider-Man 3 has appeared online as an unauthorized download on public torrent trackers ahead of the release in theaters across the U.S. Just today, VCDQuality indexed two slightly different versions from the same source in China, presumably, as the recording is in English with Chinese subtitles according to one downloader who’s seen a portion.
I’ll never understand why anyone would want to watch a low-quality version of a movie captured with a camcorder at a 45° angle of the screen with heads popping up throughout with that really loud woman who is at EVERY movie. But here it is!
Source: NewTeeVee
DRM Groups Vow To Fight Bloggers
Thousands of websites published the key, which had been uncovered in a bid to circumvent digital rights management (DRM) technology on HD-DVD discs. Many said they had done this as an exercise in free speech. An AACS executive said it was looking at “legal and technical tools” to confront those who published the key.
Things are going to get interesting now. It’s noted that over 700,000 pages have published the key, our site included. If only they’d worry less about DRM and more about making people want to buy the movie.
Source: BBC
India Working On $10 Laptops
OLPC, which aims to bring laptops to schoolchildren in impoverished nations, recently pushed its price per laptop to $175, from $100. India’s HRD ministry, which rejected the offer from OLPC, says it thinks it can push that price down to $10.
Let’s see this happen…
Source: TG Daily