VirtualBox 3.0.0 Released
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
The Pirate Bay Adds ‘User Deletion’
Earlier today we reported that the infamous public torrent tracker The Pirate Bay had been sold to the software company Global Gaming Factory X, who then decided to shut down the tracker and remove its torrents.
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Windows 7 Beta Kill Switch Activated
Microsoft on Wednesday started the expiration process for the beta version of its Windows 7 operating system. Beginning today, users that are still running the trial version of the company’s next OS will see it shut down every two hours.
July 1st, 2009 | Continued
Steve Jobs Returns To Apple After Extended Medical Leave
“Steve is back to work,” a company spokesman confirmed in a statement obtained by Reuters. “He’s currently at Apple a few days a week and working from home the remaining days. We are very glad to have him back.”
June 29th, 2009 | Continued
How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking
Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed.
June 28th, 2009 | Continued
Firefox 3.5 Eyed For Tuesday Release
Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon. A key feature of the browser is the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which boosts performance and stability. Indeed, speed has been stressed as a key attraction of the upgrade.
June 28th, 2009 | Continued
The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death
In terms of well-known celebrities, few are bigger than Michael Jackson. Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone on the planet knows him. And that caused big problems for a lot of huge websites today with the news of his passing.
June 25th, 2009 | Continued
Pirate Bay Operators Denied Retrial
The Swedish Court of Appeals has ruled that judge Tomas Norström was not ruling from a biased point of view when he ordered Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström to serve one year in jail and pay a £2.4 million fine for copyright infringement.
June 25th, 2009 | Continued
Apple Patching Serious SMS Vulnerability On iPhone
Apple may be working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could possibly allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.
The theoretical attack in question exploits a weakness in the way iPhones handle text messages received via SMS (Short Message Service), said security researcher Charlie Miller, during [...]
Microsoft Introduces Kodu Game Lab For Aspiring Developers
Microsoft has introduced an application that allows aspiring developers to create their own Xbox 360 games. Built using Microsoft’s XNA Studio, Kodu Game Lab offers users a simple image-based menu along with 200 different programming features.
Upcoming OS v3.1 Improves iPhone Video Edits, Voice Controls
It didn’t take Apple long after the release of its iPhone OS v3.0 to begin preparing for the first major update to the new OS. Apple has announced the availability of a beta of its OS v3.1 along with a 3.1 version SDK, for its developers.
Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Not As Fast As Chrome
The benchmarks test all the main browsers from Google Chrome 2.0.172.33, Safari 4, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.0.5, Opera 10 Alpha and Internet Explorer 8. Each browser was put through three tests including SunSpider javascript benchmark, V8 Benchmark Suite and finally the ACID 3 test.
Microsoft Starts Officially Tweeting
It’s Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially using Twitter today.
As Industry Recovers, Mac Growth Beating PCs
Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty says Apple is outperforming the PC market in sales growth, and this was before Apple released its new MacBook Pros in June, according to a report on Fortune’s Apple 2.0 Wednesday. Of course, releasing a new notebook would only spur sales for the months after its release.
Taiwan Orders Dell To Honor $15 Monitor Mishap
It’s not exactly all that uncommon for Dell to misprice an item on its website and, if you’re lucky, it might even honor it. But it looks like the stakes have just been raised considerably in Taiwan, where the company recently listed a 19-inch monitor for NT$500 (or about $15US) and promptly received more than 26,000 orders for close to 140,000 of the monitors. Now, ordinarily, Dell would simply send out a polite email explaining their mistake and call it a day, but Taiwanese regulators have now stepped in and ordered Dell to honor the misprice after receiving a couple of hundred complaints.