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AOL to cut 20 percent of global work force
2007-10-17 10:42:00
Slashdot It!AOL is eliminating another 2,000 jobs worldwide as it tries to cut costs and make room to grow in online advertising.The 20 percent slice from AOL's work force comes after several rounds of layoffs in recent years, including a cut of 5,000 jobs last fall. The latest cuts would give AOL more flexibility to expand ad-related businesses through acquisitions and potentially new hires, company officials said."This realignment will allow us to increase investment in high-growth areas of the company — as an example, we added hundreds of people this year through acquisitions — while scaling back in areas with less growth potential or those that aren't core to our business," AOL Chief Executive Randy Falco told employees Monday.AOL believes it is now best at developing Web sites such as its Moviefone and MapQuest properties to attract people in some 30 countries, Falco said. Its goal, he said, is to build "the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network" for m...
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Yahoo net profit falls
2007-10-17 09:15:00
Slashdot It!Yahoo posted a slight drop in quarterly net profits on Tuesday due to weak spending from corporate advertisers, while investors waited for a signal on the company's next moves after a 100-day strategic review.Yahoo said its third-quarter net profit fell to $151 million, or 11 cents per share, from $158.5 million, or 11 cents per share, in the year-ago period when the company had significantly more shares outstanding. Gross revenue rose 12 percent to $1.77 billion. Excluding the cost of payments to advertising partners, revenue rose 14 percent to $1.28 billion.Analysts have braced for lower profits, with a consensus forecast for net profit of $113.8 million, or 8 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates. In July, the company had cut its outlook for the rest of 2007, the latest in a string of disappointments stretching back to early 2006. Shares of Yahoo closed down 4.2 percent at $26.69 in regular trading on Nasdaq but jumped nearly 9 percent following the report ...
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Sharp unveils a tiny LCD screen that doubles as a scanner
2007-10-17 07:21:00
Slashdot It!Sharp has shown off an interesting new piece of technology in the form of a small 3.5-inch LCD screen that also doubles as a scanner.“The screen, on show at the Ceatec exhibition, features an optical scanner for each LCD pixel, and could also be used to recognise fingers or other objects.” Just imagine if something like this were incorporated into a mobile phone. If someone were to say, hand you a business card, you could simply place it on the screen and scan it. Or, you could have a biometric lock on your phone.Something else that’s rather cool is that since the scanners are at each pixel, you could in a sense have a multi-touch screen. We could expect to see these screens commercialized as early as the first half of 2008.Get paid to bloghttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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Ballmer: In advertising and search, Microsoft's way behind Google
2007-10-16 11:34:00
Slashdot It!Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer says the software giant has a long way to go to compete with Google , when it comes to search and advertising.Microsoft is attempting to break into online advertising, but Ballmer admitted at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here that Microsoft is still an "aspirant" in the search and advertising fields. "In world search and advertising, Google is the leader; we're an aspirant," Ballmer said. "We have a lot of work to do in search and advertising."Microsoft acquired digital-advertising company Aquantive in May, and it has been in the process of investing $2 billion in its own online-advertising platform. Ballmer said it is "expensive to do an advertising platform," but he insisted that Microsoft's platform, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, is viable."Our advertising system works," Ballmer said. "When we have something there, we'll show you."The Microsoft chief said the company had evolved from a desktop software enterprise to ...
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OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-9200 DDR2 1150MHz RAM Kit @ Benchmark Reviews
2007-10-16 10:44:00
Slashdot It!Ever since Intel released the 3 series chipset, DDR2 has had the wind taken from its sails so that DDR3 could make waves. This was meant with the best intentions, but as DDR3 was released to the public it didn't take long for people to realize it was still too immature to compete against DDR2 in regards to performance. This put the weight of the world back on the shoulders of DDR2, which has just earned a reprieve from execution. But now that manufacturers are tooling up for DDR3 production, there are only a few names remaining on the shrinking list which are still releasing high-performance system memory for the DDR2 platform. OCZ recognizes that DDR2 has performance potential left in it, and offers the 1150MHz PC2-9200 2GB Reaper HPC OCZ2RPR11502GK DDR2 RAM Kit to Benchmark Reviews for testing.ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?opt ion=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=1 Get paid to bloghttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

VOD is the way to go
2007-10-09 12:26:00
Slashdot It!The Hollywood studios are killing two birds with one stone, and their weapon is something called VOD.To combat foreign piracy and to attract younger audiences abroad who, like their American counterparts, want their shows whenever and wherever, they're increasingly focusing on such new-fangled deals. So far the money is limited, but it has only one direction to go.Such deals with foreign broadcast partners may not only create a new revenue stream but also keep their traditional output and volume deals with those broadcasters from taking a hit. The trend promises to be front and center in Cannes at MIPCOM, which begins Monday.Gallic broadcaster TF1 has responded to the increasing illegal Internet downloads by signing a deal with NBC Universal to air episodes from Season 2 of "Heroes" on its VOD site just 24 hours after the original U.S. broadcast (HR 9/26).Disney-ABC International Television and Channel 4 Finland inked an IPTV VOD agreement to bring hit U.S. network seri...

Dell vs. Apple: 10 Years Later
2007-10-09 10:10:00
Slashdot It! It was 10 years ago that Michael Dell , speaking before several thousand technology executives at ITxpo97 in Orlando, answered a question about what he would do if he were CEO of Apple with a remark he probably instantly regretted: “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” (link)As others have noted, Apple’s market capitalization today is more than double that of Dell: Apple: $140.4 billion Dell: $62.27 billionBut don’t shed a tear for Micheal Dell. According to a list of the 400 wealthiest Americans published last month, his net worth is more than triple Steve Jobs’. Michael Dell: $15.5 billion Steve Jobs: $4.9 billionGet paid to blog http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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Why Google want to make the GPhone
2007-10-09 09:23:00
Slashdot It! Eric E. Schmidt of Google sees phones as a growth opportunity. For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As word about their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for what has been called the Google phone, or GPhone, have risen, the way they do for Apple loyalists ahead of a speech by Steven P. Jobs. But the GPhone is not likely to be the second coming of the iPhone — and Google’s goals are very different from Apple’s.Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, a small market today, but one that is expected to grow rapidly. It hopes to persuade wireless carriers and mobile phone makers to offer phones based on its software, according to people briefed on the project. The cost of those phones may be partly subsidized by advertising that appears on their screens.Google is expected to unveil the fruit of its mob...
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Windows XP SP3
2007-10-09 09:07:00
Slashdot It!Following our coverage of the Windows XP SP3 beta leak almost a month ago in August, here’s some more info on the official beta, which just had its first authorized distributable released earlier today. Say hello to Windows XP SP3, build 3205!While the newly-released build and the one leaked a month ago (Build 3180) may share the same name, we can exclusively reveal that they are not identical releases. This release, also shipped as windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe, is 334.2 megabytes and has been made available to tier-one Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 beta testers. Hashes are as follows:CRC: 56e08837MD5: c8c24ec004332198c47b9ac2b3d400f7Along with the standalone installer redistributables (in English, Japanese, and German), Microsoft also provided the usual release notes and a list of all the hotfixes included in this release. Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with all-new features - not just patches and hotfixes, most of them backport...
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Embrace digital or die, EMI told
2007-10-09 08:57:00
Slashdot It!The new owner of EMI, Britain's largest music group, has warned that the industry will not survive if it continues to rely on CD sales alone.Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma, bought EMI in August, told staff in a confidential e-mail last week that the industry had been too slow to embrace the digital revolution.Hands' letter was in response to the decision by Radiohead, one of the biggest bands nurtured by EMI but now out of contract with the label, to release their latest album via the internet and at a price decided by fans.In the e-mail, sent to staff on Friday, Hands described Radiohead's action as "a wake-up call which we should all welcome and respond to with creativity and energy"."The recorded music industry... has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold," he wrote. "Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, the indust...
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California Lawyer Seeking Plaintiffs For iPhone Class-Action Suit
2007-10-08 16:56:00
Slashdot It!A Saratoga, Calif., attorney is increasing the legal heat on Apple in the wake of the iPhone bricking dispute.Lawyer Damian Fernandez has launched the Apple iPhone Lawsuit Web site, where he's actively soliciting people to lawyer up for a little litigation.Posts Fernandez on his site: If you would like to join in filing a lawsuit against Apple Inc., you should contact us immediately if any one of the following categories applies to you: --You own an iPhone and you want to transfer to a wireless carrier other than AT&T. You fall into this category even if you did not unlock your iPhone or have your iPhone disabled by an iPhone update --Your iPhone was disabled, malfunctioned, or you had third-party applications erased after you downloaded iPhone update 1.1.1 --You took your iPhone to Apple for repair and Apple refused to honor your warranty because you did any one the following: (1) unlocked your iPhone, or (2) installed a third-party application. (He's a...
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Yahoo worth more if broken up
2007-10-08 13:00:00
Slashdot It!Yahoo would be worth far more to shareholders if it broke up its Internet businesses or embarked on a major overhaul, including a departure from Web search, but management is unlikely to do either, according to an analyst note issued on Friday.Jeffrey Lindsay, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said Yahoo's operations viewed separately could be valued as high as $39 per share, compared with a current share price closer to $27.The shares rose 2.4 percent in premarket trading to $27.80 from a close of $27.15 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.The company, which lags Web search leader Google and faces greater competition for its e-mail services, could be worth as much $45 per share with a dramatic overhaul that would include outsourcing its paid search, cutting staff by 25 percent and restructuring its graphic display advertising, according to Lindsay."It appears that Yahoo will not take bold measures to right the ship," he wrote in a research report. "We believe that Yahoo still has...
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Phishers are using Linux
2007-10-08 12:58:00
Slashdot It!When it comes to launching online attacks, criminals are getting more organised and branching out from the Windows operating system, says eBay's security chief.eBay recently did an in-depth analysis of its threat situation, and while the company is not releasing the results of this analysis, it did uncover a huge number of hacked, botnet computers, said Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information and security officer, speaking at a Microsoft-sponsored security symposium at Santa Clara University.Cullinane, who one year ago downplayed the role of organised crime in phishing ("It's not the Sopranos," he said), believes that online attackers are indeed becoming more sophisticated, with malware developers now being funded to develop new and improved attacks.In the past year, Cullinane has seen better organisation by eBay fraudsters. Criminals are being paid to develop better types of attacks, and the attacks are getting harder to detect, he added. "The phishing emails I see ...
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China now blocking RSS Feeds
2007-10-08 12:56:00
Slashdot It!As many readers who follow the antics of the Chinese government know, when it comes to enforcing the "Great Firewall of China ," consistency isn't exactly its strong point. While certain phrases, concepts, and entire web sites are regularly blocked from reaching the eyeballs of many Chinese Internet surfers, things like high traffic are enough to let a number of forbidden concepts slip through. And then there's the indecision of China's Public Security Bureau (PSB), which has blocked certain sites (such as Blogspot and Wordpress blogs) on and off for some time now, and enforces the blocks inconsistently between provinces. For a One True China, there are certainly many interpretations of what is and isn't allowed through the country's cyber connection.Savvy Internet fans in the people's republic have known for a long time, however, that there have been simple ways to get forbidden information. One of those ways was the magical gift of Real Simple Syndication, or RSS....
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IE without your Windows validated
2007-10-08 12:55:00
Slashdot It!That is the way Microsoft, they finally took the security threat of IE seriously.According to the blog at MSDN, they said that Windows would no longer need to pass validation in order to download IE7. Quote"Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we’ve seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it safer and easier to accomplish everyday tasks online. For example, the built-in Phishing Filter has protected consumers from known phishing web sites an average of 900,000 times per week. IE7 is the first – and still the only – browser with native support for Extended Vali dation SSL Certificates that help prevent online fraud. (Of course, tabbed browsing, QuickTabs, shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, CSS improvements, and some add-ons are all good things too.)Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem...

ICY BOX IB-351StUS-B USB & eSATA 3.5" Enclosure @ Benchmark Reviews
2007-10-08 09:09:00
Slashdot It!As with many of the products in the accessories category, such as external enclosures, ill designed and cheap are far more prevalent attributes than well designed and quality made! Here at Benchmark Reviews we've seen our share of accessory components that weren't up to snuff, so we decided to take a closer look at what appears to be an intelligently designed and quality offering from the German company RaidSonic Technology; the ICY BOX IB-351StUS-B USB & eSATA external enclosure for 3.5" hard drives.ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?opt ion=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=1 Get paid to blog http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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Kim Jong Il the Internet Expert?
2007-10-07 16:54:00
Slashdot It!North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an ''Internet expert'' during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday.The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked that South Korean companies operating at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use the Internet, Yonhap news agency reported, without citing any source.''I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired,'' Kim told Roh, according to Yonhap.''If that problem is addressed, there is no reason not to open'' the Internet, Kim said.This week's summit -- the second-ever such meeting between the two Koreas -- produced a wide-ranging reconciliation pact that calls for establishing a new special economic zone in North Korea and expanding the Kaesong factory park.North Korea is one of the world's most cl...
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Social networking helps drive server sales
2007-10-07 16:52:00
Slashdot It!Social networking is pushing up server sales despite the increasing adoption of server-efficient virtualization technology, according to Sun Microsystems.Virtualization squeezes more computing muscle out of fewer physical servers, so as its use becomes more widespread, it should help slow server sales. But Richard Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, said there is no shortage of demand for hardware because of data-heavy applications such as social-networking Web sites demanding more storage space, resulting in server counts "going through the roof."Sun has been bringing virtualization into its business for the past few years to help it build revenue, after struggling in the post-dot-com crash period. But the marrying of virtual and physical tools is causing "real havoc" in data centers with ad hoc, internally developed management tools not doing the job effectively, according to Green."The whole idea of any innovation (such as virtualization) is to give yo...
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iPod burn in man's pocket
2007-10-07 12:26:00
Slashdot It!The new iPod Nano is hot. But one Douglasville man said his old Nano got even hotter -- hot enough to burst into flames."So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest," said Danny Williams.Williams said the burn hole from the pocket of his pants marks the spot of his 15 seconds of flame. He said he had an iPod Nano and an glossy piece of paper in his pocket. He believes the paper shielded him from being burned."I'm still kind of freaked out that after only a year and a half my iPod caught fire in my pocket," said Williams.The iPod uses a lithium ion battery -- the same type of battery under recall for setting laptops on fire.Williams said the fact is iPod Nano burst into flames while he was at work was bad enough, where he works could have been another issue. He works at a kiosk in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport."If TSA had come by and seen me smoking, they could have honestly thought I was a terrorist," said Williams.Williams said Apple wants ...
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Halo is now out of Microsoft
2007-10-07 08:27:00
Slashdot It! Eric Elton, an environmental artist at Bungie, working on a Halo video game in Kirkland, Wash. Microsoft said yesterday that it was giving up its controlling ownership of Bungie Software, the video game subsidiary that developed the hugely popular Halo franchise, including its latest iteration, Halo 3.Bungie, based in Kirkland, Wash., said it planned to return to its roots as an independent game studio, a move that eventually will cost Microsoft exclusive ties to one of the most successful and sought-after teams of game developers.Harold Ryan, president and studio head of Bungie, said that he had been working for months on a plan to separate the studio from Microsoft, based in nearby Redmond, Wash. Mr. Ryan said that the companies had a good working relationship, but that developers at Bungie yearned to work for themselves, not a corporate owner.“It’s an emotionally creative point of view,” he said of the decision to take the studio independent. “That’s the s...

Microsoft to Increase Ad Business
2007-10-07 07:04:00
Slashdot It!Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft , vowing that the company’s $6 billion plunge into the ad business two months ago was not just an experiment, said today that advertising would become 25 percent of the company’s business within a few years. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, after his meeting Tuesday with a French official. That, he said, would be about the same amount of time it would take for all media and marketing to go digital.“Over time, all ad money will go through a digital ad platform,” Mr. Ballmer told a gathering of European ad agencies and clients. “All media goes digital; all advertising goes digital.”Mr. Ballmer’s remarks came the same day that the British online advertising trade group, the Internet Advertising Bureau, reported that Internet marketing had grown 41.3 percent in the first half of 2007 and now accounted for 14.7 percent of the British ad market.The total British market grew 3.1 p...
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Sony may sell graphic chip line to Toshiba
2007-10-06 08:27:00
Slashdot It!Sony is in talks with Toshiba to sell its production facility in western Japan's Oita prefecture that makes graphic chips used in the PlayStation 3 game console, sources close to the matter said. That would be Sony's latest step to shed costly semiconductor assets and focus on strategic products such as image sensor chips used in digital cameras and camcorders. Sources said in September Sony was in negotiations with Toshiba to sell its manufacturing facilities in Nagasaki, also in western Japan, for advanced microchips including the Cell microprocessor, dubbed "supercomputer on a chip."Sony, which is in the final year of its three-year turnaround plan under Chief Executive Howard Stringer, said in February it will cut back on future chip spending and may not produce next-generation microchips using 45-nanometer circuitry in-house (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter). A sale price for Sony's graphic chip production facility, located within Toshiba's semiconductor...
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Google says closing gap with China rival
2007-10-06 08:10:00
Slashdot It!Web search leader Google said on Thursday it is closing the gap with rival Baidu in China , after years of trying to increase market share in the world's second-largest Internet arena.Google has gained more market share in China after it announced its partnership with Sina, a major Chinese Internet portal. It has also recently formed another partnership with popular Web site Tianya.cn."We are closing up the gap with them (Baidu)," said Rebecca Kuei, Google's head of sales and business development for Taiwan and Hong Kong, declining to give specific figures. Baidu led China's market in the second quarter with a 58.1 percent share, but rising only about 1 percentage point from the previous quarter's 57 percent, while Google gained a 22.8 percent market share, up around 4 percentage points from the previous quarter, according to Analysys International.With over 162 million Web users, China is the world's largest Internet market, after the United States.Google will conti...
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Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing"
2007-10-06 07:09:00
Slashdot It!Testimony today in Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas quickly and inadvertently turned to the topic of fair use when Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, was called to the stand to testify. Pariser said that file-sharing is extremely damaging to the music industry and that record labels are particularly affected. In doing so, she advocated a view of copyright that would turn many honest people into thieves.Pariser noted that music labels make no money on touring, radio, or merchandise, which leaves the company particularly exposed to the negative effects of file-sharing. "It's my personal belief that Sony BMG is half the size now as it was in 2000," she said, thanks to piracy. In Pariser's view, "when people steal, when they take music without compensation, we are harmed."Pariser has a very broad definition of "stealing." When questioned by Richard Gabriel, lead counsel for the record labels, Pariser suggested that what millions of music fans do ...
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Flextronics to make new Zune
2007-10-06 07:05:00
Slashdot It!Microsoft's new lineup of Zune digital media players will be made by contract manufacturer Flextronics International instead of Japan's Toshiba, which made the first Zune. J Allard, a Microsoft corporate vice president, said on Tuesday in an interview with Reuters that the company opted to go with Toshiba's 30-gigabyte player last year because it needed to rush to market with its first product.This year, it decided to bring all the design in-house and selected Flextronics for the manufacturing. "To build this product, we really needed to think about it end-to-end," said Allard, who runs the Zune business. "It also brings with it cost advantages." Microsoft said it will start selling the three new Zune models in mid-November. The 4GB, 8GB and 80GB Zunes will all come with a new feature that allows a user to wirelessly and automatically sync media via a Wi-Fi network from a PC to the Zune when its battery is charging.Get paid to blog http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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Microsoft allows you to upgrade your fake XP to real ones
2007-10-06 05:55:00
Slashdot It!In the latest sign that Microsoft expects to support its Windows XP operating system for the foreseeable future, the company on Tuesday introduced a new licensing program designed to let users of fake or pirated copies of the business version of the OS upgrade to fully licensed copies.Under the plan, called Get Genuine Windows Agreement, software resellers can offer to their business customers a volume licensing contract that will allow them to replace fake or "mislicensed" copies of Windows XP Professional with legitimate versions. To qualify, users of illegitimate versions of Windows XP Pro must pledge to use only genuine Microsoft software going forward and agree to have their software infrastructure audited. Once they bring undocumented copies of Windows XP Pro into compliance, program participants will have the option of enrolling the software into Microsoft's Software Assurance program -- which offers upgrades and support for an additional fee.Resellers who push t...
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Halo 3 makes $300 Million in the first week
2007-10-05 10:09:00
Slashdot It!Halo 3 continues to fly off the shelves, with over $300 million dollars in sales in the first week alone. Other interesting data from the press release (at the bottom of this post): * More than 2.7 million gamers have played "Halo 3 " on Xbox LIVE in the first week, representing nearly one-third of the 7 million Xbox LIVE members worldwide. * Within the first day of its launch, "Halo 3" players worldwide racked up more than 3.6 million hours of online gameplay, which increased more than elevenfold to 40 million hours by the end of the first week, representing more than 4,500 years of continuous gameplay. In the first week, Since "Halo 3 launched," gamers have unlocked nearly 30 million achievements. Get paid to blog http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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Microsoft adds 1-million DRM-free tracks to Zune Marketplace
2007-10-05 07:11:00
Slashdot It!Microsoft announced some updates to its Zune media player lineup this week, with new smaller, flash memory based Zunes coming soon. But we're much more excited about the software updates.Microsoft has revamped both the Zune firmware and the Zune Desktop software. Perhaps the most impressive thing is that if you've got a current generation Zune, you'll be able to upgrade your firmware to get all the new features. Really, that's shouldn't be so impressive, but considering Apple wants you to buy a new iPod every year, it does kind of make the Zune slightly more attractive than it had been.So what's new? * The Zune Marketplace is adding over a million DRM-free MP3 tracks. This from the company that practically (but not really) invented DRM. * Podcasts and music videos are being added to the Zune Marketplace * You no longer have to listen to shared music within three days. But you can still only listen to a shared track three times before it self-destructs. ...
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Intel to boost single-core performance
2007-10-05 07:03:00
Slashdot It!Intel plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium processor, and not just increase the number of cores to it, says an Intel engineer.Speaking at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo held in Singapore on Tuesday, Cameron McNairy, principal engineer of Itanium Processor Architect at Intel, said: "We have not abandoned single-core performance and we're looking to increase that with each generation (of the Itanium processor) as we go forward, some with greater transitions than others." Referring to the generation move from Itanium 2 9M to dual-core Itanium 2, McNairy said: "We made several changes, even though the core was essentially the same."Citing examples of the changes, he added: "We separated the instruction cache from the data cache, simplified some of the conflicts in the data cache, (and) increased core resources."The Itanium 2 9M chip, which debuted in November 2004, is an upgraded member of the Madison line. Dubbed Madison 9M, the 130-...
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Hiper Anubis Mid Tower ATX Case HTC-1K614 @ Benchmark Reviews
2007-10-05 06:12:00
Slashdot It!Anubis is the name of the ancient Egyptian God of Death and the name of the 1st ATX case ever from HIPER. As expected, HIPER does not come up with something usual: the HTC-1K614 is entirely constructed out of high quality 3mm thick aluminium 6063 T5 alloy, weighing in at over 23 pounds! What makes the Hiper Anubis different to the other alloy cases is in the manufacturing process. All of panels are alloy welded together creating a much stronger structure to withstand over 220lbs compared to the cheaper riveting method, where the joint not only becomes a weaker point, but allows the entire structure to bend. The Anubis mid-tower ATX case comes pre-modded with a side window and is probably the only case with a window to pass EMI testing, so is perfect for gamers and hardware enthusiasts.ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?opt ion=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=1 Get paid to blog http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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