By Stewart Wilson / 5 September 2007 / No Comments
Don't you think this theme looks old? Then your agreeing with me. Find a theme send the theme name and url to stewart@scorerightservices.com and the best one will be used! The winner gets a Joost Invite or something else that Terence can give me. Get your votes in or this site will be closed.
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Now playing: Fall Out Boy - 08 Don't You Know Who I Think I Am
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By Terence Huynh / 3 September 2007 / No Comments
We here at tech.geek would like to announce a new writer, frozen-ice. He will be part of the reawaken networks, and will have access to special features.
As well, we have a new theme. This theme will be a temp one, as we go through the net to find another one. We will make our own one soon, we justed learnt how to design one
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By Kenny Yeoh / 3 September 2007 / No Comments
Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes® Store. The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99. ABC, CBS, FOX and The CW, along with more than 50 cable networks, are signed up to sell TV shows from their upcoming season on iTunes at $1.99 per episode.“We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions of iTunes customers.”
Apple’s agreement with NBC ends in December. Since NBC would withdraw their shows in the middle of the television season, Apple has decided to not offer NBC TV shows for the upcoming television season beginning in September. NBC supplied iTunes with three of its 10 best selling TV shows last season, accounting for 30 percent of iTunes TV show sales.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
It seems like everyone wants to get into the social networking game these days, even spies. The Director of National Intelligence and the United States government are now encouraging these covert operatives to do start collaborating and sharing information using a new secure social network called "A-Space" (A stands for Analyst). The site is modeled after MySpace and Facebook and will open in December for U.S. spies and covert operatives across 16 some intelligence agencies to share information with each other. The effort is spearheaded by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or DNI, a post created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, to coordinate foreign and domestic security and promote collaboration among those 16 intelligence groups. To respect the concerns of operatives undercover and other security-leery analysts, A-Space will be voluntary.
Mike Wertheimer, the senior DNI official for analytic transformation and technology, said A-Space is one of the fruits of labor of a security agency that is trying to change the way information is shared after the failure to foresee and prevent the 9/11 attacks. A-Space will be used to help intelligence specialists gather and share more information across the siloed and firewalled fortresses that comprise the security industry's IT infrastructure.
View: Full Story on eWeek
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
Internet search leader Google Inc. has started hosting stories and photographs distributed each day by the AP, Agence France-Presse, The Press Association in the United Kingdom, and The Canadian Press on its own servers. Google negotiated licensing deals with all four agencies during the past two years after the services raised concerns about whether the search engine had been infringing on their copyrights. The new approach won't change the look of Google News or affect the way the section handles material produced by other media, nor will it alter the company's formula for finding news, so the material from the AP and other services won't be elevated in the pecking order of its search results. Although the negotiated licensing agreements had always given Google the right to host the material, the search engine hadn't done so until today.
Although the change might not even be noticed by many Google users, the decision to corral the content from the AP and other news services may irritate publishers and broadcasters as the move may result in less traffic for them and more for Internet's most powerful company. A diminished audience would likely translate into less online revenue, compounding the financial headaches of long-established media already scrambling to make up for the money that has been lost as more advertisers shift their spending to the Internet.
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
Authorities in Thailand have finally ended a ban on the popular video website YouTube. The ban, initiated five months ago, was prompted by controversy over a video clip deemed insulting to Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej; the video showed two human feet pointing to the king - an offensive gesture in Thailand where feet are considered dirty. The Thai government first demanded that the clips be removed, but YouTube refused and several other videos subsequently appeared. The ban has now been lifted following an apparent compromise: the Thai government says YouTube's owner - the internet giant Google - has filtered out the offending videos so that users in Thailand cannot see them. Google has not commented on the case yet.
View: Full Story on BBC.com
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
Sony says the rootkit-like behavior of a device driver used to run its biometric Micro Vault USM-F thumb drive was unintentional. McAfee has joined F-Secure in criticising Sony for allowing such a mistake to happen. The Micro Vault drive is a USB device featuring fingerprint-reading software intended to add an extra layer of security for PC users. McAfee reported that Taiwan's FineArt Technology, which makes encryption software for PCs and laptops, was responsible for creating the offending USB software with rootkit technology.
The criticism is reminiscent of that directed at Sony BMG Music Entertainment in November 2005, when a programmer revealed that a technique designed to cloak the company's copy-protection software for music CDs also could be used by virus writers to hide malicious software. Both F-Secure and McAfee security experts agree that the default installation path does nothing to stop malicious-software authors from copying code to a directory of their choice and executing it in that location.
News source: News.com
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes. The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified Apple of its decision late yesterday, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked for anonymity because negotiations between the companies are confidential. A spokesman for NBC Universal, part of General Electric, confirmed the decision, but otherwise declined to comment. A spokesmen for Apple declined to comment. The decision by NBC Universal highlights the escalating tension between Apple and media companies, which are unhappy that Apple will not give them more control over the pricing of songs and videos that are sold on iTunes.
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News source: New York Times
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
Facebook may not change the world, but it's changed one of the world's largest banks. HSBC had planned to collect overdraft fees for Brits leaving university this summer, but after thousands of students mounted an online protest via Facebook, the big-name bank has scrapped the plan entirely, The BBC reports.
According to the National Union of Students (NUS), which organized the protest, more than 4,000 students badmouthed the bank from a Facebook group called "Stop the Great HSBC Graduate Rip-off".
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News source: The Reg
By Jay Day / 2 September 2007 / No Comments
Hosted desktop pioneer Nivio has taken an undisclosed investment from AMD to help it work on its ambition of making virtual Windows XP desktops and software accessible from any connected device -- even a Linux PC or a smartphone. The Nivio service uses virtualization to provide users with a virtual PC, which they can configure and even synchronize with their own PC, if they have one. The virtual PCs are hosted on AMD servers at data centers in Geneva and New Delhi, and streamed out over broadband.
Nivio says it can stream a Windows XP desktop, complete with applications, to any device with a compatible web browser. Software -- including Adobe and Microsoft applications -- can be rented by the month, so users don't have to purchase a package that's only needed for the duration of a short project, said the company's founder Sachin Duggal.
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News source: PCWorld
