Loading ...MySpaceTV is the newly renamed and relaunched video portion of the social networking site. Along with being accessible to all Internet users — with or without a MySpace account — MySpaceTV is localized in 15 international versions. The relaunch comes a day after the release of figures indicating that YouTube is by far the dominant [...]
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One’s a PC brain, the other’s a Mac-head–two PC World editors strongly disagree about owning this week’s must-have gadget.
Two experienced PC World staffers, two very different takes on the iPhone. Chip is eager to pick up a sexy device that will finally bring his Apple world all together, while Alan has no desire to buy [...]
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced the industry’s first 65 nanometer (nm) multi-standard channel decoder (S3C4F31) and multi-band radio frequency (RF) tuner (S5M8602) chipset which supports multi digital mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and terrestrial DMB for the multiple standards in the different countries around the world.
“Although a [...]
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DrinkOrDie’s Griffiths faced up to 10 years in prison and a $500K fine
The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the Department of Justice announced.
Hew Raymond Griffiths, 44, was extradited [...]
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THE ultimate couch potato’s dream could soon be a reality, with the development of a TV that changes channels when you think about it.
Japanese electronics giant Hitachi is working on a “brain-machine interface” that analyses slight changes in the brain’s blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals.
The technology was on display last week [...]
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Apple Inc. got help from the update to its MacBook laptops to push its share of the laptop market in the U.S. up nearly two points in May, to 14.3%, a research firm said today.
“Whenever Apple gets a new product out, they get a nice bounce,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD Group Inc. [...]
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Digital privacy advocate and secret smoker Kevin Bankston was outed on Google’s Street View. So, what else does the Internet know about us?
Kevin Bankston didn’t think anyone would notice his little cigarette break. His family didn’t know he sometimes snuck a smoke. So Bankston was surprised when a photo of him smoking outside his San [...]
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Get your fingers ready. Apple Inc.’s iPhone is leading a new wave of gadgets using touch-sensitive screens that react to taps, swishes or flicks of a finger. The improvements promise to be slicker and more intuitive than the rough stomp of finger presses and stylus-pointing required by many of today’s devices.
Apple has already been showing [...]
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The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department’s IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections.
In response to reports of persistent cybersecurity flaws at the Department of Homeland Security, a top congressional Democrat on Wednesday questioned [...]
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