Cell Chip, HD-DVD, McAfee vs. Microsoft, etc
Sony has partnered with IBM and Toshiba to start production of a new "cell" chip. This chip has supposed clock frequencies of 16 teraflops. We're not quite sure how it's manufactured but, it will be used in Sony's new PS3. ExtremeTech.com TechNewsWorld
Speaking of Toshiba... the recent battle between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD standards has heated up. The Toshiba HD-DVD standard has won endorsment of 4/5 (New Line Cinema, Paramount, Universal and Warner Brothers) of the major movie studios. Blu-Ray is backed by big electronic companies such as Sony, Dell, HP, Hitachi, Philips, and Samsung.
Microsoft is also developing software to allow users to access their media from the internet... very, very cool. ZDNet.com
A failed upgrade to UK government computers put over 60,000 out for four days. Not suprising. ExtremeTech.com
Microsoft also confirmed a flaw in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) that could allow malicious code execution. Read more at ExtremeTech.com
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Speaking of Toshiba... the recent battle between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD standards has heated up. The Toshiba HD-DVD standard has won endorsment of 4/5 (New Line Cinema, Paramount, Universal and Warner Brothers) of the major movie studios. Blu-Ray is backed by big electronic companies such as Sony, Dell, HP, Hitachi, Philips, and Samsung.
That could be a boon for HD DVD, which also has a backward-compatibility advantage with today's DVD hardware. Some experts, however, insist the future format will be driven by the PC, which is largely behind Blu-ray. TechNewsWorldMcAfee and Microsoft are currently partnered to bring Anti-Virus and spam control to MSN 9.0. McAfee reported this week that Microsoft had not extended its contract to include the soon to be released MSN 10.0. McAfee also claims that it will begin to see increased competition in Cisco, but believes that it will to continue to succedd. I don't use MSN (Cox Internet, Google for web search) of McAfee (Norton Internet Security and AVG Free), so this really dosen't affect me. MSN is cruddy, like most of Microsoft's knock-offs; and McAfee isn't worth the money when Norton is available and much, much better (my opinion) and while AVG is so free... Forbes.com
Microsoft is also developing software to allow users to access their media from the internet... very, very cool. ZDNet.com
A failed upgrade to UK government computers put over 60,000 out for four days. Not suprising. ExtremeTech.com
Microsoft also confirmed a flaw in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) that could allow malicious code execution. Read more at ExtremeTech.com
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