Message date: 2010-02-12

US Government will respond to simulated cyber-terrorism attack live on CNN

Terrorism isn’t just bombs and guns… it’s increasingly virtual, as computer networks around the world get more sophisticated. Movies are starting to recognize this: consider Live Free or Die Hard’s “Fire Sale,” which eschewed the series’ usual brand of terrorism for digital havok. And the US Government seems to recognize it too: next week, they [...]
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Online video site Veoh goes bankrupt

After YouTube went big, a lot of other companies tried to get in on the online video gold rush. Veoh was one of the better ones: at a time when online video was still depressingly encoded and subject to loads of artefacting, Veoh offered their users impressive quality… and when YouTube stopped allowing videos to [...]
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Lenovo announces three new budget machines packing AMD CPUs

Our good friends over at Lenovo have expanded their line-up of notebook and desktop offerings yet again, this time opting for three new machines that eschew Intel processors in favor of AMD Turion and Athlon CPUs, along with ATI graphics. The notebooks are the Lenovo G445 and G555. These are budget laptops, featuring 16:9 HD [...]
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IBM bringing Lotus to the Mac and iPhone

IBM will release a new version of its Lotus collaboration and social software suite for the Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch, the company announced Thursday. The release, IBM said, will enable corporate folks using Macs and iPhones to enjoy business-grade social networking and instant messaging, in addition to securely encrypted email and collaborative applications. New arrivals include [...]
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Microsoft planning to update Windows Activation Technologies for Windows 7

Initial releases of Microsoft operating systems tend to be pretty easy to pirate, but become more and more irritating to use over time a Microsoft squirts out Windows Genuine Advantage patches through Windows Update. It doesn’t look like Windows 7 is going to be any different: Microsoft has just announced that in the coming days, [...]
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Google deletes half-a-dozen music blogs for DMCA violations

In what is being referred to as the Musicblogocide of 2010, Google has deleted at least half a dozen popular music blogs that they claim violated copyright law which were hosted on Google’s Blogger and Blogspot services. The blogs were unceremoniously deleted with no warning earlier this week. Afterwards, site masters received this explanatory note from [...]
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YouTube Video Speed Dashboard, how good is your connection?

Google has released a new tool to help figure out just how good your Internet connection is in relation to streaming YouTube video. It’s called the YouTube video speed dashboard and uses a range of local information coupled with video viewing history to rate your speed. So why is Google releasing such a tool? According to [...]
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25% of Russian software retailers sell pirated Microsoft products

Microsoft is always trying to minimize how susceptible its products are to piracy, but in some parts of the world it faces a huge challenge to try and curb such illegal software being sold. New research revealed this week that one of the worst piracy offenders is Russia; where 25% of legitimate software retailers stock [...]
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Man who invented the Frisbee passes away

At one point in time, before there were such things as home entertainment systems and gaming consoles, more people sought outdoor games to pass the time. Sadly the man who gave us one of the most memorable outdoor toys of all time has passed away. Walter Fredrick Morrison, who was known as the father of [...]
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Amazon considering free Kindle for all Amazon Prime subscribers

If you order a lot of stuff from Amazon then it’s fair to assume you have considered, or even signed-up to Amazon Prime. That way you get two-day shipping for just $79 a year. Now it seems like there may be another big incentive to become an Amazon Prime subscriber: Amazon is trying to figure out [...]
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Free Hulu movies and TV shows could hit the iPad, Flash be damned

Remember how an unnamed entertainment industry exec allegedly said last summer that Apple’s tablet will be “fabulous” for watching movies? Surprising then how Steve Jobs announced no new content deals at the iPad unveiling, leaving many folks scratching their head. According to TechCrunch, the lack of Flash player on the iPad doesn’t have to mean that [...]
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Microsoft cancels Alan Wake on PC

Alan Wake may now have a definite release date, but it also has one less platform to ship on. Microsoft has confirmed that Alan Wake is no longer being developed for a PC release. Here’s the official statement from a Microsoft spokesperson: Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best [...]
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Review: Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G mobile hotspot

The MiFi mobile WiFi hotspot was a very significant release for road warriors. Using it you could easily provide WiFi to multiple devices from a single mobile broadband account, something that is incredibly useful considering that a person might have a cell phone, portable media player, and laptop with them, all of which could use [...]
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Bing Maps covered in Flickr images for Streetside Photos

Bing Maps has had a new feature introduced this week that sees Flickr images put to good use to bring streets to life. A new application called Streetside Photos pulls down images from Flickr and fits them on to the Bing Maps’ street views. So that mundane picture you took of people walking down a busy [...]
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Intel Core i5 integrated GPU tested, found worthy

If you’ve been following the recent release of Intel’s Core i3 and Core i5 processors (codenamed Clarkdale and Arrandale) then you know that they have an integrated GPU. This is one of the biggest features of the new processors as well as an important differentiator between them and the flagship Core i7 models. The Inquirer has [...]
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