Archive for: January 29, 2008

January 29, 2008

*OSNews Announces Focus Shift*

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

OSNews has been reporting, since its start in 1997, on the world of operating systems, their applications, their hardware, and their citizens - both users and developers. OSNews has seen 3 major rewrites, various personnel changes, and many topics of discussion, some way beyond the original scope OS…

Microsoft US Consent Decree Extended Two More Years

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Microsoft will have to put up with another two years of court antitrust oversight, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. In her ruling, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly cited the length of day it has taken Microsoft to get its protocol licensing program up and running as the primary reason she is extending …

“Wireless Vibrating Grip” promises to construct SIXAXIS rumble, money disappear

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming
We know that there’s plenty of folks out there keen to get their hands on Sony’s rumbling DualShock3 controller, but we’re hoping there’s not many desperate ample to consider something like that contraption in the interim. Apparently known only as the “Wireless Vibrating Grip,” t…

Seesmic gets good tweaks, goes mobile (Updated: Invites!)

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Seesmic gets N95 support. But you don't get Seesmic.

Seesmic, aka video Twitter, is still in private beta, but CEO Loic Le Meur is here at Demo 2008 besides, showcasing a few new features. Nothing revolutionary, just a few nice tweaks. First, you can now easily see video responses to a vide…

Shape-shifting magnetic bots take a page out of the Dharma playbook

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Filed under: Robots
Research is still in the early stages, but the concept renders are straight out of science fiction. Some friendly folks at Carnegie Mellon University are working towards electromagnetic microscopic bots that cling together and can assume virtually any shape. Down the line that me…

Planar’s PD8150 and PD8130 1080p DLP projectors shipping in March

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

whether Mitsubishi’s polite pair of projectors weren’t decent to satisfy those impeccably high standards of yours, we’ve all ideas that Planar’s duo won’t let you down. First spotted at Runco / Planar’s zanily themed booth at CEDIA, it seems that Planar is just now getting around to giving u…

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Show different faces to different citizens online: Moli.com

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008


Not everyone should let their co-workers see their full online social profile, as this guy would likely attest.

Moli.com, which already has a solution for individuals who want to control who sees their profile, is now expanding its service as a platform for enterprise users.

A one detail can hav…

Nikon D60 hitting in February for $800?

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

We had all the vitals final night apart from for the price. Lucky for us, the D60 showed up nowadays by at Henry’s with a pricetag of $800, not not good at all for that low-end DSLR. Nikon still hasn’t said anything officially beyond “pricing knowledge will be available approximately 30 days pri…

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Mozilla’s two new mobile prototypes

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Prototype 1 is ‘plain vanilla’ for the conventional mobile screen.

Amidst rookie mobile browser Skyfire’s bold attempt to take on the market and Opera’s defensive rebuttal (sent via press release,) emerges news from Mozilla developer and project lead, Doug Turner. A few months back, Doug told us th…

Steve Jobs reassures recovery for Apple investors

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Though Apple’s shares took a US 377.5 million dip that early into 2008, Steve Jobs sent out words of encouragement to Apple employees. The CEO remarked that the losses the company incurred were caused by external factors far and beyond the company’s own significance and that investors who contin…

WordPress creators re-create Twitter (sort of)

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Automattic (the creators of WordPress) has created a microblogging service, but it’s not for everyone–and that’s the point.

It’s called Prologue, and it’s a new theme for WordPress.com users and blogs running off hosted WordPress installs. The goal of the theme is to let anyone setup a microblog, …

Baby Climo air purifier is adorable, possible deadly

Filed under: Review - 29 Jan 2008

Filed under: Household
If you’re not totally swayed by the evidence that convinced air purifiers cause harmful levels of ozone emissions, why not put your money where your mouth is and stick one by your infant? These Baby Climo units from Takara Tomy filter out bacteria, mold, and odors, all while u…

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