Archive for: May 3, 2008

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What say you? Is resident Big Bang Theory brainiac Howard Wolowitz super-stoked that Penny is conked out on his shoulde…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3 to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers Integrated retail and volume license installs are available in the following languages Chinese Simplified English French German Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Brazil and Spanish Additional languages will be made available soon
Please see the MSDN Subscriber Downloads or TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads to obtain these releases The main TechNet resource page for Windows XP SP3 is updated with this information
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Well, that’s that! Microsoft has officially pulled its tender for Yahoo! — inflated another $5 billion for good degree — after the company did “not move toward accepting [the] offer”. Developing…

Original post by Ryan Block

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There’s been a rash of defections at OLPC lately, with NickNeg himself looking to leave soon, so it’s nice to assemble out that the charitable endeavor is filling in the vacancies. Only it’s not, really. Although Negroponte has said that’s he looking for someone “similar to Kofi Annan” to lead t…

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Gadgets, Laptops

After mincing few words in their bid to purchase the ailing (and subsequently somewhat rebounding) Internet giant Yahoo!, Microsoft withdrew its offer on Saturday.

First announced in early February, Yahoo! shook off the bid as being too low, suggesting that they were unlikely to agree to anything that valued the company at lower than $40 a share, biding their time, while seeking alternative deals with companies like AOL and the News Corp-owned Myspace. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, meanwhile, sent the company a series of open letters with less than subtle hints that his company was considering a hostile takeover. Microsoft ultimately raised their bid by $5 billion, with the per-share value jumping to $33. This time out, Yahoo! wasn't likely to go any lower than $37 a share.

In light of the unsuccessful nature of that most recent offer, Ballmer sent a letter to Yahoo! head, Jerry Yang, announcing his company's pull out. Said Ballmer of the move,

Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal.

We have a talented team in place and a compelling plan to grow our business through innovative new services and strategic transactions with other business partners. While Yahoo! would have accelerated our strategy, I am confident that we can continue to move forward toward our goals

For the full text of Ballmer's latest open letter to Yahoo! CEO, Jerry Yang, visit Microsoft's site.

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Easy come, easy go: looks like that free WiFi for iPhone users could already turned off, as users are now reporting login screens instead of the free web access they so quickly came to expect. The only question now is whether the whole free iPhone WiFi was flipped on early and quickly turned off…

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Gadgets, Wireless

We know HTC’s got a big announcement coming that Tuesday, and while we can’t say for certain it’s going to the Touch Diamond, whether today’s leaked images and specs are at all accurate we think they might have something big on their hands. Check it out:

2.8-inch VGA display
WinMo 6.1 Pro
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Cellphones, Gadgets

Although Cubans have been able to get underground PCs for a while now, the Cuban government only recently lifted the official ban on them, and the first publicly-available machines just went on sale Friday. The state-approved QTECH PCs are only available at one store, where crowds formed to gawk…

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Desktops, Gadgets

GameJackal is a product that has been designed to remove the need of having to always use your CD DVD to play your games I can here the cry going up quot Have you never heard of Virtual Drives quot Well yes I have The difference here though is about 700mb of disk space GameJackal make a small profile as small as 30kb up to 40mb which it uses to run the game instead of using the entire image like a virtual drive does
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Changes in v3 0 1 5 release 2008 05 02
Driver performance improvments
Numerous interface changes and updates
Updated game profile support
Enterprise compatibility update

In a sit down with Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Engadget Mobile’s Ryan Block discussed the process of porting the Java platform to the iPhone. Overall, Schwartz seems very confident that Java is going to be in the future for the iPhone. He says they are having no problems on…

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AnyDVD HD comes with same functionality as AnyDVD but with additional features for full Blu ray Disc and HD DVD support including decryption of Blu ray BD and AACS and HD DVD AACS movies

Allows you to watch movies over a digital display connection without HDCP compliant graphics card and without HDCP compilant display No need to buy an expensive monitor Sweet

Playback your discs on your PC with PowerDVD Ultra which otherwise do not run titles released by Studio Canal The Weinstein Company Kinowelt Optimum Releasing

AnyDVD HD is the quot must have quot utility for the serious home theater enthusiast using a media center home theater PC

Another amazing feature of AnyDVD HD is quot magic file replacement trade quot Remaster any commercial movie disc using simple XML scripts These scripts will quot magically quot replace the files on the physical disc You can customize discs as you like without even making a copy to harddisk

AnyDVD comes with its own UDF 2 5 file ripper no need to install 3rd party UDF 2 5 filesystem under Windows XP
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6 4 2 0 2008 05 02 ChangeLogs
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Fix Blu ray Incorrect AACS decryption with some titles
Some minor fixes and improvements
Updated languages

by the years our pals at Deutsche Telekom haven’t precisely played the most aggressive game in the States, but finally we have word about the first possible suitor for the ailing Sprint. Although the rumor originates from German paper Der Spiegel and doesn’t quote sources, word has it Deutsche T…

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Cellphones, Gadgets