"With our operating system, the Playstation could very easily be your home CD player, DVD player, MP3 player and home computer, as well as a great game box," said Terra Soft CEO Kai Staats.

When running the Linux software system, the Playstation would serve as a fully functional home computer, loaded with more than 1,000 applications. But instead of having a suite of applications, the computer would offer users a choice of multiple mail servers, word processing programs, spreadsheets, office applications, music and video players and games.

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Google has acquired the wiki service JotSpot [see news story.] Jotspot is one of a few wikis that is easier to write in than the first generation of wikis. Early wikis required you to write your links and formatting in wiki code, which is quite straightforward, but also quite different from standard HTML and from working with a WYSIWYG word processor, like Word or Google Docs. The newer WYSIWYG wikis (WYSIWikis?) make creating a group document almost as easy as working in a word processor.

Which begs the question: Where does a word processor end and wiki begin? Google Docs is already a great collaborative editing tool. It even has a revisions history function, like most wikis do. What it doesn't have are capabilities to create a web of pages, nor insert interactive elements (like polls, comments, mini-spreadsheets).

Source: CNET 

Boot Camp 1.1.2 beta includes:
-Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers
-Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes
-Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
-Support for built-in iSight cameras
-Support for built-in microphones
-Support for the Apple USB Modem
-Trackpad scrolling and right-click support on Apple Laptops
-Improved Apple keyboard support including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys
-Improved International Apple keyboard support

The download weighs in at a hefty 143 MB, and can be downloaded from Apple's website..com 

Source: Mac Rumors

Seagate Technology has introduced a powerful new security platform, "Seagate DriveTrust Technology" for delivering the highest level of security for computing systems, computer electronics, and mobile devices, in a simple and cost effective way.

The DriveTrust Technology, combines strong, fully automated hardware-based security with a programming foundation that makes it easy to add security-based software applications for organization-wide encryption key management, multi-factor user authentication, and other capabilities that help keep digital information safe.

Source: TechTree 

As much as we love testing and talking about the latest innovations in PC graphics, it's only a fraction of the gamers market that can truly enjoy these high-end products as soon as they come out of the oven because of its high prices.

 It's not a surprise then that the bulk of Nvidia and ATI sales for videocard upgrades are in the segment between $100 and $200, this is also what we call the mainstream market. For this article we have narrowed down such segment to cards below the $150 mark, where the obvious contenders, Nvidia and ATI have laid down two products that go head to head: the long dominant GeForce 7600GS, and the recently launched Radeon X1650 Pro.

Google Inc.'s $1.65 billion acquisition of Internet video site YouTube Inc. has turned up the pressure on rivals to keep pace in a rapidly changing online environment.

Only a handful of Internet start-ups come close to matching the San Bruno, Calif., firm's audience. But many smaller Web firms--often referred to as Web 2.0 companies because they were founded after the dot-com boom--offer growing communities of users and popular Web sites that Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and News Corp. may choose to nurture.

"I think, in general, there are large technology and media companies that will buy their way in" to some of these upstart companies, said Alex Welch, chief executive of photo-sharing site Photobucket Inc. of Denver.

Source: Chicago Tribune 

Enhanced capabilities plus seamless integration with URGE make for all-new digital entertainment experiences.

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 30, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today released to the public Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 11 for Windows® XP, a significant milestone for music fans and the digital entertainment experience on Windows. This latest version of Windows Media Player offers consumers a test-drive of the breakthrough capabilities in Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista™, including enhanced search and media management technologies, a visually driven user interface, and optimized support for portable music players.

Source: Microsoft 

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Bugfix Release

• Fixed the gallery links in "My Controls" on the board. Invision Gallery has now replaced coppermine. All your old images are still available at http://www.geeknewz.com/imagedb however you can no longer login to update these. This is part of our move to get rid of integration dependancies.
  
• Re-organized Forum Sections to try and get rid of dead sections.
• Added Live Bookmark functionality and RSS Feed for main site available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/geeknewz
• Removed the forum wrapper where if you use your panel to access the forum the site wraps around it. This is due to spacing issues which need to be resolved. Forum now always full screens.
  
• Fixed login bug where users with uploaded avatars (not off site) were often unable to login.
• Minor style changes

For those of you looking at upgrading, you may have yourself in a knot deciding when and what to purchase. There are now extremely fast and viciously-priced dual-core processors on the market -- this is, ordinarily, a damn good thing. However, you seemingly can't ignore the quad-core CPUs on the horizon coming from both AMD and Intel. Surely these upcoming beasts will make roadkill of the existing line?

My unconcealed answer is no. There's an elephant disguised as a lampshade in this room and it stinks.

Source:  APC Start