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YouTube to share revenue with users Print E-mail
Submitted by psYchotic   
Monday, 29 January 2007

ImageChad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.

Hurley, who along with the site's co-founders sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in November, said one of the major innovations the site is working on is a way to allow users to be paid for content.

"We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users," Hurley said at the World Economic Forum. "So in the coming months, we are going to be opening that up."

Hurley gave no details of how much users would be paid, or what mechanism would be used.

Source: Yahoo! News

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Duke Nukem Forever resurfaces Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 29 January 2007
Duke Nukem alive3D Realms this week released the first new bit of Duke Nukem Forever media in what seems like forever, as its company profile on trade site Gamasutra's JobSeeker boards features a pint-size pic of Duke himself in action.

ShackNews posted a story Thursday night about 3D Realms' newest job listings with a link to the Gamasutra page that includes the new screen. That sparked speculation about the nature of the pic in the site's comments section, which prompted 3D Realms president George Broussard to chime in with a short note simply saying, "In-game shot." Broussard confirmed for GameSpot today that he did indeed post that bit in the site's comments.

Source: GameSpot  

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Intel, IBM reveal microchip competition Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 29 January 2007
IBMIn dueling announcements, Intel and IBM separately said they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip transistors as the technology shrinks to the atomic scale.

    The two announcements promised to keep alive Moore's Law, which holds that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. It's good news for users because the more transistors that can be packed on a microprocessor, the faster it runs a PC.

    Intel, the world's biggest maker of microchips, said Friday the advances will be used later this year when it shrinks existing chip designs to smaller dimensions, meaning they will run faster and use less power.

Source: Xinhua  

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PS3 to make European debut on March 23 Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 29 January 2007
PS3 SonyTOKYO - Sony’s new PlayStation 3 video game machines will go on sale in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia on March 23, company officials said Friday.
    The 60 gigabyte model of PS3 will be priced at 599 euros, 425 British pounds, 999.95 Australian dollars, and 1199.95 New Zealand dollars, according to Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Nanako Kato.

    Initially, only the 60GB model will be available in these markets, with the lower-end 20GB version to follow later this year depending on demand, the company said in a statement dated Thursday.

 Source: Boston Herald

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Google did not boot AMD for Intel Print E-mail
Submitted by jamie   
Monday, 29 January 2007
ImageRumors of a full-on switch from AMD to Intel chips have forced Google to emerge from its warm, creepy secrecy cocoon. Contrary to claims from Intel, Google has not experienced Xeonmania and elevated Intel to favored supplier status. Rather, it's just got a few Xeons laying around its data centers.

"We bought a small number of chips from Intel recently, but we continue to be supplied by more than one vendor," spokesman Barry Schnitt told us in a statement and then returned to his cocoon.

 Google's displeasure with Intel's blog gossip making its way to the press is evident in the company's terse statement. Such PR rumblings between the two companies are sure to make things uncomfortable next time Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows up for a Google board meeting.

 

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Dealer of forged Microsoft licenses goes to jail Print E-mail
Submitted by shravan   
Saturday, 27 January 2007

 A German court has sentenced a software dealer to nearly three years in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses. The dealer, a 42-year-old Turk, was arrested in June 2006 by German police for selling Microsoft products with falsified licenses on a large scale, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH said Thursday. He had been held in custody until the court ruling, which ended with a sentence of two years, 11 months in prison.

 

After eight days of hearings, the district court in Bochum, Germany, found the Turkish dealer guilty of reselling 18,555 products with forged licenses to other dealers who were unaware of the illegal activity. The court referred to the dealer as a "clever offender" who was driven by greed. The dealer was not identified. Microsoft estimates the loss of the forged licenses at $5.2 million, including the money paid by customers who acquired software they were unable to use.

 

Source: Computer World  

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65% of Americans Spend More Time with Their Computer than Their Spouse Print E-mail
Submitted by psYchotic   
Wednesday, 24 January 2007

Image8 in 10 Americans More Dependent on their Computer than 3 Years Ago

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 65 percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other, according to new independent research commissioned by support.com.

Conducted by independent research firm Kelton Research, the "Cyber Stress" study confirmed consumers' growing relationship with technology in their everyday lives. In fact, more than 8 out of 10 Americans (84%) say they are more dependent on their home computer now than they were just three years ago(1).

Like any relationship, the test comes not when things are going well but when times are tough. And unfortunately in the case of their computers, things aren't going so well for Americans.

Source: PR Newswire

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Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
MicrosoftIn this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion -- the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more.

The project, dubbed "immortal computing," would let people store digital information in physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations.

After all, when looking that far in the future, you never know who the end users might be.

"It is definitely a long-term project," said Andy Wilson, the Microsoft researcher whose musings on the ephemeral nature of digital information inspired the research initiative.

Source: seatlepi  

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iPhone running stripped-down Leopard Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 22 January 2007
iPhoneThe iPhone is already running a version of Leopard, the next major upgrade to Mac OS X, according to one person who has had their hands on the device.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko reports that both official briefings and 'you and I never spoke, all right?' conversations have revealed that the new OS, which is due to be released to Mac users in the spring, is alive and kicking on the phone-iPod hybrid.

'Everything I've learned...says that it truly does run Leopard, the upcoming 10.5 OS that will be released for the Macintosh late in the spring,' he wrote.

'Those spiffy UI animations, for instance, come courtesy of Leopard's Core Animation suite.'

Source: MacUser  

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Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist Print E-mail
Submitted by jamie   
Sunday, 21 January 2007
ImageSwedish bank Nordea has told ZDNet UK that it has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona--up to $1.1 million--in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist.

Over the last 15 months, Nordea customers have been targeted by e-mails containing a tailor-made Trojan, said the bank.

Nordea believes that 250 customers have been affected by the fraud, after falling victim to phishing e-mails containing the Trojan. According to McAfee, Swedish police believe Russian-organized criminals are behind the attacks. Currently, 121 people are suspected of being involved.

The attack started by a tailor-made Trojan sent in the name of the bank to some of its clients, according to McAfee. The sender encouraged clients to download a "spam fighting" application. Users who downloaded the attached file, called raking.zip or raking.exe, were infected by the Trojan, which some security companies call haxdoor.ki.

 

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Sound Pulses Exceed Speed of Light Print E-mail
Submitted by psYchotic   
Thursday, 18 January 2007
ImageA group of high school and college teachers and students has transmitted sound pulses faster than light travels—at least according to one understanding of the speed of light.

The results conform to Einstein's theory of relativity, so don't expect this research to lead to sound-propelled spaceships that fly faster than light. Still, the work could help spur research that boosts the speed of electrical and other signals higher than before.

The standard metric for the speed of light is that of light traveling in vacuum. This constant, known as c, is roughly 186,000 miles per second, or roughly one million times the speed of sound in air. According to Einstein's work, matter and signals cannot travel faster than c.

Source: LiveScience 

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