What Is Google's Goal?
businessweek.com — Googleâ��s announcement that it is working on a lightweight, Web-based operating system for netbooks, to be called Chrome OS, is a surprise only in its timing. As I wrote last September, when Google released the Chrome browser and Sergey Brin denied that its ambitions went beyond building a fast, simple browser: More…
Hackers Undermine Piracy Evidence With Hadopi Router
torrentfreak.com — Yesterday we reported that a provision in the revamped French “3 strikes” bill will allow for the punishment of ISP account holders for the copyright infringing actions of others. Now a group of hackers has set out to compromise WiFi routers en masse, in order to create an environment of plausible deniability. More…
New More Prominent Twitter Ads Spotted
thenextweb.com — Friendfeed user Alphaxion just posted a screenshot of a Firefox ad placed above his stream on the Twitter.com homepage.Previous to this there had been reports of ads appearing the twitter.com sidebar, but this is without question the most prominent ad placement yet. More…
Netbook OS Oddsmaking: Who Will Win the War?
gigaom.com — Most operating system efforts in the netbook area have been misplaced from the beginning. Time and again we’ve seen desktop environments shoehorned into small screens with meager hardware. Windows, OS X, and most of the standard Linux distros work well on full-sized laptops and desktops, but aren’t optimal for a more portable device. More…
ARM Scores First Big Mali-400 GPU License For Media Players
hothardware.com — ARM has discussed scalability of these multi-core GPUs in the past, providing estimates of quasi-linear gains, which is possible considering the tile-based rendering nature of the part. A Mali-400 GPU includes 4 “fragment processors” that should provide enough processing power to produce the 1080p video render More…
Voice mail's time has come - to be replaced
boston.com — In an age of ever-speedier communications, a growing number of people are unwilling to endure voice mail’s shortcomings. Some can’t stand the endless prompts just to hear a longwinded, and often pointless message. Still, some people can’t bring themselves to hit delete without listening. “It would seem rude not to listen to a message More…
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