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Today in Tech; 3/14

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Vista gamers to go Live. Microsoft announced that it was opening its xBox Live online gaming network to Vista gamers. They actually announced this a while ago when they were detailing their Vista gaming strategy back in the summer of 2006. The eventual goal is that you should be able to play a team deathmatch […]

Today in Tech; 3/13

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Viacom sues Google for $1B. Looks like at least one of the media giants is throwing down the gauntlet on copyright infringement. A pretty big gauntlet at $1 billion, all aimed at allegedly illegal stuff being uploaded to YouTube. (Source: InfoWorld)
Intel gets into NAND hard drives. Well, ‘hard drive’ seems a bit of an ambitious […]

Today in Tech; 3/12

Monday, March 12th, 2007

RIP Richard Jeni.

Vista virus troubles. Microsoft has been pushing OneCare hard as the virus/malware defender of choice for Vista. Lots of one-click sign-up options when you’re loading Vista from scratch. Bit of a dent in the marketing fender then, that in a recent Austrian AV study it finished dead last behind its biggest competitors. […]

Today in Tech; 3/8

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Samsung releases first hybrid hard drive. You knew they were coming, flash hard disks are here and they’re going to doom the platter variety in a number of markets, especially mobile. Samsung’s are first but there are more coming. These are called MH80 hybrid hard drives and will be available in sizes of 80GB, 100GB […]

Today in Tech; 3/7

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Dammit, I gotta remember to pay bills tomorrow. Too drunk tonight.

Would this not have happened under Linux? A CT man awaiting trial for selling guns and bomb-making stuff, is suing Microsoft. Reason? He’s facing in-court embarrassment after FBI technicians cracked the security on his Windows XP PC and found his apparently semi-legal porn stash. Now […]

Today in Tech; 3/6

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Okay, I’m stealing this from the old MSN blog, but bite me. It’s a good post topic. I’ll see how long I can keep this up.

VMWare does virtualization on USB. Since Microsoft is upping the ubiquitous factor on virtualization, VMWare is throwing its own spin on that. They’ve introduced a public beta of ACE 2 […]

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