Thursday, July 12, 2007

Byte Into It 11 Jul 2007



Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec -the iPhone


Developer models of OpenMoko open-source smartphone released
FIC has announced the official availability of the OpenMoko Neo1973 smartphone developer handsets. The OpenMoko project was first announced by FIC last year with the goal of creating a comprehensive open-source software platform for touchscreen mobile phone devices. The hackable Neo1973 handset—which features a 2.8 inch touchscreen, a 266 Mhz ARM processor, and WiFi—is the first phone designed to run the OpenMoko software platform.

Putting Google On Your Phone

Search text across multiple files with Windows Grep - Lifehacker

How To: Create an RSS embedded desktop - Lifehacker

New Quicksilver for Windows app Skylight looks very promising - Lifehacker

Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources

Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources

Digg - 15 free security programs that work
From firewalls to antivirus software to tools for combatting rootkits and spyware, here are some great downloads to protect your system against malicious attacks.

Featured Firefox Extension: Upload files to your favorite sites with Fire Uploader - Lifehacker


Major Upgrade for the Flock Browser - lifehack.org
Flock
has announced today an upgrade of their browser. Again, there is a
focus on blogging as well as photo, video and bookmark management.
Digg - 10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod
This overview details the features (with screenshots) of 10 different programs other than iTunes to manage your iPod. Tutorials are included for every program, and they’re all either free or Open Source.

Digg - $1.15 Billion Mistake: Microsoft Expanding Warranty to 3 Years!
The company said it has been required to make an "unacceptable number" of repairs to the game machines since they went on sale in November 2005. Any Xbox customer who experiences a general hardware failure will now be covered by a three-year warranty from the date of purchase.

Sony announces price cut, new 80GB PlayStation 3 model for North America
Effectively immediately, the price of the PS3 has been dropped to $500 for the 60GB unit, and a $600 80GB model bundled with Motorstorm is coming this August. Pricing is for North America only

Featured Download: Get the feel of Photoshop in GIMP with GIMPshop - Lifehacker

BBC NEWS | Business | Google buys e-mail security firm

Digg - Google buys GrandCentral - Prepare to combine all your vmail and phone #'s
You get one phone number that you can set to ring all, some, or none of your phones, based on who's calling. You also get one central voice mailbox and can listen to your voicemails online or from any phone. You can even listen in on messages from your phone while they are being recorded, or switch a call from your cell to your desk and back again.

Linux Tip: Use Google Linux repositories - Lifehacker

Digg - No Samba for Microsoft and Its Linux 'Partners'
Samba will move to GPLv3. The Samba team will continue to provide security fixes to the GPLv2 versions, but new features will be added only to the GPLv3 versions, the team said.

Red Hat wants interoperability without patent pledges, Microsoft says no

Lenovo unveils its highest performing notebook: a Linux workstation - Hardware - www.itnews.com.au
The notebooks is certified to run Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, as well as Red Hat and Turbo Linux operating systems.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Last.fm strikes Sony music deal
The service, bought in May for $280m (£140m) by CBS Corporation, has signed a deal with the Sony BMG record label.

The partnership will give the web 2.0 service's 20 million users access to the entire Sony catalogue of music.

RIAA sued for using illegal investigatory practices
A grandmother targeted by the RIAA for file-sharing is striking back at the controversial music industry association, arguing that it has knowingly engaged in "one or more overt acts of unlawful private investigation" to further its case.

MediaDefender denies entrapment accusations with fake torrent site
Antipiracy agency MediaDefender strongly denies recent claims that it set up an entrapment scheme in order to catch so-called pirates downloading illegal movies and software.

A neutral 'Net needs up to twice the bandwidth of a tiered network
Recent research suggests the obvious: that building an undifferentiated network requires far more capacity than one in which traffic is prioritized, throttled, and controlled. But when AT&T researchers are involved in writing the paper in question, the results seem a bit more sinister. Is the research just another attempt by a major backbone Internet operator to justify a non-neutral Internet?



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