Poetro's blog: August 2007

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Wii hits 1m UK sales in record time

The Nintendo Wii has become the fastest selling video games console in British history after one million of the machines were sold 38 weeks after the device made its high street debut.

The Wii achieved the one million landmark in a shorter time than the Sony PlayStation 2, which, after a difficult launch in 2000, went on to become the world's most successful console so far, selling more than 115 million units worldwide.

The Wii, designed to attract "non-core" gamers, is outselling both the struggling PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 by at least two-to-one.

Source: business.timesonline.co.uk

Nintendo put the console's runaway success down to the fact that it has been selling regardless of seasonality, and due to the new, nontraditional gaming audiences that the Wii attracts.

The Mario factory also revealed last week's chart figures (ending August 25), which show that the market share for the Wii stands at 68 percent and the DS at 86 percent, for home and handheld markets respectively.

Source: gamespot.com

Anti-piracy failure puts Windows users at a disadvantage

Lots of people start packing up early on a Friday afternoon, and last week, Microsoft's WGA servers decided to follow suit. WGA stands for Windows Genuine Advantage, though a more accurate name would be WAPS, for Windows Anti-Piracy System. In Windows XP, WGA merely checks if a PC is using a valid version of Windows. In Vista, however, it can reduce the functionality of the "pirate" operating system by, for example, turning off the Aero-enhanced graphics. So if the WGA servers fail, it could ultimately punish more than 60 million innocent - and legal - users.

Microsoft became aware of the problem after users started posting angry complaints to the WGA support forum. WGA product manager Phil Liu said he wasn't going to sleep until the problem was fixed, and the servers were working correctly on Saturday morning.

The WGA blog says: "Our data shows that fewer than 12,000 systems were affected worldwide and that many of those have already revalidated and are fixed. This is encouraging news but we want to emphasise that one bad customer experience is one too many and that we're committed to learning from this experience and working to prevent this type of event from occurring again".

Source: guardian.co.uk

Nothing more than human error started it all," Alex Kochis, senior product manager for Windows Genuine Advantage at Microsoft wrote on a company blog Tuesday night. New software was accidentally loaded onto the live servers running the system, he said. That ultimately caused the servers to decline activation and validation requests that were good, he wrote.

While Microsoft quickly noticed the problem and rolled back the changes within a half hour, the problem continued to affect the validation service, he said. The activation process was fixed in that time frame, he said.

The company is implementing some changes to make sure a similar incident doesn't happen again. It is improving monitoring in order to find out sooner if there is a problem, he said. Microsoft is also adding checkpoints that should prevent accidental changes to the servers.

Source: pcworld.com

EarthLink's Wi-Fi dreams may be fading

EarthLink's dreams of competing against the big telephone and cable companies are fading as it slashes nearly half its total work force in an effort to cut costs.

On Tuesday, EarthLink announced that it would shed 900 employees. The reason was simple, said Rolla Huff, CEO of the company. EarthLink, which has had four solid quarters of losses and a sinking stock price, needs to return value to its shareholders. And this means eliminating jobs that don't help the company add subscribers or increase revenue.

EarthLink's traditional dial-up Internet access business, which has seen hefty declines in growth over the past few years, will likely see major cuts, especially in marketing.

Source: news.com.com

Apple May Reveal iPods With More Features

Sony is bringing a fresh new look to its old, but successful PlayStation 2 console, offering it for sale this winter in a richer package.

Sony plans to attract casual and non-casual gamers with a Ceramic White limited edition of PlayStation 2, bundled with SingStar Pop, the second installment in the popular SingStar franchise. Of course, for wannabe artists that would be an incomplete package without the two high-quality USB microphones Sony plans to add to the promotional wrapping.

The new PlayStation 2 bundle will be available in North America in November for a suggested retail price of US$149.99/C$159.99.

Source: efluxmedia.com

Apple May Reveal iPods With More Features

Apple

Inc. is expected next week to introduce new versions of its digital

music players that have more features, but cost the same. The new gear,

say analysts, typifies how the Cupertino, Calif., company is focusing

on its core businesses after expanding into the cellphone industry

earlier this year with its iPhone.

Last month, Apple unveiled

a similar update of its iMac desktop computers, in which it added more

features and in some cases dropped the prices.

Apple, in an emailed invitation, would only reveal that it has scheduled the media event for Wednesday in San Francisco.

Source: online.wsj.com

Spitzer Talks of Suing to Expand Health Plan

Gov.

Eliot Spitzer said Monday that New York would consider suing federal

health officials if the state was not granted a waiver to expand its

federally subsidized health insurance program for children.

The announcement followed a decision by federal authorities to place new rest

Source: nytimes.com

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Luke's lightsaber to take flight

NASA has a long history of bringing mementos from Earth aboard space shuttles to drum up interest for the sometimes painfully slow process of constructing the orbiting International Space Station. In June the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with an artifact from the 17th-century American settlement of Jamestown to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its founding.

Now NASA is celebrating a more recent occasion – the 30th anniversary of Star Wars – by sending the original lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the 1977 film aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October.

Source: cbc.ca

The lightsaber will be on display at the visitor complex at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston through Labor Day. Then it will be shipped to Kennedy Space Center and packed into Discovery's mid-deck.

NASA spokesman James Hartsfield said the sci-fi sword would remain stowed throughout the shuttle's 13-day mission.

NASA sets aside a small amount of space on every mission for commemorative items and artifacts.

A piece of fabric from the Orville and Wilbur

Wright's airplane flew on Discovery in 2000. A cargo tag and coins from

historic Jamestown flew in June aboard Atlantis. Some of the cremated

remains of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the TV series Star Trek, launched aboard Columbia in 1992.

Source: usatoday.com

Rating video games globally

Controversial video game Manhunt 2 has been granted a mature certificate in the US, lifting an effective ban on the game. But the title has been refused a certificate in the UK. So how do ratings for video games operate around the world?

Each year, thousands of video and computer games hit the market. And with global gaming set to grow by as much as 50% in the next four years, there is a good chance that the number of titles per year will increase.

The majority of those games will go through some sort of vetting process before they reach consumers. How they are rated and labelled varies widely around the world.

In the United States, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) evaluates video and computer games.

The ESRB was created in 1994 by the entertainment software industry itself. The idea is to provide consumers with the information necessary to make informed decisions when it comes to buying games.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Rockstar confirmed late last week that their controversial sequel would see the light of day in the USA, after a revised version of the game was passed a 'Mature' rating, meaning that Sony and Nintendo would let the game launch on their platforms.

Now, Senator Leland Yee, who tried to pass a bill banning the sale of violent games in 2005 (which was blocked as unconstitutional), is demanding the ratings board explain their re-appraisal of the title.

ESRB president Patricia Vance responded: "Publishers submit game content to the ESRB on a confidential basis. It is simply not our place to reveal specific details about the content we have reviewed, particularly when it involves a product not yet released.

Source: play.tm

Hungary welcomes US visa change

Hungary hails the new U.S. law, including the option of extending the Visa Waiver Programme to Hungarians, as a major step forward, Hungarian Foreign Affairs Spokesman Gyorgy Odze told MTI. Odze commented the bill U.S. President George W Bush signed into law, which, according to the White House release, allows greater flexibility to bring some of the U.S.'s closest allies into the programme.

Hungarian diplomacy has been lobbying the U.S. administration and legislation consistently and for long to promote lifting the visa requirement to bring Hungary to equal platform with other close allies of the United States in combating terrorism, the spokesman said. Regarding a timeline the spokesman said it was yet hard to say exactly how soon would Hungarians be able to travel without a visa to the United States but expressed hope for the legislation procedures to be completed within one-and-a-half or two years.

Source: budapest.cafebabel.com

Even with the change, Hungary, Poland and Romania have been left out in the cold. All three are EU states, NATO members and strong backers of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. All three have sent troops to Afghanistan or been part of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

"For us as a country, it is difficult because we are among the closest (U.S.) allies," says Wojciech Pisarski, press officer at Poland's Embassy in London. "We, as a new EU member, should have equal rights."

U.S. consulate officers are trained to look out for foreign visitors who might overstay their 90-day visas and live illegally in the USA.

Source: usatoday.com

Hungary may be the first country to be added to the visa exemption program, but Hungarian citizens are unlikely to be allowed to enter the US without visas by the beginning of 2008. Tamás Magyarics, analyst with the Hungarian Foreign Institute, has announced that no breakthrough in the case of visa exemption is expected in the next eighteen months due to congressional and presidential elections.

Source: caboodle.hu

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Peter Jr. is having a bath

Acer buys Gateway to gain third place in PC sales league

The Taiwanese firm Acer is to become the world's third biggest computer company by paying $710m (£352m) for California-based Gateway, creating a combined force selling 20m machines annually.

The deal, announced yesterday, will push Acer ahead of China's Lenovo to put it behind only Hewlett-Packard and Dell among hardware manufacturers. Acer makes computers under a variety of brands. Its purchase of Gateway gives it the right to take control of Packard Bell in France.

Source: business.guardian.co.uk

Acer is ``wasting its cash bullets'' in an ``overly priced'' takeover of Gateway, Daniel Chang, an analyst at Macquarie Securities wrote in a report today. ``Acer focuses too much on market share and ignores its profitability.''

Chang cut Acer's rating from ``outperform,'' and lowered the company's 12-month share-price estimate to NT$63.50 from NT$80.70.

Acer's second-quarter net income slipped to NT$1.98 billion ($60 million). Acer was expected to post profit of NT$1.95 billion, according to the mean estimate of eight analysts compiled by Bloomberg.

Source: bloomberg.com

Analysts are divided over what this hurdle could mean for corporate-focused Lenovo's strategy to tackle the U.S. and European consumer PC market.

Some view the loss of Packard Bell as a longer-term blow to Lenovo's global ambitions, which the PC maker has said hinges on being able to grab market share in a consumer market it has little knowledge of.

"Its share price is likely to take a hit in the near term," JP Morgan analyst Charles Guo said on Tuesday.

Source: investing.reuters.co.uk

Sony Adds Blu-ray to All-in-One PC

Sony Electronics on Monday debuted the Vaio LT HD PC/TV, its first all-in-one PC with support for its Blu-ray Disc technology.

The new PC will be available starting in October, either from etailers, Sony's Web site, or select military PBXs. Two models will be offered, the LT standard model will start at about $1,900, while the LT HD model with a BD-R optical drive will be priced at around $2,900.

Both models are centered around the 22-inch diagonal WSXGA+ widescreen display, with Sony's XBRITE-HiColor LCD technology. The LT model has a mounting capability that allows users to attach a VESA-compatible mount (sold separately) to the unit and hang it on the wall of a bedroom, kitchen, office or desk. Because of this, the PC also includes built-in 802.11n networking, freeing a wall-mounted unit from the need for Ethernet cables.

Source: pcmag.com

Deja Vu: Sony Using Rootkits Again, F-Secure Charges

A line of USB drives sold by Sony Electronics installs files in a hidden folder that can be accessed and used by hackers, a Finnish security company charged Monday, raising the specter of a replay of the fiasco that hit Sony's music arm two years ago when researchers discovered that its copy protection software used rootkit-like technologies.

According to F-Secure Corp., the fingerprint-reader software included with the Sony MicroVault USM-F line of flash drives installs a driver that hides in a hidden directory under "c:\windows". That directory, and the files within it, are not visible through Windows' usual APIs (application programming interface), said F-Secure researcher Mika Tolvanen in a posting to the company's blog Monday.

"[But] if you know the name of the directory, it is possible to enter the hidden directory using [the] Command Prompt and it is possible to create new hidden files," said Tolvanen. "There are also ways to run files from this directory."

All of this -- and the fact that the directory goes unspotted by some antivirus scanners -- is similar to the Sony BMG rootkit case in late 2005. Then, researchers spotted rootkit-like cloaking technologies used by the copy-protection software Sony BMG Music Entertainment installed on PCs when customers played the label's audio CDs. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged that Sony had violated federal law by, and settled with the company earlier this year. Before that, Sony paid out nearly US$6 million to settle cases with U.S. states.

Source: pcworld.com

Monday, August 27, 2007

Hungary far right forms "guard" amid Jewish protest

A small group of far-right Hungarians formed a uniformed "guard" unit on Saturday amid calls by Jewish and Roma groups for it be banned, saying the body sported Nazi-era symbols.

Cheered by 1,000 people in front of the presidential palace, 56 men in uniforms with red and white insignia, associated by some with the regime which sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths, swore to defend Hungary.

The group was formed shortly before the first anniversary on September 17 of violent anti-government protests that followed the leak of a tape in which Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted he had lied to win elections.

"The Hungarian Guard has been set up in order to carry out the real change of regime (from communism) and to rescue Hungarians," Gabor Vona, leader of the Jobbik party which set up the unit, told the rally.

Source: uk.reuters.com

"The Magyar Garda was formed to execute a true (political) transition and to save the Hungarian people," Jobbik president and Magyar Garda founder Gabor Vona told the crowd.

Jobbik, known for its anti-Semitic, anti-Roma and anti-gay rhetoric, is a fringe far-right political party which is not represented in parliament, but is present in several municipalities across the country.

The paramilitary group says its aim is to "defend Hungary physically, morally and spiritually." Their members, among other things, will be trained to use weapons.

Most recently, supporters of Jobbik disrupted a gay rights rally in the capital in July, throwing eggs and bottles and injuring several participants.

Source: abc.net.au

Yahoo Updates Mail

Because the new Yahoo Mail has been available to all of the service's users for almost a year in beta form, its enhancements aren't a secret, but Yahoo is announcing some new improvements.

For example, all users will see an improvement in performance and speed with this "general availability" version of the new Yahoo Mail, as well as an expansion of the search refinement features.

In addition, the capability to initiate an instant messaging session with Yahoo Messenger users from within Yahoo Mail has been extended to include Microsoft Windows Live Messenger users and will be available worldwide as well.

Meanwhile, users in the U.S., India, Canada, and the Philippines will get the capability to send text messages to mobile phones from within an e-mail message window, a feature Yahoo expects to extend elsewhere as it secures agreements with local mobile operators.

Source: pcworld.com

Sunday, August 26, 2007

SoundExchange, large music webcasters reach deal to cap royalty fees

SoundExchange Inc., the group set up by the Recording Industry Association of America to collect royalties for performers and record companies, said it has reached an agreement with the Digital Media Association whose members include large music webcasters, to cap royalty fees at $50,000 per webcaster per year.

The groups are still negotiating to set the rates for each play of a song, the two groups said.

The new rates were set by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) of the Library of Congress in early March and went into effect May 1, retroactive to the start of last year. The first payments under the new rates were due July 15.

The rate increase would at least triple the amount of royalties Internet radio broadcasters must pay to copyright holders per song, and it has been challenged by webcasters, Internet radio listeners and more than 6,000 artists over the past several months.

"This agreement marks an important first step in the Internet radio royalty negotiation process," said DiMA Executive Director Jonathan Potter, in a statement. "We're encouraged by this development and the knowledge that good faith negotiations have begun. We look forward to the next step of negotiating the royalty rates that will allow for the growth of the Internet radio industry, a platform for music discovery for consumers."

Source: computerworld.com

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Sony Develops A Bio Battery Powered By Sugar

Sony has developed a biologically-friendly battery that generates electricity from sugar in a similar way found in living organisms.

Battery test cells have generated up to 50 milli-watts, or enough electricity to power music playback on a memory-type Walkman. Sony said in a statement released in Japan Thursday that the output is the highest for a bio battery of this type.

The battery generates electricity through the use of enzymes that breakdown carbohydrates, which is essentially, sugar. Sony has increased battery output by efficiently immobilizing enzymes and the electronic conduction materials, while retaining enzyme activity at the anode, an electrode through which positive electric current flows into a polarized device.

Sony also developed a new structure for the cathode, which is an electrode through which positive current flows out of a polarized electrical device. The new structure efficiently supplies oxygen to the cathode while ensuring that appropriate water content is maintained to optimize enzyme activity and the flow of electricity.

Source: informationweek.com

Via Announces 1-Watt Processor for Mobile Devices

Via Technologies Inc. has developed a processor that consumes a maximum of 1 watt of power and is intended for use in mobile devices and embedded applications.

The latest Eden ULV chip was announced on Thursday at the Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei, where customers showed off systems based on the chip. Previously, the lowest power chip in the Eden lineup was the 1GHz Eden ULV, which consumes a maximum of 3.5 watts. The 500MHz version consumes 0.1 watt of power in idle mode.

Like other Via processors, the 500MHz Eden ULV processor is based on the same x86 instruction set found in CPUs from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and is capable of running Windows or Linux. But instead of desktop PCs or laptops, the new chip is intended for embedded applications, like point-of-sales systems, thin-client computers, set-top boxes, and security systems.

Source: pcworld.com

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT

t's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys.

The iPhoneSIMfree.com team called us up to prove their claim that they cracked Apple's iPhone SIM lock system, and prove it they did. (No, we don't have a copy of the unlock software, so don't even ask us, ok?) The six-man team has been working non-stop since launch day, and they're officially the first to break Apple's SIM locks on the iPhone with software. It's done. Seriously. They wouldn't tell us when and how they would release it to the public, but you can certainly bet that they'll try to make a buck on their solution (and rightly so). We can hardly believe the iPhone's finally been cracked. No, scratch that -- we just can't believe it took this long.

Again: we can confirm with 100% certainty that iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside of the US. Read on for details and links to our video, and check out the gallery of images below.

Source: engadget.com

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Microsoft Recalls Xbox Racing Wheel

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it was giving customers free retrofits to a wireless racing wheel with its Xbox 360 video game system after hearing of malfunctions in a wheel component.

The company said it was informed of about 50 incidents worldwide of a malfunction in the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel, in which a component in the wheel chassis may overheat and release smoke when the AC/DC power supply is used.

More than 230,000 of the wheels are in the field, a spokeswoman for Microsoft said.

There have been no reported incidences of fire, injury or damage resulting from the component failure, Microsoft said. adding that customers should stop using the AC/DC power supply for the wheel until they get their retrofits.

Source: pcmag.com

Seagate to Offer Solid-State Drives

Seagate Technology LLC reportedly plans to add solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products.

"We have solid-state drives on every road map that we have," Bill Watkins, the company's CEO, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.

SSDs, as solid-state drives are also known, use flash memory instead of magnetic disks to store information. Flash is a type of non-volatile memory, which means the chips retain stored information when power is off. Other memory types, such as DRAM, lose data when the power goes off.

Source: pcworld.com

The 300-Page iPhone Bill to Disappear

Following the "popularity" of 300 page iPhone Bill, AT&T making changes...

AT&T notified users yesterday via text message of the change. IPhone users received the following text: "We are simplying your paper bill, removing itemized detail. To view all detail, go to att.com/mywireless. Still need full paper bill? Call 611."

This change is actually not as dramatic as it might first appear. "What we've had until yesterday was the detailed bill as the default option," explains AT&T Wireless spokesman Mark Siegel. The detailed bill was the one made infamous for its heft in a YouTube video.

"If you said nothing, you get a detailed bill--with every phone call you've made, and all of your data activity," he said. " We've always also had a summary bill as an option; this tells you what you owe this month, and very little else. It has none of the detail about your calling or your data activity. The third alternative we've always offered is a pure online bill." With any of those options, you could go online to view your usage details as well.

Source: pcworld.com

Games Convention award noms named

With no real suprises they anounced the list of the nominees in all popular gaming platforms.

Representatives from this week's Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, have announced their "Best of GC" nominees today. To be eligible for nomination, entries must be in a playable state and present at the convention. Category winners will be announced August 24.

Eschewing any genre-based honors, the Games Convention jury simply broke down its categories by best overall experience on each individual platform. The platform awards were further augmented by online gaming and hardware nominees. In all, more than 25 different games were nominated in the 11 different categories.

Source: gamespot.com

PS3 DVR, PSP messenger services announced - News at GameSpot

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2006, Sony executives announced that the company's Connect service would bring music and video downloads to the Playstation Portable in two months. That didn't happen. March 2006 came and went with no sign of Sony's would-be iTunes launching to its multimedia-enabled gaming handheld.

Then, earlier this month, an Australian executive hinted that Sony was readying a digital television service for the PlayStation 3. Speaking with a New Zealand-based newspaper, he outlined a TiVo-like service which would allow the game console to be used as both a TV tuner and personal video recorder (PVR).

Today at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, Sony officially announced its multimedia plan for both the PSP and PS3. Collectively called PlayTV, the service will indeed imbue Sony's console with PVR and TV tuner functions, allowing users to record and store live television shows on the PS3's hard drive. The high-definition TV tuner will be two-tiered, allowing users to watch one show while recording another in resolution up to 1080p. Programs can then be transferred onto the PSP for viewing on the go, or viewed remotely via the PS3-to-PSP streaming functionality. PlayTV will also have a seven-day electronic program guide that can be navigated via the Sixaxis game controller.

Source: gamespot.com

Already, Apple Sells Refurbished iPhones

Consumers looking for a deal on an iPhone may be able to knock $100 off the price of the smartphone by buying from an unexpected discount source: Apple Inc.

On Monday, the company began making refurbished iPhones available at its online store for $399 for the 4-gigabyte model, which sells for $499 at full retail, and $499 for the 8-gigabyte model, which retails for $599. Such an offer is a standard Apple practice; the site already offers discounts on most Apple products, which come with a one-year warranty.

On Tuesday evening, the company declined to comment on the decision to make used phones available at a discount. Analysts have been speculating widely, however, on what Apple might say about the rate of sales and the number of phones sold.

Source: nytimes.com

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Toshiba to offer 320GB laptop drive from Q4

Toshiba Corp. will start producing a 320GB hard disk drive for laptops before the end of this year, the company said Tuesday.

It is the first 2.5-in. drive to be announced at that capacity, with production to begin in the fourth quarter, according to Toshiba. Pricing was not announced.

The drive is one of a series of five that make up Toshiba's new MKxx52SX family of hard disk drives. The 320GB model will contain two platters -- the circular disks on which data is recorded. Other drives in the range will offer between 80GB and 250GB of storage space. They will connect via a 3Gbit/sec. Serial ATA interface.

The amount of data that can be stored on a hard disk drive is constantly expanding as drive makers fine-tune technology, and the needs of laptop users are growing in tandem with the expansion in drive space. While corporate users might not require such a capacious drive, users of multimedia laptops will almost certainly welcome the extra space to store video.

Source: computerworld.com

Phony Job Ad Nets More Stolen Identities

Last week, a security company reported that it found about 100,000 stolen identities hidden away in a dozen caches spread across the globe. Now it seems that number may be a fraction of the amount that hackers have stolen and socked away.

Researchers at Symantec have found another major database of information. This one contains 1.6 million pieces of facts such as names, addresses, mobile phone numbers, and name of employers. The number correlates to data pieces, not 1.6 million victims, said Dave Cole, director of Symantec's Security Response team.

It's still unclear how many stolen identities -- how many victims of identity theft -- the information in that cache represents, added Cole.

Source: informationweek.com

Adobe Releases Flash Player Upgrade

Adobe Systems Inc.'s upgrade for its Flash Player, released on Tuesday, adds support for one of the latest video encoding standards as well as new audio support.

The upgrade, called Moviestar, applies to Adobe's latest Flash Player, version 9. A beta of the upgrade will be available for download later in the day, with a final version to be ready in the third quarter, Adobe said.

Moviestar supports the playback of video encoded using the H.264 standard, which allows for greater compression of video files than previous standards while maintaining quality. Adobe already supports H.264 encoding in products such as Premiere Pro and the After Effects video editing software. Moviestar also includes High-Efficiency AAC support, an improved audio compression technology.

Source: pcworld.com

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Wii hits 1m UK sales in record time

Anti-piracy failure puts Windows users at a disadvantage

EarthLink's Wi-Fi dreams may be fading

Apple May Reveal iPods With More Features

Apple May Reveal iPods With More Features

Spitzer Talks of Suing to Expand Health Plan

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Luke's lightsaber to take flight

Rating video games globally

Hungary welcomes US visa change

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Peter Jr. is having a bath

Acer buys Gateway to gain third place in PC sales league

Sony Adds Blu-ray to All-in-One PC

Deja Vu: Sony Using Rootkits Again, F-Secure Charges

Monday, August 27, 2007

Hungary far right forms "guard" amid Jewish protest

Yahoo Updates Mail

Sunday, August 26, 2007

SoundExchange, large music webcasters reach deal to cap royalty fees

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Sony Develops A Bio Battery Powered By Sugar

Via Announces 1-Watt Processor for Mobile Devices

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Microsoft Recalls Xbox Racing Wheel

Seagate to Offer Solid-State Drives

The 300-Page iPhone Bill to Disappear

Games Convention award noms named

PS3 DVR, PSP messenger services announced - News at GameSpot

Already, Apple Sells Refurbished iPhones

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Toshiba to offer 320GB laptop drive from Q4

Phony Job Ad Nets More Stolen Identities

Adobe Releases Flash Player Upgrade

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