By Eric Bangeman April 20, 2009
DVD players didn't overtake VCRs and spread throughout US living rooms until they hit the magic $99 price point. It has been argued that Blu-ray doesn't have a chance of going mainstream until they, too, drop below $100. Indications are that this may happen at some point this year—maybe in time for the annual holiday shopping frenzy. A story on Blu-ray.com indicates that Chinese manufacturers may be preparing to enter the market en masse. Faced with a desire to make inroads in the world's largest consumer market and to face down any possible threat from the local competitor, CBHD, the Blu-ray Disc Association is trying to ramp up production in that country.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Adobe turns on to Flash TVs
Skinning up another consumer end-point
By Chris Mellor, 20th April 2009
It's the user interface stupid! Adobe is working to bring its Flash web animation and video viewer to the living room via a new run-time system for HD TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other connected living room devices. This is all part of bringing Internet content into the TV viewing experience. The Adobe strategy is an embodiment of the view that for TV viewers the remote control is at the limit of user interface complexity, and the very last thing they want is to have the PC experience right there on the TV screen. That would mean having a keyboard on your lap and becoming au fait with either the Windows (are you serious?), the Mac OSX (better) or the Linux (yikes!) user interfaces. From the TV viewers' point of view the 'G' in the PC GUI stands for ghastly. What Adobe is doing is to enable Internet-connected TV peripherals, or some HD TVs themselves, to receive web animation and video content and then play it on the TV through a simple pick-box-and-remote-control-click interface.
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By Chris Mellor, 20th April 2009
It's the user interface stupid! Adobe is working to bring its Flash web animation and video viewer to the living room via a new run-time system for HD TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other connected living room devices. This is all part of bringing Internet content into the TV viewing experience. The Adobe strategy is an embodiment of the view that for TV viewers the remote control is at the limit of user interface complexity, and the very last thing they want is to have the PC experience right there on the TV screen. That would mean having a keyboard on your lap and becoming au fait with either the Windows (are you serious?), the Mac OSX (better) or the Linux (yikes!) user interfaces. From the TV viewers' point of view the 'G' in the PC GUI stands for ghastly. What Adobe is doing is to enable Internet-connected TV peripherals, or some HD TVs themselves, to receive web animation and video content and then play it on the TV through a simple pick-box-and-remote-control-click interface.
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Intel's spin machine is getting desperate
You cannot be Cyrus
By Sylvie Barak Monday, 20 April 2009
IT SEEMS DESPERATE Intel will stop at nothing to grab some spotlight and try to make its new Nehalem chips sound sexy, even if that means invoking hapless celebrities who likely wouldn't know one if it jumped up and bit them on the backside. "Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Susan Boyle would recommend the Xeon 5500 servers for Economic Stimulus" proclaims the headline of a shameless search engine courting Intel Blog. Looking to score some SEO brownie points in the most tasteless, name-dropping fashion, Intel's Shannon Poulin goes on to say: "While I don't have direct quotes of support from Brit, Miley, Susan or any country presidents who have signed economic stimulus into law I am pretty confident that if they were ever actually considering purchasing a server or workstation they would come to the conclusion that the new Xeon 5500 platforms would be their best choice." Yeah...right...
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By Sylvie Barak Monday, 20 April 2009
IT SEEMS DESPERATE Intel will stop at nothing to grab some spotlight and try to make its new Nehalem chips sound sexy, even if that means invoking hapless celebrities who likely wouldn't know one if it jumped up and bit them on the backside. "Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Susan Boyle would recommend the Xeon 5500 servers for Economic Stimulus" proclaims the headline of a shameless search engine courting Intel Blog. Looking to score some SEO brownie points in the most tasteless, name-dropping fashion, Intel's Shannon Poulin goes on to say: "While I don't have direct quotes of support from Brit, Miley, Susan or any country presidents who have signed economic stimulus into law I am pretty confident that if they were ever actually considering purchasing a server or workstation they would come to the conclusion that the new Xeon 5500 platforms would be their best choice." Yeah...right...
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Symantec spots first Mac botnet
by Thomas De Maesschalck April 20 2009
Symantec security researchers have detected the first Mac botnet. Trojans in pirated versions of applications like the iWork 09 suite and Adobe PhotoShop CS4 are to blame for this one. After the torrent-ed copy of iWork 09 is installed, two new services OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B also get installed as start up item and gain root level privileges. These two services use different method to obtain a Mac user's password and then take control of the machine.
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Symantec security researchers have detected the first Mac botnet. Trojans in pirated versions of applications like the iWork 09 suite and Adobe PhotoShop CS4 are to blame for this one. After the torrent-ed copy of iWork 09 is installed, two new services OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B also get installed as start up item and gain root level privileges. These two services use different method to obtain a Mac user's password and then take control of the machine.
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Microsoft: All netbooks will run any Windows 7
By Scott M. Fulton, III April 20, 2009
There will very likely be some netbooks shipped in the US and other developed markets this year that will feature the Windows 7 Starter Edition SKU announced in February. But this version will have some limitations to it that go beyond the inability to display the Aero front-end using Windows Presentation Foundation -- the direct implication of a statement made by a Microsoft spokesperson to Betanews this afternoon. But that will not mean that premium editions of Win7 will not be able to run on netbooks, the spokesperson continued, but rather that OEMs may end up choosing to pre-install this limited edition on netbooks for sale.
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There will very likely be some netbooks shipped in the US and other developed markets this year that will feature the Windows 7 Starter Edition SKU announced in February. But this version will have some limitations to it that go beyond the inability to display the Aero front-end using Windows Presentation Foundation -- the direct implication of a statement made by a Microsoft spokesperson to Betanews this afternoon. But that will not mean that premium editions of Win7 will not be able to run on netbooks, the spokesperson continued, but rather that OEMs may end up choosing to pre-install this limited edition on netbooks for sale.
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