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Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod

Oct 9th, 2008 · Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'Woz', believes that the iPod is on its way out and has revealed his discomfort with some aspects of the iPhone. Wozniak said that the iPod has had a long time as the world's most popular …
see also: Google · service · provider · world · products · Apple · consumer

Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project

Oct 5th, 2008 · Steve Fossett left behind a secret vessel project called the Deep Space Challenger. Fossett was funding the development of a winged submersible being designed by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, in California. The intent was for the vehicle to be capable of …
see also: vehicle · Steve · death · exploration · secrets · Steve Fossett · ocean

Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?

Oct 5th, 2008 · There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most …
see also: Linux · protection · service · distro · world · distribution · organization

Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project

Oct 5th, 2008 · Steve Fossett left behind a secret vessel project called the Deep Space Challenger. Fossett was funding the development of a winged submersible being designed by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, in California. The intent was for the vehicle to be capable of …
see also: vehicle · Steve · death · exploration · secrets · Steve Fossett · ocean

Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?

Oct 4th, 2008 · There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most …
see also: Linux · protection · service · distro · world · distribution · organization

Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS'

Sep 20th, 2008 · Neil McAllister cuts through VMware's marketing hype to examine the potential impact of VMware's newly pronounced 'virtual datacenter OS' — which the company has touted as the death knell for the traditional OS. Literally an operating system for …
see also: servers · service · company · infrastructure · app · death · OS

Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End

Sep 16th, 2008 · A month ago we talked about the impending death of streaming music site Pandora thanks to a very backwards fight over royalties. PopMech follows up with an article that, besides noting how insane it is that Pandora has to pay record labels for the bad …
see also: Music · Internet · industry · copyrighted · death · attorneys · lawyer

Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney

Sep 16th, 2008 · cecom writes to share that Tim Sweeney, co-founder of Epic Games and the main brain behind the Unreal engine, recently sat down at NVIDIA's NVISION con to share his thoughts on the rise and (what he says is) the impending fall of the GPU: "...a fall that …
see also: Hardware · Microsoft · engineering · interview · founder · Texting · death

Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney

Sep 15th, 2008 · cecom writes to share that Tim Sweeney, co-founder of Epic Games and the main brain behind the Unreal engine, recently sat down at NVIDIA's NVISION con to share his thoughts on the rise and (what he says is) the impending fall of the GPU: "...a fall that …
see also: Hardware · Microsoft · engineering · interview · founder · Texting · death

Sun Bare Metal Hypervisors Now GPLv3

Sep 12th, 2008 · ruphus13 writes with some more news for people foretelling the death of VMware. Sun has open sourced their xVM server, their bare-metal hypervisor virtualization solution. What used to once be the cash cow for VMware is now coming under increased threat, …
see also: servers · solution · service · Commercial · download · company · community

ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista

Sep 12th, 2008 · Apple 's latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple's support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the 'blue screen of death.' The errors began showing up …
see also: PC · ITunes · Apple · IPod · errors · app · death

ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista

Sep 11th, 2008 · Apple 's latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple's support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the 'blue screen of death.' The errors began showing up …
see also: PC · ITunes · Apple · IPod · errors · app · death

Why Starting a Legal Online Music Vendor Is Tough

Sep 10th, 2008 · Former MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson offers commentary at The Register saying any attempts to build a sanctioned digital music site today is doomed from the outset. 'The internet companies I talk to don't mind giving some direct benefit to music companies. …
see also: Online · Music · sanctions · laws · Internet · digital · company

LHC Flips On Tomorrow

Sep 9th, 2008 · The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds most expensive science experiment, is set to be turned on tomorrow. We've discussed this multiple times already. A small group of people believe our world will be sucked into extinction (some have even sent death …
see also: world · Science · expense · energy · death · Large Hadron Collider · LHC

A History of the Xbox Red Ring of Death Fiasco

Sep 5th, 2008 · VentureBeat has a lengthy story about the situation surrounding the Xbox 360's "Red Ring of Death." It starts with the developmental phases for the 360, looks at the marketing decisions that drove Microsoft to aim for a release ahead of the PS3, and talks …
see also: Microsoft · products · engineering · history · consumer · electronics · 2005

Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police

Sep 1st, 2008 · J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had …
see also: governance · office · media · President · Russia · death · Muslims

Chronicling the Failures of DRM

Aug 29th, 2008 · Barence takes us to PCPro for a look at the failures of DRM and a discussion of its impending death. Quoting: "Luckily, DRM is dying, at least in the download sphere. Napster's Dan Nash believes that DRM-free is 'the general way things are going.' In …
see also: DRM · service · download · consumer · mp3 · industry · Companies

Zero Day Threat

Aug 27th, 2008 · Zero Day Threat: the Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity is an interesting and eye-opening look at how banks and credit card companies make ID theft and fraud rather elementary. But with all that, …
see also: fraud · Internet · player · IDs · Companies · identity · theft

Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case

Aug 1st, 2008 · penguin_dance passes along the news that a respected anthrax researcher, about to be indicted, has committed suicide. The FBI has been investigating the case since anthrax-contaminated letters where sent to the media and various politicians in 2001. The …
see also: payments · scientists · research · settlement · 2001 · media · prosecute

"Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies

Jul 25th, 2008 · Many reader are sending in word that Randy Pausch has died at 47. The charismatic young college professor celebrated life despite a death sentence from pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely known as the "Last Lecture." The video went viral and …
see also: video · download · speech · death · College · professor · life







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