Tomorrow, a new top-level domain just for .ME
Those interested in getting a .ME domain name -- perhaps one named just for themselves -- can do so after ICANN, the organization responsible for overseeing Internet domains, opens up .ME domain registration tomorrow.
The "Sunrise" period of registration for .ME domains began in May, where trademark owners were permitted to register their own names early. The "Landrush" period began in June, in which any interested party can submit a domain application without restrictions.
Details emerge on Psystar suit, Apple wants recall
Apple is not only suing Psystar to stop them from selling Mac clones, but is asking the courts to order that the Florida-based company recall all of the systems sold to customers.
The 16-page complaint argues that Psystar's actions were meant to damage Apple, as well as confuse the public. In addition, the continued sales of Open Computers would financially hurt the company.
Symantec opens Norton 2009 products in public beta
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This week, Symantec opened the public betas of both Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton Antivirus 2009, products which the company claims run faster and consume fewer resources.
Rumored Google target Blinkx teams with Microsoft, others
Video search provider Blinkx sharpened its defense and offense against a possible buyout from Google or Yahoo today, announcing new pacts with several major online partners, one of which happens to be owned by Microsoft.
The new deals between Blinkx and MSN UK, Russian Internet portal Rambler, and Elo Company center around Blinx's newly rolled out Red Label, a program designed to give partners customizable access to Blinkx's video search engine and the up to 26 million hours of video content in the Blinkx index.
Intel's gains may have reached a plateau in fiscal Q2
The shift from desktop to mobile PCs is accelerating, Intel's executives warned yesterday, at a rate which has even taken them by surprise. That helped keep earnings on a nice incline, but it may mean the company's 'tick-tock' now has to speed up.
The recovery period for Intel is now well behind it, as CEO Paul Otellini's rebuilding of the company has been -- perhaps even by the measure of those Intel had to lay off -- an astonishing success. So the news from Intel yesterday on its fiscal second quarter results continued to be good, although now rather than comparing itself against a company in a financial and technological quandary, its baseline has become a resurgent company making stellar gains last year.
Atom-based Acer Aspire One makes its American debut
Acer today officially launched US sales for the Aspire One, its stylish, ultra-lightweight notebook with Intel's newest Atom processor built-in, and whose hard drive...is optional.
The US market will see three Aspire One models available, with base prices ranging from $379 to $449. The ultraportables are available in white or blue, with brown and black expected to be available for the holidays.
One million iPhone 3Gs sold? Not yet, says analyst
Apple confidently claimed this week it had already sold one million 3G iPhones. But if that's true, the buyer was AT&T, according to one analyst who predicts it will take another two weeks for end customers to have bought that many.
Apple's been criticized in the past for using sales to channel partners such as AT&T in sales reports. But in light of the activation disasters surrounding the 3G device, maybe it will take longer than usual for Apple's numbers to mesh with reality.
PlayStation Network video store opens
PlayStation 3 users are now able to rent or purchase movie and television content from the PlayStation Store, delivered both in standard and high definition.
Through partnerships with MGM, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Turner Entertainment, PS3 users have access to over 300 movies and 1,200 television episodes.
Toshiba launches giant high-def billboard in Times Square
In a picture window ceremony at the heart of New York City, Toshiba yesterday unveiled its biggest and most resplendent HD display upgrade to date: How about a 73-foot-diagonal, LED-based display hanging over Times Square?
The Toshiba HD LED sign in Times Square is juxtaposed against a close-up shot, to the right, of the same display from Toshiba's HD camera. [Photo credit: Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews. Click on the photo to see it up-close.]
NEW YORK (BetaNews) -- Behind picture windows in Manhattan's Times Square last night, Toshiba launched a roughly 2,700-square-foot, 1.6 million pixel high definition billboard -- about twice as big as the Toshiba light emitting diode (LED) signage which wowed CES crowds this year -- while also kicking off sales of its massive LEDs in the US market.
ISuppli: Apple only spends $174 to build each iPhone 3G
Apple was able to cut its costs by 23 percent over the first generation iPhone, and also increase its profit margins at the same time while lowering the price for consumers, according to finalized numbers released yesterday by iSuppli.
With an estimated bill of materials of $174 per unit -- taking into account a $50 charge for IP royalties -- Apple's profit margins for its iPhone 3G, according to iSuppli estimates, are in the neighborhood of 55 percent -- far higher than other manufacturers, which typically swallow much of their profits in order to ship more phones.
TiVo begins its 'summer update' rollout
TiVo HD and Series 3 DVR owners are being treated to a slightly ahead-of-schedule software release. The manufacturer expects its rollout of firmware v9.4 to be complete by the end of the month.
Some new features have been added to improve the user experience. The option to "Play Folder" allows saved episodes of a season to be viewed in succession, and the "Delete Folder" option -- logically enough -- deletes the contents of an entire folder.
Apple comes clean on MobileMe problems, marketing
In an e-mail to customers, Apple admitted it had problems with its MobileMe launch last week, and is prepared to compensate them for lost time. Marketing of the service is also set to change.
"We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped," Apple said in an e-mail to customers.
First Firefox 3 patch fixes a security hole linked to Safari
12:35 pm EDT July 16, 2008 - BetaNews has confirmed users' reports of Firefox 3.0.1 download attempts being met with "550 Permission Denied" errors, off and on throughout the day today. We've already downloaded and installed v3.0.1 ourselves previously, and thus far have noted no trouble with it.
In another sign that the good guys are not only becoming more clever but are cooperating more closely with vendors, a potentially serious problem with the newest Firefox was fixed before anyone could sound the alarms of impending doom.
EU parliament to debate copyright term extension this week
To high-ranking European Commissioners, it's a matter of whether a major European industry should be given the same tools for success the US currently has. For academia, it's a debate over whether copyright benefits or hurts artists.
Almost a decade ago, the US Congress passed a copyright term extension act named for the late, popular congressman, and one-time musical superstar, Sonny Bono. It extended the term of copyright in this country to 70 years beyond the life of the author, or 95 years for anonymous works -- essentially, pieces of art copyrighted by a rights management firm or agency rather than a person.
Toshiba launches the first Cell processor-based laptop
Toshiba's new Qosmio G55-Q802 is the first laptop available with the Cell CPU, a technology heretofore known as the PS3 processing technology among consumers, developed jointly by Toshiba, Sony, and IBM.
It's not a PC based on a Cell platform, at least not completely. The Q802 has a Core 2 Duo on board, and is a Windows Vista-based system. The result of this Cell processor architecture, which Toshiba calls its Quad Core HD Processor, is a notebook not designed for gaming, but rather to be a multimedia entertainment unit.
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