Phoenix firmware with hypervisor to premiere Monday in NEC laptops
BetaNews has learned that, on Monday, NEC will roll out plans to include remotely manageable anti-virus technology in PC notebooks, running outside of the Windows OS in Linux-based HyperSpace firmware from Phoenix Technologies.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - Shauli Chaudhuri, vice president of marketing at Phoenix Technologies, told BetaNews this week that NEC will be among the first PC manufacturers to use its HyperSpace technology.
Activision adds Line6 amp modeling to Guitar Hero: World Tour
The next in Activision's popular line of rhythm-based music simulation games is scheduled for release in Fall 2008, and is single-handedly changing the style of the game with the addition of many new features.
World Tour will follow in the footsteps of Rock Band, offering a drum kit and vocal microphone in addition to the expected guitar controllers, which have reportedly also been upgraded. An eight-player "Battle of the Bands" mode, extended character customization, and online career mode, as well as "the largest on-disc set list in a music-rhythm game to date," have been added. A complete set list, however, has not yet been released.
Livescribe's audio pen computer on its way from Windows to Mac
Livescribe's microprocessor-embedded, audio-enabled digital Pulse Smartpen -- an upcoming gadget that made its first bow at Demo earlier this year -- is now expanding its reach, with an Apple SDK already in the works.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - The fancy new pen uses the same dot-laden paper as the Fly pentop computer produced by LeapFrog, a company where Livescribe founder Jim Marggraff used to be a top exec. The higher-end Pulse Smartpen also comes with two microphones, along with an application called Paper Replay which records what it hears while you're writing on the school-ruled digitized notebook paper.
First Look: MobileMe promising, but limps out of the gate
In my three plus years of covering Apple, its MobileMe product is probably the most exciting concept, in my opinion.
I've often longed for a viable "push" solution that wouldn't break the bank, and would operate much like Exchange does. In concept, MobileMe does everything I need it to do, pushing information from my PC and Mac to my phone and vice versa.
Several security fixes included in AppleTV update
While the upgrade to the company's set-top box was advertised as adding support for remote control of iTunes and MobileMe, it also fixed some potentially serious flaws.
All six of the issues addressed with this last batch of patches deal with the potential for arbitrary code execution, with all but one also possibly leading to crashes of the device. Three of the flaws can be exploited through movie files, two through QuickTime, and the last through PICT images.
West Coast lines grow longer as iPhone 3G buyers are told to wait
Just a few blocks away from the Moscone Center, where Steve Jobs and company host Macworld and WWDC every year, the enthusiasm for Apple's latest product launch was apparent.
SAN FRANCISCO (BetaNews) - Purchasing products in the Apple Store here typically can be an interesting experience, as it's quite common to exit a Jobs keynote and head to the store just a few blocks away, with Apple employees still unaware of what was announced.
High-res Web and wireless home surveillance due this fall
Surveillance specialist Lorex now plans to release two new wireless camera systems for home security, BetaNews has learned, including a night vision-enabled system coming this fall that can stream over the Internet.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - Lorex' LW20022 wireless video security system -- list priced at $249 -- is expected to ship in two weeks. And also at this week's Digital Life press preview, Lorex demo'd an Internet-enabled, high-resolution Easy Connect Network camera.
iTunes, activation outages are rendering new and old iPhones inoperable
BetaNews correspondents in Maryland and Michigan are seeing first-hand problems as a result of significant system outages affecting both AT&T and iTunes. Many buyers still can't activate their phones hours later.
2:30 pm EDT July 11, 2008 - Six and a half hours after the launch of the iPhone 3G, Apple and AT&T continue to struggle with activation problems, leaving many without any sort of working phone. Although they may be able to get their new AT&T service active, iPhone 3G buyers must still activate the device via iTunes, and Apple's servers can't seem to handle the load.
CheckPoint issues fix for ZoneAlarm problem after DNS patch
BetaNews has confirmed through testing that CheckPoint's latest build of ZoneAlarm, issued yesterday in response to a problem arising from a Microsoft patch to a major DNS security problem, fixes a major problem with Internet access.
When Microsoft issued a major fix on Tuesday, to the way it handles the Domain Name System, that fix was necessary in order to avert a possible severe exploit of the entire Internet. Microsoft was cooperating in a joint effort, which also involved Linux distributions, to upgrade the world's DNS servers.
Sony gets more in-game advertising support
Sony Computer Entertainment America and Europe have announced another partnership in the PlayStation's growing advertising platform.
In October, Sony Computer Entertainment America announced it had formed a division strictly for developing in-game advertisements for all of the PlayStation platforms, including the PlayStation Network.
FCC to push for Comcast sanctions over throttling
Chairman Kevin Martin says that the cable provider has run afoul of regulations that guarantee open access to the Internet, and should be punished.
Martin used a September 2005 policy statement from the Federal Communications Commission as the basis for his position, which was intended to ensure that broadband networks were open and affordable. It did however allow for "reasonable network management."
Apple runs into troubles with MobileMe
After briefly going online this morning, Apple's replacement for .Mac has gone down yet again, with tests showing just about the entire service as unresponsive.
Visitors to the MobileMe site are being redirected to a maintenance page that says the service is "unavailable." Apple says that the transition is taking longer than expected.
Now you can find your cell phone...when it screams, 'I'm lost!'
The next time you lose your cell phone, you might hear it scream something like "I'm stolen!" or "I'm lost - take me home," through new location-based technology now under development by a company called Yougetitback.com.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - From its Web site, the start-up already offers software dubbed Cellphone Superhero, aimed at letting users lock misplaced cell phones remotely, in addition to storing photos, e-mails, and contact information of friends and co-workers securely in a private online vault.
New York Attorney General's child porn crusade expands
After an investigation of newsgroups that uncovered large amounts of underage pornography, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo began a large-scale expulsion of the material at the ISP level. Now there's an official Web site for the effort.
Last month, a statement from the Attorney General's office announced that agreements with Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint had been made to "purge their servers" of sites and Usenet groups that were found to contain child pornography.
Tales from the iPhone 3G launch lines
It seems that even though excitement is high for the 3G iPhone in the suburbs, for fans of the device, waiting in line is just a natural part of the whole experience.
In many instances, lines of folks awaiting the next big consumer electronics purchase have an air of panic about them. Customers often have a notion that the product they're waiting for could potentially be unavailable if they do not stake an early claim.
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