Dell asserts its commitment to AMD despite reduced options
Though there may be fewer consumer notebook and desktop computers with AMD processor options available online through Dell Direct today than there were last week, an AMD spokesperson told BetaNews that Dell is not backing away.
Directly refuting a Wall Street Journal story this afternoon which featured his own quotes, AMD corporate spokesperson John Taylor told BetaNews that it is his understanding that Dell Computer is not backing away from selling AMD-based computers on its Dell Direct Web site. That said, there are indeed fewer AMD options available to consumers than just a few days ago.
Apple issues security updates to QuickTime, iPhoto
Apple quietly pushed out a new 7.4.1 QuickTime update to stop attacks through maliciously crafted Web sites.
Apple released the patch because malicious users had the ability to entice "a user to visit a maliciously crafted Web page, [where] an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution."
Canary Wireless announces new hotspot detectors
Canary wireless has announced the HS-20, its second generation of Wi-Fi detectors.
Devices in the same family are quite commonplace, ranging from items such as the Vunex Wi-Fi Walker which is both a USB adaptor and hotspot finder, to the
HTC's Shift UMPC set to finally go on sale
Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC will apparently start selling its Ultra-Mobile PC within a few weeks in Britain, and has apparently also signed a distribution deal with Orange.
HTC first announced the Shift back in March 2007, and had originally targeted a November launch. However, for unknown reasons, the device's debut was delayed until now. The UMPC device will first appear at online retailer Expansys for £885 ($1,720 USD) on February 19.
ARM to demo prototype Google Android phone
The British chipmaker will show off the early version of a phone based on Google's new Android mobile operating system at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday.
Although neither Google nor ARM are commenting on the report, sources say the annual gathering will be a coming out party of sorts for the Mountain View, Calif. search company's mobile effort.
Mistake leaks specs of upcoming Nokia N96 phone
An apparent oversight on the company's German Web site has disclosed the specifications for the company's upcoming slider phone.
Pictures of the phone first leaked two months ago, but at the time, the list of features was not known. If the leaked information is to be believed, the N96 will satisfy the needs of a lot of loyal Nokia users.
Spanish Facebook begins next week
It will not be called "Libro de caras," but on Monday, Spanish will be the default Language for anyone connecting to Facebook from a Spanish-speaking nation.
The task of translating the approximately 40,000 English sentences in the Facebook servers was handled by 1,500 volunteers using the Translations facebook application. In under 4 weeks, enough translation was done for a complete rollout.
From Seoul comes Soul, Samsung's new handset
Samsung unveiled its newest flagship handset and member of its "Ultra Edition" family, a line which seeks to provide the slimmest phones in attractive designs: The Soul.
The standout feature of this slider is the "Magical Touch" panel, produced by DaCP. A small panel beneath the 2.2" QVGA screen changes and adapts its functions in response to which application is running. For example, while running the MP3 player, it can act as the media control interface, or while using SMS functions, it can manipulate text.
Could the economic stimulus plan delay patent reform?
After warning as late as yesterday afternoon about the possible disruptive side effects that Congress' economic stimulus program might have on future legislation, a powerful trade organization is suddenly applauding its passage today.
Last night, the US Senate passed the Economic Stimulus Package of 2008, after a few moments of heated debate over cloture (the rules of debate) that threatened to kill the bill, and that even led cable news to report at one point the bill was already dead. Among its provisions is one measure that extends the cap on business deductions on assets from $150,000 to $250,000.
Yahoo launches live cam site, but can't handle traffic
Yahoo Live, the search company's new live cam site, underwent what you might call an "experimental" launch last night. If the Greeks ever considered a letter that could come before "alpha," this might have been the time to use it.
While similar to the host of webcam sites that already exist, such as Ustream, blogTV, mogulus, Stickam, and justin.tv, it can be said that few have garnered as much attention as Yahoo Live has in such a short time with so little pre-launch hype.
Hackers manage to unlock newest iPhones
February 8, 2007 4:00pm Further tests and research by BetaNews have indicated that users performing the unlock should not upgrade to 1.1.3 from within iTunes. Instead, the 1.1.3 upgrade package from the iPhone Dev Team should be used, say developers.
The unlock survives this upgrade process according to our tests: the upgrade can be done through a variety of methods outside of the iTunes interface. Although it has not been tested by BetaNews, phones that ship with 1.1.3 installed are apparently also able to use this method directly according to web reports.
IBM explains its 'information on demand' strategy with Cognos
Last November's buyout by IBM of SOA software provider Cognos is already having a major impact on businesses that use vertical market software. That impact is being felt in the way these businesses warehouse and access their data.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - What do some police departments, retail chains, big banks, and hospitals have in common in the software department, that doesn't have to do with Microsoft or standards or open source? It's that they're using service-oriented software to help them warehouse their data, using some methods that were originally created for publishing houses to manage articles.
Bevy of critical Office fixes headline February patches
Microsoft plans to issue twelve patches next Tuesday, five of which deal with issues in its Office productivity suite.
Of those five, four are critical according to the company's advanced notice published on Thursday. All the critical patches deal with remote code execution errors, and all but one do not require a restart.
RIAA president proposes spyware-like solution to piracy
In comments to the State of the Net conference held in Washington, DC this past week, RIAA president Cary Sherman essentially said he'd support filters and spyware-like applications to prevent piracy.
While the panel went on for over an hour, the juiciest tidbits came in Cary's responses to filtering and encryption, which are sure to ignite criticism from the RIAA's detractors over their methods to fight piracy.
Study: Blogging about music may triple its sales
A study by NYU Stern business school professor Vasant Dhar and partner Elaine Chang shows correlational evidence that blog posts increase online sales of recorded music.
The study observed 108 albums over a course of eight weeks, and concluded that the amount of blogs about a certain album can actually predict how well it will sell. It also suspected that the amount of MySpace friends a particular band has acts as a "badge of popularity," actually generating more interest through that number alone.
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