Apple Fanboys sell back their stock Options

Slashdot | Apple Investigated Over Stock Options
"Apple has joined the list of over fifty companies (most in Silicon Valley) that possibly mishandled stock options by backdating them. The technique is not illegal, but it can cause a company to improperly deduct employee compensation expenses and result in an underpayment of taxes. So far, Apple is conducting the investigation itself, but it has notified the SEC.

Microsoft releases final IE 7 beta | CNET News.com

Microsoft releases final IE 7 beta | CNET News.com

A new Internet Explorer beta shows that Microsoft is trying to put its browser security woes behind it.

The software maker plans to release the third and last beta version of IE 7 on Thursday, getting closer to final delivery by the end of 2006. It will be the first major update to the popular Web browser in five years, and much of the focus for the new version is on security. Still It Recommened for PC users to use IE 7 beta on Microsoft own sites. And Use Firefox or Opera for everythings Else on the web.

broadband » News » RIAA Lawsuit Insurance - For $19 per year....

broadband » News » RIAA Lawsuit Insurance - For $19 per year....
Both Slashdot and Techdirt discuss a company in Sweden that is offering broadband users insurance to protect them in the case of an RIAA lawsuit for file-sharing. For a mere 140 SEK ($19 USD) per year, they will pay all your fines and give you a t-shirt if you get convicted for file sharing. No word for the cost of Insurance protection from the MPAA, NSA, WIPO as of yet.

Toshiba wants unified DVD format // Zeropaid.com

Toshiba wants unified DVD format // Zeropaid.com
Toshiba Corp. said on Tuesday it would still like to develop a unified format for advanced optical DVD discs, but two competing -- and incompatible -- products are likely to hit the market at first.

"We have not given up on a unified format. We would like to seek ways for unifying the standards if opportunities arise," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told an annual shareholders' meeting.

The failure of the two groups to settle on a unified format has resulted in a costly battle similar to the VHS-Betamax war that caused widespread consumer confusion in the late 1970s and mid-1980s.

Topic list: New Digg v3 Launched It just went live right now. - Leoville Town Square

Topic list: New Digg v3 Launched It just went live right now. - Leoville Town Square
http://digg.com/ 3.0


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The new digg 3.0 looks greats. Very Organized and Clean Interface is a real Plus.

BitTorrent 4.20 Released

BitTorrent 4.20 Released
Allegro! Typically used to describe a quick music tempo, this word describes the latest release of the BitTorrent Mainline client. The primary focus of this Mainline release is to address the issue of ISP bandwidth throttling, and more importantly, BitTorrent traffic caching.

Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference

Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference
Dude You are getting Explorsive Dell Notebook.
AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident.

Welcome to Opera 9 - - by Welcome to 9

Welcome to Opera 9 - - by Welcome to 9
Opera 9 is now available for download! Take a look at the future of Web browsing with the new stuff in Opera 9, including: widgets, BitTorrent support, content blocking, tab preview, source viewer and much more.

For those that are new to Opera, you can find help or ask questions in the Opera 9 forums or Opera support IRC channel.

Our Opera Fans page is full of users explaining why they have chosen the Opera Browser.

Slashdot | Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz

Slashdot | Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz
EETimes is reporting this morning that IBM and Georiga Tech have demonstrated a 500 GHz Silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip, operating at 4.5 Kelvins. The 'frozen chip' was fabricated by IBM on 200mm wafers, and, at room temperature, the circuits operated at approximately 350 GHz!

FIFA Refuses Replay Technology - Gizmodo

FIFA Refuses Replay Technology - Gizmodo
Pro football is getting just as bad as the World Wildlife Foundation?
Now there somthing to looks forward to. SIx to ten minutes of extra stoppage time for these instant replay to Every football game?! No Thanks to this idea.

TVU networks corporation

TVU networks corporation
TVUNetworks let's you watch TV for free from your PC...channels include ABC and ESPN

For TV Viewers

TVU networks brings you programs from around the world that you can't get from your local cable and satellite providers.

Personal Tech Pipeline | Langa Letter: XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option

Personal Tech Pipeline | Langa Letter: XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option
This little-known option lets you completely and nondestructively rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation while leaving already-installed software alone. It also leaves user accounts, names, and passwords untouched.

I've used this quite of few times since XP came out back in 2001. Nice feature and should be include when you press F8. But if Windoze is running slow due to Bitrot, Its time to the yearly Reinstalled from scratch to get back the performance you and your PC deserves

Its Webvan 2.0

Amazon starts selling groceries online | CNET News.com

The service is limited to nonperishable goods such as cereal, pasta and canned soup, but Amazon can ship those items to any customer, unlike online grocers that deliver only to limited areas.

"Because we only carry products when we can offer great prices and free shipping, we don't carry everything (yet!)," the company said in a notice on its Web site.

But bad , Ritz Crackers is curently is not avaible for sell on Amazon Groceries at this time.

DS Lite Sells 10 Times More Than PSP

DS Lite Sells 10 Times More Than PSP
For the week ending May 28 Japanese hardware sales figures show that the Nintendo DS outsold the PSP by a factor of 10. The DS Lite sold 295,103 units, while the PSP managed to sell 27,191
Wow I am number 244,323 of that DS Lite sold 295,103 units. I got my DS lite on saturday from amazon.com.

Let just say it another outlet for us geeks for technology and business podcasts

Scoble leaves Microsoft for start-up | CNET News.com
The world's most famous corporate blogger, Robert Scoble, credited with helping to break down a siege mentality at his employer, Microsoft, confirmed on Sunday that he is leaving to join a recently formed Silicon Valley Internet media start-up.

Scoble, 41, said in a phone interview that he will join PodTech.net, a Menlo Park, Calif., start-up that earlier this year began podcasting video interviews recorded with technology industry luminaries.

So Don't Panic here blogosphere. It Not like the Entire World is going to end because of this new event.

Don't Installed that Windoze WGA. Its not Critical after all

Slashdot | Microsoft Misrepresenting WGA's Functionality?
According to an article on Groklaw, Microsoft is misrepresenting what the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool is to pressure people into installing it. It comes with no uninstall, it fails to disclose many pieces of information it provides to Microsoft, and it misrepresents itself as a 'critical update' when it does not address any security vulnerability, although it remains to be seen if it can create one. ZDNet has a series of screenshots so that you can see exactly how badly it misrepresents itself. Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed, merely by making that code part of a WGA update

Slashdot | Rosen Believes RIAA is Wrong about P2P Lawsuits

Slashdot | Rosen Believes RIAA is Wrong about P2P Lawsuits
So The RIAA was Less back in the 90's.
Former RIAA head Hilary Rosen now believes that the RIAA is wrong by pursuing their lawsuits of individuals for using P2P programs. In a blog post, she writes that she believes the lawsuits have 'outlived their usefulness' and states that the content providers really need to come up with their own download systems. She also is down on DRM, calling Apple's DRM 'a pain

Yes The World Cup is Here!!!!

Yes The World Cup is Here!!!! And All 64 games in my area will Be in HDTV on Espn1 HD, Espn2 HD and Kgo HD 7!!

Google Squares WiFi Focus on Bay Area

Technology News: Wireless : Google Squares WiFi Focus on Bay AreaInternet search giant Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google revealed this week its progress and plans for 802.11 WiFi Latest News about WiFi wireless service in its home town of Mountain View, Calif., as well as San Francisco, where the company won a contract to provide city-wide wireless service with EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) Latest News about EarthLink earlier this year.

Google will reportedly serve as an Internet service provider in Mountain View this summer, offering free WiFi service to early test subscribers. Later in the year, that service will be made available to more Mountain View area consumers, and Google is also planning its rollout of free WiFi for San Francisco, which will also be served by a higher-bandwidth, fee wireless service offered by EarthLink.

16GB USB Hard Drive is the size of a Credit Card!

16GB USB Hard Drive is the size of a Credit Card!PQI has unveiled a sleek credit card-thin Card Drive USB drive with capacities of 1, 2, and 4 GB - and 8 and 16 GB editions. No pricing is available on the 16GB card yet, although the 4GB is priced at $139.99 Too its from PQI Because it will break within weeks of opertation of the USB drive. Everyone should wait for a quaility built one san disk version of Drive USB 16 GB.

TiVo launches TiVoCasting | PVRblog

TiVo launches TiVoCasting | PVRblog
TiVo announced 'TiVoCasting' today which looks just like their existing Video Podcasting efforts but with a few content partners and a shiny new name. I guess the word "podcast" was too much of an homage to Apple so TiVo decided to try and make up a new word with their own branding.

So basically Tivo is tapping into the world of Video On Demand. Just Like I am getting from On Demand from Comcast. My Tivo Passed away last April :(, And I got other DVR from Comcast. Sure its this DVR from Comcast does not Preform like my good old Tivo. But Later this summer comcast will be testing and then later this year they will be rolling out Tivo brand DVR service. So than I could subscribe to this service to get back the Familiar Tivo DVR Features and Functionality.

Watch out IE! Yes This Time around Firefox, Mac, Seamokey Linux, Joins In the Sports of New Zero-day Flaw Fun!!

Watch out IE! Yes This Time around Firefox, Mac, Seamokey Linux, Joins In the Sports of New Zero-day Flaw Fun!!

Multiple security organizations warned Tuesday that Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey -- on Windows, Linux, and the Mac -- are vulnerable to a JavaScript bug that could allow a determined attacker to dupe users into giving up sensitive personal information such as credit card or bank account numbers and passwords.

According to Symantec, which issued an alert late afternoon Tuesday, all versions of the Microsoft and Mozilla browsers could be used to harvest data through a JavaScript key-filtering vulnerability.



http://tinyurl.com/knode

Watch out IE! Yes This Time around Firefox, Mac, Seamokey Linux, Joins In the Sports of New Zero-day Flaw Fun!!

Watch out IE! Yes This Time around Firefox, Mac, Seamokey Linux, Joins In the Sports of New Zero-day Flaw Fun!!

Multiple security organizations warned Tuesday that Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey -- on Windows, Linux, and the Mac -- are vulnerable to a JavaScript bug that could allow a determined attacker to dupe users into giving up sensitive personal information such as credit card or bank account numbers and passwords.

According to Symantec, which issued an alert late afternoon Tuesday, all versions of the Microsoft and Mozilla browsers could be used to harvest data through a JavaScript key-filtering vulnerability.



http://tinyurl.com/knode

Musicians Increasingly Oppose RIAA

Musicians Increasingly Oppose RIAA
One of the encouraging things over the past couple of years has been the increasing number of artists who do seem to get digital technologies, and figure out ways to embrace them. Not A Big Surprise here.

Boing Boing: Digg-like site to track Creative Commons music

Boing Boing: Digg-like site to track Creative Commons music
CChits is a web-app meant to help people find and share cool music that's been released under Creative Commons licenses. It's built on Ning, a site that makes it easy to clone and customize web applications; in this case, CChits clones the popular link-sharing site Digg

Slashdot | The Pirate Bay Is Back Online

Slashdot | The Pirate Bay Is Back Online

There back, (well at least for now) I preferred mininova.com and isohunt.com (no in bad taste prOn ads) for all of my BT needs.

The Pirate Bay is back online, operating for now as "The Police Bay." Writes one anonymous submitter: "Pirate Bay got new hardware, moved the servers abroad and used recent backups. So the only bad side-effect of this police raid is that hundreds of clients of the ISP PRQ still have not got their servers back from the police. When the police did the raid on Wednesday, they took Pirate Bay from Bankgirot's secure server room. Then they also took all the servers in PRQ colocation facility STH3, effectively disabling a lot of small companies. The connection between PRQ and TPB? - Same owners, nothing more, this is beginning to become a huge scandal in Sweden with coverage on TV and all newspapers 4 days in a row.

Comcast to begin testing HD TiVos - HD Beat

Comcast to begin testing HD TiVos - HD Beat
Oh how people love to hate Comcast's current HD DVR box - the Motorola 6412. Things are in the works to give their customers another option though. Comcast is about to start beta testing their own high-def TiVos. There aren't many details about the equipment as they are still in their early stages. There are some details about pricing over at this thread at AVS Forum and it seems that the TiVo service is going to be an extra charge on top of the DVR service fee.

Hopefully Comcast gets these things out quick though as we know many of you would love to get rid of your Motorola 6412 even if it costs a few more bucks.

For me, It won't be until sometime in 2007 Comcast of Silicon Valley will offering Dual Tuner HD Tivo DVRs in my area. And still no sign of ESPN 2 HD, TNT HD, UNBC HD or MHD to be offered on Comcast HD channel lineup!

Slashdot | First StarOffice Virus Sighted

Slashdot | First StarOffice Virus Sighted
News.com is reporting on the creation of Stardust, a virus which uses macros to attack StarOffice, Sun's office suite. The malware was written as a proof-of-concept code to show what might be possible rather than as a serious attempt to create a new attack vector." From the article: "The pest is written in Star Basic. It downloads an image file with adult content from the Internet and opens that file in a new document, according to Kaspersky's posting