Archive for October 10, 2006

Sony to Ship First 50GB Blu-ray Movies This Week

Sony has announced that Click, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and Black Hawk Down will be the first Sony films released on 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray disc. Although Blu-ray discs have been available on the market for several months now, these are 50GB dual-layer discs as opposed to the current discs being only 25GB.

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The Secret Failures of Microsoft

The big corporations partering with Microsoft suggest that the company knows what it’s doing, but real the secret is that Microsoft hasn’t ever earned significant profits in the consumer hardware business. Here’s why DRM is the least of the Zune’s worries! Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted Magazine : The Truth, Censored by Digg.

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Gartner: Better Windows security keeps Apple safer

Research group Gartner has said that Mac OS X users are now safer from a mass attack — such as Blaster on Windows — than they were two years ago, partly because Microsoft has closed so many holes in its ubiquitous platform.

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Microsoft partners with major players on IPTV Edition-powered SoC STBs

With Zune and Vista hogging all the headlines these days, you may have forgotten that Microsoft is also hard at work pushing its IPTV Edition software platform into living rooms around the world, so the software giant decided to take the Broadband World Forum Europe in Paris as occasion to remind us just how committed it is to TV over the internet.

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Virtual Machine Software Grows 67% in 2005: Report

The market for software that allows one machine to host multiple operating systems rose in 2005 by 67 percent, topping the previous record set in 2004 of 63 percent growth new research indicates.

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Keep IE 7 from being deployed automatically on your network

Many system administrators are going to be taken by surprise when IE 7 is pushed out automatically by Microsoft. There are considerable changes that could cause many headaches. Most administrators would prefer to decide when IE 7 is deployed on their network.

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