Internet Tubes

• Internet plumbing
• plungers for email
• use a roto rooter to untangle the internet tubes

News

• AMD could be buying ATI for $5.5B?? - ATI is battling with Nvidia Corp. to be the No. 2 maker of computer-graphics chips behind Intel Corp. Buying ATI may help Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro in its efforts to keep taking market share from Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor maker.
• Why Popular Anti-Virus Apps ‘Don’t Work’ - Avantare writes “ZDNet? Australia has a writeup about why AV apps don’t work. The reason given is because the malware authors are writing code that will get around the signatures of the application by testing their code on the most popular anti-virus software before release.” This comes as a follow up to another article detailing the sad state of anti-virus software currently on the market.
  • Symantec finally admits lack of MacOS X viruses
• Get Your Voice Mail Via Email - eVoice is an internet voicemail answering service that delivers your voicemail messages to the email address of your choice.
• Lucasarts will be making games for the Nintendo Wii!
• 8GB iPod Nanos soon? - Samsung’s 8Gbit NAND flash chips are in mass production
• Developers steering away from Playstation 3
• Mac market share increasing - Along with the recent encouraging 3Q 2006 financial results from Apple on Wednesday, independent research firms Gartner and IDC have recently reported on 2Q 2006 market share (via MacWorld?).
• Symantec says Vista will be less secure than XP - Despite all the interim releases of Windows Vista, Symantec has come out and said in a report that Windows Vista is very likely to be less secure when it ships than Windows XP is today. According to Symantec, it already has discovered many security flaws within Vista that have to do with networking. Symantec says that it’s Vista’s large chunk of new code that is the problem.
• Price changes for AMD processors

Cool Links

• The Amazing Screw-On Head - Check out this cool new show a month before it premieres
• A mangled DS Lite - Nintendo actually replaced this for only $50
• Done the Impossible - A Documentary that is available for free on Bittorrent under the Creative Commons license about the series Firefly
  • Firefly - If you haven’t seen this series yet, go watch it! Rent it, watch it on SciFi?, download it!
• Evil paintballers get their just desserts

Lawsuits R Them

• Microsoft sues companies over selling pirated versions of Windows
• SCO is suing IBM and several other companies for their supposed copyrights on the UNIX source code
• RIAA running their reign of terror against consumers
  • RIAA loses file sharing case
• MPAA - These guys will use any low tactic and lawsuit to make the distrbution world the way they want it to be
• Electronic Forntier Foundation suing AT&T and US Government for wire tapping - These are the GOOD guys
• Apple and Creative going at it on patent lawsuits regarding MP3 players
• Jack the (*)*&()*& Thompson suing a good chunk of the gaming industry
  • Jack is no Friend of the Court
  • FTC drops investigation of Take Two software

 

 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup