Another day, another Google acquisition rumor, and this one comes from within the borders of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. According to local press reports, Google may have acquired Ukrainian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:30 am
Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures. By Mark Sweney Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co , the world's largest personal computer maker, said on Thursday its installations of new Halo video conferencing rooms have more than doubled annually... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:02 am
By Luke Anderson If you didn’t know, Polaroid recently announced that they will no longer be producing the instant film that made the company a household name. However, someone has created a concept... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:02 am
By Luke Anderson How many of you carry an umbrella when it’s raining? Unless I know that I’ll be walking for long distances in the pouring rain, I won’t bother. I figure that I’ll... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
News Corp. has essentially planted four or five deal guys at Yahoo HQ for nearly two weeks straight now, working directly with Yahoo business development to try to find a deal to combine MySpace and Yahoo... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:56 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Demand for flat panel televisions is expected to more than double to 180 million units by 2012, driven by strong sales in China and the United States, a Japanese industry... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:26 am
San Francisco/Seattle based music service iLike launched a “news feed” for favorite artists this week. Users can now see exactly what their favorite artists are up to - when they go on tour,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:14 am
By Evan Ackerman There were a lot of peripherals kicking around the Game Developer’s Conference expo floor, but most of them, however cool they might be, are just faster or better or fancier reincarnations... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:58 am
Now, you don't have to make rounds of the municipal office or go on-line to find out about your property tax bills. Help will be available on your mobile through an SMS, repors the Times of India . ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:30 am
By Edward C. Baig Is Apple TV about to emerge from "hobby" status and become a marquee business for Apple? It's plausible, now that the second version has arrived -- with on-demand movie rentals. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:28 am
By Andrew Liszewski If your neighbor at work prides themselves on their impenetrable cubicle fortress, these miniature siege toys from Monty Python And The Search For The Holy Grail will either give you... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:21 am
Hugh Pickens writes "Contrary to previous beliefs, identical twins are not genetically identical. Researchers studied 19 pairs of monozygotic, or identical, twins and found differences in copy number variation in DNA which occurs when a set of coding letters in DNA are missing, or when extra copies of segments of DNA are produced. In most cases, variation in the number of copies likely has no impact on health or development but in others, it may be one factor in the likelihood of developing a disease (pdf). "Those differences may point the way to better understanding of genetic diseases when we study so-called discordant monozygotic twins....a pair of twins where one twin has a disorder and the other does not," says Carl Bruder, Ph.D. "If twin A develops Parkinson's and twin B does not, the region of their genome where they show differences is a target for further investigation to discover the basic genetic underpinnings of the disease.""
OSLO (Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude -- the biggest in Norwegian history -- jolted the sparsely populated Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic on Wednesday night, the Norsar... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:45 am
By Andrew Liszewski If you’ve ever taken apart a clock because you were curious as to what made it tick, then you’ll probably be just as fascinated with these mechanical luxury belt buckles... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:28 am
Japan will study introducing a carbon cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Thursday, as the business lobby hinted it will back down on its opposition to the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:14 am
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced that technology industry veteran Sam Ceccola has joined the company as vice president in the Technology Transformation practice, part of the company's North American Consulting Services business unit. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Feb. 21--Irishfest La Crosse, in cooperation with the Greater La Crosse Area Shamrock Club, will present a St. Pat's Parade on March 15. The parade will assemble at 11 a.m. in the Business Objects parking lot at Second and Main streets. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 21--WAUKESHA -- Mayor Larry Nelson on Wednesday again refused to make public the amount the city might spend to acquire 42 acres through eminent domain to provide the city with a new source of drinking water. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Errol De Cruz SHANGRI-LA'S Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa Penang was presented the prestigious Asean Green Hotel Award 2008, recently. ERROL DE CRUZ finds out more about its initiatives to save the environment. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Marie Rohde, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 21--Milwaukee County and its insurer cannot sue a contractor to recover $1.7 million in damage done to the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in a fire started by a worker, the state Court of Appeals said in a decision issued Wednesday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Louis Ernest Spann, III, died Saturday, February 16, 2008, at Mattie C. Hall Nursing Home, in Aiken, SC. He was 63 years old. Mr. Spann was born in Conway, SC, the son of the late Louis E. Spann, Jr. and Vera "Pete" Newton Spann. Mr. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Andrew Smith, The Dallas Morning News Feb. 21--AUSTIN -- The nation's richest man jetted into the state capital Wednesday to combat a misguided prejudice that may threaten the nation's prosperity. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that IDC, a leading IT market research and advisory firm, has reported that for Q3'07, IBM was once again the number one tape product vendor in the world, based on branded tape revenue (1). Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By David Allen, The Shelby Star, N.C. Feb. 21--SHELBY -- What exactly defines a healthy community? It's not just morbidity and mortality, according to Cleveland County Health Director Denese Stallings. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By BEVERLEY LYONS AND LAURA SUTHERLAND JAMIE from the Klaxons looked a bit worse for wear as he stumbled down the red carpet. In response to all his questions, he played air guitar. Rock 'n' roll. (c) 2008 Daily Record; Glasgow (UK). Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Xpressdocs (www.xpressdocs.com) appointed Eric Chandler as Chief Executive Officer to continue the growth and vision of its founder, Colin Bailey, who remains with the company to focus on new strategic opportunities. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
In a near-flawless mission, the seven-man crew delivers and installs a lab at the International Space Station. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Bow Street Runner is a Flash game from Channel 4 that plunges you into the grimy, crime-ridden streets of 18th century Covent Garden and asks you to join the goon squads who tried to impose order on the city. It's full of historically accurate, Deadwood-grade foul language and squicky details.
Bow Street Runner is set in London's Covent Garden in the 1750s. With crime and vice running at very high levels, and before the organised police force existed in England, local magistrates formed the Bow Street Runners and began to impose law and order.
A Swedish couple has been fined for failing to register a legally approved name for their seven-year-old child, who is presently called "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116" (pronounced "/ˈalˌbin/"). They've offered to change the kid's name to "A," but the Swedish government says that won't do, either.
Because the parents (Elizabeth Hallin and an unidentified father) failed to register a name by the boy's fifth birthday, a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, fined the parents 5,000 kronor (US$682 at the time). Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation." The parents suggested the name be understood in the spirit of 'pataphysics. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine.
Paul Jones of iBiblio tipped me off to some recent M&A activity by Microsoft, this time involving the Library of Congress.
This deal involves the donation of "technology, services and funding" (e.g., mostly not money) with a purported value of $3m from Microsoft to the Library of Congress. The Library, in turn, agrees to put kiosks running Vista in the library and to use Microsoft Silverlight to "help power the library's new Web site, www.myloc.gov."
The official blogger of the library, Matt Raymond, says "this is really a quantum leap for the library." Perhaps it is, but it sure smells like a whole lot of proprietary.
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years: this entire family came to last year's ComicCon in matching, beautifully made Incredibles suits, and worked out a great little tableau of poses for photographers.
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News Corporation has approached the four major record labels to discuss launching an online music service through its MySpace social networking site, music company executives... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 7:33 am
Here's a superb collection of picture postcards from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (the Space Needle fair), depicting a rounded-corner futuristic world that I'd be proud to inhabit.
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US navy fires missile from Pacific Ocean warship to destroy failed satellite amid claims the Pentagon is militarising space Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 7:29 am
US navy confirms it has hit an ailing spy satellite with a missile fired from a warship in the Pacific Ocean Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 7:29 am
On NASA's website, ISS Science Officer Don Pettit describes the "smell of space" -- long a staple of science fiction stories.
Each time, when I repressed the airlock, opened the hatch and welcomed two tired workers inside, a peculiar odor tickled my olfactory senses. At first I couldn't quite place it. It must have come from the air ducts that re-pressed the compartment. Then I noticed that this smell was on their suit, helmet, gloves, and tools. It was more pronounced on fabrics than on metal or plastic surfaces. It is hard to describe this smell; it is definitely not the olfactory equivalent to describing the palette sensations of some new food as "tastes like chicken." The best description I can come up with is metallic; a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation. It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. That is the smell of space.
The Nebraska Library Commission has begun to include Creative Commons licensed editions of books in its catalog -- so you can check out my novels in the Tor editions, or just nab a copy from the library's site.
About a month ago I was asked the following question: Why don't libraries start cataloging and offering CC-licensed works? Why not, I asked myself. Why doesn't the Commission try this. So, I spoke with others and everyone loved the idea. (At first anyway. We'll come back to that in a moment.) The basic idea was to take electronic versions of these titles, post them on our Web server, catalog them in the OPAC, then offer them up to those that wanted them. Additionally, for some titles the license allowed for physical printing of the works so we sent those files off to the print shop to turn them into spiral-bound books to be added to the physical collection. (A few days later the print shop called back to question our right to print these works. A few pointers back to the CC Web site and the relevant licenses straightened it all out.)
Disneyland is reviving its old "House of the Future" attraction -- originally, this was a wheel-of-gouda-shaped plastic house sponsored by Monsanto that opened in 1957, featuring futuristic technology like cordless phones, giant TVs, electric razors, and kitchen appliances that rose out of the countertops. It was inspriringly goofy -- and so indestructible that the wrecking-ball bounced off it and so the structure had to be disassembled with cutting torches and chainsaws.
The new version will look like a suburban McMansion and will feature stuff that sounds like rejects from CES: touch-screen home automation, automatic lights and temperature (oooh, a thermostat!), and assorted junk from HP, Microsoft, and a couple other sponsors.
I'd rather see Disney give us something built out of surplus shipping containers, filled with just-in-time blobjects that track their existence through spimes and gracefully decompose into the manufacturing stream at their end of life. Something that at least looks like the future, rather than the model home in a pre-subprime-meltdown housing development.
When a resident clicks a TV remote, for example, lights will dim, music will shut off and the shades will draw as the network realizes a movie is about to start.
The system will allow residents to transfer digital photos, videos and music among televisions and computers in different rooms at the click of a button. Other applications still in development could include touch-screen technology built into appliances, furniture and countertops, said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's vice president for entertainment services.
In the kitchen, for example, touchpad software on the countertop would be able to identify groceries and produce recipes and meal suggestions. Similar programs could turn a desktop into a computer screen, allowing residents to load photos, music or e-mail onto a cell phone by placing it on the desk.
Matt Wells presents our daily audio show - with details of an embarassing reference to Israel in an early draft of the "dodgy" Iraq dossier. Plus a report from northern Kosovo where tensions are rising... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 7:21 am
Etsy seller Recraft was selling this "Posable Robot Lamp" whose base was salvaged from a broken robot toy. It's surprisingly expressive. Pity it got sold before I got to it!
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A four-tonne railway bridge has been stolen in the Czech Republic:
The bridge was on a disused stretch of line just outside Cheb.
Martina Hruskova, a spokeswoman for the Czech police, commented to AFP: 'We are not sure if it was taken for personal use or for its scrap value.' Exactly what that 'personal use' might be was left unsaid.
The economic rise of China and India means climate change is occurring faster than previously thought, making efforts to fix the problem more urgent, an official Australian report found... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 6:36 am
A US Navy warship fired a missile which hit an out-of-control spy satellite orbiting 130 miles above the Earth's surface, the Pentagon has confirmed. In the first... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 6:33 am
AC50 writes "According to research from Trend Micro's TrendLabs compromised Web sites are gaining in importance on malicious sites created specifically by cyber-criminals. The research debunks the conventional wisdom about not visiting questionable sites, because even trusted Web sites such as those belonging to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and government organizations can serve forth malware."
PITTTSBURGH, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Innovation Works, one of the country's most active investors in seed-stage technology companies, is launching AlphaLab to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bookham, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKHM), has announced that it has developed and demonstrated an ultra small, 5mm 40Gb/s Optical... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:05 am
By Karen Roebuck Age: 51 Residence: Monroeville Family: Husband, J. Dennis Kozimer; two children, Dennis Kozimer, 24, and Patricia Kozimer, 22. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
ANTELOPE VALLEY Teen on dirt bike dies after midair collision CALIFORNIA CITY -- A 15-year-old Castaic boy riding on a dirt bike died after he collided with another teenage rider during a midair jump. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Nor Azean Hasan I REFER to the letter on the export of monkeys, "Don't stop with the no-export decision" (NST, Feb 5) from Thing Siew Shuen of Johor Baru. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Himanshu Kaushik GANDHINAGAR: A 10-km stretch around the Nal Sarovar bird sanctuary has been declared as an Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) as per the Supreme Court guidelines for conserving wildlife. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Public can comment on recreational plans There are three Valley meetings this month for residents to add their comments to an assessment of future recreational and resulting financial needs in the city of Los Angeles on the way to finalizing a recreational master plan. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Bill Zlatos The Henry L. Hillman Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University $10 million for the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies. "It will make us unquestionably No. 1," said Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon in an interview Wednesday. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Case Foundation, Causes on Facebook, and PARADE Magazine today announced the winners of the first-ever America's Giving Challenge and Causes Giving Challenge. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
coondoggie writes "The National Science Foundation announced today 14 grand engineering challenges for the 21st century that, if met, would greatly improve how we live. The final choices fall into four themes that are essential for humanity to flourish — sustainability, health, reducing vulnerability, and joy of living. The committee did not attempt to include every important challenge, nor did it endorse particular approaches to meeting those selected. Rather than focusing on predictions or gee-whiz gadgets, the goal was to identify what needs to be done to help people and the planet thrive, the group said. A diverse committee of engineers and scientists — including Larry Page, Robert Langer, and Robert Socolow — came up with the list but did not rank the challenges. Rather, the National Academy of Engineering is offering the public an opportunity to vote on which one they think is most important."
The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 2:51 am
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has a clip of that RIAA training video produced with the NDAA for US prosecutors that was leaked to torrent sites a few days ago. It argues they should pursue piracy cases because it leads to bigger and badder wares, like handguns, drugs, terrorist orgs, and hardcore repeat offender criminals. It's kind of sad how far they're stretching to bring law enforcement into the matter."
When you treat the internet as an external hard drive, you must be prepared for stuff to disappear. And we don't know which bits we want until they're no longer there. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
The instant film camera is demonstrated to the Optical Society of America by its inventor, Edwin Land. It becomes an instant hit, too, when made commercially available.
Some of the hottest action at the annual fanboy and fangirl comic book fest takes place off the concourse floor -- in showrooms of local comic stores around the San Francisco Bay Area.
WASHINGTON Does the America for Sale sign require a warning label? That would seem to be the case in light of the apparent collapse on Wednesday of a Chinese companys effort to purchase a stake in 3Com,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:35 am
A PRICE war among cellphone carriers is giving users a chance to stop counting their minutes. In recent days, three large cellphone companies in the United States have introduced unlimited calling plans... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:35 am
THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination pasty, geeky, male has failed to live up to his reputation. Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:35 am
Reservoir Hill writes "Verified Identity Pass, a firm that offers checkpoint services at airports, has announced a $500,000 award for any solution that will make airport security checks quicker and simpler for passengers. The cash prize will go to any individual, company or institution that can get customers through airport security 15% faster, at a cost of less than 25 cents per passenger, using technology or processes that will be approved by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Passengers must not need to remove their clothes or shoes, something that slows down processing significantly. "We're looking at moving things that are conceptual or in the lab to things that we can deploy," says company spokesman Jason Slibeck and added that over 150 individuals, start-ups, defense contractors and universities have shown an interest in the prize. One promising procedure is mass spectroscopy, which involves analyzing the mass-charge ratio of ions on a swab sample taken from a passenger's clothing or air collected from around them to spot traces of substances including explosives or drugs. The Pre-Registration Package Information Sheet is available online."
Browse this week's Wired gadget reviews for a new gaming cellphone, a quick-loading Blu-ray player, a well-balanced lightweight notebook and more of the latest tech.
Browse this week's Wired gadget reviews for a new gaming cellphone, a quick-loading Blu-ray player, a well-balanced lightweight notebook and more of the latest tech.
Game developers show off their latest creations at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Wired.com captures images and notes from the show floor.
An anonymous reader writes "French scientists have developed a new rubber that can heal itself after being cut or broken. If two broken ends of the material are pushed together, and left for an hour, they join to become just as stretchy as before. There is even a video of the supposed creation in action. 'Regular rubber gets its strength from the fact that long chains of polymer molecules are coupled, or "crosslinked," in three different ways: through covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonding between molecules. Of these three bond types, only the hydrogen bonds can be remade once a material is fractured, although normally there are not enough hydrogen bonds for the rubber to re-couple in this way. The solution devised by Leibler and colleagues is to simply get rid of the ionic and covalent bonds. They developed a transparent, yellowy-brown rubber in which crosslinking is performed only by hydrogen bonds.'"
The murder trial of Hans Reiser -- a famed Linux programmer -- ventured into bizarre territory Wednesday, as Hans Reiser's father testified he warned his son about marauding techno-geeks and the the Russian mafia a week after Reiser's wife disappeared.
holy_calamity writes "Academics researching how technology addiction affects businesses and employees say 'habit-forming' gadgets like Blackberries should be dispensed along with warnings about the effect they can have on your life. 'We don't want to be in a situation in a few years similar to that with fast food or tobacco today. We need to pay attention to how people react to potentially habit-forming technologies.'"
ScienceDaily is reporting that a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is part computer, part robot, and part child. Part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibit "WizKid" is able to focus on human faces and follows your movement allowing you to interact with objects on it's display simply by waving your arms. "Wizkid looks like a computer with a neck. But there the similarities with the familiar personal computer end. Wizkid isn't static. The screen on the mobile neck moves about like a head, and it's trained to hone in on human faces. Once it sees you, Wizkid focuses on you and follows your movement. Unlike a computer, which requires you to stop what you're doing and adapt your behavior and social interactions in order to use it, Wizkid blends into human space. There's no mouse and no keyboard. You don't touch anything. There's no language getting in the way. On Wizkid's screen you see yourself surrounded by a "halo" of interactive elements that you can simply select by waving your hands. If you move away or to one side, Wizkid adapts itself to you, not the other way around. If you're with a friend, Wizkid finds and tracks both of you and tries to figure out your relationship, expressing surprise, confusion or enjoyment when it gets your response."
dangerz writes "CNN has fired one of its producers because of his personal blog. Chez Paziena, the ex-producer, has stated that he started the blog 'mostly to pass the time, hone my writing skills, resurrect my voice a little, and keep my mind sharp following the [brain tumor] surgery.' After a few months, CNN found out about it and ended up letting him go because his 'name was "attached to some, uh, 'opinionated' blog posts" circulating around the internet.'"
eldavojohn writes "Are you one of the few who boarded the HD-DVD Titanic ship headed to the bottom of ocean to join BetaMax? Fret no longer, friend, simply convert those and pretend like you never invested in the wrong technology! All you need is a Windows machine with a fast processor, an HD-DVD drive, a Blu-Ray burner, 30GB of free disk space, at least, though 40GB or more is recommended and an internet connection to download the software! Or you can sit and be the crazy guy who continues to argue that HD-DVD is the superior technology whether it's true or not."
Apple has long been a supporter of Blu-ray, and with this week's demise of the competing HD DVD standard, some fans are starting to wonder when Apple will actually begin adding Blu-ray drives to its computers.
Comment by Peter Scheer, Executive Director California First Amendment Coalition
