Under the pressure of growing interest from the FTC and a cascade of ongoing lawsuits against companies who have leveraged an under-used portion of Flash technology, Adobe in a blog post has addressed a weakness in the implementation of “Flash cookies,” or as Adobe calls them “local shared objects” (LSOs) that allowed other websites — […]
At THQ’s Gamers Week event in New York, Microsoft has locked up timed-exclusivity for all future downloadable content on the Xbox 360 for Homefront. Owners of Microsoft’s console will also receive out-and-out exclusive access to the Suburbs multiplayer map. Due out on March 8, Homefront is a story-driven shooter that is set after a North […]
HP hit CES 2011 with vengeance and one of their stars, in fact of CES, was their all new Pavilion dm1. The new 11-inch Pavilion dm1 has an almost identical name to the old Pavilion dm1z, But these machines couldn’t be more different. The dm1 weight in at 3.5 pounds and looks more like a […]
Zotac has announced its first Zbox series of mini-PCs equipped with USB 3.0 technology — the Zbox ID41 series. The boring name belies what’s a fairly sexy nettop, made even more so with the addition of SuperSpeed ports (two on the back panel). There’s also four USB 2.0 ports (two on the back, one on […]
Intel today posted record results for the fall. Its net profit was up 48 percent year-to-year and 10 percent sequentially, to $3.4 billion, but was owed almost exclusively to its large-scale server group and investments. Its revenues for both Atom chips and its regular processors were both flat compared to the summer. The discrepancy was […]
RIM could have as many as one million BlackBerry PlayBooks shipping for the March launch if industry claims are accurate. The company’s plans for a big launch would have it reach the symbolic number in just the first quarter of shipments, Digitimes said. Motorola in contrast would be shipping no more than 800,000 Xoom tablets […]
Shure kicked off the NAMM audio show by putting out a new mid-range, in-ear headphone set and two new DJ reference headphones. The SE215 occupies the new low range with single drivers in each ear while still retaining signature longevity traits like a detachable, Kevlar-backed cable that should resist breaks in the long term. Its […]
Thursday, Sony on introduced its CLM-V55 5-inch video monitor that attaches to compatible DSLR cameras and HD camcorders. It provides users with a better view of what they’re recording and has an 800×480 resolution that promises a wide viewing angle, along with a swiveling and tilting arm. A pixel magnification mode helps users confirm focus […]
Rovi is suing Amazon subsidiary IMDb. Rovi, once known as Macrovision, acquired Gemstar-TV guide in 2008 and by doing so acquired a number of patents pertaining to delivering TV Guides online. Rovi’s Delaware suit claims that IMDb’s TV guides infringe five of its patents. Rovi already licenses its TV Guides to several major media stakeholders including […]
The list of potentially affected notebooks has now gone up (link to affected models) in the class-action lawsuit NVIDIA is facing. Owners of 15- and 17-inch notebooks from Apple, HP and Dell with NVIDIA graphics hardware that malfunctioned. The potentially affected Apple models are those MacBook Pro models made between May of 2007 and September of […]
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