Archive for: July, 2011

Interview with Salli Richardson-Whitfield of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011

In this interview from after the Eureka panel at Comic-Con 2011, Salli Richardson-Whitfield shares her thoughts about her career as a black actress, her character’s love life and how her daughter is enjoying the con. On the show Ms Blake is still a single parent to her baby girl and teenage son Kevin, whose autism […]

Olympus Brings the SZ-11 Compact with 20X Zoom to the US

Olympus is a virtually unnoticed move has rolled out a new ultrazoom camera in the US. The SZ-11 builds on its predecessor with a longer-reaching but potentially dimmer 20X, f3-6.9 lens. The more current entry gets a larger 16-megapixel sensor (up from 14) as well as a higher ISO 3,200 sensitivity. Both share 720p video […]

Kaspersky Updates Anti-Virus 2011 to Work with Lion

Users of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac will receive an automatic update which will upgrade the product to be compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, the company announced today. The program, which detects and prevents Macs from spreading Windows viruses, and other types of malware for Windows, Mac and Linux, can also be manually […]

DOJ Investigation of Apple Nortel Patent Buying Shifts into Overdrive

Nortel on Friday completed its selloff of patents to an Apple-led coalition but faced a much tougher Department of Justice investigation into antitrust issues. What the new steps involved wasn’t certain, although it’s likely to focus more closely on whether the group, which also included Microsoft, RIM, and Sony, planned a patent lawsuit campaign or […]

MacBook Air 2011 Uses Less Costly Mini Eagle Ridge Chip for Thunderbolt

An investigation into the new MacBook Air’s internals has revealed that Apple is using a new, relatively untested Thunderbolt chip. Nicknamed Eagle Ridge, it has two 10Gbps bidirectional lanes (40Gbps) where the Light Ridge chip in the iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini has a full four. The part tracked down by AnandTech can only […]

Zinio 2.0 for iPad Is on the Way – Adds In-App Subscriptions, Bookmarks

Magazine service Zinio says it is preparing an updated iPad app, marking a transition to v2.0. Significantly the upgrade will support in-app purchases, including not just single or back issues, but also products in magazines, and most importantly subscriptions. Most magazines with in-app subscription options are offered as separate downloads on the App Store​; Zinio […]

AT&T Will Start to Throttle the Speed Data for the Heaviest Users

AT&T on Friday said that it would throttle the speed for those still using unlimited data. Starting October 1, the company will slow down the connections on those who are in the top five percent of heaviest use. Similar to T-Mobile USA, full speed won’t come back until the next month. The carrier tried to […]

All Windows Phone 7​ Mango Phones to Release in September

Insider sources on Thursday narrowed the launch of all Windows Phone 7​ Mango devices, not just Toshiba-Fujitsu’s IS12T, to September. Acer, HTC, Huawei, LG, Samsung, and ZTE are all expected by Digitimes contacts to unveil their phones at the same time. Only Nokia’s first phone, likely the Sea Ray, would show later, at Nokia World […]

Interview with Felicia Day of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011

In this interview from after the Eureka panel at Comic-Con 2011, Felicia Day, actress and creator/star of the popular web series “The Guild”, shares her thoughts about her career which spans roles from cheerleader to vampire slayer. She also discusses Comic-Con,her role as Dr. Holly Martin on Eureka and working with Wil Wheaton. Dr. Holly […]

Lead By MPEG-LA, 12 Firms Claim WebM Violates H.264 Patents

The MPEG-LA video group’s attempts to find patent violations in WebM proved successful as the company late Thursday claimed that 12 companies and organizations had their technology infringed. The so far unnamed dozen said the VP8 video codec underlying Google’s format copied technology used in H.264, the standard MPEG-LA supports. The collective was considering forming […]

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