July 2009
7 posts
Marketwatch on the Zune
Marketwatch has the story. Lots of interesting things to note. It’ll be interesting to see if the Zune HD can make some progress for Microsoft.
That “Zune has 2% market share” figure from NPD particularly interests me. I guess a hardware-based FM transmitter isn’t such a killer feature after all. Another interesting tidbit:
Apple has successfully outflanked Microsoft by...
Broken Social Scene Are Crowdsourcing A Concert...
This Movie Is Broken will be a film of a Broken Social Scene concert, and parts of the film will be concert clips submitted by fans. CTV Toronto reported that there will also be a plot to the film:
The story follows a lovestruck boy who goes to a Broken Social Scene show with his romantic crush, but things don’t turn out as he planned.
Plot-driven films and musical groups have come...
ICANN Opens Up Top-Level-Domains To...
Slate:
ICANN, the international body in charge of domain names, says it has a way to rid the Web of cybersquatting. Late last month, the group voted to create Web addresses that end in a much wider variety of letters than .com, .org, .net, and the dozens of country-specific suffixes that are currently available. When the proposal goes into effect later this year, businesses, municipalities, and...
Google OS
Ars reports:
Two separate sources—one inside the company and one outside it—have confirmed to Ars tonight that Google plans to launch an operating system built in some fashion around its new web browser, Chrome. One source says that the new OS will be launched soon, perhaps as early as tomorrow.
Tentatively called “Google Chrome OS,” the project appears targeted at netbooks, the...
HTML5 Dropping Ogg Video
Quoth ZDNet:
HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Ian Hickson wrote on Monday that he was reluctantly dropping the open standard due to opposition from Apple, and said the rival H.264 codec could also not be specified due to opposition from other browser vendors. This means HTML 5 will not...
Zdziarski On Jailbreaking As A Security Threat
Link.
This paper made me rethink jailbreaking the iPhone. I still haven’t done it (and don’t plan on doing it in the near future). I think iPhone OS 3.0 brings enough to the table to make jailbreaking almost a non-issue (certainly on the 3GS, but on the 3G too, to a degree). On the other hand, I would kinda like tethering, video recording, a shell, and Stacks on my iPhone 3G - though...
Apple, NVIDIA to part ways?
AppleInsider:
Although they’ve portrayed themselves almost as best friends for several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models.
After all that hubbub over the graphics cards in the MacBook Pros, I’m not surprised.
I remember wondering if Dell might do the same thing after those 8M series problems last...
June 2009
5 posts
2 tags
Kotaku On The Evolution Of Game Controllers
From Kotaku’s In Defense Of The Classic Controller:
“If you think about the quintessential image of GTA IV, it’s basically a screenshot,” says Lantz. “But if you think about the quintessential image of Rock Band or Wii Sports, it’s an image of people in a room doing something.”
The quintessential image of Wii Music? People sitting in a room, bored out...