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Archive for June, 2010

Pioneer’s HTS-LX70 home theater system is stylish,

30 Jun 2010

Pioneer's stylish HTIB costs a lot and doesn't include that Blu-ray player in the picture.

Stacked up to other high-end HTIB options, the HTS-LX70 is pretty expensive. Onkyo offers the HT-SP908, which features separate components, 7.1 audio and a price tag that’s about half as expensive. Of course, you’re mostly paying for the style for [...]

Google Chrome shines

28 Jun 2010

At the moment, only the Windows version of Chrome is available for download. Plans call for
Mac OS X and Linux versions in the near future. That said, Google has released Chrome in 43 languages and in 122 countries.

Google has released the beta version of a new browser, Chrome. In its comic-book pre-announcement, Google stated correctly [...]

Netflix to charge more for Blu-ray subscriptions

23 Jun 2010

(Credit:
CNET)
In addition to the Blu-ray news, Hastings also reiterated that Netflix is looking to bring the Watch Now feature to set-top boxes, which was reported back in January. In addition to the initial partnership with LG, Netflix plans to pair up with two additional major companies, and one additional small company. No details yet [...]

Amazon to acquire book networking site

22 Jun 2010

In announcing the acquisition, Shelfari likened its mood to a spring day:

The online e-tailer, which already owns a portion of Seattle-based Shelfari, helped fund the social-networking site in 2007, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Shelfari allows users to create virtual bookshelves and share title lists among friends.

Spalding said he came up with more than 50 [...]

Q&A Red Hat’s JBoss business hits overdrive

18 Jun 2010

Asay: Are there particular applications–proprietary or otherwise–that JBoss tends to get deployed alongside, similar to how Oracle was the early driver for much of Red Hat’s Linux business?
The result? Charlie Peters, our CFO, has disclosed that our middleware business is growing at twice the rate of our traditional RHEL operating system business.

Muzilla: Value is our [...]

Hackers going after restaurants, supermarkets

16 Jun 2010

The men gained unauthorized access to the cash register terminals and installed packet sniffer software that captured credit and debit card data as it moved from the terminal to the company’s corporate headquarters and the data processor’s computer system. The hackers then sold the stolen data to others who used it to make purchases and [...]

Vision is not enough Amazee’s cause-based social

04 Jun 2010

Amazee CEO Gregory Gerhardt told me the goal for the site is to drive collective action. The tools the service offers are in support of that. But while Amazee has got the tools part of the equation well in hand, the collective part is lacking.

The problem is, you have to solve your Love/Belonging [...]