http://www.ggsict.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:37:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our review of the super-size Archos 705 WiFi portable video player is now up on CNET. If you've been squinting at your puny PVP and want to upgrade, you owe it to yourself to witness the screen size and features of the Archos 705 WiFi. You can also check out ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/09/04/archos-705-wifi-review-photos/ Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial will jointly manufacture small electroluminescent displays in an effort match the output from Korea-based makers, according to a Japanese report. Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial will make EL display panels. Toshiba has a 60 percent stake in the venture Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, while Matsushita holds ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/29/report-toshiba-matsushita-will-jointly-make-smal/ The FBI is warning that Valentine's Day e-mails you see this year might be coming not from loved ones, but from the Storm worm botnet. In a press release Tuesday, the FBI warns users to be on the lookout for e-mail that "directs the recipient to click on a link ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/from-storm-with-love/ "We must get rid of some baggage," he said. "This means getting rid of practices and policies that no longer make sense to our customers and listen even more closely to customers and respond quickly. That is how we un-invite potential regulation." Martin said that the wireless industry's efforts so far ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/mobile-operators-avoid-potential-regulation/ "Panasonic will be introducing a freestanding Blu-ray recorder/player in the US during the first half of 2009. (BTW, Blu-ray recorder prices have really dropped in Japan. I spotted a Sharp Blu-ray recorder at Yodobashi camera for around $800 US)." That's news to us. In fact, we met with Panasonic engineers recently, ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/blu-ray-recorders-coming-to-us-in-2009/ The second agreement is an amendment to a previously announced settlement that Transmeta and Intel entered into on December 31, 2007, which granted Intel a perpetual nonexclusive license to all Transmeta patents and patent applications, including any patent rights later acquired by Transmeta before December 31, 2017. That settlement provided ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/former-intel-clone-maker-seeks-buyer/ (Credit: Via Technologies) Henry also noted that Intel is following Via into the low-cost, small-device market--where Via has been a player for many years--not the other way around. Via Technologies is shipping samples of the new Isaiah processor targeted at low-cost compact computers. Via's current C7 processor is already used by ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/faster-x86-chip-for-small-notebooks-coming/ I like her line on mainstream media vs. blogs: "Mainstream media have an attention deficit disorder, blogs have an obsessive compulsive disorder." The (fabulous) "Communities Dominate Brands" blog points at a Guardian video interview with Arianna Huffington on the future of news journalism. Not too surprisingly, Huffington's view on traditional ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/arianna-huffington-on-the-future-of-journalism/ commentary You like open source, and you prefer the Mac. You're in luck! I stumbled across a great site today - MacForge - which hosts over 50,000 open-source applications written for the blessed operating system, Mac OS X. MacForge is not nearly as feature-rich as Sourceforge is, but if you're looking for a ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/a-sourceforge-for-the-mac/ Another big problem was performance. Processing raw-image files is a computationally onerous job, but Lightroom outperformed Aperture, and speed is essential for either to meet their potentially. Schorr wouldn't share further details about the plug-ins architecture, but did say Apple will release its own SDK. On Tuesday, though, Apple came back with ... http://www.ggsict.org/2010/08/24/apple-upgrades-aperture-ambitions-to-20/