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Given Apple's recent litigation history, which seems to have kicked the spat off

http://news.techwhack.com/3150-samsung-asian-mobile-manufacturers/

South Korea based tech giants Samsung has revealed that they are considering filing lawsuits against a couple of mobile phone makers based in Taiwan, mainland China and Hong Kong. They claim that these companies copied its products and breached its patents.

However, the interesting point to note here is that Samsung itself has copied several popular models of Nokia and Motorola in the past couple of years.

http://news.techwhack.com/3150-samsung-asian-mobile-manufacturers/

"Vista isn't selling"

Why are you trying to convince yourself? What is so deeply wrong with you? It's the fastest-selling OS of all time:

http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2007/05/16/vis ta-40-million-licenses/

The way that Linux users just shove their fingers in their ears, say "blah bla blah" over the top of facts and refuse to believe anything makes me ashamed to be part of this community.

I recently visited Gujarat, India - where about 40% of vehicles on the road used CNG with most areas now having a CNG gas filling stations.

It comes out very cheap in India, about 1Rs per Km roughly equivalent to 0.3 cents per mile.

Govt. of India is now mandating all its public transport buses to run on CNG - http://www.automotiveworld.com/WCV/content.asp?con tentid=58608

Also Ford released its new Ikon 2007 with a CNG model - http://business.techwhack.com/2040/2007-ford-ikon/

Until an American company learns that I want to play my music in formats I define, I will not buy DRM-infested music from either store. Instead I will continue to use free music services I find by searching for "free music" on my favorite search engine.

Then, of the MP3 playing/listening market, you are on the fringe. More power to you, but you don't see a lot of grassroots products selling 100 million units.

I'm still on the fence about an mp3 player. I'll probably just get some poopy little job that works with USB flash RAM, that way I can plug it into my new car radio or take it with me. I'm not trying to make a fashion statement or raise consciousnesss. I'm just a consumer who wants to enjoy life a little bit more by having less conspicuous consumerism shoved in my face.

1- Missing url for SpiralFrog
2- Music files WILL be playable on a portable player.

Antivirus firm Kaspersky is calling the virus "Stardust". This virus is basically contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros and then infects a global template, which is used by the application to generate new documents. If a victim opens the file carrying this virus, Stardust copies it into the global template and all contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros and then infects a global template gets infected by it used by that copy of the software.

I think Apple would tell you to either wait indefinately or get a MacBook Pro. I would say do what you want when you want, but don't expect Apple to ever support running OS-X on a generic PC. In fact they will actively try to prevent you from doing that like they are currently trying to do with thier use of TPM to prevent booting the OS on other than apple hardware.

If they really didn't have it, they have already assimilated that particular strand of DNA:

Product line.

If they build up anticipation, and try to make it a big event, some people will begin to anticipate it.

Apple has a great product (I own one myself, and I LOVED it), but the ipods have a few flaws, ok,ALOT of flaws.

If Amazon could design a device that a) has a battery that doesnt die after 1 year b) has a hard drive that doesn't die after 1 year I'd be alot happier.

I have a 5 year old mp3 player that still works great (too bad it only holds 128 megs). My 4G ipod just died after 1 year 1 month exactly (never dropped it or anything which would damage it in any way). Now, I understand hardware can die, but for $400, I'd expect it to last more then a year. Luckily I bought a 2 year warranty so I got mine replaced for free, but many other people weren't so lucky and now have a $400 paperweight.

If your ipod isn't under warranty you can always get the battery replaced for around $60-70, if its the hard drive, you might aswell buy a new one. I will never buy another iPod or Apple product again after the stress and fustration this ordeal has caused me.

This last christmas, my sister and her husband decided to buy themselves 2 ipod nanos, they ended up returning them and getting replacements about 5 times because they didnt work (each replacement didnt work either). They eventually gave up on the nano and bought 2 ipod videos.

I'll probably be modded down for speaking out against Apple/ipod.

dead ipods faulty ipods

Ipod Battery Class Action Lawsuit Class Action Lawsuit against Apple for their faulty Ipod Nano Apple settles Ipod Class Action Lawsuit

The iPod Customer Service Story and Other Fairy Tales

http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

Hopefully Amazon's "ipod" will work for more then a year. I could care less about how it looks, it will be in my pocket 99% of the time anyway. So please, design something that is a quality product, not just pretty looking.

I believe you are mistaken in your analys.

It doesn't mean it "sounds simular to psychology 101" it is what you think to read. It's just flattering you praise my ability to recognise psychological patterns and making an analogy as accurate it makes you suspect I speak out of experience or am writing from my subcontious.

There was no personal information in my post, but mostly it seems most slashdotters seem to relate best to "highschool dynamics" and analogies relating to that. I do not speak in terms of "smarter", "the whole school", cause I haven't been there in quite a while. I don't mirror myself to my "popularity" to define myself or to place myself into society (nor my intelligence, nor my education, nor my possesions).

As a matter of fact when you get into the "real world" (I'm assuming you're a highschool kid) popularity matters not. The results you deliver matter, your actions and how you take care of your family and people who have value in your life and not how "cool" people think you are.

You don't have to agree persé, people disagree, not everyone thinks the same. Doesn't mean the other has "unresolved social issues" when one doesn't share your views or misses the motivation of certain comments which imply IE-usage is down and decling. Exact percentages are impossible to show. Cause ofcourse windowsupdate will have a near 100% usage IE browsers.

Now, you say "You cannot neglect 80%" (as that seems to be your point). You cannot neglect that 20% goes out to actively download a browser when one is installed in the OS already, which caused IE to win the browserwars. In my view Microsoft is trying to stop people migrating away and implementing features which weren't planned to keep up.
So to you, Microsoft has remained its identity of "staying steady on front in a dominating position" when they sortof lost interest before?

...but the county producing the most SPAM is still the US.

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http://news.techwhack.com/2510/211135-dell-denies- possibilities-of-an-amd-based-pc/

Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.

Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.

Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.

)this was mentioned a few posts up but noone seemed to catch it)

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Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.

Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.

Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.

Industries which are dominated by a single firm may allow the firm to act as a near-monopoly or "de facto monopoly", a practice known in economics as monopolistic competition. Common historical examples arguably include corporations such as Microsoft and Standard Oil (Standard's market share of refining was 64% in competition with over 100 other refiners at the time of the trial that resulted in the government-forced breakup). Practices which these entities may be accused of include dumping products below cost to harm competitors, creating tying arrangements between their products, and other practices regulated under antitrust law.

Microsoft has already said that even if an HD-DVD upgrade comes for the XBOX 360, game's will not be shipped using the format. This would alienate all the players who didn't shell out for one of the upgrades. The HD-DVD drive would be used as an option to watch HD-DVD movies only.

The author should have done a little research.

In fact, in my simple Google search for "Microsoft XBOX 360 HD-DVD Support" the front page came up with an article confirming this.

Seriously, "journalists"... research is not that hard. I'll give you a hint: you can't spell 'research' without 'search'.

http://games.techwhack.com/148/sony-playstation-3- rumors-say-sony-might-lose-usd-100-on-each-unit/

Its just a rumor but pretty standard fare for a company to lose money selling the system and making money on the games. Microsoft lost a ton of money trying to shove the Xbox down our throats.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000943061481/ http://news.techwhack.com/2182/041013-toshiba-unve ils-a-laptop-with-hd-dvd-drive-to-showcase-technol ogy/

So... a 1x read-only HD DVD drive vs. Pioneer's BDR-101A which reads and writes and is faster than 1x. Oh, and it's only just been shown in the past 2-3 weeks. Bravo!

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_06/pr080 1.htm

Fair enough, you got me. They talk about mass production, but they don't put any timetable out for when they'll ramp up production. For a press release directly from Toshiba, it's sorely lacking in details you'd think they'd want to tell the whole world about.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/ne xt-gen-dvd.ars/2 http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/1451 10.html

An Ars Technica article written by someone who failed economics, and a press release touting HD DVD replication hardware by a Swedish firm. Not exactly what I was hoping for...

How is there aren't sites like blu-ray.com that have pictures of tons of HD DVD hardware and media? Why is this stuff so hard to come across? It's almost like... it doesn't exist.

Public demos of a *laptop* HD DVD drive enough for you?

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000943061481/
http://news.techwhack.com/2182/041013-toshiba-unve ils-a-laptop-with-hd-dvd-drive-to-showcase-technol ogy/

And for HD DVD-R media:

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_06/pr080 1.htm

On replication issues:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/ne xt-gen-dvd.ars/2
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/1451 10.html

... as you can see - they're not really saying anything at all.

"You never hear Firefox users down on Opera"

Heck, even Mozilla employees keep putting down Opera and even lying about it :(

"Lots of people don't like the interface (its not really like firefox)"

"its Javascript implementation (while getting better) is barely as good as IE"

"and the fonts look terrible everytime I've tried to use it in Linux."

I just googled "10 year PS2" and got lots of articles quoting it from the 2004 GDC, here's the I'm Feeling Lucky link: http://news.techwhack.com/4/sony-sees-10-year-life -for-playstation-2-console/

"I was merely trying to tell, that a commercial company bashes its competitor is not something to be treated seriously."

Interesting that you should mention people that are whining... Maybe you should take a look at your precious Mozilla's behavior some time?

First, Apple and Nokia for new portable web browser
Next, Apple and Intel deal to make processors for Apple computers.
Now, Nokia and Intel to make hi-speed wifi.

Will Apple be the first hardware vendor to have a portable device that uses the new hi-speed wifi w/ this browser?

don't know but was this the work of the north korean hackers? http://news.techwhack.com/1347/04060505-msn-korea- hacked-for-stealing-user-passwords/ by the way...notice the article says independent parties reported this perhaps there are other independent parties in the U.S. who are even more capable than the CIA. just a guess

I hope someone will take iTunes to the next level and truly offer a global service. I realize this isn't Apples fault, but it still sucks.

I'm sure that as soon as the music industry can work out all the rights issues and agree on terms, Apple will jump on the opportunity to increase the selection of music in iTunes.

Currently the US iTunes music store has "French Pop" and "German Pop" sections .. I imagine that they'll expand their selection whenever possible. I heard something about them adding a large Chinese music section at some point a few months ago, but I don't think it's happened yet. (Or at least I don't see it.) .. Aha, here is a news story about it.

On the other hand, I think the single biggest reason (beyond that users have "grown up" with Windows) that Linux is such a minor player in the desktop market is lack of applications, a problem plauging the Apple platform. I read an article a few months back (no link sorry) where the author claimed that 5% marketshare would be the tipping point for linux, where it would snowball. Once linux gets enough marketshare, software manufacturers have to release linux ports or risk alienating a strong userbase. Once there are major applications for linux, more users will use it. More users mean more applications, which mean more users.

Brain Chip That Reads Mind

BrainGate

Isn't this old news? I've seen the gmail links on google search a while ago. It's not something new to me. They've been sneaking in gmail invites into their popular Blogger service for a while as a way to slowly increase their user base while they probably sit back and build the infrastructure to hold more users. Yeah, gmail's been boosting the amount of invites lately, but I still don't see a signu form on their gmail page. I think this is all just more invite leaking. It's not public until their signup page is public. Just look at the trail of evidence: techwhack guardian.co.uk Some other SEO news

It is interesting to note how Minimo uses Opera inventions and pretends that Mozilla.org came up with them... :(

Yeah, they are free to copy features of course. But they shouldn't pretend that they are the innovators, like they usually do.

"The internet is information, and information should be free IMHO. No browser is worth $39, especially a closed source one."

The same is true for Minimo. Did you read the CNET article about Minimo and all the "fantastic innovations"? Guess what, Opera invented all those things, but the Minimo spokesperson tried to make it sound like they were Mozilla firsts.

There's a pattern here. Opera comes up with all these new things. Without Opera, Firefox and other browsers would have been in the Browser stone age.

This is why a company which makes money is a good thing: They are forced to do research and development beyond what everyone else is doing, to come up with new stuff to stay ahead.

http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2004/11/26/ope ra-more-productive-firefox/

http://www.gungfu.de/facts/archives/2004/11/22/why -i-love-opera/

There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine.

Thanks, but we've already heard about Google News.