It’s been in the works forever, but it has finally arrived. You can now sign into your AIM account directly through your Gmail. It seems like the changes to Gmail are coming fast and furious — just yesterday colored labels were added too.
The windows Google Talk client doesn’t yet support AIM, and I’m […]
Archive for December 4th, 2007
Dec4
Gmail finally gets AIM support
Filed in: Google
Dec4
Universal’s CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He’s Giving Songs Away
Doug Morris, chair and CEO of Universal Music Group reluctantly agrees to let Amazon and other online retailers sell unprotected MP3s of Universal songs.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec4
Uncovering the Secrets of Ireland’s Ancient Breweries
Two archaeologists about to excavate one of the 5,000 grassy mounds in Ireland known as fulacht fiadhs, dating from 1500 to 500 BC, propose the Bronze Age relics might just be Ireland’s first breweries.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec4
Nightmare Christmas Movies You’ll Never See
What’s red and green and lame all over? A blizzard of faux St. Nick flicks that would turn the holiday into a horror show. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec4
Dec. 5, 1951: ‘Your Car Is on the 12th Floor, Lady’
Designed during the automation craze as an efficient way of parking a lot of cars in a small space, the Park-O-Mat is the direct ancestor the modern automated parking garage.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec4
Wireless keyboards officially insecure?
Security research group Dreamlab have released a new white paper entitled ‘27Mhz Wireless Keyboard Analysis Report’ aka “We know what you typed last summer”. The paper, written by Max Moser & Philipp Schrödel describes the inherent design flaw which leaves a majority of consumer grade wireless keyboards wide open to keylogging….
Filed in: Security
Dec4
New iPod Game: Brain Challenge
Apple has released a new iPod game called Brain Challenge (iTunes Link).
Just like your body, your brain needs exercise to stay in shape Maintaining it simply involves completing small exercises without pain, stress, …
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Dec4
Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms
theraindog writes “Errata are not uncommon with new processors, but a problem with the TLB logic in AMD’s quad-core Opteron and Phenom processors appears to be quite serious. The erratum is so severe that AMD has issued a ’stop ship’ order on all quad-core Opterons. AMD has also blamed this bug for the delay of the 2.4GHz Phenom, despite the fact that the erratum is unrelated to clock speed. A BIOS-based workaround for the issue has been made available to motherboard makers, but it apparently carries a 10-20% performance penalty. What’s more disturbing is that AMD knew of the erratum and the potential performance hit associated with fixing it before it launched the Phenom processor. Hardware provided to the press for reviews did not include the fix, conveniently overstating Phenom performance.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Filed in: Hardware
Dec4
News Corp. Gets Religion
Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., announced Tuesday it has acquired Beliefnet, a leading religious Web site. The purchase expands the media mogul’s marketing and advertising reach into a demographic that provides the company with a balance to its other online properties such as MySpace. Beliefnet, founded in 1999, offers users information and devotional tools on nearly every major religion.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec4
Nokia predicts 10 per cent global mobile market growth in 2008 (Canadian Press)
Canadian Press - HELSINKI, Finland - Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it expects the global market for mobile devices to grow 10 per cent next year, and the company plans to provide its handset owners with more music as part of efforts to enhance its Internet services.
Filed in: Cell Phones
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