When Steve Jobs announced iTunes Movie Rentals at the Macworld San Francisco 2008 keynote, he said that the digital rentals would appear 30 days after their DVD release. This delay is typically mandated by the movie studios who hold back “on demand…
Archive for February 20th, 2008
Feb20
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services makes a good first impression
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. This aphorism applies to so many things — dating and job interviews come to mind. It also applies to software, something I was reminded of when I got to use SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) for the first…
Filed in: Software
Feb20
New Tech May Lead to Mind-Control Game Play
Emotiv Systems unveiled a new gaming headset that uses thoughts and movement to control on-screen character movements. The San Francisco-based peripheral company demonstrated the Emotiv EPOC at the Wednesday kickoff of the Game Developers Conference, the annual confab where developers, designers and hardware companies showcase their wares.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb20
LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch point
Skinkers, a Microsoft OEM, is expanding the beta this week of LiveStation, a peer-to-peer (P2P) application that delivers live TV and radio to a user’s PC. The LiveStation player is based on Silverlight.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb20
Train Station Hack
A hacker takes control of a huge display at a train station from his cell phone. (With subtitles)
Author: 
vidyokanal
Tags: train station hack hacker control huge display cell phone guy crazy amazing technology electronic fun funny awesome
Posted: 20 February 2008
Rating: 4.8
Votes: 4
Filed in: Enterprise Tech
Feb20
Installing Windows Vista SP1
I recently downloaded and installed Windows Vista SP1 RTM. This is not a quick install. The SP1 install took about an hour on an Intel Core 2 Quad Gateway desktop. It had three stages and rebooted several times. You can have the install reboot automatically or configure it for a…
Filed in: Software
Feb20
Evolution: The Right Tool for the Job?
The Job Within the open source — and especially the Linux — community, there are basically two options for replacing Microsoft Outlook: Kontact and Evolution. As you know, Outlook is an all-in-one e-mail, calendar, task, and contact application that also publishes information. In a corporate environment (especially a large…
Filed in: Software
Feb20
Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans
Microsoft is sharing more details about its small- and mid-size servers due out later this year that will be built around Windows Server 2008. Here are some new tidbits about the pending “Cougar” and “Centro” releases.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb20
More iPhone SDK Hints? BBC iPlayer, Gameloft Games
Guardian.co.uk reports on BBC announcements about their iPlayer streaming television service, including usage stats. Amongst the announcements, however, is also the tidbit that the BBC will be launching their iPlayer service to be available on Apple…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb20
Prerequisite Vista SP1 update pulled
In response to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs flooding support newsgroups, Microsoft has pulled an update designed to prep Vista for Service Pack 1. This pair of prerequisite files modify Vista’s install components. From ComputerWorld: According to [Nick] White [Vista program manager], Update 937287 was…
Filed in: Software
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