NCSoft announced on the Aion website that the MMORPG Aion launch version for the West will not come with GameGuard: “After analyzing our open beta test results Aion will not feature GameGuard at launch. We will however continue to pursue ways to effectively utilize GameGuard within Aion in the future. Right now we’re focused...
Washington Post reports that the FCC is to release a net neutrality rule proposal on Monday. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will discuss the rules in a keynote speech at The Brookings Institute. The net neutrality rule is to prevent telecomm, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications. A neutral broadband network is one...
Many owners of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) are reporting that their machines are dead with a flashing yellow light, called “The Yellow Light of Death” by gamers. When the flashing yellow light shows, the machine will no longer work. Sony admits that many tens of thousands of PS3 have failed this way since PS3...
Jahah, a VOIP start-up launched a voice phone call service for Twitter users on September 9. 2009. It is called the @Call service and is in beta release. It is only being picked up by blogs today. To make a call, you just need to tweet a @ reply to the person you want...
Taiwan Economic News reports that Apple will launch its newest tablet PCs next February, and a couple of Taiwanese suppliers of PC parts and components have joined the supply chain and will start delivery to Apple in December, according to industry sources. According to TEN: “The tablet PC features a 9.6-inch screen, finger-touch function...
Update: This appears to be an untrue rumor. It spread fast nonetheless because of the original tweet. Mark Glaser @mediatwit sent out a tweet: “Source with knowledge of deal tells me video service Brightcove in talks with Google about buyout in $500m to $700m range.” Brightcove is an online video platform used by media...
Microsoft today launches Bing Visual Search. You can play with it here http://www.bing.com/visualsearch For example, when you search digital cameras, it shows the images of 1,562 digital cameras in an semi-3D array, see image on the left. You can scroll up and down to pick the ones that look nice to you, or you...
The brave people at iFixit teared open a 32 GB third-generation iPod Touch to look at the parts inside. They found two interesting differences with the older iTouch. 1. There us a Broadcom BCM4329 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo chip, which supports the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard in addition to 802.11a/b/g standards. The Broadcom BCM4329 integrates a complete...
Apple has open sourced Grand Central Dispatch, a new technology added in MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that for developers to take make effective use of multi-core parallelism. It is also called libdispatch, and the source code is available at http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/. This move comes as a surprise to many because it is a...
Live from Yerba Buena Center: Standing ovation for Steve Jobs as he enters the stage. The new iPhone / iTouce 3.1 will include ready-made iTunes ringtones from 4 labels at $1.99 each new iTunes supports app management within iTunes, you can drag apps around the page a Genius DJ that automatically plays a endless...