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Submission + - Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood

Submitted by jshriverWVU
jshriverWVU writes: Vudu Box The Vudu box looks like a nifty new device for buying digital media and viewing it on your TV. Here is a snipet from the article: Vudu, if all goes as planned, hopes to turn America's televisions into limitless multiplexes, providing instant gratification for movie buffs. It has built a small Internet-ready movie box that connects to the television and allows couch potatoes to rent or buy any of the 5,000 films now in Vudu's growing collection. The box's biggest asset is raw speed: the company says the films will begin playing immediately after a customer makes a selection.
Privacy

Submission + - Editor forced to quit over criticism of Apple

Submitted by
athloi
athloi writes: "A PC world editor has been forced to quit after publishing a story critical of Apple that drew him into conflict with his boss, who had come to PC world from MacWorld. Apparently, the firing has sharply divided the staff, who are currently edging away from any MacWorld-tinged events. Does the NWO want us to use Macs, after all?"
Businesses

Submission + - Geek Squad fails, $415 charge. Linux recovers HD

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Seems the Geek Squad and Best Buy horror stories never stop coming in. The latest is a piece over at the Consumerist where someone went to Geek Squad to attempt to recover data off a hard drive that apparently crashed. For $415 and 8 days of time, the Best Buy Geek Squad techs failed to recover any data from the drive. The author later tried to recover his data using a friend's Linux box and after 20 minutes, most of his data was recovered. After attempting to get a refund for something that the Geek Squad techs were unable to do, he only managed to get under 1/2 off the fees that he was charged... having to pay almost $250 for nothing.
Microsoft

Submission + - The Deal Steve Jobs Couldn't Refuse

Submitted by
Government Drone
Government Drone writes: "Remember the 1997 deal in which Microsoft bought $150 million in non-voting Apple stock? According to this story in InformationWeek, it wasn't done all out of the goodness of Bill Gates' heart:

Weeks prior to bailing out a struggling Apple Computer by purchasing $150 million of its stock, Microsoft officials threatened to cut development of a key product for the Macintosh in order to coerce its rival to make the deal, according to an e-mail unearthed during a recent court hearing.

The original text of the E-mail is here, which mentions a threat to pull the plug on Office for Mac, but argues against it for a variety of reasons. An interesting backend view of what was happening in Apple's darkest days."
Privacy

Submission + - Military recruiters have access to student records

Submitted by
piersonr
piersonr writes: "Under No Child Left Behind, high schools are required to turn over lists of student contact information to the Department of Defense, which adds this information to an extensive database of children. The Department of Defense claims to need the names, addresses, and phone numbers of high school students for recruiting purposes, because it enables recruiters to contact children directly in their homes and at school, which is often done without the knowledge or consent of their parents. Yesterday, Silicon Valley Congressman Mike Honda introduced legislation to restrict recruiter's access to just those students who have "opted-in" to the list."
Google

Submission + - Google security flaw

Submitted by
jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "Google's desktop search application contained a security flaw that, until recently, would have allowed hackers to take control of a user's computer and access personal files. Google claims to have fixed the problem but a security software firm that discovered the flaw says the Google Desktop application is ripe for abuse. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/022207-googl e-desktop-flaw.html"
Power

Submission + - Solar panel tech claims to become cheaper than gas

Submitted by
UpnAtom
UpnAtom writes: "The Daily Telegraph Business section reports on an Swiss invention that uses a copper indium semiconductor compound to produce electricity.
"The "tipping point" will arrive when the capital cost of solar power falls below $1 (51p) per watt, roughly the cost of carbon power. We are not there yet. The best options today vary from $3 to $4 per watt — down from $100 in the late 1970s.

Mr Sethi believes his product will cut the cost to 80 cents per watt within five years, and 50 cents in a decade."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2007/02/19/ccview19.xml

Any chance this will save the world?"

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