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Submission + - Netbooks have a huge impact on the PC industry (itrunsonlinux.com)

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Xbm360
Xbm360 writes: "A report from researcher Canalys said 13.5 million netbooks were sold globally in the 1st half of 2009. Telecom companies have several bundling deals, with about 50 operators selling netbooks. The succes of Netbooks also surprised Microsoft & forced them to lower the prices of their XP Home licenses, to regain marketshare over Linux."
Games

Submission + - Microsoft has bought motion-detection technology (hdtvinfo.eu)

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DaMan1970
DaMan1970 writes: "Microsoft has bought 3DV Systems, a company that makes motion-detection technology, for $35 million. You can expect that the motion-detection technology will be implemented into the Xbox 360 in the nearby future.

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/game-consoles/microsoft-is-buying-3dv-systems-and-its-motion-detection-technology.html

Microsoft denied the rumors last week, but a report surfaced last week that Microsoft was buying 3DV Systems.

3DV has developed its so-called ZCams, the cameras do function much like Sony's EyeToy, but they're much more accurate at detecting motion. That's because they're 3-D depth cameras, which sense how far away an object is from the camera."
Windows

Submission + - High-quality HD content can't be played by Vista (hdtvinfo.eu) 2

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DaMan1970
DaMan1970 writes: "Content protection features in Windows Vista from Microsoft are preventing customers from playing high-quality HD audio/video & harming system performance.

Vista requires premium content like HD movies to be degraded in quality when it is sent to high-quality outputs, like DVI. Users will see status codes that say "graphics OPM resolution too high"

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hd-video-formats/high- quality-hd-content-cant-be-played-by-windows-vista .html

There are ways to bypass the Windows Vista protection by encoding the movies using alternative codecs like X264, or DiVX, which are in fact more effective sometimes then Windows own WMV codec. These codecs are quite common on HD video Bittorrent sites, or Newsgroups."
Bug

Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words 239

Posted by kdawson from the don't-you-think-she-looks-tired dept.
Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.

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