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Wii System Menu 4.0 Released 94

Posted by Soulskill
from the storage-is-good dept.
dougisfunny writes "The Wii System Menu 4.0 has been released. It adds a number of features that people have been waiting for, including the ability to use SDHC cards, as well as the ability to download and play things directly off of the SD/SDHC card rather than the internal memory. This was announced at GDC09 by Nintendo's President Saturo Iwata in his keynote address. More information can be found at Nintendo's website."
AMD

AMD to Lose x86 lisence?->

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chise1
chise1 writes "As if Intel's Core and Nehalem architectures haven't hurt AMD enough, Intel recently spoke with AMD with strong concerns regarding AMD's joint venture with semiconductor company Globalfoundries. Says Intel:

"[We] believe that Global Foundries is not a subsidiary under terms of the agreement and is therefore not licensed under the 2001 patent cross-license agreement."

Intel continued, saying that "AMD cannot unilaterally extend Intel's licensing rights to a third party without Intel's consent," said Bruce Sewell, Intel's general counsel, who added that the company is "willing to find a resolution."

Do you agree with Intel's claims, or is this just a publicity stunt?"
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Microsoft

Windows 7 Beta Downloaders Get Garbage->

Submitted by Catalina588
Catalina588 writes "Neowin.net http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/09/windows-7-public-beta-released-remember-to-patch posts links to Microsoft's Download Center for the much-awaited Windows 7 Beta, activation keys, and patches. The Microsoft site was deluged yesterday but is back up on Saturday morning (Eastern US Time). Unfortunately, the thousands of users fighting to get one of the 2.5 million Windows 7 downloads promised by Microsoft are liable to be disappointed; the download completes "successfully" after sending only a couple hundred megabytes of the 2.43 GB ISO file. Burned to a DVD, the result is another digital coaster. This puts disappointed users back in the overloaded download queue. In short, Microsoft's presumed ability to ship working bits across the Internet is compromised by this download-fiasco episode."
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Windows

Update for Windows 7 Beta -- MP3 files at risk->

Submitted by
YITBOS
YITBOS writes "That didn't take very long at all. I saw an "Update for Windows 7" already listed on the MSDN Windows 7 downloads page. This patches a flaw that could result in a lot of angry Beta testers with MP3 collections.

From the description of the Update:
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        When MP3 files are added (either manually or automatically) to either the Windows Media Player or the Windows Media Center library, or if the file metadata is edited with Windows Explorer, several seconds of audio data may be permanently removed from the start of the file. This issue occurs when files contain thumbnails or other metadata of significant size before importing or editing them.
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The update should stop Windows 7 from modifying any MP3 files, but they also suggest users set all MP3 files as "read only" before installing the beta.

Might this be the real reason behind the beta being temporarily pulled while they address this and not the high traffic download as claimed?"
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