Comment Encryption overhead (Score 1) 337
Wouldn't the added encryption, actually cause an increase in overall bandwidth. I guess some people haven't fully switched over to the new system yet.
Comment The big difference will be (Score 1) 535
That microsoft's front doors will not be located in the front like the apple stores, instead they will be at the back. Additionally they won't be called front doors, instead they will be called Start doors.
So yes Our Strategy is completely different.
Submission + - Do we need a light-up, talking Rubik's Cube? Yes.
William Casey writes: Ars Technica was able to get their hands on a production sample of the soon-to-be-released Rubik's Revolution. If you thought the original was a pain in the butt this update adds six games, digital voices, and light up buttons. Does the world really need an electronic Rubik's Cube?
Submission + - The decline and fall of the Palm empire
PetManimal writes: "According to Computerworld, Palm is doomed to decline and failure, thanks to a series of bad business decisions including Palm's acquisition by U.S. Robotics back in 1995 and the musical chairs with PalmSource/PalmOne earlier in this decade. There's also been a lack of innovation — Palm's own corporate timeline has tons of references to innovation and development milestones from 1995 to 2000, but since then it's been mostly boring corporate marketing speak about partnerships, new markets, and product releases. Now the Treo has tons of new competitors, and when the iPhone comes out, it will be game over for Palm, says the Computerworld article: '... Last month, [the] iPhone changed everything. Jobs' Macworld keynote was like a nuclear bomb in the world of smart-phone enthusiasts. The "key influencers" who gave Treos visibility and cachet a year ago — Hollywood types, gadget freaks and absolutely everyone who's anyone in Silicon Valley — have stopped talking about Treos and are simply waiting for the iPhone to come out, at which time they will unceremoniously dump their Treos and embrace the new innovation leader. Meanwhile, it looks like Palm isn't even trying to innovate. [Palm CEO Ed] Colligan said in an interview recently that the company is focused on ease of use, rather than design, and that the company doesn't want to "follow design fads." In other words, Palm is not only failing to set trends, it's not even following them anymore.'"
Submission + - Mobile Porn
An anonymous reader writes: Mobile Porn
Will adult entertainment hit the big time on the very small screen?
http://laptopmag.com/Features/Mobile-Porn.htm
Submission + - Mobile Web Technology Makes SMS Even Cheaper
Fair Internet ltd writes: "London-26/02/07
After voice calling, SMS texting is the most popular feature on
mobile phones.
The SMS industry is very competitive, yet the rates for international
SMS texting remain artificially high across all mobile
providers.
Holiday makers, gap year students, anyone with friends or family
abroad can take advantage of the increasing popularity of mobile
web technology to lower the cost of SMS texting.
-ends-
10pText.co.uk is using mobile web technology for sending
SMS text messages
at cheaper rates to international destinations.
With Easter approaching and holiday makers using their mobile phones
abroad to send
SMS text messages home, mobile phone service providers are continuing
to use a
confusing pricing structure to obscure the price of sending SMS from
other countries.
Most users of mobile phones don't realise the vast increase in cost
for sending SMS
to other countries.
10pText.co.uk uses the mobile Internet to send SMS text messages
at a reduced rate
to international destinations.
The average price charged by UK mobile service providers for sending
SMS from the
UK to other countries is 35p. And even more to send a
text message
from a European country back to the UK.
With http://www.10ptext.co.uk/ SMS messages are sent from the phone
over the
Internet directly to the recipients' mobile phone inbox,
just like
any regular SMS.
45.6 million unique users have used their phones for downloads and
browsing
the mobile Internet in the UK in the last quarter of 2006.
The mobile
web offers new technology for popular features like SMS texting.
"The complexity of mobile phone plans, packages and bundles prevents
a consumer from
realising the steep cost of international SMS texting,"
says
Bernadette Ebene Associate of 10pText.co.uk.
Phones using 10pText.co.uk must be Internet enabled."
Submission + - Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia
Encylopedia Internetica writes: Ars Technica is running a feature on Citizendium, Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger's attempt to build an online knowledge repository that avoids some the 'serious and endemic problems' Sanger has seen with Wikipedia. His decision to launch Citizendium came as a result of the issue with John Seigenthaler's Wikipedia entry. 'Sanger had hoped that Wikipedia would clean up its act, and he was all but certain that the encyclopedia would eventually put an expert review system in place. After Seigenthaler's call, Sanger found the Wikipedia community's response "completely unacceptable" and concluded that they were no longer able to change in important ways.' The feature also looks at the Citizendium 'expert' system as well as the editing and article approval process.
Submission + - Looking at the world with a different eye.
micronicos writes: "An article in the TimesOnlineUK http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and _americas/article1438060.ece led me to WorldMapper http://www.worldmapper.org/
"The might of the US is vividly illustrated by a new cartogram showing how the world would look if each country took on the size of its military spending".
"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. 366 maps and PDF posters will be finished by February 2007".
Any other applications suggested?"
XPS Notebook Torn-Apart and Overclocked 24
Pelly writes "For those who are interested in seeing the inner-workings of Dell's latest XPS M1710 flagship notebook, Hot Hardware has taken the time to rip the system apart and photograph the hardware for your viewing pleasure. In addition, there's some amusing overclocking attempts which utilize the sub-zero temperatures of New Hampshire's winter weather to provide an interesting spin on the review."
Submission + - People with WiFi surf more
MC Gates writes: A new study from the Pwer Internet & American Life Project shows that people who have WiFi at home spend more time online than those without. 'A survey of 798 Internet users found that 72 percent of wireless users check e-mail at least once a day, while only 63 percent of wired broadband users do so. The same pattern held true for reading news online, suggesting that wireless access offers "relentless connectivity" that might change a person's online behavior.' WiFi users also tend to be younger than the general 'net-using population, as they are concentrated between 18 and 49 years of age, instead of 30 to 64 like the general surfing public.
Pthreads vs Win32 threads 385
An anonymous reader writes "It's interesting when different people have different opinions. While I was searching for something on Intel's website, I came across an article on why Windows threads are better than Posix threads. Curiously, I also came across this article on why Posix Pthreads are better that Win32 threads. The thing is, both of these articles are written by the same author!
So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"
So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"
Rosetta Probe Reveals Martian Cloud Systems 26
MattSparkes writes "The ESA's Rosetta probe swooped around Mars on Sunday, completing a key manoeuvre in its 10-year mission to land on a distant comet. The 3-tonne probe came within 155 miles of the planet's surface, and took some incredible images that reveal cloud systems on the planet. "At this time of the Martian year, a large fraction of Mars' atmosphere is evaporating from the southern polar cap and will migrate to the northern polar cap during nothern winter. Over most of the Martian disk one can see large cloud systems.""
Submission + - Is there value in the SMART monitoring technology?
Khuffie writes: "Ars Technicha has a very interesting writeup regarding a study made by Google about hard-drive failures and SMART technology. Their findings? SMART wasn't a very effective way of predicting hard-drive failure, and that contrary to popular belief, "drive failures did not increase with high temperatures or CPU utilization"."
Submission + - Stable Open Source NTFS After 12 Years of Work
irgu writes: "Open source NTFS development started in 1995 by
Martin von Loewis
under Linux, which was
taken over
by Anton Altaparmakov in 2000.
Two years ago Apple hired Altaparmakov to work on Mac OS X and made a
deal with the team to
relicense the code
and return the new one, soonest
in the spring of 2008.
But the team also continued the work
and Szabolcs Szakacsits announced the
read/write NTFS-3G driver
for beta testing last year. Only half year passed and
NTFS-3G reached the stable status
and has been already ported to
FreeBSD,
Mac OS X,
BeOS, Haiku, 64-bit and big-endian architectures, and new CPU's!"
