A United States piracy list pointed to China, Russia, and Canada as the top three worst governments for enforcing copyright policy in the world (in respective order). China’s Foreign Ministry stated that these claims were “groundless” and says that China is doing a lot to combat piracy in copyrighted films, music, video games and other [...]

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The National Ignition Facility in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory performed a successful test of the controlled fusion experiments using all 192 lasers. This test did not utilize the full power of the system. Higher power tests will begin in May. One of the concerns that this test alleviated was that the plasma produced by [...]

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The AMD Radeon HD 5670 will be the first graphics card to support Direct X for under 100 dollars–essentially allowing “next generation” graphics for nearly any budget. The graphics card will be smaller than previous models, and yet it will still support features like DirectCompute 5.0, Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming and DX11, such as tessellation, in [...]

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During Capital Market Day, Nokia unveiled plans to overhaul the user interface design for Symbian smart phone. The chief executive of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, stated “Symbian OS is not the problem, the user interface is.” The new user interface will show up in phones in 2010. The goal of the new design will be to [...]

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Barnes & Noble will launch a Google Android powered wireless device that they hope will make them competitive with Amazon.com. The device will have a 6-inch touch screen and virtual keyboard. In July, Barnes & Nobles announced that it would be returning to the e-book market with some type of digital-book store.

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AT&T is now changing it’s mind about VOIP applications. It will now allow applications such as Skype and Vonage to run on it’s 3G wireless network. Consumers will rejoice at this decision, which will tax AT&T’s system resources. Recently the Federal Communications Commission has been investigating both Apple and AT&T on how it treats VoIP [...]

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Time, place and message are three vital components to match a need with a product. Apple may be able apply some innovative thinking and help transform the newspaper, magazine and textbook industry with a new product. Apple is planning on placing a multitouch tablet on the market. With it’s ever popular iTunes store to distribute [...]

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One year ago, Yahoo rolled out Messenger 9 with video conferencing abilities. It was not a strong competitor to Skype, but was an obvious direction for the IM powerhouse. With Yahoo Messenger 10, video quality will be greatly improved making the tool a strong competitor with Skype for Windows users. Yahoo Messenger 10 will not [...]

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Google is currently in the process of building a replacement of its 10 year old file system, Google File System (GFS). GFS was never intended to handle all the kinds of applications that it currently governs–apps like Gmail and Youtube. The system, designed in the 90s, was made for batch-oriented applications such as web crawling [...]

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Sharepoint by Microsoft could be described as a “jack of all trades / master of none”. While Microsoft sales have fell for the first time in history, Sharepoint has climbed. The software can be used to build websites, as content management for those websites, as a business intelligence tool for corporate business, as a collaboration [...]

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