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All Recent Tags The official US PlayStation 3 blog has posted a confirmation of the forthcoming firmware update. I think we can accept this as being genuine, seeing as how it has come from the Director of PlayStation Network Operations, Eric Lempel, himself. So no more speculation and rumor, the truth is finally...
Read More | 16 Days Ago | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: 15 Days Ago
Those clever boffins at the University of Bath, England have managed to develop a machine called RepRap which can, effectively, replicate itself. The boffins themselves describe it as being a 3D printer which can print, or rather produce, real mechanical parts. Perhaps most interesting is the claim...
Read More | 18 Days Ago
How much is $630 worth? According to The Register the rather surprising answer is $714. That is the price that an enterprising eBayer has put on some money, and by manipulating the Microsoft Live Search advertising cashback offer implemented by Microsoft last month the guy reckons you can turn a...
Read More | 19 Days Ago
Sky News reports that there are less than 100 days to go before Europeans have to start disposing of their old batteries in a more environmentally friendly manner. It appears that there is a new European Union directive coming in to force which will set national targets for the recycling of...
Read More | 19 Days Ago | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: 16 Days Ago
The good old Federal Communications Commission has finally decided, and about time to, that download speeds of up to 200Kbps cannot be sold as broadband. While those people still struggling on dial-up connections would probably disagree, the truth is that such slow connectivity really does not...
Read More | 20 Days Ago
Not my sentiment but that of Johnathan Nightingale, the Firefox security interface designer no less who has gone on record as saying that "we didn't want to put in something that was half baked" when talking about how the privacy button might interact with websites and mashups alike. Which might...
Read More | 22 Days Ago
According to the New Scientist it appears that Apple has decided to cover all bases when it comes to how iTunes is used. Apparently, buried deep within the iTunes End User License Agreement is this little gem of a clause:
"Licensee also agrees that Licensee will not use the Apple Software for any...
Read More | 24 Days Ago | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: 21 Days Ago
People have been saying that Google is going to buy Digg for the longest time, but now that Digg founder Kevin Rose confirms he is not against selling up does this mean that GDigg is a real possibility? It seems so, yes, and to the tune of $200 million as that's the figure that is flying around the...
Read More | 25 Days Ago | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: 24 Days Ago
The story exposing how some TomTom satnav units had been sold complete with no less than three pieces of malware pre-installed which broke right here in the DaniWeb blogs last year was yesterday named 'Best Information Security News Story' at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Haymarket...
Read More | 26 Days Ago | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: 26 Days Ago
Do any of the following sound familiar? Intel is not only driving but actually creating the USB 3 specification, while at the same time refusing to share the full spec with the industry, oh and don't forget that it has 'borrowed heavily' from the PCI Special Interests Group.
They all do to Intel...
Read More | 26 Days Ago
