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An anonymous reader writes "The Financial Times reports that Microsoft will take a charge against profits of more than $1bn as it tries to limit the potential damage to its videogames business from a design flaw in the Xbox 360 games console leading to units failing." It's bigger even than that, though. Early this week the news was about Xbox Live's growth, but since yesterday the headlines have taken a turn. Peter Moore has admitted the company is shy of their goal, some 400,000 units short of the 12 million Xboxes they'd planned to ship. These facts combined have made for some grim questions, including the San Jose Merc's Nooch asking why you'd want to buy an Xbox in the first place.
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version fixes several crash bugs and other
minor bugs.
As if the humiliating (and really, it should also be rather humbling) experience of being the first "stylestant" axed from Season Two of Shear Genius wasn't bad enough for Mr. Oshun (of the Motion Lotion Potion), I discovered his awesome exit interviews on BravoTV.com are filled with incredulity, incoherence, and a big side-order of incompetence...
"It's not faaaaaaaaaaaair!"
...mix in a generous portion of self-delusion (he truly is Cleopatra, Queen of Denial) and you won't believe some of the amazing and magical things he said about his being ousted first! See my (attempt) at transcription after the jump.
BEA's WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic application server and will undergo very little reengineering, Oracle president Charles Phillips said.
We step onto the pitch with EA's latest soccer offering.
It's never clear how a company plans on implementing a given patent, but Sony's patent application for a haptic touchscreen composed of "tactile pixels" lists former Sony Computer Entertainment chief Phil Harrison as the inventor and makes several references to potential use in "a game device" and to "game events," so it's a safe bet that it was at least developed with the PSP in mind. The patent app describes a sophisticated haptic feedback system that goes well beyond the basic rumble of today's device -- the pixels themselves are able to move up and down between two positions, providing direct feedback to user actions. That's certainly an interesting idea, but like all patent news, we're not going to hold out hope for it to surface in a consumer device anytime soon -- but we're willing to be surprised, you know?
Im guessing hes in for some real punishment now...
The top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe with Amazon's data taken from June 28th, 2007.
Xbox 360, North America:
1. The Darkness (2K Games)
2. Guitar Hero II Bundle (RedOctane)
3. Forza Motorsport 2 (Microsoft)
4. Gears of War (Microsoft)
5. DiRT (Codemasters).
PlayStation 3, North America:
1. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
2. The Darkness (2K Games)
3. Resistance: Fall of Man (SCEA)
4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)
5. MotorStorm (SCEA).
Today, CVG.com brings you the second and concluding part of their interview with Jeffrey Steefel, executive producer on The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. They quiz him about the current MMO scene, possibilities of a Lord of the Rings console MMO and the future of the genre...
Music Editor, from Eidos Interactive
Apple and AT&T today announced that iPhone users will be able to activate their new iPhones using Apple?s iTunes software running on a PC or Mac computer in the comfort and privacy of their own home or officew ithout having to wait in a store while their phone is activated. The company said that the iPhone takes only minutes "as iTunes guides the u...
"We don't have a secret team in the basement" assures the UK-based developer.
Rare promises that there's "no secret team" working on sequels to classic Nintendo favourites, Killer Instinct and Jet Force Gemini, despite the hopes and cries of legions of fans.
Christopher Hitchens and his even crazier brother Peter are at odds. Which side to support? "Picking between a man who sticks to mineral water (Peter, oddly enough) and another whose initial drinks order was 'I'll have a triple Scotch on the rocks and a bottle of red wine chaser' is never going to be easy." [Independent]
Console fighting games and a battle of the bands.
Fully prepared for its launch later this week.
Preview of the Advert for the new Colin Mcrae DIRT game out on xbox360/PC now and PS3 soon.Directed by Julian Dyson.
Small is beautiful. IT directors should build a case for SOA projects by starting with smaller targets, speakers at the BEA Systems executives annual Arch 2 Arch customer conference in Nice have advised.
Any comic reader of the last fifteen years probably knows who Neil Gaiman is, thanks to his enormously successful and influential "Sandman" graphic novels. And with his latest novel, "Anansi Boys," debuting at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, odds are non-comic readers have probably heard of him too.
(InfoWorld) - The $100 million?datacenter consolidation project?being undertaken by Hewlett-Packard will help it be more efficient but also informs the consulting advice it gives to client companies.
HP officials updated customers, employees and partners on the progress of its project Tuesday at the HP Technology Forum being held in Las Vegas.
The company is in the second year of a three-year process to consolidate 85 datacenters worldwide in just six -- two each in Atlanta, Houston, and Austin, Texas. Three of the six new sites are already up and running and the remaining three should be completed within 60 days, said Randy Mott, executive vice president and chief information officer of HP.
"It's not just around moving stuff to a different place," said Mott, in a clear case of understatement. Data center consolidation gives HP, and any company that does it, a chance to refresh their technology, move to industry standard products, eliminate redundant or outdated hardware and software, and engineer energy efficiency, a major concern of late, into the datacenter.
At the Tech Forum, Mott said the data center project, which is scheduled to be completed in late 2008, will reduce the total number of servers by 30 percent, but increase the total processing power by 80 percent. It will reduce the cost of storage but double total storage capacity, and the cost of running HP's corporate network will go down but the bandwidth will be tripled.
HP has already decommissioned 12 of the 86 datacenters, said Mott.
And for HP, going through the process gives its HP Services group new insights they can apply to customers trying to upgrade their data centers.
"We try make sure it's done right inside HP and then we can do that for customers," said Tony Redmond, vice president and chief technology officer for HP Services.
Teams from HP's IT department, which handles the company's own IT systems, and from the HP Technology Services unit, which provides technology to client firms, work together on the datacenter project. Work the HP Services people do will help the Technology Services people advise their own clients, Redmond said.
HP's technology infrastructure developed in a piecemeal fashion, just like that of many other companies. For instance, part of the project involves what companies call "software rationalization," going through the thousands of software applications that HP uses to weed out those that are redundant, outdated or just useless. HP applications may be duplicated by similar applications from Compaq Computer, which HP acquired in 2002 and Digital Equipment, which Compaq bought in 1998.
HP is also going to deploy a new approach to cooling at the new datacenters. Called Dynamic Smart Cooling, it involves a number of heat sensors attached to each of the servers in a datacenter. The sensors can tell when a server is heating up because it's doing a lot of processing and then directs cold air at that server. When the server slows down, the sensor can tell and the cold air reduced.
Dynamic Smart Cooling, developed within HP Labs, will demonstrate at HP's own datacenters how the technology may work for others.
The future will be a feast for the senses, with breakthroughs that enhance computers' ability to hear, see, and even smell for us.
Check out the drama in this cutscene from Vampire Rain.
Few weeks ago, a rumor circulated the net that Gary Whitta would be working with Legendary Pictures to develop a Diablo film. The participation of Gary Whitta hasn't been confirmed, but surprise-surprise. Legendary Pictures website is listing Diablo under the "In Development" section.
It comes to attention, this media-slip comes within a month and a half of BlizzCon 2007. The rumor and hype is a Diablo game will be announced at the Anaheim Convention Center in August 3-4.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for industry participation in a new program to develop tiny, autonomous ground robots that can act as mobile radio relay nodes during urban operations, according to a June 5 agency announcement.
The program, dubbed LANdroid, envisions a fleet of robots that soldiers can deploy in a city as they move through houses and streets. The idea, DARPA says, is to have these drones form a network capable of relaying radio traffic in a setting often considered challenging for communications equipment.
According to a notional image of a LANdroid included in a DARPA pamphlet, each robot will be about the size of a deck of cards. They must be rugged, lightweight and able to operate for seven to 14 days, the agency said.
The drones also must be inexpensive – about $100 each – so soldiers need not put themselves in danger in order to retrieve them.
DARPA officials will provide information about the program during a July 6 industry day, according to the statement...
A Boeing 747-400 makes an amazing landing on the island of St. Maarten, just meters above the heads of curious onlookers.
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Dog owning a cats head.
Introduces NAS with 2.5-inch drives in anticipation of greater capacity.
Auralex Acoustics, the industry leader in innovative sound control solutions, introduces new Ceiling Tiles at this year’s InfoComm show (Booth C4984). Auralex’...
TVGB: "While new game announcements for the Wii from European and American developers are still scarce, support from Japan seems to be steadily on the rise. The increasing recognition of the Wii as a viable platform for traditional as well as simpler games is clearly evident, and is beginning to mirror the DS's path to success."
NYPD Offer Declined in Mont. Search for 2 Escaped Inmates, Suspect in Letterman Plot
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Square Enix will be holding a special party in the San Francisco Bay Area to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy.
Here’s everyone’s favorite, and probably hottest female athlete ever Anna Kournikova in Miami. Sure she’s not playing tennis anymore and has never won anything of significance, but she did win the trophy in my pants and that’s like winning a Glam Slam. So Anna, come collect your prize.
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A look at what worked and what didn't from the multiplayer beta (RIP).
From the article:
"For all the controversy surrounding Bungie's inclusion of equipment into multiplayer, we think Halo 3's new gadgets went down fantastically well. Bubble Shields, Power Drainers and Portable Grav Lifts all added to the gameplay without giving you a direct advantage - and they're bloody good fun to use as well. Top marks."
HP and Acer signed a confidential agreement ending all patent disputes between them.
In a world ravaged by endless conflict and natural disaster, a call for peace turns into a bloodbath of betrayal and deceit. Playing as a warrior riding a voracious dragon trained for deadly aerial and ground combat, and capable of scorching, clawing and smashing thousands of enemies, gamers must defeat countless armies to save a civilization. Together, the gamer and the beast will attempt to change the destiny of a world on the brink of extinction.
All new passports issued from November will store two digital fingerprints in an embedded chip, which, since 2005, includes a digital photo, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior said Friday.
While fingerprints will be stored exclusively in passport chips, photos will continue to be saved additionally in databases of local authorities. A new amendment gives police and other authorized government officials online access to these databases.
Unlike several other countries in Europe and abroad, Germany has no central database for photos or fingerprints of all citizens or for registered foreigners living in the country, and currently lacks plans to establish one, according to a ministry spokeswoman.
Centralized data, including photos and fingerprints, exists only for people registered with the police for criminal activity, and for applicants for German visas.
Only readers equipped with a new cryptographic protocol can read the passports including both photos and fingerprints.
The Extended Access Control system connects the chip and the reader by establishing a secure communications channel over a distance of 10 centimeters to 20 centimeters.
Moves by the German government to digitize increased levels of personal data and link databases among authorities have led to an outcry by some groups, including federal and state data privacy commissioners. At a meeting in D?sseldorf on Friday, the commissioners criticized the government's programs that amass personal data, including telephone records, and its plans to give greater power to police officials to monitor terrorists and other criminals online by allowing them to hack into computers.
In 2008, the German government plans new ID cards for all citizens with the same biometric features, according to the spokeswoman. "There are three primary reasons to issue biometric ID cards: to avoid false IDs, strengthen the identification process and also offer an authorization possibility for services such as online purchases," she said.
By 2010, Germany hopes to have a new central database containing core data about each citizen and registered inhabitant of the country, according to the spokeswoman. The data includes name, birthday and address but will not contain a photo or fingerprints, she said.
In February, the government passed a law allowing security officials in the country to create the?largest and most comprehensive pool of personal data?ever amassed in the country. The databases of nearly 40 different agencies, including the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), are now being linked to allow authorities to run searches on suspected individuals and retrieve information within minutes.
An expanded index file is being created for suspected terrorists. The file will contain the person's name, bank account number, telephone number, e-mail address, driver's license information and other data, including the names of companies, organizations and other parties associated with the person and linked to terrorist groups.
Since the start of this week, law enforcement officials in Germany and Austria have electronic access to each other's criminal fingerprint databases. Since 2006, the countries have shared their DNA databases as one of several measures agreed by some European Union nations under the Treaty of Pr?m in 2005.
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Festival of the Sun (Sacsayhuaman) in Peru
"In terms of the execs you name leaving we have not heard anything regarding that speculation (and it remains speculation) and we aren't commenting further on those rumours at this time."
Ocean's wins, how much did they pay all those guys anyway?
Free From the Famous Comedian, Laurie David Could Effect More Change
YouTube singing sensation Esmee Denters announced on the Dutch TV show Jensen Monday night that she was the first artist signed to Justin Timberlake's new Tennman Records, many of our wonderful readers in Holland tell PerezHilton.com.
Click here to watch her performing the Prince and - later - Alicia Keys's How Come You Don't Call Me?
She's still a diamond in the rough, but this girl's definitely got potential!
10tacle announced today its acquisition of Budapest?s Stormregion, the developer behind the real-time strategy title Codename: Panzers.
Stormregion is one of Hungary?s first licensed Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 developers, according to 10tacle. The studio is currently developing Codename Panzers: Cold War, which Electronic Arts will distribute throughout Europe.
10tacle expects to have Stormregion develop two more games for release this year.
Hillary Rodham Clinton wooed Silicon Valley campaign donors and voters in California Thursday with a plan to create more high-paying jobs and maintain U.S. dominance in technology. The New York senator and Democratic presidential hopeful said she's trying to increase the number of so-called "H1B visas" aimed at highly educated workers.
Olivier Meyrou may keep his distance from his subjects, but staying out of their way doesn't mean losing sight of their troubles. by Ed Gonzalez
After browsing around youtube I managed to discover a possible release date for Firmware 2.40 and that day is June 10th. Hit the Jump for more
A slew of old-school favorites lead this week's downloading charge.
Sheikh Jassem Al-Mutawah explains the difference between men and women, using modern computer software. Hilarious!
Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU) and James Franco ("Spider-Man" franchise) have been cast opposite Diane Lane and Richard Gere in Warner Bros. Pictures' Nights in Rodanthe , says The Hollywood Reporter . George Wolfe is directing the romantic drama, which is being produced by Denise Di Novi.
Preview of the Advert for the new Colin Mcrae DIRT game out on xbox360/PC now and PS3 soon.Directed by Julian Dyson.
Festival of the Sun (Sacsayhuaman) in Peru
