Archive for May, 2008
Brazil, India Join Appeals of OOXML Approval
Despite the approval of Microsoft’s Open Office XML standard by two worldly standards bodies, the document format is not yet on stable ground. India and Brazil have joined South Africa in contesting the approval, standards officials revealed.
“By the deadline last night (Thursday), we had received…
BioShock coming to the iPhone
Gaming on the iPhone is going to be huge, game developers just can not keep their hands off of the iPhone, and for good reason. The device has a ton of horsepower, and has already proven it is more than capable of playing games, as well as perform all sorts of other functions. that is a very complex…
Surf Chair for the Lazy
There is nothing quite like spending a quiet afternoon on a comfortable chair, surfing on your favorite websites. that makes the Surf Chair very suitable for such activities, allowing you to just laze while enjoying the latest webcomics or movie reviews without a care in the world. The monitor, whi…
FCC approves Philips X800
Guess here’s more nitty gritty on the Philips X800 after receiving the nod of approval from the almighty FCC. Guess several things are confirmed now, including Chinese character input as well as an English-Chinese dictionary. It does come with EDGE connectivity, but that’s as far as it goes since 3…
Comcast Hijackers Expose Flaws in Web’s DNS
Teenage hackers temporarily hijacked and defaced several Comcast Web sites and redirected user e-mail in an exploit that appears to expose fundamental weaknesses in the Internet’s Domain Name System. The hackers, known as Defiant and EBK, apparently used “social engineering” — persuading insiders t…
Seagate Jumps into SSD Game
Seagate will be making its move into the SSD storage market as well as unleash a spanking new 2TB hard drive sometime next year. 2TB is a whole lot of space, as most of the current commercial 3.5″ hard drives top out at 500GB. that will definitely be good news to those who deal with plenty of goods…
Asustek Essentio CS5110
Asustek will be launching the Essentio CS5110 as part of their Eee Station series at Computex early next month. What that tiny multimedia desktop PC will have include an optional Blu-ray drive for folks who prefer to enjoy their high definition media in front of the computer instead of the living r…
