Archive for April, 2008
Sales of Blu-ray Disc Not Enough to Stop Home Video Slump
by Marcus Yam - DailyTech
Blu-ray Disc sales growing, but home video revenues are still down .
The future of home video is thought to be set now with Blu-ray Disc emerging as the victor in the high-definition format war, but things aren’t quite so rosy in the present market.
Blu-ray Disc sales have jumped considerably in 2008, […]
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DISH Says News Corp Hired Hacker for Corporate Espionage
by Tom Corelis - DailyTech
News Corp claims hackers only assisted in internal network security.
The world’s “second best hacker” says he was hired under the table by media conglomerate News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal, MySpace, Fox News, and DirecTV.
Christopher Tarnovsky, testifying in Echostar v. NDS, says he was paid $20,000 — mailed inside […]
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Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered
by ScienceDaily
At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. The leading theory says the particles are accelerated by tightly-twisted magnetic fields close to the black hole, but confirming […]
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Mystery Of Ancient Supercontinent’s Demise Revealed
by ScienceDaily
In a paper published in Geophysical Journal International, Dr Graeme Eagles from the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, reveals how one of the largest continents ever to exist met its demise.
Gondwana was a ‘supercontinent’ that existed between 500 and 180 million years ago. For the past four decades, geologists have […]
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Psystar Back Online, First Mac Clones Ship Today
by Wolfgang Gruener - TGDaily
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Miami (FL) – So, is it a hoax or not? Mac clone builder Psystar has experienced in just one week all the good and bad today’s Internet has to offer: The possible availability of a cheap Mac clone spread like wildfire through the Internet last week, confusion about its […]
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AMD’s Radeon 4800 In Production
by Theo Valich - TGDaily
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Mountain House (CA) – Unlike the ATI that we knew before, it appears that AMD’s graphics division is running perfectly these days – and ahead of deadlines. Even though the graphics unit has posted an $8 million loss in the first quarter of this year – in an effort […]
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