New Rules Sought on TV Retransmission
A group of television providers including big hitters like DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Verizon, have asked the FCC to take another look at the rules governing retransmission of stations. The present agreement was reached in 1992. This action was brought about due to the 21 hour cessation of transmissions last week, notably blocking out part of the Oscar Presentations. The retransmission rules "have repercussions for what Americans can view and how much they pay for it," Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote in a letter last week to the F.C.C. chairman, Julius Genachowski. Mr. Kerry, who has been vocal about the cable fee issue, asserted that the current rules were outdated, adding, "we need to fix the system." Comments
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US Regulators To Announce Major Broadband Policy
The higly anticipated plan is said to make recommendations to drastically increase the average broadband speed, among other things. T-minus 10 years for this to actually occur. "This is a fairly unique event," said Paul Gallant, an analyst with Concept Capital. "The FCC really has never been asked to design a broad regulatory shift like this. Comments
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Sales of Video Games Continue To Plummet
While Xbox hardware sales figures were on top this month as reported earlier, Nintendo's overall sales continued to lead. While sales are still down over 15% from last year. With February sales down 15 percent compared with the same period last year... Microsoft and Nintendo led console sales for the month with 422,000 Xbox 360s and 397,000 Wii consoles sold, respectively. Nintendo's portable player, the DS, led overall hardware sales with 613,000 units sold Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has some news here too, Modern Warfare 2 has become the third-best-selling game of all-time, now at just under 10 million units life-to-date. Which we can assume they mean best selling non-handheld game, as games line Nintendogs and Pokemon have sold more than 14 Million units. Wow...really? Nintendogs? Comments
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Digg 2.0 Unveiled At SXSW
If you are a Digg aficionado and were indiggnant (sorry, I couldn't resist) over the speed of it's operation, there is hope on the horizon. An announcement was made Saturday night on a complete upgrade of the system is in the works to Version 2.0. Let's just hope it wasn't the liquor talking Just before Digg founder Kevin Rose and his Diggnation partner Alex Albrecht took the stage at Stubb's BBQ here, CEO Jay Adelson got in front of the audience of hundreds and took the opportunity to introduce, for the first time, what he said was "five years" of major work on the popular headline aggregation system. Comments
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Systems Engineer Deemed Best Job in America
How well do you like your job? Do you wish you had made a different choice of majors in college? If you elected to be a Systems Engineer, you could have not made a better choice....literally. Welcome to the top of the Super Geek heap. The site first looked at more than 7,000 jobs. It then poured its eyes over numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It selected jobs that would grow by 10 percent or more in the next decade, according to these statistics. Oh, and it had to be a job that required at least a bachelor's degree. Comments
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Super-Soft Toilet Paper Flushing Boreal Forest Down the Toilet
This is not at all technology related story, although an important topic to cover. While we are targeting Third World countries for clear cutting forests, Canada is doing the same all for the comfort of soft toilet paper. I suppose you could say they really do give a crap, but not for their forests. And the ancient trees, some hundreds of years old , are being cleared for the production of disposable paper that is used for the messiest of jobs, says Bennett. Greenpeace, which has led a campaign to drastically reduce toilet-paper usage, says that if every household in Canada replaced one roll of regular tissue with 100 per cent recycled paper, 47,962 trees could be saved. Comments
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Warp Speed Will Kill You
I guess somebody forgot to tell Zefram Cochrane I'm not saying that we know everything and that it's impossible. I'm saying it's kind of impossible based on what we know right now. Comments
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Facebook Games Translated for People Who Don't Care About Them
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I laugh at it, but then I realize I know some of these people. Peter has no actual bowling friends.
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Apple's iPad Could Kill The Mac
Would this be considered patricide or just the natural order of things.....progression without feeling for your ancestor? Well I for one hope not. I still have friends with Macs and I haven't used up all of my jokes yet. Netbooks and nettops have been popular in the Windows world, and it looks like Apple will try to seize some of those buyers with iPhone OS-running mini-PCs. (The iPad is just the first.) If that market explodes and Apple takes its focus away from the Mac, the Mac platform very well might wither in favor of this new, smooth, controlled experience. Comments
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Move Over Jetsons, I Got Me a Jetpack
Bored of your morning commute? Planes, trains, automobiles not doing it for you? Well later this year you'll be in luck! Maybe one of you knuckleheads won that eBay auction a while back? With a range of 31 miles and a maximum speed of 63 miles per hour, you'll be able to jaunt to the store at will, or to the gas station for a fill-up. Comments
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Move over Band of Brothers and Make Way for The Pacific
It looks like Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have collaborated again in an attempt to eclipse arguably the best war movie ever made. The Pacific is a miniseries airing on HBO tomorrow night and from the previews, it could very well replace Band of Brothers as the best. The series will be airing each Sunday through May 16th. Comments
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Google to Shut Down Search Engine In China
The battle between search engine giant Google and the Government of China to allow freedom for its users in China has not surprisingly gone awry. Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine. No Google, even you can't bring freedom of speech to China. Comments
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Behind the Wheel of the Volt.
The Chevy Volt has been electrofying the car world since its infantile concept debut. The Volt is a 110v re-chargeable electric car that is rumored to run 40 miles between charges. Here are some pictures of the the headline making vehicle. You can plug it into any three-pronged household outlet, and it'll take about eight or nine hours to charge, or about three hours at a specially built 240-volt charging station. GM is working with some third-party charging-station companies as well. Comments
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Awesome Avatar Review Spoof
I'm not sure who is behind the animation of GregMutt, but this video is just full of awesomeness. Comments
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Nvidia Launches Anti-Intel Web Site
The gloves have officially been off for a long time. . . but I just cant get enough of these two going at each other. The site is a one-stop resource for those looking to get up to speed on actions being brought against Intel for impeding competition, stifling innovation and for not living up to its agreements which were filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Comments
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