Mozilla announces first release of Web Apps Project
Mozilla is taking its first step toward building an ecosystem of web apps and challenge both Google and Apple with a completely open alternative. Details are pretty sketchy at the moment but the company has announced a first developer release of its Web Apps Project along 17 demo applications, stable...
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Couple holds first Skype wedding
Samuel Kim and Helen Oh, both 27, were to be married in California until the groom got a lung infection, putting him in the UCI Medical Center hospital in Orange. The duo had friends and family members coming from their native Korea as well as from New York to their...
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Western Digital to buy Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion
Western Digital has just announced an agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock deal valued at about $4.3 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Japan's Hitachi will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business for $3.5 billion in cash and 25 million Western... Read More ...
Judge lets Sony see identities of visitors to GeoHot's PS3 hacking site
Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has awarded Sony a subpoena that allows the company to obtain the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com, the personal website of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, for the past 26 months (since January 2009). Furthermore, Sony's request for subpoenas...
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Turkey bans Google's Blogger over soccer piracy
A local court has banned Google's Blogger service in Turkey in response to a complaint by satellite TV firm Digiturk that streaming media feeds from local soccer games were appearing on multiple Blogger profiles. Unsurprisingly, Google criticized the move, given that everyone is suffering over a few people's illegal actions.
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Weekend tech reading: Crysis 2 performance test by Nvidia
Crysis 2 performance test (by Nvidia) When the original Crysis came out it was universally heralded for its groundbreaking graphics, and while its high-quality visuals were unparalleled at the time, not everyone was able to enjoy them. Crytek had designed Crysis to be "future-proof," meaning that no single graphics card... Read More ...
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