The Ten Fastest-Dying Industries in America
Although this article is called the "Ten Fastest-Dying Industries in America," it could easily be called the "ten fastest industries killed by technology." Personally, I think newspapers, DVD-game-video rental, video postproduction services, record stores and film developing are simply evolving not "dying." If I asked you to name America's least fortunate industry, your mind might go to records stores, obliterated by on-demand apps; or photofinishers, left in the cold as digital cameras turn Americans into our own photo editors; or fabric makers, where business is booming ... in Shenzhen, China. Comments
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Anonymous Targets Sony
Anonymous has launched a campaign against Sony in retaliation for the legal action they took against George Hotz and Alexander Egorenkov. As you'd expect from the group, its statements are neither polite nor subtle. It says Sony has "abused the judicial system in an attempt to censor information about how your products work", "victimized [its] own customers merely for possessing and sharing information" and of violating "the privacy of thousands of innocent people who only sought the free distribution of information". Comments
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Kinect Controlling Windows 7
It looks like we are one step closer to controlling our PCs like Tom Cruise in the Minority Report. Not sure how this would work for browsing porn, your damn screen would keep scrolling up and down really fast. Comments
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Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition
The Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition has been reviewed by the gang at Overclockers Club today. It seems the only complaints the OCC crew had about the card is a "slight louder" fan than previous versions and that's about it. The Sapphire HD 6950 FleX is equipped with one of Sapphire's Vapor Chamber cooling solutions that does a great job of reducing the GPU core temperature to manageable levels. During the baseline and overclocked testing, the HD 6950 FleX kept the temperature at 60 degrees Celsius. During the baseline testing, the fan is automatically controlled to keep the noise signature in check and maximize cooling when needed. Comments
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Microsoft Releases Cloud Computing Survey Findings
New technology advancements available in a digital infrastructure, such as cloud computing and social computing, are transforming manufacturing industry value chains, according to a Microsoft Corp. survey released today at HANNOVER MESSE 2011 in Hannover, Germany. The survey results revealed a need to better integrate collaboration tools with business systems (47.4 percent) and to improve access to unstructured data and processes (36.2 percent). Almost 60 percent see an industrywide collaboration that includes manufacturing products and services providers, IT providers, systems integrators and in-house business analysts as most capable of bringing about these improvements. Comments
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Tenenbaum v. Music Industry: The Copyright Wars Continue
On April 4th, the First Circuit will hear oral argument on the appeals of Joel Tenenbaum, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the U.S. Department of Justice. All three parties appealed after the trial judge reduced a $675,000 jury verdict for sharing 30 songs down to $67,500. The only issues remaining on appeal regard the propriety of such an award for the conduct. Represented by Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and student Jason Harrow, Tenenbaum will argue that the copyright statute, is being misinterpreted and misapplied and runs afoul of the Constitution. First, the statute was never meant to cover consumer copiers and never has until the present litigation campaign. Second, Due Process will not tolerate an award that departs so egregiously and arbitrarily from any reasonable assessment of the harm actually caused by Tenenbaum. Third, the process by which the jury arrived at the award was replete with error. Comments
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New Green Lantern Footage from WonderCon
Warner Bros. released a new trailer for The Green Lantern, based on the comic book. The trailer was shown at the WonderCon three day event in San Francisco. The upcoming movie premiers this June. Get your Geek on. Comments
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Windows 8 May Combine Features
Windows 8 Milestone 3 build has been released to Microsoft Connect partners for the first out-of-building viewing evaluations. With the initial release, more screenshots and production leaks will be showing up giving some insight into what we may expect from Windows 8. It's important to remember that these leaks are based on very preliminary builds of the operating system. Microsoft isn't talking about Windows 8 features yet, and a lot could change before the expected release sometime next year. Comments
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Another Teacher Suspended over Facebook Comments
Another day, another inappropriate Facebook comment, and another teacher suspended. The future of education, specifically due to the educators themselves, is in doubt if the teachers can't figure out people actually read Facebookآ…. especially teacher's comments. Still, teachers --- and others --- need to remember that posting on the Internet means anyone can read it. What happens in Las Vegas may stay in Las Vegas, but what's put on the Internet, doesn't necessarily stay there. Comments
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The RSA Hack: How They Did It
Several weeks ago, RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation was compromised. This was a major embarrassment to RSA seeing how the business at hand is security. Much to the company's credit, the breach was found while in progress and an investigation was launched immediately. The results broke it down to the lowest common dominatorآ…. as usual. But some security experts ridiculed the notion that the attack was sophisticated. Comments
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Angry Birds Rio Attracts 10 Million Downloads In 10 Days
You know it really isn't a news day without the mention of Angry Birds. Well, the Birds are back in the news and creating quite a stir. This version is Angry Birds Rio which is based on the recently released movie of the same name. The kicker is the game is being downloaded at the rate of one million times a day and that ain't birdfeed. Rio was featured prominently in the launch of Amazon's Android App Store, which also came on March 22, and the title is still being offered for free on the site "for a limited time." Comments
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GoDaddy CEO Goes Elephant Hunting
URL: Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, doesn't it? Well, it's not. Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy has raised the ire of everyone from PETA to some of his lowly clients over the hunting, but Parsons is adamant over his decision. The very next time I find an elephant in my garden, I know just who to call. The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) criticized the killing, and said it will move its domain name, peta.org, away from GoDaddy, closing its account with the company. Comments
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ASUS GeForce GTX 590 Overclocking Follow-Up
We take the new ASUS GeForce GTX 590 and overclock the crap out of it! What are all these exploding GTX 590 cards about? We will find out just what happens when you crank it up with proper power management working on the GTX 590. We compare performance at stock clocks, overclocked, and against a 6990.
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