The Day the Music Was Set Free
If you were fortunate enough to be around the Internet back in the 90's, the days of the Internet's Wild West phase, you would have known of the origins of Napster. Napster was the original music file-sharing service that started it all back when boundary lines were being drawn, legal precedents set and freedom to do about anything on the net was being challenged. Downloaded, new documentary to be presented at the SXSW film festival will relive those early days when Napster ruled the digital music scene.
"There was no ramp up. There was no transition. It was like that famous shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the prehistoric monkey throws a bone in the air and it turns into a spaceship. Napster was a ridiculous leap forward."
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Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes May Be Shelved
When is the last time you heard of a video game not being released for fear that it is too over the top even for hardcore gamers? That's the take by Hideo Kojima on the possible non-release of his latest game, Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes.
it would seem that Kojima may be returning to the subject of child soldiers in his new game. In a time when violent video games are being more closely scrutinized – and publicized – than ever, Kojima may be right that his game can't release in its current incarnation.
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Intel Will Lead Us to à la Carte Pay TV
One day soon you may be singing the praises of Intel; not as a chip maker extraordinaire, but as a champion of the à la carte pay television movement. Intel is an upstart in the subscription TV industry, not even have launched its first subscription yet and is already making waves in the way pay TV packages are bundled.
Intel is the latest to jump into the subscription TV and set-top box game, a very impressive move when you consider the tech titan is taking on pay-TV juggernauts like Comcast, Time Warner and Dish. But it will use broadband, not coaxial cables or satellite dishes
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Microsoft Adds New Features to Office Web Apps
The free Office Web Apps programs has been updated by Microsoft to include some needed and welcomed improvements. Toolbars, web apps and performance enhancements have been added to improve the overall Office Web Apps experience.
If you've been using Office Web Apps for a while, you know that we continually make improvements to them, even since our big update last October. And now that you don't have to sign in, you can try out the 4 latest updates.
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Today Is Steve Jobs' 58th Birthday
Steve Jobs, the iconic front man and product innovator for Apple would have been 58 years old today. He is the holder or co-inventor of over 300 US patents and changed the face of technology even though he never had any formal technology training. Love him or hate him, he was definitely a defining influence on the computing, mobile applications and portable music platforms.
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Game of Thrones Ascent Comes to Facebook
The blockbuster HBO series has now made its way to Facebook. Game of Thrones Ascent is based on the award winning book series by George R.R. Martin brought to Facebook by Disruptor Beam, a gaming development team specializing in developing games from books and TV series. Westeros is becoming social.
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Google to Open Registration for Google I/O March 13
All interested parties for the upcoming Google I/O developer conference, be prepared to get your Google Wallet and your Google+ account ready. Tickets will go quickly, just like in previous years, even at the $900 registration price. Registration will be open on March 13th.
Every year Google also gives away hundreds of dollars' worth of free equipment to every attendee, making the $900 entrance fee a valuable investment for gadget lovers.
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Calling from Your Browser Coming to Firefox
The Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, Spain all of this upcoming week, loaded with big announcements, demonstrations and concepts of what you can expect coming up next year in the world of mobile technology. Mozilla is getting the jump on all the hype and has announced a partnership with AT&T and Ericsson to bring plugin-free calls straight from your Firefox browser.
This demonstration shows how the Web browser can perform many functions usually confined to a mobile device such as voice and video calls and SMS and MMS texting.
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Google Releases Chrome 25 Stable Version
Fresh out of Beta, Chrome 25 is adding voice-based services including support for Web Speech API and gives greater control of extension installations. The update is automatic for pre-installed browser versions or can be downloaded separately.
Developers who take advantage of the technology could open the door to features like composing an email via the spoken word, as well as dictating searches, documents, and other text input.
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New Windows Blue Screenshots Show IE11
The release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 is right around the corner and now the focus is turning to IE 11, which is beginning to make random leaked appearances alongside a few Windows Blue details and screenshots.
Windows Blue appears to be more of a Service Pack 1 to Windows 8 than a full-blown Windows 9. This conforms closer to previous reports that indicated Windows Blue will be a significant update to Windows 8, as opposed to a whole new operating system that would go under the name of Windows 9 or similar.
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Firefox 22 Will Block Third-Party Cookies
Firefox is about to make a change in the way the browser handles third party cookies. With the release of Firefox 22, which is several versions out, all third party cookies will be blocked from installing on the user's browser. This will effectively stop advertisers from tracking the user's movements across websites.
With the patch, Firefox would allow all cookies from sites that a user actively visits, but would block cookies from third-party sites if a user has not visited that cookie's origin site.
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