Zune - Creating "music" social networks
Over the past few days some interesting details about Microsoft's Zune player has emerged. The most interesting feature - the ability to be your own DJ and create mobile social network "pockets"
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sifts through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.
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Apple narrows down recalled batteries
Apple has narrowed down the serial number of the batteries that have been recalled.
A ridiculous way to test your speaker volume levels ...
Are you a Windows Vista beta tester? Have you noticed that startup sound that plays just as the PC gets to the point ready to accept your logon password? Yes. OK. Well, have you tried to disable that sound? If you do, you'll discover something odd - that there's no way to disable it. No check box, no button, no setting. Nothing. Zip. Nada.Doesn't that beg the question - why?
Has Microsoft just killed HD?
Today, Microsoft has announced something that I've been expecting for a long time - that 32-bit versions of Windows Vista won't be able to play back next generation high definition protected content. What does this mean? It means that Microsoft might have just killed off HD.
More battery misery - This time affecting Apple users
Apple is recalling 1.8 million lithium ion notebook batteries after receiving reports of nine units which seriously overheated, resulting in two users receiving minor burns.
Microsoft extends a helping hand to Firefox developers - but why?
It seems that Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of the Firefox browser and has extended an invitation to the Firefox and Thunderbird teams to visit with the right people to get Firefox running under Vista. The invitation came in the form of a message posted last Saturday by Sam Ramji, Director of Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft to the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup. But why?
Thinking of getting a PS3 for the Holidays? I'll pass ...
Three months to go. 2,000,000 consoles to manufacture - that works out at 15 a minute!
Enhance your mobile browsing with Opera Mini
The browser war has always been two-sided. Internet Explorer vs. Netscape. Internet Explorer vs. Firefox. It's pretty easy to forget that there are other players in the game. And when it comes to browsing the web when on the move, Opera is the browser to turn to.
Is it fonts that holds back Linux growth?
Robert Scoble made an interesting point in his blog yesterday about a key difference between Windows, Mac and Linux - fonts. I agree - money spent on typography is money well spent.
The Intel Kentsfield comes in at 2.66GHz
Intel has let slip some interesting details about the upcoming Kentsfield quad-core processor due to make an appearance towards the end of this year.