Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Although Monday was supposed to be the day when Microsoft began pushing Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to enterprises, it changed its mind at the last minute and delayed the automatic updating for more than a week.
From CRN.com, "Based on that feedback, we have altered the delivery schedule of Windows XP SP2. The machines in your organization using Automatic Update will not receive Windows XP SP2 until Wednesday, August 25 -- at the earliest -- as long as those machines are running Windows XP Professional Edition," Microsoft said in the e-mail.
The new schedule outlined in the e-mail listed August 25, a week from Wednesday, as the date for release of SP2 to Automatic Update for users of Windows XP Professional. That's the same day Microsoft will post SP2 on Windows Update, where users can manually retrieve the massive upgrade.
Get the full story from CRN.com
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Don't expect to have the ability to play games -- the chips will be driving the brains of the televisions, for faster menus and processing.
From Forbes, "Sony Corp plans to install its high-performance Playstation 2 game console chips in flat-panel TVs due for release this fall, in an apparent effort to catch up with Sharp Corp and other firms in the flat-panel TV market, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing unidentified company sources."
"The chips' ability to handle detailed computer graphics will improve the TV's image-processing capacity, leading to faster on-screen control for selecting the type of TV broadcasts or viewing image data stored on digital or video cameras, the report said."
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Al on 08/11 at 10:08 AM
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Despite efforts from various agencies to curb peer-to-peer trading of movies, games, and music, a new study estimates that the amount of data traded has doubled from one year ago.
From Reuters, "Better broadband Internet connections and compression technologies mean larger files can be downloaded more rapidly, creating as big a piracy headache for movie studios as for music labels."
"Each day, the equivalent of roughly three billion songs or five million movies zips between computers, according to the study by Cambridge, England-based technology firm CacheLogic."
"It estimates Internet users around the globe freely exchange a staggering 10 petabytes -- or 10 million gigabytes -- of data, much of it in the form of copyright-protected songs, movies, software and video games."
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Al on 07/13 at 10:20 AM
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Friday, July 09, 2004
Act Rasier and Drakengard headed for handsets.
From IGN Wireless
"Square Enix announced a partnership with Macrospace to roll out European releases of mobile versions of popular Square Enix titles. The first three games in the deal include the SNES classic Act Raiser, Aleste, and the recently released PS2 action game, Drakengard."
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
First person shooter on the PC to be released in October features battles against cyborg animals.
From Ferrago, "The game is set upon the mysterious island of Soreo, where one-hundred years before your arrival contact was lost with a maniacal doctor conducting bizarre experiments. As a special forces soldier you are sent to present day Soreo to deal with an uprising, but it won't be the militants youll be most worried about. 'Modbeast' foot soldiers, 'Humanimal' biped warriors, and 'Overbrute' elite beasts will be the main villains of the piece, and weҒre promised twenty types of monster in total. Naturally, brutal violence is pretty much par for the course in the FPS genre, and Action Forms are promising gore galore complimented by an advanced physics engine."
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