Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Show Notes, Episode 11: We're on a Role

A first for us. We finally have some decent segways between stories. We where defiantly on a role today.

Topics Covered:

Fair use wins. Its legal to jailbreak your iPhone, rip a DVD for educational purposes and more.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-big-in-drm-ruling-jailbreaks-are-fair-use.ars

Black Hat Conference in Vegas starts this week. Black hat is a Conference for security experts and hackers to get together and try to break into each others systems and showcase new vulnerabilities and hacks that have been found. Its the corporate side of hacking while Def-con is the more unruly version for the hackers and crackers that hack for fun not business.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/201814/hackers_don_black_hats_in_vegas.html/

New iMac’s introduced today
New imac hardware

StarCraft 2 is released today (Tuesday). This sequel has been 12 years in the making. Starcraft is an RTS. First released in 1998. Was considered one of the best overall RTS of its time. It was soon overshadowed by Warcraft. Then Blizzard spent most of its game development on creating Warcraft 2 and 3 then it developed World Of Warcraft. Thus leaving any Starcraft Sequel behind. But now the day for Star Craft 2 has come to mixed reviews.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226300023&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

Droid X Sold out till August 4. Demand for the phone as far surpassed the expectations of both Motorola and Verizon.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Motorola-Droid-X-Sold-Out-Through-Aug-4-138938/

Shortages push HTC to use a different screen technology for there phones.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/201883/shortages_prompt_htc_to_swap_display_technologies.html/

Google maps updated to 4.4 for android OS version 1.6 or higher
Google Maps

Nvidia loses suit with Rambus. Rambus hasn’t manufactured anything since there line of RD-RAM in 2000. Now they collect and file patents. Making there money in lawsuits protecting those patents and collecting royalties from them. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington ruled yesterday that NVIDIA infringed on three patents owned by Rambus. Thus banning all import of Nvidia chips. Affecting companies like Asus, HP and others that use Nvidia chips in there systems. RAMBUS Also has a civil suit against Nvidia.
http://www.dailytech.com/Rambus+Strikes+Again+NVIDIA+Loses+Latest+Patent+Suit/article19162.htm

Chevy Volt priced at 41,000.00 / 33,500.00 after 7,500.00 Tax credit.
Chevy Volt

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