Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced today at Tech.Ed Australia that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used — only in the 64-bit version of Vista
Microsoft released the latest test version of its Web browser, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), as it prepares to officially launch Internet Explorer 7 later this year
Mozilla has accepted Microsoft’s offer of help toward ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the upcoming Vista operating system
Because of a risk of fire, Apple is recalling 1.8 million batteries that use Sony’s battery cell technology, which also was at the root of Dell’s historic recall last week
Apple will pay $US100 million to license Creative Technology’s patents for its iPod music player and settle all legal dispute between the two companies
A new security column at Engadget details the new old
threat of bumping locks. An 11-year-old girl bypassed a standard 5-pin lock at a recent DefCon Hacker Convention. The girl had no prior experience and didn’t even understand the theory she was applying — via Slashdot
It’s a big day for astrophysics. After much speculation, scientists now have conclusive proof of dark matter. This result doesn’t rule out alternate gravity theories like MOND, but it does mean those theories will have to account for exotic forms of dark matter
Some geologists are ticked off at the International Astronomical Union for using the word pluton
to describe a round object orbiting the sun with a period more than 200 years. A pluton, it seems, is a common type of rock formation that exists in most Geology 101 curricula. IAU head Owen Gingerich is quoted as saying that he was only peripherally aware of the definition, and because it didn’t show up on MS Word’s spell check, he didn’t think it was that important — via Slashdot
Red Hat and Novell, the two top Linux sellers, have only just begun building Xen virtualisation software into their products. But they’re already planning to add a higher-level option
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a new offensive against cybersquatters who allegedly gain illegal profits from thousands of Web sites, such as WindowsLiveTutorial.com and HaloChamp.com, that include the company’s trademarked names
People close to the production of Stargate SG-1 said Sci Fi Channel cancelled the series on the eve of its 200th episode, which aired last Friday night, making the show the first cable scripted series to reach such a milestone
Microsoft has issued an open invitation to the Mozilla to bring both its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail application into the Windows fold
Scientists have found tasmanian devils in the state’s far north-west coast area remain cancer free, despite the spread of the disease across the rest of the state. In a recent survey, more than 100 devils were caught in the area over 10 days. Government wildlife biologist Clare Hawkins says not one was found to have the facial tumour disease, which has already wiped out about 40 per cent of the state’s devil population. Dr Hawkins believes the survey results, combined with a trial now under way, may provide avenues for keeping the north-west disease-free
Just a fortnight after Telstra dumped plans for a national fibre-to-the-node rollout, the Tasmanian Government is pitching its own state-wide fibre network as an alternative to the telco giant
YouTube, the popular California Web site that offers video clips, announced a plan to post every music video ever made for free download. The plan threatens iTunes, which charges for videos
Flash memory company SanDisk fired its latest salvo at Apple, taking the wraps off of its Sansa e280, a $250 flash-based MP3 player with 8GB of storage, or enough memory to hold some 2,000 songs
Fourteen-year-old Ben Underwood of Sacramento, California, is one of the few people known to use echolocation as a primary means of navigating the world on land. There’s not even a hint of light reaching his brain. His eyes are artificial, but his brain has adapted to allow him to appraise his environment. He makes a clicking
sound to communicate with objects and people around him — via Warren Ellis
Google has launched their beta version of Writely.com. Writely is their word processor and answer to Microsoft Word. In addition to the usual editing features it includes many collaboration features, as well as the ability to save documents as PDFs and RSS feeds
The FDA has recently claimed that there are no medical benefits to marijuana use. Yet at the same time, the FDA has approved synthetic versions of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main active ingredient in marijuana, for use in high-priced prescription drugs. Surprisingly, the FDA also lists marijuana to be as dangerous as heroin and PCP — via digg
The first phase of clinical trials indicates China’s first AIDS vaccine is safe and possibly effective, government officials announced at the press conference after a two-month-odd assessment
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