Hollywood studio execs are BLAMING HALO 3, the Microsoft Xbox 360 game, for dismal box office receipts since the game was released September 26. For example, movie ticket sales for the October 5 weekend were down 27% below the same weekend last year. Meanwhile, Halo 3 gamers logged some 40 million hours of play during the first week alone.
I say this is totally ridiculous, I can’t see this stopping people from seeing movies.
When Hitachi — the first disk manufacturer to go perpendicular and subsequently break the 1TB consumer disk drive barrier — speaks about advances in hard disk technology, you’d be wise to listen. Today they’re touting the world’s smallest read-head technology for HDDs. The bold claim? 4TB desktop (3.5-inch) and 1TB laptop (2.5-inch) drives within the next 4 years. The new recording heads are more than 2x smaller than existing gear or about 2,000 times smaller than a human hair. Hmmm, Samsung may have to update their SSD vs. HDD graph after this, eh?
Hmm, Does that mean when those come out the 1 TB are going to go down in price!! 🙂 I hope so, maybe they’ll come up with a way for a 1 TB for a laptop!
A 13-year-old hacker claims to have developed code that would let you put third-party applications on an iPod Touch without having to take a computer science class.
AriX sent us a press release Sunday promoting iJailbreak, an automated program that allows third-party applications to run on the iPod Touch. It doesn’t work for the iPhone, and it’s only available for iPod Touch owners that are using Intel-based Macs. I don’t have an iPod Touch at my disposal right now, so I’m unable to test whether it actually works, but some users on MacRumors.com reported that it worked.
Ever since Apple released the 1.1.1 software update for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch in late September that broke older third-party application installers, hackers have been hard at work searching for a new way to bypass the restrictions. A preliminary jailbreaking application was released last week, but it required a great deal of expertise to get up and running. Erica Sadun, a writer for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, installed that iPod Touch jailbreak Friday evening but warned, “This is not ready for prime time, kids. Don’t do this at home.”
If a 13 year old can do it why can’t the dev team do it?
Mirroring the premature trademark dispute surrounding the launch of the Cisco iPhone in the US, Apple’s Canadian launch of its respective iPhone could be delayed due to a trademark dispute with a product that shares the same name as Apple’s gadget. Comwave Telecom in Toronto owns the trademark rights to the name “iPhone” in Canada for use on its VoIP products and services, and has filed a complaint with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office over Apple’s application for the trademark rights of the name for its future Canadian version of the iPhone. Sounds like a case of how much Apple is willing to pay, or how long they’re willing to delay.
Oh I wonder how long before they can ship to Canada??
The Official Gmail Blog has announced that Gmail’s storage counter has received a much-needed bump in its storage growth rate, which will put Gmail storage at 6GB by January 2008. Additionally, the premium Premier Edition is seeing a jump to 25GB from 10GB. We’ve covered how to free up space in Gmail (and so have you), but these storage bumps should go a long way toward keeping Google’s promise that “you’ll never need to delete another message.”
Wow what I want to know is when are we going to be able to use the space?
