Blockbuster offers to buy Circuit City
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
Blockbuster has put in a bid to buy the electronics chain Circuit City for $1.33 billion. Circuit City witch has struggled recently because of Best Buy’s dominance in the consumer electronics retail sector, witch already has claimed the life of CompUSA. Circuit City is expected to agree to the deal aimed at “taking advantage of the global trend of putting media content on electronic devices”, Blockbuster said on Monday.
Tags: Bestbuy, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Technology
Windows XP SP3 on it’s way (Update)
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Microsoft News, Technology News, Windows
Well after a while of screwing around Microsoft has finely released the final SP3 release details.
Here is the schedule: (from Neowin.net)
- April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
- April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers
- April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center
- June 10, 2008: Automatic Update
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Tags: Service pack 3, Windows XP
Demonoid back up!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
I just found out today that Demonoid is back up and running. All the old urer accounts and such are also the way they were so it’s just as though they never left.
Hey heres a convenient link!
Tags: Bittorrent, Demonoid
My take on video on Flickr
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other/Undefined
I have seen a few (not many) complaints about the decision to allow videos on Flickr witch prompted me to write this article.
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Firefox 2.00.14 RC goes out to beta testers
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
The release candidate of Firefox 2.00.14 is available for download as of today for beta testers. All the rest of you keep an eye out in the next week for the final…
Now video on Flickr!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
As I logged in tonight I found that now you can upload video to Flickr! While it seems that at least right now you can only upload up to 90 seconds of video and you have to be a “pro” member (paid subscriber) this is defiantly welcome news at least for me!
Tags: Flickr, internet, photo publishing, video
The many faces of Firefox 3
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
I just installed Firefox 3 beta 5 on my Windows Vista boxx and I have to say it looks a lot different than the Mac version I am used to seeing. I am looking forward to installing in in Ubuntu to see how it differs form both the Windows and Mac versions.
