Comcast/BT Part 8: The FCC steps in

It seems as though Comcast’s meddeling with BT has caught the attention of the FCC and has thus started an investigation into the matter.

Meanwhile at CES Comcast promises  “a technology that delivers up to 160 megabits of data per second over cable.”

The end of HD DVD?

With a lot of the major movie studios announcing at this years CES (Consumer Electronics Show) they are moving to Blu-ray Disk only you have to wounder if this is the beginning of the end for HD DVD. Well the answer is simple; not if Toshiba has anything to do with it. “Toshiba remains defiant that its format will not succumb to the mounting tsunami of support for Blu-ray Discs.” says Akio Ozaka, head of Toshiba America Consumer Products at CES. It should also be noted that the HD DVD group has canceled many of their meetings at CES.

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Convert your pictures to music.

Hmmmm strange thought making music using pictures. I found this app, “RGB Music Lab”  whilst looking at my RSS feeds from MacUpdate, it sounded kinda strange and i had to read the description a few times to make sure I was reading it right. Check it out here, there is a mac and windows version available.

Happy Birthday OSX!

It was January 6, 2000 that Mr. Jobs released Mac OSX (10.0). So happy 8th birthday to one of my favorite platforms! (ok so I,m a day early…Wink

Merry Christmas to all

I would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas, and happy new year!

Recent site problems

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Comcast/BT Part 7: The first law suit

Let the law suits over Comcast’s throttling of P2P/BT connections begin as a California man gets the ball rolling for what may become a huge class action law suit. Follow the link at the bottom to read the rest of the story…

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