Mere high-definition TV could soon be lo-tech

If you have just blown the budget on a new high-definition TV, look away now. Japanese broadcasters and the BBC are working on a system 33 times more detailed than the best sets on the market.
The BBC plans to use the technology, named Super Hi-Vision by its Japanese makers, to screen coverage of the [...]

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Study: Internet could run out of capacity in two years

Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.
A flood of new video and other Web content could overwhelm the Internet by 2010 unless backbone providers [...]

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VISTA SUCKS

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“Not tonight, honey, I’m on the Internet”

Americans of all ages can’t go very long without the Internet—in fact, they prefer the Internet over everything else, including their friends and one of nature’s most primal instincts. The world’s fourth-largest advertising agency, JWT, made the findings in a survey of 1,011 American adults, and discovered that the Internet [...]

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Windows XP: The OS that won’t die?

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August 10, 2007 (Computerworld) — Microsoft Corp. has had to create a new build of Windows XP Professional for computer makers because the six-year-old operating system’s continued popularity has nearly exhausted the supply of product activation keys.
The new build, dubbed SP2c, includes no fixes or feature changes, but was [...]

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Average PC is a smorgasboard for a new MP3-eating trojan

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It’s no secret that people like to collect music on their PCs, with music files taking up more and more hard drive space as time goes on. Recent data from Comscore says that as of April of this year the typical computer in the US contains an average of 880 MP3 [...]

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