05Jan AsianWeek to go online only (AFP)
AFP - AsianWeek, a 30-year-old newspaper for Asian-Americans based in San Francisco, has announced plans to drop its print edition and go online only.
05Jan Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Costs; Will It Matter? (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Sony has reduced the price of its second-generation PlayStation 3 revision by 35 percent, to $448.73, according to a teardown report by analyst firm iSuppli this week.
Source:Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Costs; Will It Matter?
(PC Magazine)
05Jan The 25 greatest blunders in tech history (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM’s offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall’s competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates.
05Jan General Patent Licenses DTL Patent to Sony Ericsson
(Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — DTEH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — General Patent Corp. (GPC), a patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced on behalf of its client, Digital Technology Licensing (DTL), that it has licensed a key cell phone
05Jan Zune MP3 players hit by leap year bug
Thousands of Zune players, Microsoft’s rival to the Apple iPod, shut down over the new year, leaving many owners waking up on January 1 unable to listen to their cherished music. While many people loudly celebrated the passing of the year, disgruntled
05Jan PlayStation 2 most-played console; WoW dominates PC gaming
Product Mini Profile PlayStation 2 Hardwarein: links Research groups tell us a lot of interesting things, and Nielsen has begun the new year with some unexpected news from 2008. With other reports fussing over the three ‘next-gen’ consoles, who would
Source:PlayStation 2 most-played console; WoW dominates PC gaming
05Jan China to issue 3G licenses by end-Jan - report? 2 hrs ago
BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China is expected to issue third-generation mobile phone licenses before the end of January, the official Shanghai Securities News reported, citing sources close to the matter. The report, citing a source from Datang Mobile,
Source:China to issue 3G licenses by end-Jan - report? 2 hrs ago
04Jan Album sales plunge, digital downloads up (AP)
AP - Music sales have continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs.
04Jan LG to Debut 3G Watch-phone at CES (PC World)
PC World - LG Electronics plans to debut a wristwatch-style 3G phone at the Consumer Electronics Show next month, it said Sunday.
04Jan Next from Apple: A Large-Screen iPod Touch? (PC World)
PC World - The latest iPod Touch is a nifty little gizmo that does a lot more than play tunes, but I’ve always found its 3.5-inch screen too tiny for watching movies or serious Web browsing. After a few minutes of screen-tapping or finger-dragging to view Web pages designed for larger displays, well, things get tedious in a hurry. And movies? Better bring a magnifying glass.
Source:Next from Apple: A Large-Screen iPod Touch?
(PC World)
04Jan Apple may unveil cheaper iPhone in 2009
significant new product to offer. Apple will probably use the expo to show updated versions of its aluminum-cased iMac desktop computers and a new operating system, said Brian Marshall, an analyst at Broadpoint. AmTech in San Francisco. Apple currently
04Jan Microsoft says Zune players working again
then, he said. The Zune media player is Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft?s answer to Apple Inc.?s iPod. The Zune ranges in price from $99 to $249 depending on storage capacity. Zunes have paltry popularity compared the iPod, which owns nearly
04Jan Apple iPhone 3G may be Unlocked with New Software
The programmers released a test version of the software, called Yellowsn0w, on their blog this week.: The program aims to free iPhone 3G owners from having to get their wireless service from Apple’s approved partners, such as AT&T Inc. in the ‘The iPhone
04Jan Happy Birthday docs.joomla.org
Happy Birthday to docs.joomla.org!  I almost didn’t notice, but our wiki-based documentation site passed its first birthday on 29 December 2008.
In that first year we have gone from nothing to over 800 pages of information on the wiki. Although we have more than 7,000 users registered with authenticated email addresses now, I would particularly like to thank the 429 individuals who have contributed at least one edit. All contributions, great and small, are important. Even correcting a single typo or other error in the documentation is a valued contribution and I would encourage everyone to not be afraid to fix or improve things as they find them.
As expected, most of the edits were done by a small number of people. Excluding the 1,600+ spam accounts that were created, all the edits were made by just 6% of those who registered with valid email addresses!
Of the 429 people who made at least one edit, the top 4 were responsible for just over half of all the edits. In other words, 1% of the users did 50% of the edits. I was actually rather surprised by this. I was expecting something a lot closer to a Pareto-like 80% of edits being done by 20% of the users.
I’ll leave you with a little bar chart which shows the number of edits per user for the top 50 users on the wiki up to 1 January 2009.
I look forward to acknowledging even more contributions in the coming year.
04Jan The New JED Feed as requested.. by you
Just a gentle reminder about an excellent new feature on JED 1.5.
Now you can subscribe via email or RSS to this feed: http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaExtensionsUpdated
It’s a great feed to subscribe to not only for security reasons, but also for interest sake to see what new features are being added to Extensions and so on. More tips and suggestions as per usual in the future.
Enjoy!
04Jan With Gaza Conflict, Cyberattacks Come Too (PC World)
PC World - The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet.
04Jan Do-It-Yourself Free Xbox 360 Wireless (PC World)
PC World - The words “free” and “Xbox 360″ are like J.D. Salinger and a gaggle of paparazzi — never seen together. Still, Popular Science just invoked them with this curious bit of homebrew trickery that might (and having not tested it, I stress might) save you the $100 Microsoft hoodwinks consumers to pony up for its vanilla Xbox 360 USB wireless adapter.
04Jan 3G netbooks 'to eat into smart phone segment'
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04Jan Motormouth: Destructive reign of digital music
Happy new year. Lets start with a prediction: 2009 is going to be the year the compact disc finally dies. It will be the year lots of other things die as well polar bears, the high street but CDs will be the big one. Dont believe me? Sales are estimated
04Jan Beatles to zombies, videogamers set for varied 2009
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - For videogame publishers the start of 2009 marks a new phase in gaming with the release of new titles no longer confined to the top holiday sale months but spread throughout the year. Traditionally about half of annual
04Jan 3G netbooks 'to eat into smart phone segment'
Dubai: Toshiba Gulf expects the new 3G netbook - also known as a secondary notebook - which comes out in the first quarter of this year to take over a significant portion of the smart phone market segment. ‘Lots of enhancements are taking place in this
03Jan 2008 another tough year for music industry in US (AFP)
AFP - The music industry suffered another tough year in 2008 as gains in digital sales in the United States failed to make up for a double-digit drop in compact disc purchases, according to Nielsen Co.
Source:2008 another tough year for music industry in US
(AFP)