Archive for August, 2007

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Coming in 2008

After months of silence, Microsoft finally coughed up details Tuesday about its plans for the first update to Windows Vista, saying the service pack will arrive in the first quarter of next year.

In the next few weeks, Microsoft will start private testing of a beta of Service Pack 1 for Vista as well as a [...]

Hardware Hacker Unlocks iPhone

Combination of soldering and software hacking allows Apple’s smartphone to be used on any network, but software tampering and reselling the unlocked phones may be breaking US law.
A teenage boy has successfully hacked Apple’s iPhone smartphone, unlocking the device to allow its full use on networks other than the US AT&T service.

George Hotz, a 17-year-old [...]

Cool Your House With A Pool Theater

Here’s a convergence device you probably haven’t heard much about at technology conferences, but it’s interesting.

SolarAttic sells a system—the Pool Convection System 2—that sucks hot air out of the attic of your house and pumps it into a heat exchanger to heat your pool. In the summertime, the temperature in your attic can get up [...]

PS3 Gets Folding@Home Update Enables PSP Remote Play

It’s been a few months since the PS3’s Folding@Home client received an upgrade, and thanks to heaps of complaints suggestions, the developers have finally conjured up another refresh. This go ’round, users will notice a “totally revised rendering engine for the molecules and a more sophisticated display format,” but beyond aesthetics, the newest version [...]

Apple and Google Fall, Yahoo Climbs…

Consumers are less satisfied than with both Apple and Google than they were 12 months ago but Yahoo is being viewed in a more positive light according to a new survey in the US.

According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), released by the University of Michigan’s National Quality Research Center yesterday, Apple’s phenomenal success [...]

Forbes Acquired Social Bookmarking Site Clipmarks

Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us.

The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to [...]

Apple iPhone iPod Hi-Fi Tone Control Support

Along with documented security and Safari bug patches, and several undocumented but user-discovered changes to other applications, Apple has updated the iPhone’s software in version 1.0.1 to enhance iPod accessory compatibility. When docked in an iPod Hi-Fi speaker system, an iPod Hi-Fi menu now appears under Settings, enabling the iPhone to access the same Treble [...]