Warner Home Entertainment, the only studio distributing movies in both HD DVD and Blu-ray, has put their plans for a dual-format disc on hold. Although their plans were not for any sort of proprietary technology, but simply to encourage consumer adoption of the new HD disc format, the technology received little support from other [...]

Amazon has introduced their new electronic book, Kindle, and the Kindle Store. Amazon is calling the Kindle a “wireless reading device”. What I find interesting is that you can purchase and download books wirelessly through Sprint’s EVDO network, but there are no monthly fees. We wanted Kindle to be completely mobile and simple to use for [...]

The Nintendo Wii is going to be a hot item this holiday season. I have had mine for quite a while now, and in my opinion, it is a revolutionary gaming system, not for sheer technology, but for gameplay innovation. This console is great for all ages, whereas some of the others (Playstation 3 and [...]

Writer/Director Scott Dacko took his new independent film, The Insurgents, to the theater, not on tape, but on an Apple TV. Rather than buy his own HDCam deck or have someone record his film to HDCam tape, Dacko bought an Apple TV one night, took it to the theater, plugged it into their digital projector, and [...]

Apple has released the first update for Leopard today (10.5.1). You can find it here, or through Software Update. What’s included? The following improvements for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs are included in this update AirPort * Allows password-protected accounts on AirPort Disks to show up on in the Finder’s Shared Sidebar. * Resolves an issue with saved passwords [...]

Autotext Technologies has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against 23 companies for use of predictive text processing. The companies named in the suit are Apple, AT&T, Helio, Hewlett-Packard, HTC America, IBM, Kyocera, LG Electronics USA, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo of America, Nokia, Nuance Communications, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Samsung America, Sanyo North America, Sony, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, [...]

In an Apple press release: Apple® today released Final Cut® Express 4, a significant upgrade to its powerful video editing software based on Apple’s award-winning Final Cut Pro 6, with a new low price of $199. Final Cut Express 4 adds support for the latest AVCHD cameras, allows mixing of standard and high definition content on [...]

I can’t help but laugh at this, but I suppose it is just as serious a matter as phishing for bank account information. The six teens allegedly tricked a number of other users into handing over their usernames and passwords, and then moved their furniture into their own rooms.

Interestingly, Apple has released a 10.4.11 update for Tiger, after the release of 10.5 Leopard. More details here. In addition to this update for Tiger, Apple released a security update for Panther (10.3).

I just noticed that the refurbished 30GB iPods dropped in price from $199.00 to $179.00. I have this model, and I can say that is a great deal. Click here to shop for the iPod 30GB. Other iPods are available on the same page.