HiWEB-Interactive Show Log –
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of recent news and technology highlights.
HiWEB-Interactive – Show #10 – From May 8th 2008
Airing weekly Thursdays at 8p (PST) – And available on LIVE.HIWEB.NET as well as archived
-Hot News Topics this week (*Prepped 24 Hours Prior)
1 -
Microsoft is probing Facebook's merger interest
2 –
Grand Theft Auto IV Breaks Sales Records
3 - Sprint, Clearwire form $14.5B WiMAX venture
4 -
XP SP3 Finally on Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center
5 -
Apple continues seeding test builds of Mac OS X 10.5.3
6 - Apple and AT&T to launch iPhone 3G a lot sooner than we think?
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-Review of Hot Topics (*Elaborate on Hot Topics)
*SEE PRINTED
NOTES…..
1 -
Microsoft is probing Facebook's merger interest
-
Among the many choices on Microsoft's table after the Yahoo deal fell apart, you
have to admit that a wholesale buyout of social networking phenom Facebook would
make some of the biggest waves. A tech industry blog published by
Wall Street
Journal
reported this morning
that Redmond's bankers had contacted Facebook leaders to "gauge their interest"
in a buyout. Microsoft already holds a 1.6 percent stake in the social portal
thanks to a
$240 million investment last year,
a ratio that would suggest a final price tag in the $15 billion range. Facebook
has remained standoffish to such advances, and even the
Journal
sources who talked to the company think it will stay independent and eventually
go public on its own. Facebook has remained standoffish to such advances, and
even the
Journal
sources who talked to the company think it will stay independent and eventually
go public on its own.
“Microsoft is focused on its independent strategy"
I'm still mildly bemused and amused at the lengths Microsoft seems willing to go
in order to counter the perceived threat from Google.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-microsoft-is-probing-facebooks-merger-interest.html
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2 -
Can any game break the 'GTA IV' sales records?
– Take
Two Interactive released 'Grand
Theft Auto IV' (4) broke the all-time records for single-day and one-week
entertainment industry sales. It looks like it could be tough for any
forthcoming game to knock GTA IV off the top of the hill. (Credit: Rockstar
Games)
Though Halo 3 held the all-time entertainment industry record for single-day
sales for eight months, it could be a long time before anyone bests the
record-shattering sales achieved by GTA IV.
On Wednesday, Take-Two Interactive, which owns GTA IV developer Rockstar Games,
announced that the new game had raked in all-time records of $310 million on its
launch day of April 29 and $500 million during its first week. The single-day
figure shattered the previous record, set last September by Halo 3, of $170
million.
And given how quickly Bungie Studios' Halo 3 was reduced to second place, it
stands to reason that even the monstrous pile of cash GTA IV has earned so
far--it has already sold more than 6 million copies, Take-Two said--could be in
danger from some game already in the pipeline.
3.6 Million Sold First Day = $310 million dollars,
Compared to the movie Spiderman 3 made only $150 million on its release
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9938601-1.html
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3 –
Sprint,
Clearwire form $14.5B WiMAX venture -
Tech, cable companies invest combined $3.2 billion in new venture.
After months of
speculation,
Sprint
and
Clearwire
today announced that they are combining their
WiMAX
businesses to create a new $14.5 billion mobile broadband company.
As expected, the new company will be focused primarily on deploying a
nationwide WiMAX network that will provide 4G coverage in both rural and urban
markets. The new company, which will be known as Clearwire, will also
concentrate on delivering wireless broadband to consumers, businesses and even
government public safety services, Sprint says.
In addition to forming their new joint WiMAX venture, the two companies
also announced that they had secured $3.2 billion in total investments from
several major tech and communications companies, including
Google,
Intel,
Comcast, Time-Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
Sprint will own the largest stake in the new company at 51%, Clearwire
will own about 27% of the company, and the group of five major investors will
own 22%.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/050708-sprint-and-clearwire-seal-145.html
It's official: Sprint, ClearWire merging WiMAX operations
-
It's official. Sprint and ClearWire are combining their WiMAX business to form a
new joint venture. Sprint will have 51 percent ownership, ClearWire 27 percent,
and new investors Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House, Google, and
Comcast will own 22 percent. That 22 percent stake cost $3.2 billion. Sprint and
ClearWire's investment will consist primarily of their spectrum holdings. The
new company will keep the ClearWire name, and will own enough spectrum to
blanket the US with WiMAX, with an eye towards serving half the US population in
2010.
The deal has financial support in the form of $1.05 billion from cable giant
Comcast, $1 billion from chip champ Intel, $650 million from Time Warner Cable
and its subsidiaries, and $500 million from search Brobdingnagian Google. That's
a grand total of $3.2 billion of outside investments, plus whatever cash
Clearwire and Sprint might bring to the table.
Touted as a viable wireless broadband alternative, WiMAX has lurched out
of the gate so far. Sprint had planned to launch its Xohm WiMAX network
by now,
but public availability is on hold as Sprint attempts to work out some
serious backhaul issues.
Lurking on the horizon is
LTE,
the 4G wireless tech favored by rivals AT&T and Verizon. Fortunately for Sprint,
LTE is still in development and the first commercial deployments are at least
two years out. Still, WiMAX is approaching put-up-or-shut-up territory in the
US, and the Sprint-ClearWire joint venture may be enough to push it from its
perpetual Real Soon Now™ state and into reality.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-sprint-clearwire-wimax-venture-sees-daylight.html
“As I said before, this is a disaster waiting to happen. Sprint and Clearwire
need the deal to try to salvage the billions they’ve already sunk into their
money-losing WiMax networks. But putting more cooks into the kitchen with
different WiMax aspirations is not going to help.”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/06/32-billion-wimax-deal-goes-through-take-cover/
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*Downloaded, Installed and all good here, get yours at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=114f3599-12af-42b2-aab1-b969a62c68a7&displaylang=en
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5 -
Apple continues seeding test builds of Mac OS X 10.5.3
–
Another test build of 10.5.3, 9D27, was released last night to ADC members. This
comes just one week after
build 9D25,
two weeks after
build 9D23,
and three weeks after
build 9D20.
The release notes included in the latest build indicate that the 10.5.3 update
will include well over 200 fixes and improvements in total when it becomes
available. The latest build adds nine additional fixes to the tally, the
majority of which are network related. Regardless,
we've heard anecdotal reports that even the latest version has stability issues
which means Apple still has some work to do.
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6 - 3G
iPhone again rumored for summer US/Europe launch, AT&T preps -
Apple and AT&T to launch iPhone 3G a lot sooner than we think?
Last year,
AT&T limited employee vacation requests between June 15-July 15 in anticipation
of the original iPhone launch which took place on June 29th, 2007.
On May 6th, a
Boy Genius Report publishes
another AT&T memo that is again restricting vacation requests, this time between
June 15th and July 12th 2008. The reason
for the restriction is "to ensure adequate store staffing and to give everyone
an equal opportunity to benefit from an exciting product launch." AT&T expects
"heavier than normal customer traffic" in their stores due to an "exciting
Summer Promotional Launch". Of course,
speculation points to Apple launching
their new 3G iPhone during that time. The timeframe is consistent with
a previous report
that claimed that Apple was targeting "on or around June 27th" to approximately
coincide with the one year anniversary of the iPhone launch. Meanwhile, the
NYTimes believes
that the European launch for the 3G iPhone will be "by the August summer
holidays" according to a person close to the situation.
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/06/atandt-blocking-out-june-15-july-12-for-3g-iphone-launch/
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- Viewer Questions (*Troubleshooting, New Tech, Etc.)
How can I use my webcam with multiple programs simultaneously?
Windows PC
http://download.manycam.com/
- Many Web
- Add text to your webcam video window with any application.
- Add cool animations to your video window.
- Show your local day and date in your video window.
- Add live CGI graphics like fire and water effects. You can even make it appear
as if it is snowing inside your house!
http://www.superwebcam.com/
- SuperWebCam
http://www.superwebcam.com/download.php?rand=417049
After installing SuperWebcam you will be able to:
MAC
CamTwist
http://allocinit.com/index.php?title=CamTwist
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-New Technology to keep an Eye On
(Auto
Tech, Alt. Fuel, Environment, Hacking, High Tech, etc…)
1 -
Coming to a mall near you: Power-generating windows
–
Solar company HelioVolt and Architectural Glass & Aluminum on Tuesday announced
a partnership to produce glass windows capable of generating electricity.
HelioVolt is one of several new solar manufacturers using different materials to
produce thin-film solar cells.
The company intends to make solar cells for rooftop panels and later get into
building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), where cells are embedded onto roof
shingles, blinds, awnings, or other building components.
The deal with Architectural Glass &
Aluminum calls for the companies to design solar-enabled curtain walls, the
glass facades on the outside of buildings, or architectural glass in the
interior of buildings. Citing a Department of Energy study, HelioVolt said that
solar cells integrated into buildings can produce about half of a building's
energy usage. Last week, another
thin-film solar producer, Global Solar Energy, announced a partnership with Dow
to make solar shingles. Another
company doing solar-enabled roofing is DRI Energy, a division of a construction
company that has developed roof shingles and solar cells that glue onto flat
roofs of commercial buildings.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9937182-1.html
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2 - The Race to Create the First Solar
Airplanes is ON!
-
The last barrier to greener transportation is up in the air and if these newly
designed planes can get up there, the future of air travel may look decidedly
different. While cars have been going green for decades, airplanes have remained
behemoth fuel-gulping modes of transportation. EcoGeek put together a list of
ways in which
air travel is gretting greener...but
there's a long ways to go. A
French and a Swiss company are both vying to complete the first viable
solar-powered plane. The Solar Impulse Project, which we've
discussed previously
is backed by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, is aiming to use only solar
energy to keep its aircraft up both day and night. The Solar Impulse plane,
which hopes to be about 1,500 kilogram of "take-off weight" is constructed
around a skeleton of carbon fiber-honeycomb composite.
French company Lisa Airplanes is putting its efforts into the "Hy-Bird"
project which plans to fly around the world with a 100 per cent clean electric
airplane powered only by solar energy and hydrogen. For take-off, the Hy-Bird
will use solar photovoltaic cells affixed on the wings and on the horizontal
tail and for on-board power supply. A fuel cell will then fuel the aircraft for
cruise flight and an electric engine will propel the plane.
Booking a seat on board won't happen any time soon. Both Hy-Bird and the Solar
Impulse Project hope to take trial flights next year, but only one person will
be on board. Meanwhile, unmanned solar airplanes are already in the air, with
one that will be able to
fly almost indefinitely
planned for the near future.
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4
- EcoBlogger Exposes Fake List
Global Warming Skeptic Scientists -
Curious about the Heartland Institute's list of "500 Prominent Scientists" who
deny global warming, Kevin decided to
contact some of the folks on the list.
He put together a list of 150 email addresses...simply the addresses he found it
most easy to acquire. After only 24 hours, he'd received 45 emails from angry
scientists saying that they, in no way, denied anthropogenic global warming.
It turns out that the heartland institute had never told the scientists
they were going on the list, nor did they check to see if these people actually
had any doubts about the causes of climate change.
Just a sampling of quotes from emails Kevin received:
I am horrified to find my name on such a list. I have spent the last 20 years
arguing the opposite.
I have NO doubts ..the recent changes in global climate ARE man-induced. I
insist that you immediately remove my name from this list since I did not give
you permission to put it there.
Please remove my name. What [they] have done is totally unethical!!
“That is SCARY! Thanks for
digging for the truth! Appreciate your posts.”
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1618/73/
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-Tech Tip / Demo
Virtualization is changing the computing landscape.
Virtualization essentially lets one computer do the job of multiple computers,
by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments.
Virtual
servers
and
virtual
desktops
let you host multiple operating systems and multiple applications locally and in
remote locations, freeing you from physical and geographical limitations. In
addition to energy savings and lower capital expenses due to more efficient use
of your hardware resources, you get
high
availability
of resources, better desktop management, increasedsecurity, and improved
disaster recovery processes when you build a virtual infrastructure.
Virtualization breaks the bond, making it
possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same
computer at the same time, increasing the utilization and flexibility of said
hardware. In essence, virtualization lets you transform hardware into
software. Use software such as VMware ESX to transform or “virtualize” the
hardware resources of an x86-based computer—including the CPU, RAM, hard disk
and network controller—to create a fully functional
virtual
machine
that can run its own operating system and applications just like a “real”
computer.
Run Virtual Machines on for Free with VM Ware Player/Server (Windows/Linux)
Desktop or Server
·
Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC
·
Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any installation or
configuration hassles
·
Share data between host computer and virtual machine
Get more
out of your existing computer hardware. Use the free VMware Player application
to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC.
Download
a free copy of VMware Player 2.0 today and try it for yourself.
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta 1
VMWare is proud to announce the availability of VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta 1
VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 brings support for multiple displays, tools for even
easier switching to VMware Fusion, experimental support for DirectX 9.0 Shader
Model 2 3D acceleration, and more!
When released, VMware Fusion 2.0 will be a free downloadable upgrade for
all VMware Fusion 1.x users, as a sincere thank you to VMware Fusion early
adopters.
VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 is available as a
free download.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/fusion
·
Two Heads Are Better Than One—True Multiple Display Support
·
Experimental DirectX 9.0 3D Acceleration That’s Made in the Shade
·
Flip the Switch—Import Parallels and Virtual PC for Mac Virtual Machines, or
Even Your Boot Camp Partition
·
Windows Printing Even Easier on the Mac
·
Even Easier, Mac-Native Design
Please note:
Beta software can be prone to instability and bugs. Do not run beta software in
mission-critical environments.
There are many Virtualization Product solutions like Parallels for MAC and many
other VMWare products for Microsoft Operating Systems – IE: Application, Desktop
and Server environments.
See
http://www.vmware.com
also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
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-Closing Comments
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