By Greg Mills
I am not an engineer or nuclear expert, so my common sense solutions might have valid explanations for why they were not done. As the news gets more grim from the nuclear disaster zone that is northern Japan, some of the problems seem to beg simplistic solutions that seem to have been overlooked in the planning stages of those plants.
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By Greg Mills
A non-announcement from Microsoft, sort of a “no comment confirmation” has the Zune going the way of the dodo bird. Ironically, many in the press blame Apple’s iPod for killing the Zune. I submit that iPod was there first and that the ill conceived clone that was Zune was inferior and doomed to fail in the market place from day one.
In a move that could bring the UltraViolet proposal closer to our homes, some at the major film studios want to take advantage of UltraViolet to prevent DVD libraries from being rendered obsolete in a format upgrade, according to a “CNET” report (http://macte.ch/VIi18).
Read MoreConsumers increasingly want to access video content across the various video-capable devices they own, and service providers, content owners, online video distributors and device manufacturers are all keen to provide it.
However, new technologies are urgently needed to secure multiplatform video content against piracy and unauthorized access, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading (http://www.heavyreading.com), the research division of Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com).
Read MoreThe rumor mill has been working overtime this week. Here’s my thoughts on some of the speculations.
This week photos of a possible prototype 64GB iPhone were posted to the M.I.C gadget. If authentic, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Apple will release such a beast. However, if Apple can maintain price points, a 64GB version would make sense considering all the data types that the iPhone — which is much more than a phone — can store.
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