Category: Tech
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VW Touareg tows a Boeing 747
After all, even if this is a publicity stunt with not a lot to relate with real-life driving, the photos of the SUV towing one of the biggest air planes in the world are still impressive.
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How to crack HD DVD?
I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack: Break the AAS coding on the disc itself. Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement…
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SPAM is flaring up again
As a matter of fact, the holiday season seems to be a season of SPAM. This web site is receiving again a large amount of comment SPAM. I guess that the spammers are hoping to catch bloggers while they are distracted by more family matters. Thanks to Akismet for catching all that. I only have…
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YouTube & Google will kill the TV
Now that Google has bought YouTube, the issue is really what is going to happen. It is not enough to see a lot of traffic (YouTube has tens of millions of users rushing in to look at a myriad of online videos) to make a good business model (look at the 2000 Internet bubble that…
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The Linux Equivalent project
If you jumped from Windows to GNU/linux you are certainly looking for the equivalent Linux programs for your previous Windows applications. This is exactly what the Linux Equivalent project provides: A list of Windows programs with their “equivalents” on GNU/Linux. But you have to understand that some “equivalences” are not exactly on par with Windows…
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Hoya absorbs Pentax
Hoya and Pentax just announced that they reached an agreement on a merger between both companies that would result in the absorption of Pentax into the major glass manufacturer. Pentax shares will be exchanged against Hoya shares; Management will be shared between top brass coming from both companies. The good news is that, even if…
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iPhone launched… by Linksys, not Apple
Already a great marketing success. While everybody was expecting the announcement of a new VoIP (Voice-over-IP) phone set by Apple under the name of iPhone, there is a product launched under that exact name by… Linksys. The networking company is stealing all the publicity from Apple in a coup. But it is not only a…
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Metro stations, everywhere
If you need a map for a metropolitan railway (or underground tube, or metro, or most tramways), there is only one place to go: UrbanRail.net has all kinds of public transport maps All over the world. And some news about public transportation.
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Apple wants total supplier security
This is the obvious conclusion of this minor news that may attract the attention of the engineers among us: Apple now has no less than seven suppliers for the Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) of its iPod (they expect a strong growth in 2007): Tripod Technology, Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), Unimicron Technology, Compeq Manufacturing,…