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Audio/Video, Technology Security

BSN* Business Journalist mugged at WinDays – watch your wallets!

We expected a stream of news from WinDays 9 conference in Croatia, such as Office 2010, Cloud platforms, DirectX 11 and all that is happening at this very interesting, yet hidden conference. Unfortunately during morning’s breakfast at Hotel Bristol, an unknown person stole a wallet with all the credit cards and documents. After reviewing the CCTV footage, we identified the perp. And this is where "fun on mediterranean way starts", e.g. same thing that will happen to you in Italy, south of France, Spain or Croatia – even though the event was filmed on CCTV, local Police department told us that that’s "not their jurisdiction" and

Apple, Audio/Video, Companies

ZDNet and Objectivity Paradigm: The Best Spin Ever Heard

Today while researching the article we published on the new Apple ads I found what has to be the most impressive spin I have ever read. For years Apple Fans have maintained that OSX is more secure and robust than Windows due to the small number of viruses in the wild for the operating system. Windows supporters have countered that this is due to the small foot print OSX has in the market. Further adding that the large number of viruses is due to the large market share Windows has and that Malware writers go for the larger impact. The Apple gang counters that does

Audio/Video, Hardware

Apple Ads Under the Microscope

Last night while watching TV (Reaper), I was surprised to see another Mac ad with the balding bland old guy as the PC and the young “hip” kid as the Mac. I was preparing to change the channel or at least mute when I noticed a block of small print at the bottom. It was then that I started to listen to possible the most misleading commercial from Apple I have ever had to witness. The ad follows the same lines as the rest in the series; the young, cool casual, hip Mac says hi and then the old, geeky, fat, balding PC says he

Audio/Video, Business

The Best Law Money can Buy

This is the second analysis article written by our security expert. You can view our Ed-in-Chief’s 2009: The Year When Internet Freedom Ends comment here. As we all sit and shake our heads over the Pirate Bay Verdict we have to wonder, when did we allow corporations to dictate law? The Pirate Bay was found guilty of “hosting” copy written files even though these files never touched or resided on their servers. The founding members were sentenced to jail for one year and ordered to pay $5,290,000 US dollars worth of fines for the titles again without ever having any files physically on their servers. So

Audio/Video

2009: The Year when Internet freedom dies?

Looking at all those last-year protests against Olympics in China for Internet censorship, and civil rights violations – made me laugh and feel sad at the same time. Numerous thousands of protesters were blocking the Olympic torch because "China is bad". Guys’n’girls, tree-huggers and freedom protesters, don’t you feel like idiots today? At the same time, a non-controlled body in UK decided to block access to some aspects of Wikipedia citing "pornographic content", while a government-controlled body in Australia blocked access to several "non-appropriate sites" such as workers rights-whisperer websites, anti-abortion sites and so on. Today, owners of a search engine were pronounced guilty for

Audio/Video, Entertainment, Graphics, Hardware

Buyer-beware: Samsung 3D LCD requires two people assembly?

Recently, EVGA launched ELP [EVGA Loaner Program], which is an interesting scheme that allows someone to test-drive a particular technology before deciding on purchase. Under this program, a member of EVGA forums [free sign-up, Ed.] can receive a part for two weeks, submit a review and send the part to the next evaluator. We participated in a program that allowed us to test out a pair of GeForce 3D Vision glasses as well as a 22" 120 Hz Samsung monitor. Just like the program, we had two weeks to test this out and after that, send it out to the next one – expect a

Audio/Video, Business, Enterprise, Technology Security

Security Expert: FBI is very wrong on Emergency 911 fiasco

The FBI in Dallas, Texas showed off its technological ignorance on Tuesday when it seized all systems inside two data centers as part of an investigation into companies that owed money to AT&T and Verizon. Federal Buerau of Investigation is defending their actions based on a belief that all systems in a Data Center are interconnected as Mark White [FBI spokesperson for Dallas office] stated: "My understanding is that the way these things are hooked up is that they’re interconnected to each other," he says. "Company A may be involved in some criminal activity and because of the interconnectivity of all these things, the information of what

Audio/Video, Business

Intel Helping to bring the Internet to Chinese Farmers

It seems that the Industry Forum on Rural ICT [Information and Communications Technology] Development feels that the real help to China’s farmers and other rural areas is – Internet access. Yep you heard it – they feel the way to get things going is to offer connectivity, but the Internet. Calling this initiative “Wired to Prosperity”, the forum is looking to put an advanced infrastructure in place in rural China to facilitate economic growth. They say that farmers and rural citizens can now afford computers because they have dropped in price so much. Bear in mind that in the past 15 years, Chinese built 50,000

Audio/Video, Hardware

Lost in Electric Town: Akihabara Denki Gai video

Akihabara Denki Gai [Electric Town] is a fascinating place for anyone who ever encountered the world of electronics. If you want the latest camera, or perhaps a cellphone with more features than you can shake your stick at… or if you belong to the small exclusive world of hardware modders and want to get the best capacitors, chokes and resistors for serious volt modding – Akihabara is a place for you. This is our first travel video, we plan to release many more, as our schedule starts to fill with events… Sadly, the Yen is continuing its "too strong" rate compared to the

Audio/Video, Business, Hardware

Story #100: Netbooks Part III – The OEMs Comment

So far, we covered the netbook market from a couple of different angles. In one we discussed about how the netbook market grew from its intended purpose into an overpriced gadget. Next, we talked about how consumers are being misled about what a netbook is and does. Today, we will cover the netbook from the perspective of a couple of netbook manufacturers. We were promised a free and open conversation with them under the condition of anonymity. We also have asked Intel and nVidia for their points of view on this topic, which will be published in Part IV of this series. It might seem

Audio/Video, Business, Hardware

Netbooks pushed on consumers looking for a good deal

If you have been around for a while you might remember the days of the free and $400 e-machine systems. These were extremely low performance systems that were often bundled with MSN, AOL, or other internet provider contracts. It enabled e-Machines and the many dial-up ISPs [Internet Service Providers] to make a killing. But what it did in the end was flood the market with computers that could barely live up to user demands and often failed within months of purchase. I cannot tell you how many times I had friends ask me to look at their brand new e-Machine to see why it would

Audio/Video

Share your torrents on Facebook

The Pirate Bay just added a function to share either your torrents or torrents that you want to download with your friends on the Facebook. Will this be a next best thing that man invented since he invented fire or just another useless thing? We’ll just have to wait and see. In this world where we share all our things, well most of our things, and with the ever growing on-line population on Facebook, it was just a matter of time for us to begin to share our torrents. So now you can send a torrent of your favorite music album, series, movies, book even

Audio/Video, Software Programs

Can a free App compete against the all-mighty Adobe Photoshop?

My new netbook is an ASUS EEEk PC 904HD, but unlike on my desktop, Photoshop CS4 is unusable due to those 168 missing pixels (1024×600). Instead of GIMPing myself, a small 1.6MB download captured my heart. While browsing for alternatives, I bumped into one free little program called Paint.net. As I always like to try out new things (especially the free stuff), a download and install were a given. Given the fact that Paint.net was originally a student project over at Washington State, this application turned out to be not just a brilliant replacement for the Microsoft Paint, but this application evolved into something better,

Audio/Video, Hardware

INTRODUCING: Bright Audio Labs

Dear readers, welcome to Bright Audio Labs. My name is Tom and our Ed-in-Chief has positioned me to be in charge of running the audio lab. In the world of audio computing, my credentials are fairly straightforward – I’ve been making and testing audio computers for almost nine years. Besides creating audio computing systems, I’ve worked on sound for the largest clubs around the world, leading me to places ranging from Croatia to Australia and Canada, including clubs such as Privilege in Ibiza, Spain. Now, I will bring my experience in articles written exclusively for BSN*. When it comes to our articles, you are probably

Audio/Video, Entertainment

MMO Industry or "The plague of NERFS"

In the massive multiplayer online gaming community there is nothing as hated but at the same time asked for as "nerfs". They have plagued MMOs [Massive Multiplayer Online] since they first appeared and continue to do so even to this day. It is said that online games have the tendency to bring out the worst qualities in people and nerfs are the perfect example of this. The story is always the same – one player class, ability or game feature becomes perceived as overpowered or game breaking from someone’s point of view and needs to be severely weakened. Pretty soon the rage caused by this

Audio/Video

Welcome to the (b)right experience

…to something completely different, yet the same. First of all, I wish to welcome you to Bright Side of News or BSN*. The goal of this project is to bring you that good old "magazine-style" diverse experience and turbo-charge it with the speed of Internet 2.0. We are going to bring you analysis, interviews, news, reviews, rumors and much more from the never-stopping world of semiconductor industry and all of its covered markets. When we write all, then we do mean all – from birthmark removing GPU-accelerated algorithms in the adult movie industry to finding what chips go and do in a 550-tonne flying marvel.

Audio/Video

SuperTalent joins the USB Bling-Bling crowd

Throughout the last couple of years, we witnessed a rise in the spectrum of computer designs targeting woman. But while some co-operations were nothing else but selling the cheapest component in a shiny package and calling it “designer’s product”. Examples such as Philips-Swarovski cooperation come ti mind first – or how to sell a 1GB USB stick to woman, while at the same time offer 32x higher capacity plain-vanilla looking models? SuperTalent decided that there is plenty of girls amongst computer enthusiast crowd, and from other side, even fashionable aware ladies want to carry their digital stuff around. Enter Pico_C USB drive. This model is