Boring Classes Hurting Video Game Industry, Official Says
February 8, 2010
UK (ChattahBox) – A top figure in the video game industry has accused university courses in computer science for the drop in talent within the industry.
PayPal Blocks Personal Payments To and From India
February 8, 2010
(ChattahBox)—PayPal has abruptly stopped personal payments to and from India, to allow the eBay company to “address questions” about the service to the country. Before PayPal officials announced on its blog that payments were suspended, the blogosphere was already reporting that the company was suddenly reversing and returning payments to senders, when India was the source of the transfers. Read more
FBI Pushing ISPs to Keep Files on User Websites Visited
February 6, 2010
(ChattahBox)— The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pushing Internet service providers to retain records of Web sites visited by customers for a period of two-years, to aid criminal investigations, including child pornography. But such record keeping raises privacy concerns, as well as the difficulty of capturing and storing Web site visits. Read more
Sun Microsystems CEO Tweets Haiku Resignation
February 4, 2010
(ChattahBox)—-Jonathan Schwartz, the now-former CEO of Sun Microsystems, made history of sorts, late Wednesday night when he used his Twitter account to announce his resignation from a post he has held since 2006. With Oracle’s purchase of Sun finalized last week, it was expected that Schwartz would soon move on, but not via a tweet. Schwartz also added a Haiku poem to his resignation tweet, in 140 characters or less of course. Read more
Virgin Announces Plans For New Submarine
February 2, 2010
(ChattahBox) – Richard Branson, the head of the Virgin empire, has announced that his company will be releasing a winged underwater transportation device for deep sea rides.
New Device Turns Used Paper Into Toilet Paper
February 1, 2010
Japan (ChattahBox) – Oriental Co., Ltd. released their new office gadget for Eco-Products 2009, a machine that is able to take shredded paper of any kind and convert it into perfectly formed rolls of toilet paper.
Showdown Between Macmillan and Amazon Kindle Ends With Removal of Titles
January 31, 2010
(ChattahBox)—Macmillan wants to sell its e-book titles for $12.99 to $14.99 and Amazon wants to keep prices at $9.99, to compete in an increasingly competitive digital book industry. The dispute with publishing giant Macmillan and Amazon came to a head on Thursday when Macmillan CEO John Sargent balked at Amazon’s new pricing model. In response, on Friday, Amazon removed every single title published by Macmillan from its website, as well as from its Kindle e-reader. For Kindle owners who want to read former John Edwards’ aide, Andrew Young’s “The Politician” or Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall they are out of luck. Read more
Apple launches iPad tablet computer (Video)
January 28, 2010
(ChattahBox) — Apple’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, has unveiled is team’s “latest creation” the iPad, a ‘revolutionary’ touch-screen, tablet-style computer, positioning it somewhere between a laptop and a smartphone. The iPad, which resembles a giant iPhone, is half an inch thick and weighs 1 1/2 pounds, has a 9.7in full-colour touch-screen, and can be used to watch movies, surf the internet, listen to music, view photos,and read ebooks and digital versions of newspapers and magazines. Jobs, in only his second public appearance since a leave of absence for health reasons last year, described the device as a “truly magical and revolutionary product”.
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YouTube To Offer Movie Rentals With Official Deal
January 27, 2010
(ChattahBox) – YouTube has signed a deal with Sundance that will allow them to begin showing rentals to users of indie films shown at their famous film festival.
US Hacker Announces He Can Hack The PS3
January 25, 2010
US (ChattahBox) – The man who is responsible for hacking into the Apple iPhone during his teen years has come forward with his latest achievement: the first successful hack of the Playstation 3.