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2007 September 12

Memorex One Ups Lightscribe

Memorex Labelflash media will be available soon, allowing labels like the above one to be created in any Labelflash drive. As with Lightscribe, the discs themselves are a bit pricey. Ten DVD-Rs will retail for $14.99.
YAMAHA CORPORATION and FUJIFILM Corporation jointly developed Labelflashâ„¢ technology. With a drive compatible with the latest developed laser control [...]

Sun Hardware with Microsoft Software?

It’s true.
In a deal just made, Windows Server operating systems will run on Sun x86 hardware, and changes made by Microsoft will allow Solaris and the Windows Server OS to be run on top of each other, with one or both virtualized.
Sun sees this as a good thing because it says that 100% of Sun [...]

Russia Demonstrates Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Extant

With a capability 4 times higher than any U.S. effort thus far, Russia unloaded the largest bomb of its type in a demonstration of its military prowess.
The bomb is equivalent to 44 tons of TNT, from a weight of only 7.8 tons of material. This compares to the American ‘Mother of All Bombs’ which uses [...]

Microsoft Patents Forensic Watermark for Music

The technology, called ’stealthy audio watermarking’ shows that Microsoft is definitely interested in attracting content providers, but knows little about the reproduction of music. (I know, for many of you, this is not news!)
The very nature of audio reproduction means that anything added will have consequence to what is perceived. Test after test has been [...]

DVD Forum Approves 3-Layer DVD Format

One of the great secrets in tech history has apparently been hidden for about 8 months.  In January, a single journalist announced that a triple layer format was being approved by the DVD Forum, which is the governing body and backer of the HD DVD format.
The format, using 3 layers of information totaling 51 GB, [...]

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