Traveling Down the Information Backroad

Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper. Netflix working with LG only for downloads? NASA looking for water on Mars. The Greek computer stories I am now convinced is a BS PR stunt. Yahoo exec makes Yuil search engine to show up Cuil. EDS to be part of HP. Microsoft redoes the search engine yet again. IE beta up for grabs. Madden out on Aug. 11, the game that is. Make a computer from spare parts for no money. China limiting web access during Olympics. Why?

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PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Update Program

If you have Sony’s Picture motion Browser either for your camera/camcorder or with the Sony GPS-CS1 Photo tracker, check out the above update. New features include:

• Upload function for network services
  Images can be uploaded from PMB to a photo/video sharing website.
• Labeling / Rating function
  Labels and ratings can be added to the images. Images can be classified with the added labels or ratings.
• Video analysis function (Film Roll / Highlight Index)
  By analyzing videos, several scenes can be displayed as thumbnails for one video. Not only displaying thumbnails by specific intervals, this function automatically searches for the highlight scenes in which laughing or cheering are recorded, and display them as thumbnails.
• E-mail and track display functions in Map View
  Map View with images displayed on a map can be sent as an e-mail attachment. Also, the routes you traveled (tracks) can be displayed on a map.

  *	The track display function is only available for GPS Unit Kit users.

  If GPS Image Tracker Ver.1.0 is installed in your computer, it will be updated to Ver.2.0, which can display tracks recorded by the GPS log and add position information to videos.

UK hacker to finally be extradited to USA. A waste of the taxpayers money. Scrabulous lives on the Web. Dell going back into the music player business. 2100 year old Greek computer being revisited. Lake of petroleum on Saturn’s moon. Intel cheap computer a hit in Portugal. Microsoft’s Vista trick getting analyzed by everyone. Then there’s Midori, the Microsoft cloud.  64-bit Windows is not mainstream. T. Boone Pickens sells Yahoo stock, rips company.

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Facebook ditches Scrabulous. Adobe releases 64-bit Photoshop Lightroom 2. Microsoft shows off new spherical display device. Get your own jetpack for $100,000. Dell bringing out mini-desktop, perhaps a smart phone and Wal-Mart laptops. 70-percent of Government laptops are stupidly unencrypted.  DS piracy rampant in Japan. India going to develop a $10 Laptop. Will Android merge with Symbian. China to clone Blu-ray with new standard.

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New search engine flops with too much PR and no oomph. FCC cannot police Comcast but they can shake fist at the company. Apple MobileMe having issues. Company has yet to patch DNS hole as other get attacked by DNS poisoning. China has 560 million mobile phone users. Wow. Microsoft all over the news mostly about the bad Vista analysis. Microsoft throws in with Apache embraces PHP. Bad nVidia chips in Dell laptops?

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It Takes a Crisis – Forbes.com

This is an interesting article from Forbes on how Howard Stringer has begun Sony’s turnaround from its past troubled few years. I especially found the part of how the Playstation 3 saved the HD format war to be eye opening. Another fact is that contrary to most rumors, Sony did not pay Warner Brothers to drop the HD DVD format.

I believe Sony is on the right track in trying to integrate their products into a cohesive network for the home. I really think most consumers would rather have this tying together of products rather than slapping a computer into their home entertainment system to take care of their media.

Scrabble sues Scrabulous. Why not buy them? Facebook opening the architecture for others to take advantage of its system. Google activates KNOL, its Wikipedia clone. The Northern Lights are actually explosions. Intel gets serious about SOC – systems on a chip – AGAIN. Sony modernizes its e-book reader. Alien formats now work. Yahoo announced a rollout of Zimbra e-mail consolidation software. Spammer walks out of jail and is now an escaped convict.

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I wonder what to do with the sound effects. Will Microsoft change the interface on the Xbox360? Child Online Protection Act has been over-turned. New law needed. Looks like Google may buy Digg for$200 million. CherryPal announces terminal calls it something else. Wiis selling like hotcakes down under. Spam King gets nearly 4 years in jail. GigaOm buying other blogs. Microsoft going to go after Apple with advertising. Finally! The DNS flaw is out in the wild. Look for exploits coming your way.

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Apple looking better and better but margin cuts may hurt the stock price. I like the way Apple does updates for the Mac. TiVO and Amazon doing a deal where you can watch live TV and then buy a product that you see on the show out-of-the blue. People do not watch entertainment just to buy something. General Motors wants electric stations to be set up all over the country by the utilities companies. Esquire Magazine is going to use e-Ink for fancy 75^th anniversary edition. Should be fascinating. iPhone selling for $1000 on eBAY. IBM selling off Lenovo shares. AMD is on the road to recovery. The ASUS eeePC become hot in the EU.

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Intel cuts chip prices. This means cheaper computers for everyone. Interesting lawsuits over Facebook clones. iPhone 3G sold oil. Mac now number three in the race to make the most computers. They passed Acer. One-fifth of all retail spending now online. Total Internet reaches 1.5 billion users. Amazon S3 outage questions the cloud. Computer mouse not dying. CNET harping on email. Carl Icahn saga continues.

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