Tag archive: week

The Register has looked at a number of reports and rumors that together seem to hint at the possibility of Apple releasing a 4GB model of the iPhone next week at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The first comes from Endgadget, which has a supposed leak from the PCS Type Review Certification Board, the group certifying GSM handsets, saying it has approved iPhones of 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities. Another site, The Boy Genius,… Read More

Microsoft is getting pro-active with plans to get people using its new browser, Internet Explorer 8, according to CNET. Starting next week, Windows users who have the automatic update feature turned on will be pushed to download IE8. A company representative said: "Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a… Read More

Last week Independent Security Evaluators announced a flaw in Google’s Android Web browser system that could possibly allow a hacker to access information the WebKit browser might use. However, they didn’t release details of the exploit in order to give Google a chance to patch the flaw. Google has now done that, according to Information Week. Some users of the T-Mobile G1 phone were informed over the weekend that an update… Read More

In a sign of just how important fixed-price sales have become to the auction site, Information Week reports that eBay has reduced the seller fees for “But It Now” items to just 35 cents per item – that’s a possible reduction of 91%, as fees previously ranged from 35 cents to $4. More than that, if a seller has multiple copies of an item, they can all be listed for just the one fee, and listing times have been… Read More

Media outlets have speculated about Grand Theft Auto IV’s spectacular first-week performance since before it even occurred, but Take-Two finally took the lid off its own data on Wednesday to reveal hard numbers. The results: GTA IV demolished not just video game but entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value. Take-Two claims it sold 3.6 million copies of the game within just one day, or roughly 41 games sold… Read More

VH1 today announced that they'd added four new video podcasts to their line up of "multiplatform programming". These podcasts join a program the music service began last fall in conjunction with their "Hip Hop Honors" event. The new video podcasts are, according to a VH1 press release: “Best Night Ever” - Based on the VH1 series of the same name, this podcast will launch each night from Sunday to Thursday,… Read More

“According to an international cover story in the April 25th edition of Business Week, the cell phone carriers, along with Cingular/ATT, have very different perspectives on how digital music stores should work and are expected to charge between $2 and $3 for wireless music downloads when they introduce their services. “They figure they can charge a premium for the convenience of getting songs anytime, even though customers most… Read More

“Speaking at a media event this week, Sony VP Nishida gave the first firm impression of when consumers can expect to see Cell microprocessors in products other than the PlayStation 3, which is expected to roll out in 2006. The powerful microprocessor, which has been designed specifically to handle media processing, will come into its own in next-generation home media products which need to process multiple streams of HD… Read More

“Within less than a week of launching in the US on November 21st, more than half a million DS units had been sold, Nintendo said today, leading to stock shortages around the country as 90 per cent of the launch allocation was snapped up by eager fans. It took just four days to achieve the same level of sales in Japan, where the unit launched on December 2nd.” Nintendo thinks they will be able to sell 2.8 million… Read More

“The world's largest video rental company will still have due dates for their rental products — one week for games and two days or one week for movies, depending on whether it's a newrelease. But customers will be given a one-week grace period after that to return the product. After that grace period ends, the chain will automatically sell them the product, less the rental fee. If the customers don't want to… Read More

“Although Burnout 3 only spent a single week at number one, it still makes an incredibly strong showing this week, with sales actually up 32 per cent on the PS2 version of the game as good reviews and word of mouth spread for the title. The Sims 2, meanwhile, surprised nobody with its number one debut – it is, after all, the sequel to the best selling PC game of all time. However, Championship Manager 4 remains the… Read More

This week's meeting was all about extremes – monitors that are very big or very small, very thin, very light and very, very high-resolution. While some tech enthusiasts are willing to shell out thousands of dollars for the next new thing, whether and how soon more mainstream versions of these gadgets will appear in your living rooms – or even clothing – will depend largely on the price. Few can afford to pay about… Read More

The only good news in this week's report from security-software vendor Symantec Corp. is that the rate at which Internet security holes are found leveled off at seven per day in the last six months of 2003. The bad new is that those flaws are being exploited much more quickly. Read the full story at InformationWeek.

Intel told customers in meetings this week that it will be unable to meet China's June 1st deadline by which all wireless computing chipsets are supposed to be compatible with government security standards. Rather than modify its products, Intel will curtail shipments to the country. Santa Clara, California-based Intel said it will continue to sell the Pentium M brand of chips for notebook computers in China, but it will strip… Read More

Lawyers acting for the Haitian group, who object specifically to the “Kill all the Haitians” mission in the game, believe that a state case will avoid more lenient federal freedom-of-speech standards, the Miami Herald reports this week. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman, already well known for his blusterous campaigning against videogames, also railed on Grand Theft Auto this week during a women's… Read More