Why waste time installing Linux, when you can waste money. C Data Solutions has created an $800 CF card which essentially acts as a HDD loaded with Linux. The only advantage here is that pocket-sized devices can run the OS. Other than that, a normal HDD and a free brew of Linux […]

Microsoft has released Windows XP SP2 to PC OEMs after a two-day delay. Of course if you are not an OEM, all 266MB of Build 2180 (the final build) can be downloaded from the usual places.
SP2 will protect your PC better against intruders and unwanted software than past versions of Windows did. The new […]

The FCC has approved the DVD+RW Alliance’s preferred copy-protection system, VCPS (Video Content Protection System). VCPS will use the ‘Broadcast Flag’ to limit the number of times a digital television show recorded onto a recordable DVD can be duplicated.
VCPS was developed by HP and Philips under the codename ‘Vidi’. Both are DVD+RW Alliance members. […]

Though AOL’s AIM has had it for years, Microsoft has finally released a web based version of MSN Messenger. Mac users rejoice as you can finally get those animated MSN Messenger 6.0 emoticons - well that is if you use Firefox, Safari doesn’t work with it.
Check it out here.

Professor Jeevan Jaisingh of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has written a paper on how using different DRM technologies, can make actually purchasing music a hassle. For example - a compact disc in which you have to perform multiple steps to decrypt and rip - why go through all that work? […]