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Samsung to bundle glasses with 3D TVs
Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company announced last night.…
Continue reading »Toshiba prices up Blu-ray Disc patent portfolio
Pools tech resources with Warner, Thomson and Mitsubishi Consumer electronics and entertainment companies Mitsubishi, Thomson, Toshiba and Warner Bros have together begun charging for their intellectual property that is “essential” to Blu-ray Disc players, drives and recorders.…
Continue reading »Get Ready for Flash Player 10.1 to Stream P2P Video to Millions, Swap Files BitTorrent-style
Forget multitouch: By far the most disruptive — and overlooked — feature of the Flash Player 10.1 beta that Adobe launched this week is the ability to transmit video via P2P multicast. In fact, Adobe built some enhanced P2P capabilities into both the new Flash Player and Air 2 beta that could be used to replicate BitTorrent functionality within Flash, build large-scale P2P groupware solutions that work right within the browser and stream video to millions of viewers without having to pay a fortune for bandwidth. Adobe has been hinting at big plans for P2P ever since it bought a small P2P startup called amicima in early 2007.
Continue reading »Court’s Steroid Ruling Pumps Up Computer Privacy
A divided 11-judge federal appeals court panel has dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age, ruling Wednesday that federal prosecutors went too far when they seized 104 professional baseball players’ drug results when they had a warrant for just 10. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ 9-2 decision offered Miranda-style guidelines to prosecutors and judges on how to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights while conducting computer searches.
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