Broader technology news and trends, from telco price plans to the services worth noting.
From tomorrow, Singaporeans can surf with a new fixed broadband service from M1. Having offered mobile broadband since 2006, M1 becomes a full-fledged broadband player with the launch of M1 Fixed Broadband, broadening competition in the local home internet market.
What's up with the internet today? So much major news at once: Microsoft has released the long-awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows Update, Apple has released Safari 3.1, and Intel has announced its six-core Dunnington processor.
The format war is finally over and Blu-ray has won. I'm quite happy, as I always preferred it over HD-DVD. Consumers benefit greatly from a single standard, just like DVD and CD; Toshiba today announced it's ceasing HD-DVD production.
An interesting Neowin article. Ten years ago Microsoft was the company everyone loved to hate, slammed as a greedy industry bully using its monopolistic, clunky, copycat operating system. The piece asks whether Apple is now the new Microsoft.
We all use passwords daily, so they're supposed to be long and difficult to keep accounts safe. We're always told that, yet many people still pick from the same handful of weak, common passwords.
In a roundtable with the European press, John Chambers confirmed the end of life for the Linksys name, to be replaced by the new, redesigned Cisco branding. This follows Cisco's April move to let Linksys resellers add Cisco products.
SanDisk and Sony have announced the development of the Memory Stick Micro, or M2, format, an ultra-small recording medium designed to meet the growing storage needs of highly compact, multifunctional mobile phones.
I came across a headline, '109-bit Encryption Broken', and found it interesting enough to share. 109-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography was knocked over with brute force; academics scooped a $10,000 prize after a massive distributed computing effort.