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Friday Tech News Grab Bag
By TheEmperor | March 21, 2008
This marks a return to my regular update schedule after a couple of weeks of crazy.
This week in technology news marks several groundbreaking events, the first of which is the end of the 700mhz spectrum auctio. AT&T and Verizon ended up with huge chunks of the spectrum with a few bit players getting pieces as well. Google pumped the bid up to the minimum 4.9 billion dollars to ensure that the spectrum was required to be open access. This means that Verizon and AT&T will have to allow users with any compatible device for any carrier to use the network. Yay for device portability! The next big news item was the official release of Windows Vista SP1 to universal disdain. The update is incompatible with a major Intel chipset and seems to be causing as many or more problems than it fixes. The verdict still seems to be to pass on Vista and stick to XP. Technology and politics intersected this week when a major voting machine vendor threatened to sue a university professor and the state of new jersey if they performed an audit of the vendors machines. Now, maybe it’s just me, but I’d prefer to know exactly what’s going on inside the box that determines who the next president of the United States is. And last but not least the Blu-Ray DVD encryption which the makers claimed would take a decade to crack has been shattered in a mere 8 months. And that’s the news in Technology for this week. In Tech Empire news I’m planning my inaugural PodCast for sometime this weekend and it’s going to be all about Voting Machines. Stay tuned!
Topics: 700mhz spectrum, blu-ray encryption crack, vista sp1, voting machines |
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