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...launch Blu-Ray players and PC drives say they are on target for a mid-2006 launch. Today, Sony's U.S. consumer-electronics division announced that its first Blu-Ray player, the BDP-S1, should ship in July, priced at $1,000. Blu-Ray drives for its VAIO PCs should also be available around that same time...
...download-ready qualities. In Wolf's words: "I drank the Kool-Aid." As Wolf and other producers sell their wares in the annual TV-industry ritual known as development season, new technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) are scrambling for ways to deliver content over a panoply of platforms. They are also scrambling to figure out a business model that can predictably deliver profits...
...Technology analyst firm IDC estimates that two thirds of all PCs are infected with some kind of spyware. It's easy to check yours: a number of web sites, such as lavasoftusa.com, offer free scanning and removal of spyware. Microsoft is getting into the anti-spyware game, too, and its new technology is free during the testing period...
...prevention-stopping the stuff from ever being installed on your system. The National Cyber Security Alliance recommends that all computer users have a secure firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. And yet an alliance study, conducted last December in conjunction with AOL, found that 81% of home PCs were missing at least one of these three security components. Four in 10 lacked spyware protection...
...story behind Google Pack, as told to me by Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, is that the company's two founders recently bought Windows PCs for family members, and were appalled at their out-of-box experiences. Once the computer was turned on, they had to spend time downloading the many applications necessary to actually use the thing. Fix it, they said. Mayer's team responded...