-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Linux-based PMP gains WiFi access system
,----[ Quote ]
| Slacker Inc. says its Linux-based personal music player (PMP) can now connect
| itself automatically to "hundreds of thousands" of WiFi hotspots. The Slacker
| Portable's new capabilities come thanks to the addition of DeviceScape
| Connect, a login client and service designed to connect browser-less devices
| to wireless networks that require authentication.
`----
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7932700718.html
WiFi. Just like Zune, only without the nasty DRM and the feature Microsoft
calls "squirting". Microsoft crippled its WinCE device and made no use of
Wi-Fi. And now Zune is said to be dying [1,2,3].
Also improved today:
Linux software supplier Concurrent introduces FlexRay support in SIMulation
Workbench product
,----[ Quote ]
| Concurrent, a US provider of Linux solutions, has added support for the
| FlexRay communications standard to its SIMulation Workbench product.
| Concurrent’s SIMulation Workbench is a complete software environment for
| developing and executing real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and
| man-in-the-loop (MIL) simulations. This new support provides automotive
| engineers an environment to reduce test and integration time for new
| automotive designs.
`----
http://www.autoindustry.co.uk/news/27-05-08
___
[1] Zuneral this Saturday!
,----[ Quote ]
| We regret to report the sudden, unexpected death of Digital Rights
| Management. Details of the tragedy at present remain unclear, but he was
| rushed to the hospital following a direct collision with an oncoming future
| last week at 10 PM. He was seven years old.
`----
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Efreeculture/blog/2008/05/22/zuneral-this-saturday/
[2] GameStop to Stop Zune Sales
,----[ Quote ]
| Video-game retailer GameStopGME has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune
| players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from
| customers.
`----
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/hardware/10418052.html
[3] The beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune
,----[ Quote ]
| Some may even say this goes to the root of Microsoft’s heritage. How they
| came to achieve the operating system dominance and success by bullying
| smaller businesses or buying them out and marketing their product as their
| own.
|
| The way things are going, one can not help wonder if Microsoft have just run
| out of ideas on expanding their business and decided to jump on the “me-too”
| bandwagon.
`----
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2008/05/25/the-beginning-to-the-end-for-the-microsoft-zune/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFIPQjBU4xAY3RXLo4RAqP4AKC071Gg+60y5Bhp+EN5OVJXz5h0RgCeKcHV
P+ofxLbTQz60gqN6aWvtSOY=
=8Rzm
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
