Archive for November 19th, 2007
On Monday, Sony slashed the price of its software development kit for the PlayStation 3 console. The electronics giant is hoping to encourage third-party game developers to make new software titles for its struggling platform.In addition to reducing the cost of the kit, Sony is introducing new software development features, including debugging tools and support for applications such as SN Systems’ ProDG development software. The moves come just in time for the PlayStation 3’s first birthday.
Prices for the PS3 development package have been cut in half. The new price in North America is $10,250, while the price is $11,250 in Europe and $8,600 in Japan. The price reduction for the development side of Sony’s gaming equation comes at the heels of the company’s PS3 console price cuts last month.
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November 19th, 2007
On Monday, Amazon released an electronic device the company hopes will leapfrog over previous attempts at e-readers and become a key step on the path to Book 2.0. The device is called Amazon Kindle.Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos said the company has been working on Kindle for more than three years with the top design objective being that Kindle would disappear in the consumer’s hands so people can simply enjoy reading.
“We also wanted to go beyond the physical book,” Bezos said. “Kindle is wireless 
, so whether you’re lying in bed or riding a train, you can think of a book and have it in less than 60 seconds. No computer is needed — you do your shopping directly from the device.”
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November 19th, 2007
Microsoft ’s Patch Tuesday was rather uneventful this month, but Apple’s latest release of security fixes on Wednesday was anything but light. In all, Apple patched 41 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and related software.The company released an update for Tiger, fixed 10 bugs in the Windows version of Safari, and upgraded several other third-party applications. In the eyes of Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at security research firm Sophos, Wednesday’s release was a Godzilla-sized security update that exceeded about 130 MB in size.
The update includes 15 critical fixes to patch vulnerabilities that Apple said could open the door for “arbitrary code execution” that leaves a Mac compromised. More than two dozen other patches fixed vulnerabilities that could crash the OS or applications, allow malicious Web sites to do drive-by downloads, poison the machine’s DNS cache, or allow hackers to steal information or search for files on the victim’s hard drive.
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November 19th, 2007
