Mac OS X Cracked For PCs Again

"Ars Technica and The Register are reporting the Apple Kernel 10.4.8 has been cracked using Apple's publicly available source trees. This is the first time Apple was hit by hackers again since Maxxuss silently left the scene.The funny thing about this is the hacker who cracked OSx has released his sources according to APSL. He told Ars Technica in an interview that he did this because he believes in freedom of information, but will this now harm Apple's opensourceness?"
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Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale

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Bug Pushes Vista Out to November 8th

"Microsoft originally targeted October 25th for Vista's release to manufacturing, but a last-minute bug that 'took most of the Vista team by surprise' has caused an unexpected delay, said Ethan Allen, a quality assurance lead at a Seattle high-tech company that tests its products for Vista. Allen said the Vista team discovered the bug, which 'would totally crash the system, requiring a complete reinstall'. Vista now has a new RTM date of November 8th"
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EMI Exec Says 'The Music CD is Dead'

"Alain Levy, the chairman of EMI Music, made a speech at the London Business School declaring 'the end of the music CD as it is.' He went on to say that most CDs are simply used for ripping onto digital audio players. Levy adds that by the beginning of 2007, all EMI CDs will come with additional material to make them more attractive to the consumer. Revenue from CDs still outranks revenue from downloads by better than 6 to 1. Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs? What material would you like to see?"
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The Gaming Case Showdown

Suffice to say, any PC shop or electronics store has plenty of cases to sell. Indeed, the range of products to choose from is almost overwhelming. Not to mention the many vendors out there, cases come in every shape and size, with cost and quality varying nearly as much as appearance.

The four we look at today, the Antec 900, NZXT's Adamas, the Silverstone TJ09 and Zalman's Fatal1ty are fine examples of the case plethora. While we try to always take plenty of pictures for our readers, there is also much to say about what the cases offer.
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BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison

"The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for his role in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents. This ruling is the first BitTorrent related conviction in the US. Stanley pleaded guilty earlier this year to 'conspiracy to commit copyright infringement' and 'criminal copyright infringement.' He is one of the three defendants in the Elitetorrents operation better known as 'Operation D-Elite.'"
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Next Generation of iPods to have Wi-Fi?

"A TMCnet article states that Apple has filed a patent for iPods that can purchase music wirelessly over the internet. This was an expected feature in the Zune, though it turns out not to be true. 'While this could be an effort to fight the software giant and its product directly, it should be noted that Zune's built-in Wi-Fi will be limited to the file sharing between devices with no direct Internet purchases from the handheld,' says Campbell."
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Adobe brings audio to Web and video pros

Adobe Systems has released a beta of its new audio-editing program aimed at Web designers and video editors.
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'Grand Theft Auto' maker loses round in lawsuit

A federal judge refused a request from Take-Two Interactive Software to immediately dismiss some claims in a lawsuit accusing it of selling "Grand Theft Auto" video games containing sexually explicit images under the wrong content label.
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China jails Internet dissident for three years

A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed a dissident for three years for inciting subversion with an Internet essay praising pro-rights protests in Hong Kong, a human rights group said.
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Six million Xbox 360s sold

Microsoft has sold 6 million Xbox 360 video game consoles worldwide since releasing the unit about a year ago, the company said on Thursday.
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Sun's loss narrows as sales rise

Computer maker Sun Microsystems on Thursday posted a narrower quarterly net loss as revenue rose 17 percent, helped by its acquisition of tape storage company StorageTek and growth in its services business.

Sun reported a net loss for its first fiscal quarter ended Oct. 1 of $56 million, or 2 cents per share, compared with a year-ago net loss of $123 million, or 4 cents per share. Revenue rose to $3.19 billion from $2.73 billion.
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Sony posts loss, cites battery recall

Sony said on Thursday it swung to a quarterly loss due to the mounting cost of recalling millions of computer batteries, coming in sharp contrast to a surge in profit at rival Nintendo on its hit DS handheld game machine.

The deep loss at Sony comes despite the boost of a softer yen and robust sales of flat TVs and digital cameras, factors that are expected to lift earnings at Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial, which reports on Friday.
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Microsoft tops earnings forecast

Buoyed by sales of the Xbox 360 and server software, Microsoft reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday that edged ahead of the company's forecast.

The software giant said it earned $3.48 billion, or 35 cents a share, on revenue of $10.81 billion, for the three months ended Sept. 30. That compares with earnings of $3.14 billion, or 29 cents a share, on revenue of $9.74 billion for the same quarter a year ago. The year-ago earnings figure included legal expenses that amounted to 2 cents a share.
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Sun names likely license for open-source Java

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems likely will use the Community Development and Distribution License to govern the forthcoming open-source Java software project, CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Wednesday.

"We're within 30 to 60 days of announcing the open-sourcing of the core Java platform, using an OSI-approved license--likely the same license as we use for the Solaris operating system," Schwartz said during an Oracle OpenWorld speech here.
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