http://Tech-News.expectable.net Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:08:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting article from: Source Mario Day Engadget reports Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is 'looking forward' to court date with Intel, sees no reason to settle (video) Ars Technica reports HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers ... 13 http://Tech-News.expectable.net/mario-day-shortbread Interesting article from: Source That whole "forcing users to be online to play" copy protection scheme Ubisoft premiered recently seems to be having a rough start. After forcing players to retrace progress in the release version of Assassin's Creed II, the new DRM scheme has now prevented folks from, well, actually ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/ubisoft-drm-authentication-servers-go-down Interesting article from: Source One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can "tag" with anything. 8 http://Tech-News.expectable.net/wearing-your-stickybit-on-your-sleeve-or-elsewhere Interesting article from: Source Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding. 8 http://Tech-News.expectable.net/chasing-groupon-livingsocial-raises-25-million Interesting article from: Source Owners of the Humax Foxsat HD and the Foxsat HDR Freesat set top boxes will be able to access the highly desirable BBC iPlayer through the red button on the remote control. However before the viewer can use this service a little bit of planning will be needed, ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/bbc-iplayer-tunes-into-humax-foxsat-stb Interesting article from: Source Sharp will be releasing the first versions of its new Freeview HD set top boxes towards the end of April. Naturally, one of these machines will be a personal video recorder (PVR) but unusually it will offer a USB port as an additional storage connection. The Sharp TU ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/sharp-prepares-for-freeview-launch Interesting article from: Source Households in the West TV region that are still watching television via an analogue signal have only two weeks to switchover to a digital TV service or face missing out initially on BBC 2 and, after BBC 2 is switched off, the entire analogue signal will soon ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/west-gets-the-switchover-countdown Interesting article from: Source With the prospect of a General Election brewing the leaders of the main political parties have to get themselves in front of as many people as possible. This can make a lot of difference to how the voters see these leaders and ultimately could affect the outcome ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/pm-is-red-carded-by-the-bbc Interesting article from: Source Microsoft officially launched the MSN Video Player today. This is a service said to rival that of the BBC iPlayer but in reality these are two different services altogether. The BBC iPlayer offers the user a catch up service of programmes that have been shown during the previous ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/microsoft-launches-vod-service Interesting article from: Source Music on YouTube has been a big hit in the US, with viewings for the month of January increasing by fifty per cent according to the US-based tracker service comScore. The figures throw up some interesting facts about the market, with 173.3 million internet user watching a staggering ... http://Tech-News.expectable.net/youtube-views-increase-by-50