News for Monday, 3 October 2005

Apple sent to the repair centers a briefing on the problems of the Nano screen.
It summarises what has been already told:
- if a screen is broken without any particular request, Apple will exchange it without discussion
- on the other hand, if the screen has been broken by an improper use, no exchange is possible
Of course, we can already image some endless discussions as the Nano can be easily (and quiclky!) scratched, which can give a broken aspect to an iPod only handled without care.
Of course, Apple will strictly refuse to exchange a Nano for scratches only.

As expected, Google is starting its ISP business and submits bid to offer a free WiFi network (at 300 kb/s) to San Francisco.
Google may pay for the service through local advertising, similarly to what AdSense does, e.g. if you surf from Union Square on a shoes website, you'll get an advert for the Nike Town around the corner.

Lucent presented un product allowing transfers on Ethernet up to 100 Gb/s, using optical fibre.
To achieve this bandwidth, Lucent innovated: information is not transmitted using binary mode but with 3 signal levels, positive, negative and zero.
Using this new approach, an optical modulator is already commercialy available but reaches 'only' 40 Gb/s for the moment.

The firmware 1.22 for the DVR-110 is available on Pioneer's website. Unfortunately, a PC is still necessary or flashing the burner.
R110D_FW122EU.EXE
This firmware solves an issue on unexpected ejection on Windows ME and improves the quality of the burning and adds the compatibility with new media.

If you are ready to sacrifice the portability and the design of the recently released iPod nano, the website Uncyclopedia.org explains how to add an ATA interface that will allow you to bring a 200GB storage capacity to your iPod nano.

This could help you to turn your iPod nano into a real hifi system
[update] we are not sure if this mod is a true one or a fake, even though similar modification have already been done with previous iPod (HD-based models).

Many owners of both a Mac and a PSP were dreaming of replacing PSP OS by MacOS.
It seems that someone has succeeded to run MacOS 7.5 of his PSP.

It is far to be trivial, knowing that the really slow PPC emulation makes booting time really long: 4 hours...
http://www.digital-yume.net/neisha/

It is now the most powerful PMG5 dual 2.7GHz that is available on the Refurb Store with 20% discount (2367 Euros instead of 2959).