We've been talking for long now of the third technology for manufacturing big screens, the
SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display).
Canon who's making an expo until tomorrow in Paris-La Défense, demoed a prototype of such a screen. In fact, they put it near a LCD and a Plasma.
Hardware.fr who went to see this screen seem to lack superlatives to describe it. It seems it overcomes by far all those he's compared too (probably not the best in their category though).
The first SED TV sets should be available for buying by the end of the year. One year later, LCD displays following this norm should arrive.
While the transition from 130nm to 90nm was not painless for chips founders (including Intel), the next migration from 90 to 65nm seems to be rather straight forward.
TSMC, one of the biggest Taiwanese chips-on-demand founder, has started producing processor prototypes with 65nm engraving technology.
In a first step, this process will allow to increase the number of transistors, and only later it should also translate into higher clocked processors
Freescale should be the first customers of TSMC to use 65nm produced processors, but it is rather unlikely that we will see them anytime in a Mac; when such processors will be available in mass production, Intel will probably have found its way in all Apple computers models.
Macworld is reporting that Microsoft does not plan to release a Linux-compatible version of its famous Office suite, Redmond remains 100% focused on Windows (and on Mac?)
This is no really surprising, Microsoft keeps trying to
patent the FAT file format. Recently, the American Patent Office has rejected the Microsoft claims to protect FAT format by a patent.
If Microsoft succeeds in its fight with the Patent Office, all companies and users having a HD-, flash memory- or USB hey-based device might have to pay royalties to Microsoft. In addition Microsoft might even prevent people to use FAT format, especially Linux users...
The audio compression codec OggVorbis is not massively used, but it still is a rather good codec.
If you wish to play .ogg audio encoded files directly in iTunes or with QT7, there is a small plug-in that can be found from the following website:
http://zskl.zsk.p.lodz.pl/~skali/oggvorbis.html
It is not fully finalized, there is still a bug preventing iTunes to read the title of the songs.
