June 28th, 2012
Microsoft Anti-Trust Fine Upheld by EU General Court Source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/microsoft-anti-trust-fine-upheld-byeu-general-court/16446.html June 28th, 2012
Published by: VR-Zone
Although 37 devices may not seem like a big number, it is because of the effort of the official CM9 devs that people outside of the official team can work on porting CM other devices. The CM team points out that the RC1 release will be the first of many more RC1’s, and support for additional devices are on their to-do list. Check out the official post here for more details.
The EU General Court, their second highest court, upheld a fine placed on Microsoft by anti-trust regulators in the lower courts. The second highest court in Europe has upheld an antitrust ruling against Microsoft, saying that it “essentially upholds the Commission’s decision.” However, the court did reduce the record-setting fine from 899 million euros to 860 million euros. The fine was imposed four years ago because Microsoft had not provided certain information to its competitors as it was ordered to do in 2004. Anti-trust regulators in the European Union initially fined Microsoft 497 million euros for abusing its dominant position in the market to drive away competition. They ordered Microsoft to make its server software code available to competitors so that their products could work alongside each other. They were also ordered to make specific changes to their operating systems, such as removing Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer as built-in defaults for listening to music and browsing the internet. In 2008, an additional fine was given for failing to comply with the 2004 order. At a hearing in May of 2011, Microsoft’s lawyers argued that the fine was excessive and completely undeserved. A statement from the EU General Court in Luxembourg, however, states that the latest decision “rejects all the arguments put forward by Microsoft in support of annulment.”
I-O Data Unveils New Line of USB 3.0 Portable HDDs with Two-Tone Bodies Source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/i-o-data-unveils-new-line-ofusb-3.0-portable-hdds-with-two-tone-bodies/16440.html June 28th, 2012
I-O Data unveiled its newest line of portable hard drives, under the HDPC-UT series. The drives are designed with two-tone bodies, in which its two sides have different, somewhat-contrasting colors; and USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface. Japanese company I-O Data unveiled the HDPC-UT line of portable hard drives featuring two-tone bodies, in which the two major sides have dissimilar and somewhat contrasting colors. The drive is initially offered in two color schemes, red + brown and white + gray (silky).
CyanogenMod 9-RC1 now available Source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/cyanogenmod-9-rc1-nowavailable/16445.html June 28th, 2012
Before taking off for the Google I/O in San Francisco, the CyanogenMod team announced the release of the CyanogenMod 9.0-RC1. Before taking off for the Google I/O in San Francisco, the CyanogenMod team announced the release of the CyanogenMod 9.0-RC1. It has been 225 days since Google unleashed Android ICS for developers to work on, and within that time the people working on CM9 has managed to whip out official support for 37 devices. The team claims that CM 9.0 RC1 is a stable build which they have put countless hours into producing.
The drives are available in two capacities, 500 GB and 1 TB. Equipped with USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface, the drives rely on the interface (a single cable) for both power and connectivity with the host. It is backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, and works with most TVs and other digital devices that support USB mass-storage device standard. The drives are pre-formatted and include Windows installers for the company's Mach Copy software, which works to speed up file-transfers with the drive. The 500 GB white + silky gray (HDPC-UT500W) and red + brown (HDPC-UT500R) models are priced at 10,500 Japanese Yen (about S $168); while the 1 TB white + silky gray (HDPC-UT1.0W) and red + brown (HDPC-UT1.0R) models go for 15,015 Yen (S $240).
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