Toshiba to offer OpenSolaris powered laptops
This is a surprising new development. Japanese personal computer maker Toshiba has announced that they are collaborating with Sun Microsystems to offer laptops based on their OpenSolaris operating system.
These laptops would go on sale early next year and would be aimed at the geeks.
A company representative said: “Toshiba and [...]

Adobe Systems launches Open Screen Project for flash on mobile devices
Software Company Adobe has announced that they are launching their Open Screen Project in collaboration with mobile phone makers like Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba.
The project is also supported by chipmakers including Intel and Qualcomm.
Content providers for this platform include NBC Universal, MTV [...]

AnyDVD HD: SlySoft claims to have broken Blu-ray Copy-Protection

Caribbean based company SlySoft has announced that they have cracked the copy protection used by some Blu-Ray discs.
The company is now offering their AnyDVD HD 6.4.0.0 software at a 20% discount.
SlySoft had released similar software last year which they claimed bypassed HD DVD copy protection. HD DVD [...]

Microsoft working on Blu-Ray support on Windows OS
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been quoted as saying that the company is working on bringing support for Blu-Ray format on the Windows OS.
He said: “We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like.”
This is a big development coming [...]