YouTube On TV With PS3 & Wii

If you own a PS3 or Wii game console, you can now watch YouTube on your television. YouTube has announced the launch of YouTube for Television, a section of the site with a new user interface designed for easier viewing on TV screens. YouTube for Television, currently in beta, is accessible through your console’s browser at www.youtube.com/tv. NOTE – Don’t bother visiting that site if you’re reading this on a computer. It will simply take you do YouTube’s home page,... 

Seagate Barracuda Drives Failing

Seagate’s flagship desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular the 1TB (ST31000340AS) units, are failing at an alarming rate and prompting outrage from their faithful customers. A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then – out of the blue – it’ll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive... 

WHS – Beyond The Vail

Todd Headrick, director of the Windows Home Server Team has advised that Microsoft is working on on a minor release of the Windows Home Server for release some time in 2009, and expect to provide a major new version, codenamed “Vail”, in 2010 which will focus on making it a part of the Windows 7 family.” So far the only feature announced for Vail is support for Windows 7 Homegroups. Although you can back up a Windows 7 PC to a Home Server like any other PC and you can access shared... 

Windows 7 Media Center Video

CES 2009 – Microsoft’s Ben Reed has given a quick video demo of Windows 7 Media Center. Windows 7 Media Center allows users watch live and recorded TV from their PCs. If they don’t have a TV tuner linked to their PC, they can watch hundreds of TV episodes and other videos from the Internet. With a tuner, Windows Media Center acts as a DVR in adition to being able to listen to music and scan through photo collections. A first with Windows 7, the Media Center interface is now controllable... 

Windows 7 Beta Download Available

Microsoft’s web site is struggling to stay online as users keen to download the first public beta of Windows 7 began overloading the company’s servers. Microsoft’s Bill Veghte has talked about having just a single beta of the product, followed by a release candidate version and then a final release. The company has been aiming to get it out this year, although Veghte said it could still come out either this year or early next year. It’s now been confirmed that the Beta-1... 

Download Windows Home Server Trial

With the first day of CES 2009 getting under way, the Windows Home Server team has decided to make the DVD of the Windows Home Server 120-Day Evaluation Edition available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. The Windows Home Server Getting Started Guide and the Windows Home Server Release Documentation to help you with the installation of your home server, both are available from the Windows Home Server Support page. You must accept the License Terms presented during the setup program... 

Internet Connected TVs This Year

Toshiba has said that it will deliver Internet-connected TVs during 2009 which will make use of Yahoo and Intel technology to access movies, music, sports and other content from the Web. The company said it would integrate the Widget Channel applications framework developed by the two companies in LCD TVs, LCD TV/DVD combos and standalone DVD players. The framework enables consumer-electronics manufacturers to run small applications called TV Widgets to access Web content. Powering the Widget Channel... 

Android Netbooks By 2010?

Google’s mobile phone operating system Android has been compiled to work on an Asus Eee netbook. Staff at VentureBeat have managed to tweak Google’s software to run on the mini laptop, an 1000H model, suggesting that “there is a big technology push to let Android run on netbooks under way”. Do you think Android could run on laptops or PCs? “The simple answer is ‘yes, with an asterisk.’ The operating system Linux runs on PCs and laptops, and Android uses a...