Tech Stuff guest columnist
Welcome to another edition of Tech News. As usual, news in tech has been moving with the pace of a freight train on crack. Everything from major real world viruses infecting Microsoft to Google being sued for posting copyrighted pictures, life in the tech world has been in one word ’strange.’ But going back to Google, if you have not already heard, Google has officially launched their new IM client dubbed Google Talk. With the logical progression of moving onto the IM side of the business (also see AOL’s new IM chock full of Ads), Google is once again trying to revolutionize the art of IM including an integrated structure in tandem with your gmail account which allows you to import your contacts list, email someone straight from Google Talk and also allows you to get a little pop up preview when someone emails you (see gmail notifier). With the success of their launch of Google Earth as well as their user friendly Google Maps, their goal (as it would seem) is for you to never have to leave Google. But going back to Google Talk, it is currently under beta, and will probably go through a slew of changes within the next few months.
The beloved iTunes offered by Apple may also be going through some changes, and not for the better. As reported by the New York Times, the 99 cent download policy might be need to be changed in order to keep Apple from losing a whole bunch of music. Expect a price hike (not unlike your gas) in the very near future.
In smaller news, Adobe has a leaked secret that Photoshop CS3 is currently in the works (damn, I just got a pirated copy of CS2 a few months ago). And what would the headlines be without news on IE7? Here is an alleged link
for the beta version. I have yet to try it as I am a Firefox person and I also don’t want to install IE7 with the fear that my laptop will crash and you will not be able to read this. However, your die hard IE fans (your grandma) as well as schools and businesses should be happy to hear that the next IE is coming soon.
Until next time, this has been your tech news.
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Google is teh evil. They’re not allowing any of their employees to talk to cNet.com reporters for one year. It’s old news, but I can post a link to the story if anyone’s interested.
I would like to see the link. Tried google talk for a bit but nothing new and innovating so I uninstalled it. Stick with Trillian if using chat.
You can read about the Google/CNET thing here. In other news it looks like DVD Jon cracked the Windows Media Player protection last week.
Thanks for the link. Kind of like Microsoft discouraging their employees from using iPods. Yeah read about DVD Jon. I use DVDshrink and DVD decrypt. Works well.