The latest version of Adobe’s industry-standard vector graphics application is here, and Ars puts the Mac version through its paces. Here’s a look at what’s new, what’s fixed, and what’s newly broken, in Illustrator CS4.
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SanDisk isn’t spilling all the beans just yet, but the company is hinting that it’s got the technology to make many of SSD’s negative aspects go away. Full disclosure is coming at CES 2009, but for now, here’s what we know.
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Antivirus companies typically bill themselves as offering critical protection when you need it most, but the timeliness of the protection is a matter of concern. There’s some reason to suspect AV companies may be moving too slowly on this one, with a majority of scanners failing to detect malware up to three days after it’s seen on the web.
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Film buffs rejoice: no longer will you be limited to Dude Where’s My Car when trying to find the perfect Saturday late-night movie on the Internet. The highly-regarded Criterion Collection has begun putting some of its films online for rent, although selection is still limited and parts of the site are confusing to use.
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It’s no surprise that ISPs are aggressively pursuing new revenue streams, but UK ISP BT may have crossed the line. Two years ago it retained search records and information on some 18,000 users, without informing them first.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin report on their attempts at improving science education by better preparing teaching fellows. The results are promising, but show a long road ahead.
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Alone in the Dark: Inferno is the second draft of a critically reviled Xbox 360 title. Luckily, the second try is a much improved version of an oddly innovative title.
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Nokia responds to the projected drop in handset demand by effectively ceasing its efforts to penetrate the Japanese market… or, rather, what’s left of the Japanese market.
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In this week’s top Microsoft news, we cover Windows 7, Windows Live, MSRT, SP2 for Vista and Server 2008, Hotmail, WebPI, and PopFly.
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We saw big news for a holiday week, with more on the EU’s investigation of Intel, earnings from Dell and HP, NAND flash on 34nm technology, and a camera that offers 720P video.
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Biodiesel made from coffee grounds, poor policy decisions on HIV, the role of endogenous cannabinoids, and lots of stories that flex our mathematical muscles.
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This week’s top Apple news was highlighted by the release of iPhone 2.2 and related discoveries, such as Google’s use of undocumented APIs and a TV-out feature in the SDK. Additionally, Apple’s new 24″ Cinema Display has arrived, another iPhone ad has been banned in the UK, and more.
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The TV takes the lion’s share of the week’s news, as viewership booms, Blockbuster releases a set-top streaming box, the studios want to limit digital broadcasts, and everyone’s claiming credit for the rise of YouTube.
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This week in gaming brought us the release of Sonic Unleashed, the $150 Xbox 360, a $1,700 laser, and the advent of likeness contract clauses for games related to the UFC.
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This week’s top open source news includes the release of Fedora 10 and the first Ubuntu 9.04 alpha. This week also brought a major blow for SCO, which was ordered to pay millions to Novell.
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Netbooks have been all the news in 2008, and their appeal buoyed the bottom line of more than few companies this past year. Intel, however, isn’t finished with the devices, and plans to explore more form factors and screen sizes in the future.
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The European Commission has proposed a new series of price caps that would cut down on the “roaming rip-off” of its citizens. Meanwhile, a US Senator has asked the major carriers about their own text messaging prices. Governing bodies finally appear to be acting on consumer complaints.
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Chinese search giant Baidu has been caught allowing unlicensed medical suppliers to buy higher ranks in its search results, causing some Chinese citizens to lose thousands of yuan on ineffective treatments. After being exposed, Baidu now claims that it’s overhauling its system to prevent this from happening again.
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Intel’s Linux-based Moblin platform is finally arriving on mobile Internet devices. The availability of Moblin-powered products in the consumer market could boost interest in the platform and attract third-party developers.
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Sling Media has brought its Sling.com video portal and Slingbox viewer out of private beta so that the rest of the public can have a look. We gave the site another look and tested the Live TV feature that uses the company’s Slingbox product to stream content from home cable connections and DVRs.
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To the horror of many historians, electronic books are catching on with the masses. Amazon’s Kindle is sold out (again) and even the iPhone is helping to spread the e-book love.
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Even as consumers cut spending across the board, console makers are hoping that they’ll put what little cash they have left this holiday into the gift that keeps on giving: a game console.
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HP’s earnings have come in for Q4 and, while the results are good, they aren’t going to to give the market much to latch on to. Economic signs continue to point towards rough weather ahead.
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With the transition to digital television signals fast approaching, a series of consumer surveys indicate that much of the US public still isn’t sure what’s involved.
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As 2008 comes to a close, Ars takes a Thanksgiving Day look back at the tech trends that made us grateful this year. Would you believe that zombie shooters, SDKs, and a global recession all made the list?
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The 13th annual Video Game Report Card is here, and it paints a picture of a healthy industry that’s working with families to make playing games as safe and rewarding as possible. For parents, it has a simple message: it’s time to start taking advantage of the resources available to you.
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Intel and the EU have gone a few rounds this year in the fight over the company’s filing of a response to the EU’s statement of objections. Now there’s a new twist: not only does the chip giant insist it can’t respond without access ot AMD documents, it’s asked an EU court to throw the earlier investigation out altogether.
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Atlantic has become the first major label to have a quarter in which sales of digital music surpassed physical CDs in the US. The journey hasn’t been easy, but Atlantic has proved that the digital transition can bring success.
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A Google spokesman has confirmed what Ars Technica’s own Erica Sadun had already determined: Google Mobile is using an undocumented API to read the iPhone’s proximity sensor state.
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A federal judge has quashed a subpoena from the music industry, which for more information on three accused copyright infringers. The judge found that the university has demonstrated that it cannot identify them within a “reasonable degree of technical certainty.”
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The sales numbers for games on both the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable have been broken down, and Nintendo’s portable proves to be quite the juggernaut, while the PSP has enjoyed modest success.
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Former South African President Thabo Mbeki rejected AIDS research and science in favor of superstition; more than 350,000 avoidable deaths resulted. But could AIDS be controlled in Africa? A paper in The Lancet thinks so.
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Reader Philip writes in to ask about our thoughts on a commentary on News.com by Dave Rosenberg
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The Linux Foundation’s IPv6 workgroup has announced that all major Linux distributions conform with the Department of Defense’s IPv6 certification requirements. The certification is mandatory before the DoD will consider a product during its procurement process.
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There are a bunch of headlines today about a new study that notes that
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Information on consumer electronics and e-commerce spending suggest a couple of different possible outcomes for this holiday season. One firm says year-over-year e-commerce growth will be flat, at best, while another study projects that spending on key categories of goods may actually rise.
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It’s no secret that former Disney boss, Michael Eisner, has a rather
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One of the sillier attempts by businesses to look cool by setting up shop
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It’s the staff edition of our annual gift guide, with personal picks from our team. This guide is a disturbing window into the warped minds of our editors. Enter at your own risk.
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We’ve discussed in the past the idea that newspapers today need to get beyond reporting the news and also move towards
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Sick of your local broadband provider? Two scholars say individual ownership of fiber by homeowners could be the future of broadband deployment.
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While I have no doubt that the movie studios are being sleazy and underhanded in how it deals with both writers and actors concerning various contracts, it still seemed like both movie and TV writers were making a
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The underground economy is thriving despite an apparent economic downturn, according to a newly-published report from Symantec. The company watched the efforts of cybercriminals for 12 months in order to get a feel for how things operate.
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New stats from the British government show its various departments
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Tasked with collecting German language material from the online world for archiving, the German National Library has started requesting submissions of material. But, through a quirk in the law, worries arose that those requests pack a legal punch—up to €10,000 in fines for noncompliance.
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I’m beginning to wonder if NBC Universal simply sends General Counsel Rick Cotton out to the press to make the most ridiculous, unsupportable statements for their PR value. Otherwise, you have to wonder how the man keeps his job, as pretty much any of his well-publicized statements should make shareholders question his business acumen. This is the guy who claimed that the government should force ISPs to filter unauthorized content because piracy was causing poor
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Apparently, a woman in the UK came up with a rather novel approach to “crowdsourcing,” when she used Facebook to
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Demand for repurposed secondary PCs is strong worldwide, but less than half of the systems intended for resale actually end up on someone’s desk. The current market for these systems is fragmented, diverse, and somehow “losing” over half its inventory.
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