I. Sony says it will drop the $50 fee it planned to charge customers for removing the trial software and games the company pre-installed in notebooks.
When you buy a new computer, it often comes loaded with applications, games, and applets that try to convince you to buy other programs and services. These pieces of software, which can slow the performance of a new machine, are often described as "bloatware" or "crapware."
Computer makers often are paid to include such programs on their machines. Sony, however, came up with a clever idea: Launch a program called "Fresh Start" and convince customers to pay $50 to get a computer without the unwanted and unnecessary software.
Sony reversed course on Friday, shortly after it launched the program, and said it would drop the $50 fee it charged customers for removing the trial software and games the company pre-installed in notebooks.
The consumer electronics company, which launched the paid option on Friday, responded to a query from InformationWeek and said that it would offer the service for free within 24 hours.
Click here to read here the full story on Sony To Offer Notebook Computers Without "Crapware"
Then you had the occasional wander-by planting rumors that the PlayStation 3 Blu-ray drive was going to somehow be incompatible with upcoming changes to the Blu-ray format and thereby future Blu-ray discs, and that buying a PS3 for Blu-ray was simply an exercise in planned obsolescence.
Well surprise, it's called "upgradeable firmware," which lets Sony update the PS3 to Blu-ray 2.0 profile compliance courtesy version 2.20 of the console's system software.
Click here to read the full story on PlayStation 3 Now "Most Advanced" Blu-ray Player
When you buy a new computer, it often comes loaded with applications, games, and applets that try to convince you to buy other programs and services. These pieces of software, which can slow the performance of a new machine, are often described as "bloatware" or "crapware."
Computer makers often are paid to include such programs on their machines. Sony, however, came up with a clever idea: Launch a program called "Fresh Start" and convince customers to pay $50 to get a computer without the unwanted and unnecessary software.
Sony reversed course on Friday, shortly after it launched the program, and said it would drop the $50 fee it charged customers for removing the trial software and games the company pre-installed in notebooks.
The consumer electronics company, which launched the paid option on Friday, responded to a query from InformationWeek and said that it would offer the service for free within 24 hours.
Click here to read here the full story on Sony To Offer Notebook Computers Without "Crapware"
II. Here's another reason you want to be especially wary of unsourced chatter on the Internet. First, you may have encountered certain persons claiming HD DVD wasn't going anywhere in the wake of the format's early 2008 studio sponsorship meltdown. Of course it now seems that even the people suggesting HD DVD was in serious trouble may have been too conservative, given that the entire edifice effectively collapsed overnight.
Then you had the occasional wander-by planting rumors that the PlayStation 3 Blu-ray drive was going to somehow be incompatible with upcoming changes to the Blu-ray format and thereby future Blu-ray discs, and that buying a PS3 for Blu-ray was simply an exercise in planned obsolescence.
Well surprise, it's called "upgradeable firmware," which lets Sony update the PS3 to Blu-ray 2.0 profile compliance courtesy version 2.20 of the console's system software.
Click here to read the full story on PlayStation 3 Now "Most Advanced" Blu-ray Player
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