A lot has been happening around the Zune lately, be it good or bad, but this really rocks the boat!
I don’t know who released this video, but it’s definitely weird and kind of icky too…

I recently posted it to YouTube, so take a look, here.

Engadget:

Reporting on the Optimus-103 keyboard is rapidly becoming one of our guilty pleasures — guilty because the Optimus guys seem averse to giving us anything more than tiny nuggets of information at a time, and pleasure because… well, we shouldn’t have to explain why the Optimus-103 is intriguing to us. The latest piece of news from the Optimus project is an announcement that the company will be taking pre-orders for the Optimus-103 on December 12. That will hopefully also mean an unveiling of the price, and if we’re lucky, some specifications for the keyboard. We’re not getting our hopes up though, because these guys could reveal nothing and still fill their pre-order slots.

The Optimus Keyboard: artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

Azureus is a well-known Java-based interface for peer-to-peer BitTorrent downloading, available on numerous sites across the Internet. Recently, Azureus’ CEO mentioned that his firm is planning to roll out a distribution network that will enable full-length streaming of video media. This media will most probably be offered at MySpace.com (though it is not certain whether it’ll be exclusively offered there) and would use the BitTorrent-standard for deployment. Though nothing official has been announced, the firm is on par with doing so very soon. Find more at:

• Monkey Bites
• Hollywood2020
• Corante

Microsoft has revealed its packaging for Windows Vista and Office 2007. Furthermore, there are some screenshots available of Vista’s new organic, sleek icons (courtesy of Paul Thurrott). Box style is similar to Mac Office’s and are designed to be compliant to the aforementioned icons.

Article and images courtesy: Paul Thurrott
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_office2007_packaging.asp

Mozilla finally released its next-generation web browser Firefox 2. I’ve been playing around with the RCs the last few weeks, but never got to in-depth testing, neither did I use it full-time due to incompatibility issues with my add-ons. Now the final release’s here, and I’ll definitely install it and put it to the test. From my first experiences, I was just a tad disappointed in some of the features in this software, on top of a few negative things I’ve been reading on the internet.

Firefox 2.0 Website

There has been quite a heated discussion spread around about Microsoft’s latest publication on the licensing scheme it’ll be conducting for Vista. The corporation states that the “new” license is nothing but a clarification of certain points. It was made to allow ‘normal’ people to actually read the EULA for a change. The most notable documents on this topic were published at Paul Thurrott’s Winsupersite.com; one by Paul himself and one by Koroush Ghazi (who runs TweakGuides.com).

The issue: Vista’s license restricts itself to a “device” instead of the person who owns the device. Moreover, it limits itself to one license transfer, whereas in the past you could easily transfer your license to your significantly upgraded machine (ie. for gaming). Is an upgraded machine necessarily a “new device”, and thus, does it need a new license?

Microsoft recently released Vista RC2 (Build 5744) to testers and will soon release to the public, too. RC2 is the last interim build before Vista’s released for RTM at the end of this month. On schedule, Windows Vista will become available on January 30th, 2007.