It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. Internal auditors found that the department lost track of $30 million worth of computer equipment, “the vast majority of which… perhaps as much as 99 [...]
It will be a long time before digital turntables completely overtake their analog predecessors, but you can’t argue that carrying a hard drive full of MP3s to a gig is a lot easier than hauling crates full of vinyl. And it’s that convenience aspect that the Design Continuum has taken one step further with their [...]
Mobile Solutions introduced a new product today called SIMable that fools your cell phone into thinking it is unlocked.
Using its SIM card add-on, you can basically unlock it and use it on other networks without actually changing the software on the phone. Sadly, it doesn’t work with the iPhone.
I’m no enemy of cuteness. And I’m no enemy to Hello Kitty. How could anyone hate Hello Kitty? She’s adorable: an anthropomorphic cat with blank, staring eyes and a cute pink bow on her head who has forged a multi-billion dollar empire based upon people’s pathological obsession with saying hello to her. There is nothing [...]
Region-free gaming on the Wii is a whole lot simpler now with the new release of Gecko Region Free. Now you don’t need a Freeloader or any type of fancy hacking, but you do need the Twilight Princess disc and the ability to run homebrew apps (see the article below). It’s not a completely optimal [...]
A breakthrough in technology could see the memory capacity of devices such as the iPod increase by 150,000 times, Glasgow University researchers claimed.
Two experts said they had developed a molecule-sized switch which means that data storage could be boosted without having to increase the size of devices. The biggest iPod MP3 player currently available can [...]
It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.
He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes, saying that [...]
This free, Windows-only, open source application BtProx locks your Windows computer whenever your cell phone or other Bluetooth device is out of range. If you’ve seen Blue Lock, it is similar to it, but BtProx includes a more advanced feature set thereby allowing you to set a timeout before it locks your PC and [...]
If PC World is correct, then it looks like Sony’s pending, PS3 2.20 firmware (press release here) will have at least one little surprise for movie buffs. As if the inclusion of Blu-ray’s BD-Live interactivity and the removal of the 2GB DivX and WMV file-size cap wasn’t enough, PC World says that can also expect [...]
Growth in Apple’s personal computer business continued to outpace the industry average last month, with Macs accounting for a 14% unit share and 25% dollar share of all US-based PC retail sales, according to market research firm NPD.
From the Article: “The results — first revealed in an investor note from Pacific Crest Securities analyst Andy [...]
Japan’s TEC has created a restaurant table with a built-in 3-D LCD screen. The table, called the Tobidasu Menu, lets you browse food choices. The piece de resistance is that you can select each item on the touch-screen table for full-size, 3-D view. The table show what your food will look like sitting in front [...]
CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is working on Windows device driver support for the Blu-ray high definition movie format. Microsoft is developing software that will add native support for devices that play Sony’s Blu-ray high definition movie format to the Windows operating system, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.
“We’ve already been working on, for example, [...]
I have once again have attained from a rock solid source that Microsoft WILL be replacing the 20GB hard drive on the standard Xbox 360 with a larger 60GB version. Dates are not nailed down, but my source says Microsoft wants it done and dusted before the end of its financial year which translates as [...]
Who says this Tuesday arrived without updates? MacBook Air users can launch Software Update this morning and find SMC Update 1.0, which adjusts the use of the (very tiny) internal fan. If you’ve been having fan issues with your Air, let us know if this patch knocks them out.
Also, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT [...]
Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows didn’t attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday. “This really wasn’t what our customers were looking for,” said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien.
To test demand for systems with the open-source [...]
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