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Update: Jet Blue Wi-Fi Crippled For a Reason

Jet Blue’s air-to-ground cellular network (provided by LiveTV on the same spectrum as those in-flight phones no one uses) is still experiencing too many dropped connections between cell nodes to support the bandwidth necessary for full-on surfing, the NY Times is reporting. Hence the Yahoo Mail/IM and Blackberries only restriction, and the lack of cost.…

Tech News Dango Dec 7

ATI RV635 XT in the Wild – First DisplayPort-Capable Card

Hot Hardware has snagged one of the first graphics cards launched with full DisplayPort support. Before you write off DisplayPort as just another adapter to buy, consider its support for daisy-chaining: multi-head setups can be rigged up easily with the need for only one port on your box. Watch for the RX635 (along with the…

Tech News Dango Dec 6

Inventor of Flash Memory Has Big Plans For Super-Fast 3D Processors

Had Fujio Masuoka not invented flash memory for Toshiba in the 80s, this would be a very different blog. Forget your massive SSDs, your infinite digicam memory cards, and yes, forget even your Virgin Mary beating-heart thumbdrives. Masuoka-san isn’t finished with us yet, though, and the next-level tech he has his sights on next could…

Tech News Dango Dec 6

D300 Test Shots: A “Photogenic Weekend” With a Japanese Babe

While you’re drooling as the sample shots from Nikon’s full-frame D3 begin to roll in, maybe consider coming back to reality a bit to its able-bodied little cousin, the D300. Here, Impress puts one in the hands of a Japanese pro for a round of test shots under natural light (bounced off of reflectors) for…

Tech News Dango Dec 6

Norton Fighter, Symantec’s Awesome Japanese Ad Mascot, is Back

You may have seen the first Japanese Norton 360 commercial featuring the Ultraman-esque Norton Fighter mascot a few months back. Now, Symantec has made what amounts to a full-length tokusatsu episode featuring the guy, and man is it great. While the first go-round pretty much looked like a few dudes running around Tokyo with a…

Television Dango Dec 6

Tokyo National University Begins Anime Graduate Program, Otaku Applicants Surge Overnight

Starting next year, the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts will have something that’s long overdue for an otaku-rich country: a two-year graduate degree in anime production—the first for a non-private institution in Japan. Courses will be taught by full-time professionals from the anime world including Koji Yamamura, and students will leave with two or…

Tech News Dango Dec 5

Robovie-X ‘Bot Fires Missiles at Moving Targets, Plays Dress-Up

Robovie-X is a new robot kit from Japanese DIY maker ATR. Not only can it use its fully-programmable 17 degrees of freedom and optical distance sensors to follow moving targets and fire at them with a surprisingly powerful plastic missile launcher, it can also, apparently, shed its armor and dress up as a jazz-hands-waving Foghorn…

Tech News Dango Dec 5

Nokia/Universal’s Total Music Plan Soured By PlaysForSure DRM

Ars Technica is reporting further details on Nokia/Universal’s supposedly “free” all-you-can-eat one year music subscription service, and if you thought this plan seemed too sweet to be dreamed up by a bunch of music biz suits, you thought right. Not only are the Nokia tracks DRM’ed to prevent you from using other devices or even…

Tech News Dango Dec 5

Japanese Beer Mug Counts Calories While You’re Swillin’

For the waistline-conscious teetotaller drunk bastard, we present this calorie-counting beer mug. Sure you could just keep track in your head, but this way at least honey knows you’re trying. [Product Page (Japanese) via Tokyomango]

Tech News Dango Dec 4

NEC Software to Put Poor Bloggers Like Me Out of Business

The “business environment virtualization” software NEC is currently developing may masquerade as a way for companies to keep track of their competitors online (see pie charts, etc), but we here can see it for what it really is: a scheme to create an unlimited army of lifeless tech-blogging drones. With its “cruising of RSS and…

Tech News Dango Dec 4

Expandable Shinkansen Cell Charm for Bullet Train Fanatics Young and Old

Japanese folks love the shinkansen. Like, a lot. We’re not just talking the way kids love dump trucks, we’re talking about the shinkansen merch business being a multi-million dollar industry, of which this groovy N700 (one of the fastest of the bunch) cell strap is a shining example. Sure, the real thing only has 16…

Tech News Dango Dec 3

Chimpanzees Beat College Students at Computerized Brain Test

You know that game in Brain Age where you get a quick look at a batch of numbers then have to tap them in numerical order after they’re hidden? In news that must please the good Dr. Kawashima to no end, scientists at Kyoto University have found that five-year-old chimps are able to perform a…

Tech News Dango Dec 3

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Update: Jet Blue Wi-Fi Crippled For a Reason

ATI RV635 XT in the Wild – First DisplayPort-Capable Card

Inventor of Flash Memory Has Big Plans For Super-Fast 3D Processors

D300 Test Shots: A “Photogenic Weekend” With a Japanese Babe

Norton Fighter, Symantec’s Awesome Japanese Ad Mascot, is Back

Tokyo National University Begins Anime Graduate Program, Otaku Applicants Surge Overnight

Robovie-X ‘Bot Fires Missiles at Moving Targets, Plays Dress-Up

Nokia/Universal’s Total Music Plan Soured By PlaysForSure DRM

Japanese Beer Mug Counts Calories While You’re Swillin’

NEC Software to Put Poor Bloggers Like Me Out of Business

Expandable Shinkansen Cell Charm for Bullet Train Fanatics Young and Old

Chimpanzees Beat College Students at Computerized Brain Test

Musk Asks Court to Give Potential Winnings in OpenAI Suit to OpenAI’s Nonprofit

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