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To Boldly Litigate

Last year Christie’s auction house dropped jaws when it tractor-beamed in more than $7 million in bits for a massive Star Trek auction featuring props, costumes, and a little box to keep your dignity in. Now Brent “Data” Spiner himself has apparently confirmed that some of the items were not authentic. Ted Moustakis got ripped…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 28

Windows Home Server Corrupts Data When Saving From Certain Apps

We’ve had nothing but good luck in moving files to and from our Windows Home Server machine in Windows Explorer, but there’s a data corruption bug present that will kill your data if you’re writing stuff over the network directly from certain apps. The apps? Outlook, OneNote, Vista Photo Gallery, Live Photo Gallery, Money and…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 27

Air France Makes In-Flight Calling Possible, Gallic Shrugs All Round

Air France is to let passengers loose on their cellphones by turning on its in-flight mobile data and voice system. An initial three-month trial period will only allow SMS and mobile emails, with voice calls expected to come later. Although this is the first European carrier to allow mobile devices to be used, one wonders…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Dec 21

Mysterious HTC CLIO200 Data Device Appears on FCC

The closest HTC device we could match this to is the Shift, a UMPC device that runs both Vista and Windows mobile—but the connection’s tenuous at best. What we do know is that the butt-side of this thing has air vents and a battery pack, which makes us think that this is a data-device instead…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 29

Hardcore Data Recovery: Double Boil Your Drive?

If your hard drive is seriously f*cked, and you have some big shiny balls (or you’re dumb as hell), you might be interested in how a fellow from Mandible Games claims that he recovered data from his drive. According to the article, he noticed that his drive would spin, but it would not show up…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 26

Intra-Body Communication: Use Your Body to Download Data

Imagine being able to download a movie or album to your media player by simply touching a promotional poster or exchanging contact information with a potential client via a handshake. KDDI’s new Intra-Body Communication technology could make this a reality by using the human body as a conduit to transmit high-volume data. In the image…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 12

Sony Ericsson MD300 USB 3G Modem Supports Windows, Mac

The MD300 USB 3G modem doesn’t just look slick with its silver or black finish, it supports HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE or GPRS connectivity to keep you connected while you’re getting skin cancer outdoors. The device supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Mac OS X, something most people don’t usually do right out of the gate.…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 6

Western Digital Ships 320GB 2.5-Inch Drives for Laptops

It’s official: you can now buy a 320GB drive from WD for your laptop, and for just $200. The WD Scorpio SATA drive spins at 5400rpm and has a 8MB cache. The press release says it’s “extraordinarily quiet while running at cool operating temperatures.” I hope that doesn’t mean it’s extremely loud while running at…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Oct 31

Verizon Shares Your Call Data Unless You Opt-Out

The folks from Skydeck just received a written notice from Verizon Wireless for an opt-out system for sharing your call records to third-party advertisers. Unless you call them and opt-out, Verizon will sell what numbers you called, how often you called, and your call length with “authorized companies,” which includes their “affiliates, agents, and parent…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 15

Fabrik Launches Pro Hard Drive Line, Online Backup Service

Today Fabrik announed that they are launching a pro line to accompany their designer line of drives released last year. The Simple, Pro, and Pro Duo all have features such as a stackable design, security locks, eSata (Pro and Dual Pro) and Raid 0 (Pro only) connections. The eSATA connection transfers at 445 Mb/sec while…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 15

Unconfirmed: iPhone Data Plan Revealed

Boy Genius has a tip from a “high up source” that the iPhone data plan is going to be around $34.99 to $44.99, have unlimited data, and somewhere between 2000 text messages to unlimited text messages. Oh, and it may just be called the iPlan. https://gizmodo.com/guessing-the-iphones-voice-data-plan-cost-271966 Here’s another interesting detail. FedEx is supposedly delivering iPhone…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 25

Guessing the iPhone’s Voice, Data Plan Cost

Business 2.0 has a nice guess on how much the iPhone’s data and voice plan is going to cost. Instead of an all-you-can-eat plan that Wilson speculated on, Biz is estimating based on current BlackBerry fees. https://gizmodo.com/the-case-for-a-simple-iphone-service-plan-271000 The status now: between $34.99 and $79.99 for data and $39.99 to $99.99 for voice. If you’re going…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 25

Xbox 360 Elite to Have Data Transfer Cable

One of the questions you may have had about the black Elite version of the Xbox 360 we saw yesterday was how in the hell were you going to get your game saves and downloaded content onto the new 120GB hard drive? Would you have to use memory card and copy stuff 64/512MB at a…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 21

T-Mobile’s Announces 3G Data over UMTS, Late Better Than Never

Sometimes, peer pressure is good. One case: cellular data. While Sprint, Verizon, and even Cingular are already playing around with 3G speeds, T-Mobile, was stuck rocking the square EDGE/GPRS data connections that run at a little more than 100+Kbps. Until today. TMo just announced that they’re finally going 3G, starting in Q4 of 2006. Gizmodo…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 9

Transcend Jetflash V60 USB Flash Drives: Look At All The Colors, Man

USB flash drives are no longer mired in the dull grays thanks to Transcend’s Jetflash V60. The drives are available in four colors, with each color corresponding to a different storage capacity: orange is 512MB, blue is 1GB, red is 2GB and green is 4GB. As is becoming common nowadays, the drives come with basic…

Privacy & Security Nicholas Deleon Oct 5

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Here it is, the thing to make your computer a little bit more like KITT. The TracNet 100 Mobile puts a WiFi hotspot, web browsing, and IPTV in your hoopty ride. The data love comes courtesy of a Verizon EVDO card, built into the controller box. That box itself has 802.11G wireless, 3 ethernet ports,…

Gadgets Brian Lam Aug 31

Novatel Merlin S720: First Super Speedy Sprint EVDO Revision A. Card

See that? That’s the data equivalent of a Playboy centerfold. Soak it up, nerds. Last week we reported that the first EVDO revision A card from Sprint was leaking into the marketplace. Today, the veil has been lifted, and this fast lady’s been made official. If you haven’t been keeping up, both Verizon and Sprint…

Tech News Brian Lam Aug 29

To Boldly Litigate

Windows Home Server Corrupts Data When Saving From Certain Apps

Air France Makes In-Flight Calling Possible, Gallic Shrugs All Round

Mysterious HTC CLIO200 Data Device Appears on FCC

Hardcore Data Recovery: Double Boil Your Drive?

Intra-Body Communication: Use Your Body to Download Data

Sony Ericsson MD300 USB 3G Modem Supports Windows, Mac

Western Digital Ships 320GB 2.5-Inch Drives for Laptops

Verizon Shares Your Call Data Unless You Opt-Out

Fabrik Launches Pro Hard Drive Line, Online Backup Service

Unconfirmed: iPhone Data Plan Revealed

Guessing the iPhone’s Voice, Data Plan Cost

Xbox 360 Elite to Have Data Transfer Cable

T-Mobile’s Announces 3G Data over UMTS, Late Better Than Never

Transcend Jetflash V60 USB Flash Drives: Look At All The Colors, Man

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Novatel Merlin S720: First Super Speedy Sprint EVDO Revision A. Card

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