Tech news, analysis, culture, business, security, and more
Kobi and Ron Shely, the producers of MacHeads, have released a new movie trailer coinciding with yesterday’s MacBook 2008 event. In case you don’t know about it yet, the movie is a documentary on the almost-religious fervor that some Mac users feel towards their computers and Apple. Yes, the one that Steve Jobs and Steve…
Ah, the Dreamcast. Just whispering its name brings thousands of fanboys to half-mast, so I can’t even imagine the number of popped tents this beautiful handheld Dreamcast is going to provoke. It really is a work of beauty, isn’t it? We’ve seen portable Dreamcasts before, but this one just looks so much better. Created by…
I don’t even know how this would work, but Xbox Evolved says that the next Xbox (720 or Next, whatever) won’t just be backward-compatible with games, it’ll be forward-compatible. What the hell does that mean? Forward-compatibility would mean that games made for the 360 will be able to take full advantage of the next Xbox’s…
This survey, sent to a random sampling of Windows users, seems to indicated that MS is at least thinking of integrating an instant-on mode to Windows. Existing quick-start features like Splashtop, found on the Voodoo Envy, Eee Box and a number of other machines, are usually Linux-based systems that stick their finger into the BIOS.…
According some Phandroid readers, T-Mobile is now shipping the G1 via UPS 3-day delivery. In case you just came from that five-year trip to Tierra del Fuego, the G1 is the first Google Android OS-based smartphone. This means that the phone will be in T-Mobile customer hands by, at the very latest, the 21st. [Phandroid]
Here’s why you should never trust endorsements—besides the general principle of the matter. NY Times reporter Marc Santora did an interview for a startup site called Big Think, talking about how technology has changed covering stories like the Iraq War. Imagine his surprise when part of it was slipped into a DigitalNomads ad, a site…
An iTunes customer survey suggests that Apple is looking at selling iTunes gift cards for specific music, shows and movies. A nice branding idea, but I could definitely see some tragedies coming out of this—your mom buys you a card for the this entire season of Heroes, but halfway through it, you give up because…
As you may have heard, economically speaking, things have been better both here and abroad. But, as you should always whistle in times of trouble, “always look on the brooight side of life.” As the NYTimes reports today, the CE industry downturn that has already brought Circuit City to its knees could have a somewhat…
Mophie’s wraparound battery extenders for the first iPhone provided some relief to incessant browsers and movie-watchers, and they’re looking to adapt their “Juice Pack” to the even more anemic iPhone 3G. What does this pack offer that the others don’t? A mini USB port for syncing and charging and Apple’s coveted “Works With iPhone” certification,…
SanDisk’s grand plan to revolutionize the music industry: selling individual albums preloaded onto SD cards, made by them, to be played on SD card players, made by them. The concept is definitely attractive in some ways. The tracks are 320Kbps, DRM-free MP3 files, the SD cards are reusable and the screenless slotMusic players costs next…
Some people are sick of waiting for the RFID implant controversy to play out, and at least one of those people is taking action. YouTube user Quethe has posted a video demonstrating his own RFID implantation technique, involving a terrifying pencil-size needle and a chip designed for pets, which he is using for a predictably…
The new MacBook and MacBook Pro don’t just want to impress you with their fancy new fabrication techniques, unibody designs and bolstered performance: they want to make you more honest, at least when it comes to reporting water damage. According to the service manuals, the new line of MacBooks include submersion sensors, designed to indicate…
Early last week a Qantas Airlines Airbus A330 surprised (and injured) its passengers with an inexplicable 300ft climb, followed by an even larger drop. Initial reports seemed to place blame on interference from personal electronics — something that Qantas had claimed before. After the news made the rounds the situation became muddied, with Qantas claiming…
Gadget blogs are a far reach from being oppressive totalitarian states. But the propaganda they all push, if not carefully filtered by editors, on behalf of the CE industry, can be disgusting. BBG’s ran a fantastic three day run of fictional blog posts, written as the mouthpiece of the ministry of comms of a “massive…
Microsoft is at least considering releasing a consumer-priced version of its Surface computer, if a marketing research survey is to believed. The survey is centered around a device called “Oahu,” which, from its description, sounds a lot like the table we’ve all come to know and love: a multitouch flat screen that sits like a…
Looks like LG wasn’t kidding about its 2011 deadline to produce OLED TVs. At a recent tech conference in South Korea, the company revealed an ultra skinny 19-inch OLED panel, showing that it’s well on the way to volume producing 32-inch screens before the next three years are up. Sure, it was a little upstaged…
AT&T users can now snap up the AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver, one of the smallest 3G HSPA-capable devices out there. The tiny little hub weighs 1.2 ounces and uses the new Icera Livanto chipset, which handles GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G data. That’ll give you 70 to 135kpbs downloads on an EDGE network, and 700kbps to 1.7 Mbps downloads on…
In a victory that ought to lower your daily intake of unsolicited emails by 0.7%, U.S. authorities have shut down one of the largest spam rings in the world. The group was known amongst spam fighters as HerbalKing, and, at one point, delivered up to one-third of all spam on the Internet. The global reach…
Ready to finally watch internet television on your PS3? Are you ever! Head over to the console’s Network, where firmware update 2.5 has just been released for download. Besides Flash 9 support, the update will also let players take in-game screenshots, view thumbnails of video scenes, voice chat and choose between several power saving options.…
EMC bought Iomega so that it could start easing its business-grade storage gear into homes and small offices, and the StorCenter ix2 is the first official combo of Iomega brand and EMC juice. Before I get into its LifeLine Linux environment, I wanted to point out that this thing is priced to move: A full…
