WSJ Discovers Wi-Fi Flavors
Sometimes its so cute to watch the big guys discover the Interwebs. Take this story from the WSJ, for example. The news peg, as they call it in the biz-snazz, is that 802.11n is coming out sometimes soon. But in order to churn up a whole feature, they rock the old “something new is happening,…
RIAA: Mission Accomplished
Delusion is a strong drug. It causes us to fall in love with horrible people, make bad business decisions, and say that illegal MP3-sharing has been “contained.” This is kind of like Elliot Ness cracking open a few barrels of Canadian whiskey and announcing that bootlegging has been stopped. With the death/rebirth of ThePirateBay and…
PS3 Too Powerful
Our girlish cousins over at Kotaku discovered that the majesty of the PS3 just cannot be contained within the tiny confines of its case. It seems that there are no PS3 beta units simply because there is no way to fit all of the powerful, expensive components inside a plastic box and that it will…
RAZR Deep Violet
While Deep Violet may seem like an 80s dark metal band, its actually Orange’s contribution to our species cultural heritage. Orange will be carrying the Deep Violet RAZR V3i—now it sucks in purple, too!—and the white Nokia 6233. Why should we care, seeing as how Orange rocks the other side of the pond? Well, maybe…
Verizon Chaperone Keeps an Eye on Your Kids
Have you become a parent recently but still want to live life irresponsibly? Verizon Wireless plans to make keeping an eye of the little tyke a little easier with its Chaperone service, which combines GPS with LG Migo cellphones. https://gizmodo.com/baby-proofing-and-it-feels-so-good-179984 There’s two services, Chaperone Child Locator and Chaperone Child Zone. The former lets parents check…
White MacBook Faster Than More Expensive Black MacBook?
Those Apple zealots over at Macworld got their hands on a souped up white MacBook and found some interesting results relating to the MacBooks’ performances. While it’s true that you can upgrade the white MacBook to make it identical (seemingly) to the black MacBook, which carries the notorious $150 price premium, some of their tests…