Archive for 2008/02


NME says format war still on, it totally made out with a girl last summer in Niagara Falls

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Just when the members of the Blu-ray Disc Association were settling down to enjoy the fruits of victory, another challenger has entered the ring — oh wait, it’s just NME, makers of VMD, so it’s really more like “remained in the ring and basically ignored.” The company just issued a press release […]

Time Capsule first impressions

Filed under: Features, Wireless, Storage

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Okay, so we’ve got our Time Capsule up and running here — we’ll be back with a full review once our full 516GB backup is completed, but here are some quick first impressions:

You can definitely hear the disks spin up and access. It also sounds like there’s a […]

Helio continues to bleed money, now $560 million in the red

Filed under: Cellphones

We’ll be honest with you — it’s a bit disheartening to watch the (seemingly) inevitable happen to Helio. After all, it’s managed to soldier on despite hordes of other MVNOs hanging it up here in the US of A. Nevertheless, data gleaned from EarthLink’s most recent annual report shed some light on its […]

Worst parents in the world punk kid into thinking he got an Xbox 360

Filed under: Gaming

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When you were a kid did your parents ever do anything mean to you for their own amusement? Whatever it was, something tells us it wasn’t as evil as what Jonathan’s (above) family did on Christmas morning, having him unwrap an empty Xbox box with some shirts inside — while on […]

Red Octane lets loose separate Wii Guitar Hero III controller

Filed under: Gaming

It looks like Wii users wanting to expand their Guitar Hero arsenal (or replace an axe after they got a little too into things) won’t have to wait much longer, as Red Octane is now set to let loose a separate wireless Les Paul controller for the system. It doesn’t exactly come cheap, […]

Mvix intros MX-780HD wireless HD media streamer

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Maybe it’s just us, but here recently it feels as if there’s been quite the outpouring of HD media streamers. Next up is Mvix’s MX-780HD, which doesn’t innovate much in the design department, but does include space for your own HDD along with support for wired Ethernet or 802.11b/g/n WiFi. Best […]

Wait, there’s more! Dell’s Latitude D630 / D830 go Penryn

Filed under: Laptops

Uh, we figured this whole Penryn update thing was all taken care of by now, but for whatever reason, Dell has found it quite pleasing to roll out said chips to its machines on a one (or two) at a time basis. Just a day after the new processors landed in the Precision […]

RIM patents a QWERTY slider, HTC lawyers perk up their ears

Filed under: Cellphones

Nice going RIM, you’ve successfully filed for a patent on a device that companies like HTC have been making since 2005. That’s right folks, your friends at Research In Motion have just thrown an application in the direction of the US Patent Office which should look painfully familiar. The company is calling it […]

Gamer’s tale takes Xbox repair woes to new levels of sadness

Filed under: Gaming

There’s certainly been no shortage of sad stories involving Xboxes, but when it comes to attempts to get the console repaired, this latest tale from a gamer known only as Nathaniel might have to take the cake. As you can see above, his console (one of the first to hit the market) boasted […]

Easy 1.1.4 jailbreaking with iNdependence, Ziphone, and… iTunes?

Filed under: Cellphones

If you happen to own an iPhone, and you happen to have updated to the 1.1.4 firmware, you can now easily jailbreak, activate, and unlock your phone with a couple of simple solutions. As you may have heard, iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 is out, which will do all sorts of non-Apple approved things […]