Monthly Archives: April 2008

Microsoft Openness Argument Wages On

Microsoft Openness Argument Wages On

Microsoft and their policies on openness are always a hot topic. A recent announcement declared that the software behemoth would be releasing a web platform known as Live Mesh. Live Mesh aims to connect a …

All Go! For PSP Owners

All Go! For PSP Owners

Hot on the heels of the Go!Messenger service, Sony has announced that video download service Go!View will be released some time in summer. Sony is partnering with Sky to release the Go!View service. Users will …

BlackBerry Pearl 8110 with GPS Now Available

BlackBerry Pearl 8110 with GPS Now Available

US Telecoms giant AT&T have started offering the ‘BlackBerry Pearl 8110′ built by the guys at Research In Motion. The phone is available from Today and online for the US. The smartphone features a built …

A perfect pair of jeans for geeks?!

A perfect pair of jeans for geeks?!

Fashion Designer ‘Erik De Nijs’, has created a pair of jeans cleverly entitled “Beauty and the Geek” jeans. He explains “modern shaped trousers which are often worn by youngsters..”. The jeans have a keyboard along …

skype goes unlimited, but its not quite unlimited, is it?

skype goes unlimited, but its not quite unlimited, is it?

Skype have updated its suite of subscription price plans to include unlimited options. Prices range from US$2.95 to $9.95/mo, depending on what part of the world you fancy chatting too. Using its voice over IP …

Mac Clones Gain Popularity And Fire

Mac Clones Gain Popularity And Fire

With Apple having switched to Intel processors, a new generation of affordable and easy to make Mac clones has been steadily gaining popularity. OSX86Project.org even has a running wiki of tested component parts that are …

Free Wireless Internet Tied Up And Twisted

Free Wireless Internet Tied Up And Twisted

In nearly all semi-progressive, semi-wealthy cities there seems to be development for a free WiFi network—usually available in the business district/downtown area. In my home town of Sarasota, Florida, our free wireless has been up …

200 Million Song Pod coming soon?

200 Million Song Pod coming soon?

After IBM’s recent announcement of their non-volatile memory technology, researchers at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) have upped the ante by several hundred percent Operating at fractions of a nanometer, functional nanoclusters shift electrons and …

WiFi SD Card Turns Any Digital Camera Wireless

WiFi SD Card Turns Any Digital Camera Wireless

Photo-bloggers, amateur papparazi, and teenage girls rejoice! Eye-Fi has launched their first version of a wireless add-on for nearly any camera. This incredibly clever SD card has a built-in WiFi transmitter, capable of being programmed …

Twist And Browse with The Force?

Twist And Browse with The Force?

Flicking your wrists is too barbaric. And sliding your fingers is so 2007. Welcome to the new wave in “active input” technology: The Force. Microsoft’s research department has been experimenting with a pliable form of …