Archive for February, 2008

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 ...

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



Filed under: Gaming digg_url = 'http://digg.com/xbox/worst_parents_in_the_world_Xbox_prank';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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Alcatel-Lucent sends data 1600 miles at 16.4Tbps



Filed under: NetworkingSure, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have already sent data 50 miles at 25.6Tbps, but it looks like now they're going for distance rather than speed: the company announced yesterday that it's now pumped bits over a 1584-mile long link at 16.4Tbps. Sure, that's slightly slower than the record, ...

Mint green PSP now available, in Japan



Filed under: Gaming We already knew it was coming, but if for some reason you've been holding out on buying a PSP until you could get a minty green model, you can now finally get your fix -- in Japan, at least. As DCEmu points out, however, you can also go ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...