Minor drawbacks: getting the songs from the iPod back to your computer will be difficult unless you use a third-party add-on like MusicRescue. The transfer rate’s about 500 KB per second, which means an album will take a couple minutes, and the device doesn’t offer any trickery to get around Apple’s FairPlay DRM scheme, meaning [...]
Google may be resorting to some of Microsoft’s most frustrating practices, using its strong products to prop up weak siblings, but at least those siblings promise a different mode of computing.
Simply put, Nokia and Microsoft are the equivalent of two St. Bernards that are forced to run in 90 degree heat and high humidity. They’re [...]
It is critical that Internet users be skeptical. In fact, skepticism may be more important than any anti-malware software.
Comedy Central’s Indecision2008:
Barack Obama’s Website Assassinated
“As if we needed another reason to doubt Barack Obama’s ability to keep us safe from insomniac Islamofascists, at appears that now he can’t even keep his website safe from cyber-terrorists…”
When [...]
This is the last known photograph of Wrex the Dog.
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Robotsrule.com)
While we covered WowWee’s Wrex the unruly robo-dog a couple months back, he is finally available at U.S. e-tail stores. I know we’ve all been waiting for an unruly, uncouth, ill-behaved robot dog to complement our unruly, uncouth, ill-behaved real dogs, so wait no longer.
Amazon.com has [...]
Motorola H560
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Motorola)
Motorola H620
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Motorola)
Motorola introduced a couple of new Bluetooth headsets today; the Motorola H560 and the Motorola H620 respectively. Both headsets have noise reduction and echo cancellation technology, but the H620 has additional automatic volume adjustment to adapt to road noise while driving. The H620 also comes with an in-car charger. Both headsets have a [...]
Baidu.com, the top Chinese search engine, gets lots of its traffic from a service that tracks and links to MP3s, most of which are illegally posted. Now a Chinese music industry group is suing the site over alleged copyright violation.
The AP reports:
Music Copyright Society official Qu Jingming said in a statement posted on the society’s [...]
The near universal penetration of broadband Internet connections on home video game consoles is giving rise to a new business model for games. With publishers able to reach consumers directly through
Xbox Live, Nintendo’s Virtual Console shop, and the
PlayStation Network Store, there’s a growing trend toward offering small, variably priced, incremental content to expand existing games, [...]
CHIBA, Japan–The world’s electronics companies are busy here at Ceatec 2008 showing off some of the contents of their R&D labs, but meanwhile the world financial system is in chaos.
Though the general buzz inside the Makuhari Messe convention center here is generally buoyant, the people and companies here aren’t immune to what’s happening outside the [...]
Map guide and platform company Schmap has a cool, free service that lets anyone put in a small, mobile phone-optimized contact information page on their site with just a line of code. This is in case you want to take information like your address, phone number, and e-mail address and improve the way it looks [...]
One way to build a product is to take the idea for it, and go out and try to get someone to fund its development. That’s the philosophy the venture capital economy is based on. But ideas and money can flow in different directions. Prizes, for example, can fuel amazing innovation. In this development model, [...]
