Kingston Technology has introduced its latest compact flash cards into the market. Ultimate memory is not a misnomer for this little wonder considering it can hold up to 8 GB of data. According to Kingston Technology, the card has twice the write speed of its previous line, at 266X, which will allow digital SLR camera users to shoot without interrupti...

With so many devices of every conceivable function invading our households, power bills are shooting up. So is the concern over environmental costs of electricity. Computers, being traditionally big power wasters, have been under the microscope recently. So, anything saves power merits attention. And here we feature the eco-friendly hard-...

Mention social networking and the first thing you recollect is Facebook. But you’ll be surprised to know there’s a social networking site two ranks ahead of Facebook and here we quote none other than Alexa, which ranked Hi5 as the 11th most popular site online above Facebook at 13th.   ...

Ever since ATMs were introduced, banking became hassle free and transactions speeded up manifold. Improving the services further, U.S. banks are rolling out a new breed of automated teller machines that scan checks and cash, thereby eliminating the need for envelopes. Till now depositing checks in ATMs meant using envelopes and writing the transaction particulars on them. Receipts given for en...

Everything about kids is so appealing. That explains why films and TV series or ads featuring kids have always been instant hits. A video site like YouTube was just the right platform for featuring the endearing antics of those cute and naughty kids. However, in a move that upset all those who adore watching the little ones, YouTube has been suspending accounts that feature videos with chil...

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the BlackBerry 8820 smartphone. The  8820 is the first dual-mode BlackBerry handset, combining quad-band GSM/GPRS/ EDGE cellular and Wi-Fi® connectivity. Other features include: QWERTY keyboard 320 x 240 display trackball navigation system  built-in GPS microSD / microSDHC memory slot  Mike Laz...

It seemed Sony had pulled a major public relations coup when it announced a price cut of $100 on its 60-gigabyte Playstation3. The company that could do-no-right had finally seen the writing on the wall: Parents were buying the cheaper, funner Wii. Hardcore gamers were spending money on desktops or sticking with the Xbox 360. Analysts pr...

One Laptop Per Child program, the non-profit initiative that aims at helping children in the developing countries become computer literate by offering computers for as low as $100, got a major boost with Intel agreeing to join the board of the nonprofit and contribute funding.  So far Intel had been an obstacle with its chairman, Cr...

As a host of gadgets are vying for every inch in our households, remote control units have become so numerous and lie scattered about that one wishes we had a universal remote to control everything. That single unit could be our own hands if the device developed by Australian scientists Prashan Premaratne and Quang Nguyen hits the market. The device contains built-...

Niche products always imply fancy gadgets with added frills aimed at commanding a higher price. Once in a while comes a product showing consideration for the differently-abled, qualifying to be truly called niche. And it's good to know that firms are putting time and effort into this kind of R&D. An Indiana-based company GW Micro has...

When big brother's watching, and with his third eye, would anyone dare get away with mischief? No, if you go by the experience of Plymouth police officers.  For a year, 300 officials were trained to use head cameras during day and night patrols.  The new technology increased their detection of violent crime by 40 per cent and arrests went up by 85 per cen...

Joystiq reported that the Microsoft people recently added compatibility for more old Xbox games to the Xbox 360. This is kind of odd news since the Xbox 360 has been out for a long time (long enough for the updated Elite to be released), so you'd think they'd put the back-compat issue to rest. Still, it's cool to play the old games, especially if you have some you like, but weren't popular enou...

Oversleeping could mean not only loss of precious time, but also missing an important meeting. Alarms, no doubt, ensure that we keep our appointments, but it can be quite irritating to be jolted out of sleep by the persistent ring or beep sounds of an alarm. You can set up the alarm and still wake up normally like any other day, if desig...

In iTunes, click Help > Check for Updates What’s New in this Version - Addresses a minor problem with iTunes 7.3 accessing the iTunes Library. If you need to address a major problem when checking for updates, like this: (like I got), then check out our iPod zChannel or ask over at GuruConnect.  

The Digg boys announced that they've launched a Digg iPhone app. Since the iPhone has a normal web browser, you can see the normal Digg site that way. The Digg iPhone app is a pared down version of the website, so the site will load faster and only the key functionalities are available, like... Native iPhone-like story scrolling Mini permalink pages with top 5 comments Login an...

At 700,000 units in the very first week of launch, sales have been encouraging for iPhone. Still, owing to a high price tag of $500 and $600, iPhones are limited to a small percentage of the market. If it wants a larger share of the market, Apple has to offer a cheaper iPhone and that exactly is what Apple’s reflecting on, accordin...

Just a week ago, PlayStation3 consoles were slow in moving off store shelves. Suddenly sales have picked up, so much that on Amazon.com the 60GB PS3 is ranked No. 1 in video game sales. Quite a feat considering it was in 26th position and the  increase in interest is 2500 percent. What did the trick was the new pricing at US$499.99 ,...

Even as the $30 billion video game industry — it now rivals the  movie and music businesses — is preparing for its annual Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Santa Monica, California, comes the wake-up call. John Riccitiello, head of the world’s largest video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc,  feels that game makers are boringly repetitive and need to do mor...

Recently we had reported that in view of the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3, the biggest expectation among buyers is that Sony will slash the price of its PlayStation3, which right now has the last place among new gaming machines due to its $600 cost and thin line-up of games. True to the buyers’ expectations, Sony spokesman Da...

The annual expo next week of the video game industry, Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3, is one of the most keenly awaited events. Naturally, as it gives investors a peek into the $30 billion global industry that rivals movie and music businesses. And as the market for video games is expanding beyond the traditional teenage audience, anticipation is...

After wooing consumers with feature-rich handsets, what’s the next trick-in-the-trade for cellphone  manufacturers to try out? Aesthetics, maybe. Christina Tapp, a young undergraduate student from the College of Fine Arts in Illinois, has come out with a concept phone with accent on, what else, looks. The curvy beauty bears th...

Right now, Helio subscribers must be on a roll.  Their Ocean handsets do pretty much everything and the rate plan is something that never had anyone complaining. Now the experience is gonna get better. Helio has upgraded its Helio UP service, the online storage locker for photos and videos taken with Helio devices. Users can upload photos from their handsets d...

Even as Apple launched the iPhone in the U.S. to positive reviews, it was in negotiations with most of Europe’s big mobile operators to sell its combined phone, music player and Internet device in Europe. Reports in a German regional newspaper said that T-Mobile has won a deal to sell iPhone in Germany starting on Nov. 1, outbidding Vodafone. Others are sayin...

Necessity is the mother of invention.  That probably explains the sweeping changes in display technology which didn’t look beyond the cathode ray tubes for decades. Ever since hand-held devices like cell phones and  MP3 players became widespread, there’s been a need for power-efficient displays. The objective is clear: Displays consumes batter...

Automobile companies have been up to it for long. Tweaking their products a bit here and there and offering them as brand new models to be in the reckoning in a competitive market place. CNN, taking a leaf out of their book, has staged a ‘global relaunch’ of CNN.com, ostensibly for getting repeated clicks to its news website. At more than 24 million uni...

We're not linking to any one source because it's the same stories coming in four ways from Sunday.  AT&T activation service wasn't designed to take on that many activations at once (big surprise).  By Sunday things seemed to be back to normal, but that doesn't excuse AT&T for not having their act together. Also it seems that AT&T boosted the speed on their EDGE network (us...

Advancement in computer technology might have cut down processing costs, but power bills are still high and a cause of concern. Servers still generate lot of heat and a fortune is spent cooling them. Traditionally, air conditioners blow chilled air to cool servers. By using a more energy efficient cooling method, IT managers can realize cost savings. ...

Marshall, an IT security firm, sent out a warning that the new spam fad seems to be to put the spam-ad in .pdf format. This is a pretty clever move since most of us trust the format as a way to transfer information. In a recent spam wave using an attached PDF, the file name would include the recipient's username, which could even further entice a victim to open the file. Bradley Anstis,...

It’s a development proponents of open source and free software will welcome wholeheartedly. After all, it stands as a major boost to their ideology. Signifying its encouragement to Linux on the desktop, Google has come out with a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux. Google D...

Ever since Google Earth came out, it's been a favorite toy for most anybody (even the US Prez). Of course the great thing with online tools is to see the different, inventive ways that people use them. Um, well the ones that are open to the community.  Anyway, it might be fun to map out all the places you've visited in your life or pinpoint all the different places on the Earth where there...

When Apple’s iPhone finally goes on sale later this week, will it rule the market or not is a question time can tell. But Apple’s making sure that its multi-function handset enters stores like a king with his retinue. Or else, what explains for the two-dozen accessories that it has lined up for sale in its retail stores? The m...

It’s tough reaching the top and tougher staying there for long. Sony must have realized this universal truth when Nintendo cornered the market share from right under its nose to dislodge its PlayStation from a decade-old dominance in the game industry. Nintendo Co. Ltd. zipped past Sony Corp. in market value on Monday and became on...

There’s a bit of Google in everything this phone does, so much so that LG’s KU-580 handset may no longer be known by its brand name but as Google phone — it incorporates Google Search, Google Mail and Google Maps. The red-on-black phone sports a 2-inch LCD to enable better viewing of Google’s web properties. Besid...

We have to agree with the wags over at Gearlog, there doesn't seem to be much point in a clothing company putting their name on a cellphone.  Maybe their marketing team sees the whole iPhone flurry and figures it's time to strike when the phone-news-iron is hot. I just want to point out that Levi's missed the boat on the jeans-cellphone synergy* a long time ago. You know that 5th pock...

When ‘You’ and ‘i’ join, together we can rule the market, seems to be what Apple’s implying much before its iPhone launch. Days before the widely anticipated music- and video-playing device hits the market on June 29, Apple said that it will allow subscribers to wirelessly stream material from the popular video-sharing site YouTube. ...

A CNET source said Microsoft plans to use the first Vista service pack to do something or another to the built in desktop search. For XP, both Google's and Micrsoft's desktop search program were/are stand-alone software.  For Vista, Microsoft built their desktop search into the operating system. The change should make it easy for users to change the default desktop search to whichever prog...

Remember those days when iPod made its debut (well it was not too long ago). iPod accessories were soon all over the place. With Apple’s revolutionary media player slicing a huge chunk of the market pie, accessory makers too joined to partake the spoils. Now with Apple’s iPhone set for a debut, accessories are following suit....

The rules of computing were rewritten ever since Google came up with its incredible search engine. After changing our computing habits, Google’s planning an encore with our commuting habits by supporting greener technology for cars. The company announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over US $10 million in grants to support hybrid cars. ...

Thanks to web-based applications, television experience has reached a new level that’s gone beyond the TV set. More connected entertainment experiences are opening up at the flick of a button with service providers trying to differentiate their services from the others. Now, giving couc...

Of late, have you been coughing up a fortune on your cell phone bills? Then we recommend that you better go in for an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider, for charges are only bound to double up with YouTube going mobile. Now it’ll be hard to resist the temptation of checking out on the latest clippings, since m.youtube.com site has already ...

USB flash drives were a dream come true as far as ultra-portability was concerned and transferring files and carrying music became such a light affair. Carrying music easily never translated into listening pleasure, for even if you had a pair of headphones, it had its own limitations. So the discerning  audiophile had to plug it on ...

Ever been exasperated at the ugly sight of a tangle of wires on your desktop? Not that you could help it, for you had to ‘stay wired’ in this modern world. Ever missed a heartbeat when you toddler crawled towards that maze of cables connecting household appliances to the power outlet? Ever had a fall tripping over them? ...

Close on the heels of Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act, which the US House of Representatives passed last month, is the legislation designed to protect PC users from spyware. House members passed the Spy Act by a margin of 368-48. The Spy Act calls for penalties for anyone who causes software to be installed on a PC without first ...

  eBay is on its way to competing with Google by getting into the radio advertising business. The online auction leader is trying to expand into offline ads and has become a broker of ad spots. eBay will partner with privately held Bid4Spots Inc., an Encino-based startup hosting weekly online auctions of radio airtime si...

The next major update to Firefox may see a tool that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads. Though the security chief  of Mozilla Corp. was not forthcoming on the issue, there are numerous details to be found on a blog by a Firefox designer and in a back-and-forth discussion of the feature in Bugz...

Recently, Intel had launched its Classmates initiative, which aimed at shipping a modest 1,230 low-cost PCs to governments in Asia this year, mostly in trial arrangements. As a step further, Intel is planning to team up with Asustek Computer Inc., the world's largest maker of computer motherboards, to make a notebook PC that would cost as little as $200 and be aime...

Salesforce.com and Google  have a lot in common in terms of company culture, their technologies and their belief that pay-as-you-go Internet applications will become increasingly popular. The two vendors have been looking at where their businesses intersect so that both could derive substantial benefits. In tune with that, the two brought out their first jointly developed and co-marketed p...

Joost has announced former Cisco exec Mike Volpi will be its new CEO. Volpi, formerly heir presumptive for Cisco's CEO spot, replaces current CEO Fredrik de Wahl, who oversaw the video service through beta. Wahl was previously the chief of Joltid, which provides the peer-to-peer layer of Skype and Joost. Joost  has dubbed itself &quo...

SanDisk offers top of the line solid state drives (SSD) designed to drive the shift of mobile PC users from the hard disk drive to flash. SanDisk 1.8-inch 64GB UATA 5000 and 2.5-inch 64GB SATA 5000 SSD products deliver far superior durability and power efficiency to keep mobile PCs working to the maximum in the toughest...

Turtle Beach, a pioneer in digital audio and multi-channel headphone technology, on Tuesday announced a PC gaming headphone gear-- the Ear Force AK-R8. Turtle Beach has packed a couple of notable features into the AK-R8, including a whopping eight speakers, dual mics to monitor outside sounds, and a USB audio interface / sound card that ...

Western Digital has released a new class of high capacity PMR SATA drives  - Caviar SE16.  With 3-Gb/s transfer rates, a 16-Mbyte cache, these 750-Gbyte hard drives come with the company's SecurePark technology. Basically this holds the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is not operating. An add-on is StableTrac technology that reduc...

There is lots of local news content on YouTube already, but it’s the unsanctioned footage that viewers chose to record and upload. Now, you’ll get to see official footage as Hearst-Argyle, a conglomerate controlling 29 local TV stations that reach 18 percent of the television households in the United States, has signed a deal with YouTube to distribute ...

At a time when iPhone is threatening to churn the market with its grand entry sometime this month, Randall Stephenson becomes the new CEO of AT&T, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Which means the incumbent CEO is in the midst of some exciting times. There was speculation for some time about Stephenson’s a...

LG Electronics has come out with a hybrid display that doubles up both as a computer monitor and a TV. The latest addition to the FLATRON Wide Format Series, M228WA, has support for HDMI and 1080p. The HDMI, DVI, S-Video, VGA and component outputs have your video needs covered regardless of what you connect to. The ‘Slim & Light...

The news that millions of people worldwide are waiting is now official – iPhone will be launched on June 29. Announcement of the launch date ends a five-month guessing game that began on Jan. 10 when Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone during his keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.  During the keynote, J...

Microsoft now has the expertise to search for copyrighted books on the Web. With permissions from innumerable publishers to use their copyrighted titles, Microsoft’s Live Search Books is part of its "Live" online services aimed at increasing its supremacy in desktop software with a host of Web offerings to rival Google. Microsoft had earlier attacked Google for what it called...

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, opened a new Swedish embassy in cyberspace on Wednesday The foreign minister conducted the opening to Second Life, a 3-D virtual world. Second Life, an Internet-based world where users create characters known as avatars, is run by Linden Lab, based in San Francisco. The cyberspace-based embassy was modeled on the current Swedish embassy in Washington, ...

At Walt Mossberg's All Things Digital conference , Steve Jobs hinted that Apple would probably open up the iphone to third party developers. Apple is obviously open to it and is working on making that possible later this year. As Steve  said “... we'll find...

Writing with a pen that will digitize everything you scribble, as well as record audio you later download to your computer.! Now that is just what it is -Livescribe, a "smart pen" with a computer. Targeting college students and professionals who like to travel light, this Montblanc sized efficient beauty is a multi-tasker. It ...

Google has released Google Gears, an application that lets web sites store their data on your local computer using only your web browser. The browser plug-in will let people run Web applications when they're connected to the Internet or not. On the Mac, Google Gears is just a regular Firefox ...

In tune with co-founder Bill Gates’ view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch, Mircosoft Corporation has developed a coffee-table-shaped ‘surface computer’. Microsoft Surface, which has a 30-inch display under a hard-plastic tabletop, allows people t...

Business establishments worried about their data getting into the wrong hands now have a reason to cheer. LG announced the launch of their new Super Multi Security drive in the UK today. LG DVD/CD writer is the first to use SecureDisc technology available exclusively from Nero and HL Data Storage. SecureDisc allows users to write data to ...

Internet users in Morocco are crying foul after authorities allegedly blocked YouTube. Many Moroccans have been unable to see the video-sharing site since May 25. However, State-controlled service provider Maroc Telecom said the problem was the result of a technical glitch. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders expressed ...

Google’s planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick is under scrutiny. The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation after the deal, involving powerful forces in their respective niches of the online advertising business, prompted privacy advocates and competitors to raise concerns after it was announced last month. Amon...

Sony is testing the waters in the HD Radio market with its first tabletop radio XDR-S3HD. With more than 1300 radio stations available in the US and a growing listener base, HD Radio technology is the future of traditional radio. Having a simple yet classic design that complements any living room, the table radio features a...

James Jarvis has created a new Meebo application that works on Facebook profile, letting you chat with other users right from the profile page without needing to sign into Meebo.  The application is available in the new Facebook Applications section, and is easy enough to add, even if you don’t yet have a Meebo account. ...

Green is the buzzword now in the automobile industry. As fossil fuels are getting depleted at an alarming rate and also causing concern with their emissions, the search is on for lesser-polluting alternative technologies.  Indian automaker Tata Motors, for one, seems to have beaten the others in bringing out the world’s first ...

Television manufacturers have been trying to outdo each other in coming up with newer display technologies. Screens made with organic light-emitting diodes to produce paper-thin displays that can also save energy has been one concept everyone was interested in. Now Sony seems to have beat competition as it just unveiled what it calls the world's first flexible vers...

The college student social networking site, Facebook.com hopes to become a software operating system for all sorts of Internet media. The site, which opened up to users of all ages over the past year, said that more than 65 developer partners, including Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com, had created software applications on the Facebook Platform. ...

Ericsson and Telstra conducted a successful live network trial for next-generation 40Gbps optical transmission technology in Australia. The trial was conducted over Telstra's existing 10Gbps 1,121 km coastal and 1,244 km inland optical fiber routes from Sydney to Melbourne. The technology trial demonstrated that Telstra's existing 10Gbps Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transmission t...

Motorola was recently issued a patent for a cell-phone display that doubles as a solar cell. The LCD (liquid crystal display) includes solar cells capable of charging the battery in a mobile phone or other portable device. Apparently, the screen will be able to charge a cell phone's battery when the display is exposed to the sun. Though ...

Did you ever find yourself a little lost with no clue on how to proceed further? Well, you aren’t alone, for that’s a predicament most of us face with some point or the other. It’s in such times that you should thank Cingular for launching the BlackBerry 8800, the latest open GPS-enabled device from a major U.S. carrier. ...

Google’s objective of providing access to world information is now made simple. The new feature Google Translate is a giant step - it's a step closer to a truly "worldwide" Web where every page would be available for everyone to read in his or her own language. Just set your language preferences (i.e. English to Spanish), type in your search query and Google will translate the ...

The Nintendo Wii's wireless gyroscopic controller, which you can swing to simulate a baseball bat, golf club, and so on, is great fun. That is, until someone gets hurt. Someone being your TV screen! Sure, there are plenty of options for protecting your beloved flat screen from a flying Wiimote, such as stronger straps, or even, you know, ...

Planning to go shopping for a webcam today? Then Creative Live! Cam Optia AF may not be a bad idea after all. Creative claims the $130 camera has a “true 2-megapixel sensor and Live! View technology for sharp, HD-resolution video.” The camera has a lot more going for it than the 2-megapixel sensor, though. It’s complete...

We all know that LG had a winner in its Chocolate line of cell phones. Now, the company is trying to extend the power of the Chocolate brand name, applying it to home theatre devices and laptops. The LG Z1 Chocolate laptop has an impressive array of features for a solid, mid-range laptop. And the most interesting of them is the LCD on th...

You can call it the newest benchmark in processor speed going by IBM’s claim of having built the fastest chip ever. According to IBM, its new Power6 chip boasts enough bandwidth to download all 5 million songs in the iTunes music catalog in less than a minute!  The Power6 dual-core processor has a clock speed of 4.7 GHz and offers 8 megabytes of L2 cache -- four times as much a...

For years, Google has been compiling a list of popular searches it calls Google Zeitgeist, offering a weekly, monthly or annual retrospective look back at what its users wanted to know. Now, trend-spotting is set to make a scientific turn as Google unveils a service to track the fastest-rising search queries. Google Hot Trends combines el...

Google has evidently reached agreements with several large UK news groups regarding the search engine company carrying their content on Google News. Details on these agreements have not been disclosed for fear that smaller news services will request the same licensing deal that the larger groups have made. After months of going through European court battles regarding its news pages which di...

Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc. will replace the Cingular name with AT&T in the interiors of its 1,800 shops on Monday, ahead of the iPhone launch in late June. The company said it is stepping up its rebranding campaign at Cingular wireless stores, seeking to raise AT&T's profile ahead of the launch of Apple Inc.'s. ...

We've been carefully watching (and drooling) for the release of the Optimus Maximus keyboard.  Since it costs more than most high end computers, we won't be buying one anytime soon. But the functionality and the idea that in 5 to 10 years this could be the way all keyboard are designed, well we can help getting giddy about it. Here's the lowdown:  Every key on this keyboard is an ...

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient notebook chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma, (similar to Intel's Centrino) that will likely allow AMD to better compete in the rapidly growing notebook market. Puma-based notebooks sporting the chips will hit in mid-2008, according to AMD Fellow Maurice Steinman. The Puma co...

As the holiday season ended this April, Nintendo was seen laughing all the way to its bank. Driven by strong demand for its Wii console and new Pokemon games for Nintendo's DS handheld, U.S. sales of video games and related hardware rose 20 percent in April from a year earlier. Total sales was $839 million compared with $699 mi...

Apple on Thursday received U.S. federal approval for its widely anticipated iPhone, taking the computer maker one step closer to blastoff for what is expected to be the next-generation replacement for its omnipresent line of iPod music players. The Federal Communications Commission signaled its approval with a posting on its Web site early Thursday, which sent Apple shares up 2% to $109.44 ...

With the name a wee bit tongue twisting, LG's MFFM37 (pronounce it and people’ll think you are talking with your mouth full) will be the latest MP3 player to hit the market.  The MFFM37 "Touch Me" player features a 2.4 inch LCD touch screen. It comes with up to 4GB of memory and can play back MP3, WMA, and OGG mu...

MySpace.com has refused to turn over the names of registered sex offenders found using its social networking site to a group of state attorneys general because it is prohibited by federal and state law, the company said. “We are doing everything short of breaking the law to ensure that the information about these predators gets to the proper authorities,” said Hemanshu Nigam, chi...

 Popular online social network MySpace , with a user base of 175 million people worldwide, was infiltrated by user profiles of convicted sex offenders. In a major purging, the network site has identified, removed and blocked "a few thousand" suspect user profiles. “We've made it clear we have a zero tolerance policy against convicted sex offenders,” MySpace Chief S...

It's not really anything like a pen, so corporate naming conventions remain a mystery. What's not a mystery that in the very near future, an object the size of a pen (or smaller) will have all the functions this Voice Pen has. Until that day, you'll have to make do with this. Features: 512MB and 1G storage sizes. Text-to Speech (TTS) program that converts text into MP3 voi...

These are the fascinating things that happen in the tech world. Currently for the PS3, you can only talk to another user on certain games (unlike the Xboxers who can call each other through Xbox Live and the USB headset). So this company Jajah developed this web-based application to fill this gap on the PS3. A user points their PS3 web browser to play.jajah.com, enters their own phone number an...

Here's the link to download the update. This is the second attempt to fix the problem of Safely Remove Hardware corrupting an iPod. It seems to me that it would have been easier to write a mini-program that would prevent users from doing this for iPods.     If hardware="ipod", then stop process/display warning: "Use the Eject iPod feature in iTunes to safely remov...

Now available through Xbox Live and Xbox.com, the Xbox 360 Spring Update allows Xboxers to chat with anyone on Windows Live Messenger (Windows PCs and Windows mobile devices). This huge because I could see a dad on his PDA texting his children to "get off the Xbox and do your homework!" Some leaps in technology aren't always a good thing. The update includes a lot of other stuff: ...

It is a common misnomer that "everything is available on the web."  You'll also hear people say that the answer to any question is just a Google search away. Neither of these ideas are true, but hopefully over time they'll become more and more the reality. Today came news that we're one baby step closer to that reality. Google Inc. announced today their partnerships with Arizo...

The $479 price tag may push some to the Core ($299) or Console ($399) version, the 120GB hard drive does make it seem that you wouldn't have to worry about hardware upgrades for a very long time. Of course, if you're dying to do your gaming in hi-def, you'll probably part with the money quite easily. Microsoft list it's features (and which parts are available separately): Xbox 360...

Okay, I'm not going to go off on Apple/iPod/iTunes today. Let them enjoy the benchmark.  I do have to recognize that my 3rd generation iPod has not really had any special problems.  That's not to say it hasn't been a horror-free time with the iPod.  I now know that my scary moments were similar to other people's. I'm happy to renumerate them here for you: I bought a ...

This year's results of the Jacobs Media web poll, conducted yearly since 2005, has some interesting points.  Of note is what seems like to conflicting activities. On the one hand, more people are using their mp3 players in their cars:     Half (49%) of personal mp3 player owners say they can now connect them to the main vehicle they drive. I'd assume that means they ...