We were ready to cut AT&T some slack for the activation problems, because we know that nobody designs an activation system to take 500,000 new accounts in 72 hours. But AT&T's EDGE network was down for 6 hours on Monday. AT&T said the downtime wasn't due to the iPhone, but come on, how could it not be. The EDGE network is the "data plan" side of things. For calls and t...

Time was not long ago when I used to throw up my hands in despair every time the floppy disk acted weird. “Disk in drive A: not accessible” the computer would say, and that too after a single use! That’s when flash drives or pen drives came as a boon. Durable and reliable, they redefined the very concept of storage medi...

Toshiba Corporation is currently co-developing with Alpine Electronics, Inc an automotive HD DVD player. A prototype was displayed along with a touch panel LCD at the "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2007." Toshiba is hoping to actually release the player sometime in 2008. The touch panel LCD was a prototype presented by Toshi...

So when Seattle Times sat with Glenn Lurie, AT&T’s iPhone connoisseur, and was asked about the exorbitant price of the iPhone, he gave this very newsy and interesting information, ”…There are other things – you have the widgets, some of the Google applications that are coming – there are just so many things here that the price wil...

Hammacher Schlemmer has come out with a wireless poker game that makes it easy for up to six players to compete in a Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament in the comfort of your own home. The game includes a main unit that plugs into your TV and six wireless handheld controllers that allow players to manage their hands while keeping them...

In the days of wall-mountable LCD and plasma TVs and wireless laptops, it was only a matter of time printers followed suit. And that’s just the concept Ransmeier & Floyd have come up with. During the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, a wall mountable printer at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial desi...

Recently, MySpace purged thousands of profiles believed to be owned by registered sex offenders. One of the profiles belonged to Jessica Davis, a college senior at the University of Colorado. But… Jessica is not a registered sex offender, nor has she ever been convicted of any crime that comes close. The biggest thing she has even been convicted for was a driving offence in Florida. It ...

With Samsung coming up with its latest 8GB microSD card, a revolution of sorts is in the offing in the memory cards market. Flash memory had already brought about incredible changes in the way we store data and with its new product, Samsung has proved that there’s no limit in squeezing memory and more is possible. The Samsung micro...

The harmful influence of video games on our youth -- inciting them to be trigger-happy, go loitering  and utter profanities – is still a raging topic for old-timers to debate. A similar debate over video games, albeit legal, will be up when a jury may be soon deciding if one faulty Xbox was to blame for the December 2004 death of an Illinoi...

Ladies and gentlemen, AppleInsider believes in all sincerity that the Mac mini is dead. All fingers point to the main accused and who can never be pardoned for what has been done.   Apple conceived the Mac mini under pressure from shareholders who wanted a sub-$800 Mac, but never really saw much in the desi...

ASUS S102 portable navigation device with clear voice road directions guides the way in style. A palm-sized box that couples sat-nav functionality with a portable media player, it has an 18mm-square antenna for super-tenacious signal management. The S102 is not just a dumb GPS device. With nifty features like a MP3 playback, an S...

Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, felt Eben Moglen, a Columbia university professor and chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center during a speech at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on May 22. Software that is licensed under General Public License can be fr...

Malicious files are a huge problem netizens have to contend with and there seems to be no solution in sight, with the issue only compounded everyday. The latest that one hears is about the Skype worm. Like worms spread by MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, various Skype worms have been known to include a message such as "Give me your opinion" followed by a URL. Clicking the link t...

Here’s one for business executives on the move. Sony has officially announced the availability of Vaio BX40 series in the European market. This 15.4-inch widescreen laptop comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, 2GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 graphics card, 1.3 mega-pixel camera and DVD combo. ...

Those who have been regularly following our blog might be already aware that MySpace.com, citing federal privacy laws, initially rebuffed a demand from North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and colleagues in seven other states who last week asked for data on how many registered sex offenders are using the site and where they live. But now in a turnaround, ostensibly following legal dem...

Palm’s new Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard allows you to work on the move. Especially for all the company's handhelds and smartphones, this new accessory will work with the Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 700p, Treo 700w, Treo 700wx, Treo 750, Tungsten E2, and T|X. Note the very special features: ...

Google has struck a deal with Stanford to license the sensing technology behind 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge winner Stanley to improve their maps. It is hoped this will prove to be a secret weapon in its ongoing battle with Microsoft to extend the frontiers of the Internet. Google will now be able to map out photo-realistic 3-D versions of cities around the world, and possibly regain ground it...

We didn’t give much credence to rumors of a higher capacity PlayStation 3, doing the rounds for some months. Not the least did we expect it to be launched in any country other than Japan or the US.  In a surprising strategy, Sony has scheduled to launch the first 80 GB model of the PlayStation 3 in South Korea. Yes, you read it right. So, is Sony trying ...

Console hackers, it seems your con game is up! Microsoft has officially decided to crack the whip against hacked consoles connecting to Xbox Live. Which means, no more access to people who have been detected to have modified their console to connect to LIVE. According to the Xbox's Gamerscore blog, henceforth when a modified console is detected on the Live netw...

"From my perspective, search needs to be easy. [And with Google,] search is easy," said Marissa. Google VP of Search Products & User Experience Marissa Mayer announced the company's new search engine dubbed the "Universal Search". Now search results will combine both text, images and video content displayed by r...

The Elite was out, and HDMI gaming became much more exciting. Now MS has an ace up its sleeve with its latest update, for the legion of HD DVD-player owners. For the initiated, here’s what is in store for you: Added option to select from audio output formats via TOSLINK or HDMI: Digital Stereo (2 channel PCM) Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1 WMA Pro Added &quo...

There's nothing better than rumors and leaks that seems reasonably true. The word from iLounge is that Microsoft is hosting a developers event (so they can start developing applications) to preview two new Zune models.  One will be a flash-based Zune (targeting the iPod nano) and the other will be the regular disk drive but with more storage and a bigger screen (targeting the iPod Video).&...

We saw this article from PC World talking about how USB floppy drives are still being made. It grabbed our attention for two reasons. The author seems flabbergasted that everyone hasn't switched to pen drives by now. Granted he may have been adding a little journalistic flourish to the story (as we also may have done on occasion), but except for new laptops I don't think I've seen a mac...

One thing that's true about gadget freaks, they love to waste money.  Well maybe not waste it as such, more like spend it. So I guess if you're the type of person that loves fancy gadgets and you're also extremely rich, then this phone is for you. It would also help if you like to be annoyingly flashy and have a flair for the gaudy.  With 855 diamonds and a pri...

Intel's concept computer, a "metro notebook" looks like the kind of convenience-first outlook that we like. Thin and light with the carrying case built in (that is to say the outside is leather and has straps). The key function is the second screen on the outside, which I could see being used for push-email or RSS feeds.  Intel describes it as a "E-ink always-on non-volatile...

Things are definitely starting to pick up steam for the Wii crowd out there.  First there was the "work in progress" Zapper (reported by, and image courtesy of Joystiq). Then the announcement of Resident Evil 4 for the Wii will be coming this summer. Also, a third-party offering for turning the Wii remote/numchuk into a blaster. Oh boy that adds up to a lot of speculation about a...