Archive for February 29th, 2008

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 the importing route courtesy of […]

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, but being able to firehose […]

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 report shed some light on its […]

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. It doesn’t exactly come cheap, […]

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. The company is calling it […]

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 shirts inside — while on […]

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 company just issued a press release […]

How would you change Apple’s Penryn-based MacBook Pro?

Filed under: Features, Laptops
While everyone and their second cousin third removed had something to say about Apple’s ultra-sexy, ultra-hamstrung MacBook Air, we’ve a sneaking suspicion that folks previously eager about this week’s MacBook Pro updates will be equally vocal. For whatever reason, Cupertino faithful had February 26th pegged on their calender, and while the addition […]

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