Archive for July 18th, 2008

AT&T’s free iPhone WiFi is (update: was) live at last

Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessDespite AT&T’s best attempts at completely failing its free WiFi promises eternally, iPhone owners can finally fire up Mobile Safari in their local Starbucks, or, um, that one other place we heard about with AT&T WiFi, and get browsing. Of course, that’s not to say the service won’t crash horribly in the […]

Bandai boldly introduces Smart Berry: the portable chat handheld for girls

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
We’re guessing the naming scheme here was quite intentional, though we’ll be the first to say Bandai’s Smart Berry has very, very little in common with RIM’s stockpile of handsets. Nevertheless, this “mobile communicator” joins the small crowd of other tween-centric chat handhelds with wireless capabilities that enable four of these things […]

XIM2 brings your keyboard and mouse to the Xbox 360. But you still suck at Halo.

Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsOh man, remember that one time we tried to balance the teams in your favor, so there were like eight guys on your side, and just two of us? And then we still kicked your ass at CTF? Yeah, well XIM is gonna get you nowhere. Sure, the newly refined mod can […]

iPhone 3G Dock / Universal Dock Adapters now on sale

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals
For many, dropping $199 / $299 on an iPhone 3G (provided you actually locate one not hidden behind a 4+ hour line) is enough. For those who fell head over heels with the original iPhone dock, it’s not. Here’s your chance to send 29 more US bucks Cupertino’s way, as the official […]

Intel turns 40

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/Intel_turns_40′; Happy 40th birthday, Intel! Now that you’re over the hill, we’d suggest buying a Porsche, building completely custom one-off chips for Apple, or in some other way jeopardizing your financial well being in order to actualize pent-up childhood dreams, but we’d say AMD’s recent struggles are just about the […]

Chinavasion’s HD camcorder is just as lame as you think

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Okay, so we won’t totally judge Chinavasion’s “High Definition Great Value” camcorder before we get to know it, but we’ll be frank, we ain’t gettin’ to know it. Those willing to give this heap a fighting chance can look forward to hope for 720p capturing at 30fps, 8-megapixel still shots, a 2.5-inch […]

Wii gets custom firmware, purported PSP emulator

Filed under: Gaming
It looks like there’s been a couple of developments on the entirely unofficial Wii activities front in the past few days, including one that seemingly delivers as promised and one that remains a bit of a mystery. That former item comes courtesy of Waninkoko, who has released what is purported to be the […]

Sony Ericsson sees net profits fall 97%, looks to cut 2,000 jobs

Filed under: Cellphones
Sony Ericsson warned the world just over a fortnight ago that things wouldn’t be too rosy when it came time to announce Q2 results, and rosy things are not. Even though the handset maker was hoping and praying to break even at the end of the quarter, net profits ended up falling through […]

The Parker Steam Synthesizer runs on steam, sounds like a theramin, Bjork wants

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
If synth rock was meant to go hand-in-hand with fantastic steampunk universes (and we really can’t see why it wasn’t), instruments would look something like the thing you see here. This is the Parker Steam Synthesizer, a steam-powered music synth that runs on water and some coal. Designer Lorin Edwin Parker controls […]

AMD says it’ll detail its Atom-challenging plans in November

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsAMD has been hinting at its plans to take on Intel’s processor du jour, the Atom, for some time now, but brand new CEO Dirk Meyer is now getting slightly more official about it than the company has been previously, and he’s promising that AMD will reveal all come November. As the […]

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