Archive for August 27th, 2007
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Canadian Press - (CP) - A video clip on website YouTube.com may have forced Quebec's provincial police to admit undercover officers were involved in a protest this week, and in an age of proliferating cellphones with video capability, ordinary citizens are poised to become watchdogs of police accountability, experts say.Source: ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Reuters - Juggling rather than
throwing his mobile phone, a teenaged circus performer won the
freestyle gold medal at the world championships on Saturday.Source: [Link]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Reuters - Juggling rather than
throwing his mobile phone, a teenaged circus performer won the
freestyle gold medal at the world championships on Saturday.Source: [Link]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on Sunday it was
giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online
contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone
users.Source: [Link]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
Hope you weren't waiting in tense anticipation to get your hands on UniquePhones's iPhone unlock software, because things certainly aren't going as planned. Reportedly, the gurus behind the software unlock were contacted by "a Silicon Valley law firm" who is "slowing down the release of the software." Of ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
So we know a lot of you have been on the edge of your seat concerning the RED ONE modular, high-end, HD HD-clobbering camcorder system. The camera -- announced at NAB way back in the wild, sun-soaked days of 2006 -- rocks 11.4-megapixel, 60fps video, and is ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio
SanDisk decided to bring another screen to the clip-on party with its new Sansa Clip. Apple's Shuffle and Creative's Zen Stone have been rocking the form factor for a while now, but only the Zen Stone Plus is much use for browsing through your music collection. The ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Hope you weren't planning on installing "your" legally purchased copy of XP or Vista today, Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage servers are down at the moment, meaning your Vista install will go into "reduced functionality mode" when you fail to check in with Big Brother, and your XP ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: GamingA team of modders have found a way to downgrade the Xbox 360's kernel, giving the console potential for a greater homebrew effort than at present. Key to a homebrew scene is the ability to modify a console's core software: even if reverting to an older version means ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphonesdigg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/UniquePhones_indefinitely_delays_release_of_iPhone_SIM_unlock_software';So, as you may have seen, earlier this morning at 3AM local time UniquePhones (the team behind iPhoneUnlocking.com, who've claimed to have the second proper iPhone SIM unlock software hack) got a threatening call from AT&T's legal team urging them to not release their software -- ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsBioShock is undoubtedly a critical darling, but it's not without its share of technical woes. 2K Games is already on the ball with the widescreen field of view "issue," and has even slackened activation requirements, allowing for up to five SecuROM activations per copy of BioShock. Unfortunately, ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: GamingDespite the launch of the Wii in the US occurring months and months ago, there is still a perceivable shortage of the little white console. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter made his own analysis of the recent upturn in US Wii console sales by predicting that Nintendo ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Yeah, we've seen bizarre apparatuses that bring about otherworldly feelings, but new studies have reportedly been able to induce out-of-body experiences with just a set of "virtual reality goggles, a camera, and a stick." Apparently, the "research reveals that the sense of having a body, of being ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: GamingIt's amazing what homebrew coders for the PSP are able to come up with, especially when you consider that the "solutions" don't really solve anything. If you've ever hankered for a heartbeat recognition ability for your portable gaming machine, then here it is. One guy called Art simply ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Filed under: Laptops
We're not really sure how a company like Dell hasn't been able to track down anyone with some laptop coloring chops to fulfill its backlog of XPS M1330 and Inspiron orders, but whatever their reason might be for not figuring things out by now, Dell is pinning colored ...
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