The PS2 has been a loyal machine for millions of gamers for 8 years now, and a veritable money-making machine for [...]

Ah yes, the much highly anticipated fall dashboard update that will bring us avatars and a new spiffy looking 3D interface has been leaked onto the Internet. I have to ask who in the world is leaking this stuff? I can only assume its [...]

A super-high-bandwidth network is being switched on in August that will pump out 15 petabytes per second or 15 million GB.  The extreme speed will push data to some 5000 scientists in 500 institutions across the world to help speed access to the vast amounts of research data being collected all the time.
Preparations are [...]

Scrabulous, the Facebook application which bore too close a resemblance to the official board game Scrabble, has finally bitten the dust.
However, Facebook says it didn’t make the final decision to pull the plug – and the game remains active for users outside the United States and Canada.
Facebook had previously ignored cease and desist letters [...]

MobileMe had its share of problems when it launched along with the iPhone 3G, and the apps store because of that Apple issued an apology and added 30 days of free service to all MobileMe users. Users trying out the 30 day trial version also received an extension. Recently some MobileMe users recently experienced data loss.

Pentax added the Optio E60 to its digital camera lineup this morning. The camera will have a 10.1 megapixel resolution, 3x zoom lens, and a 2.4-inch LCD.

Hewlett Packard has questioned the reliability of Microsoft’s recent reports of selling 180 million copies of Vista so far.
The apparent disparity involves the loophole by which firms can still sell machines with XP on them, despite the system officially having been withdrawn on 30 June. The trick is to sell what is officially a [...]

Copy and paste might soon come to the iPhone, with the help of a new app that is still waiting to be approved by Apple’s App Store. Why all the fuss about such a simple feature? And why, for all Apple’s slickness, it didn’t incorporate such simple features into the most talked about mobile phone of all time?

Hictu is giving away a free, unlocked iPhone 3G. What is Hictu? A free micro video blogging service. Think YouTube meets Twitter, in a similar vein to 12Seconds or Seesmic. You record a simple, short video and other people see your video and comment on it.

I’m always interested to hear out anyone that has the opinion that Vista lives up to all that was hyped during its introduction.  Not that I’m for the side that thinks Vista is not up to par, but anytime you hear good things about the OS it’s worth a mention.  There’s been some opinions [...]

Polar Cities or Lovelock Retreats as they are sometimes called, are self-contained cities.  These cites are created to house the population that manages to survive the extreme effects of global warming.  Projected need for such cities ranges from 2300 to 2500.
Danny Bloom, founder of The Polar City Project, was willing to answer several questions [...]

Imagine the world, as we know it, has come to an end due to global warming.  Much of the world has been radically changed by the rising of the oceans.  Life has devolved to survivability and little else.  Welcome to Polar City.
Polar City is the name given to a series of high density sustainable [...]

Oracle’s ongoing war with SAP is scaling new heights – it’s now calling out its closest rival over alleged theft.
AP had the story on the increasingly fevered battle between software maker Oracle Corp and SAP AG. From the looks of things, it definitely puts paid to the notion that enterprise tech is boring.
Oracle [...]

Mob wisdom is a cornerstone of web 2.0 applications and for the most part it provides good insight and direction on many topics. Popular sites like Digg, Fark, and Google Trends all provide a window into that behavior, but they also can influence it on a grand scale. Spurred on by the blitz debut [...]

People who use the Web often forget that many of the same rules that apply in the real world also apply online. Be it copyright laws, defamation of character, or libel, this type of legislation governs people’s behaviour regardless of the medium they choose to display it on. So when a guy set a fake [...]