Phone manufacturers agree to standard EU chargers
In news that can only be seen as good for consumers, manufacturers, and the environment, the main mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to a universal charger for handsets across Europe.
The announcement was made by the European Commission with the charger starting to appear next year with new handsets. Once established the charger and phone will [...]
Publication date: 2009-06-30
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Steve Jobs back at work few days a week, but is he still in charge?
With Steve Jobs reporting for part-time duty a few days a week, many wonder if he in fact got his CEO status back.
Steve Jobs got back to his Apple post a day before his self-imposed deadline, the company told Reuters, CNN, Bloomberg, and other high-profile news outlets. Jobs took a six month medical leave mid-January, [...]
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Toyota create brain controlled wheelchair
Researchers working at Toyota in Japan have managed to create a new brain machine interface (BMI) for controlling the movement of a wheelchair.
It’s not only the development of this system that is impressive; it’s also the speed at which it can process and respond to the wishes of the person issuing the commands. Brain waves [...]
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The Pirate Bay has been sold for $7.8 million
Only a few days after it looked like The Pirate Bay was pushing forward with its Video Bay project; news has appeared that The Pirate Bay and P2P tech company Peerialism have been sold.
The buyer is Global Gaming Factory X which has a major presence in Internet cafes and gaming centers around the world. The [...]
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iPhone 3GS overheating reports start to appear
Blogs and news reports worldwide are questioning if the Apple iPhone 3GS (see our review) overheats. Le Journal du Geek, a French technology website, even uploaded a consumer’s picture of their iPhone 3GS with reddish marks around the battery which also appeared on another French site called Nowhere Else.
The Apple discussion forum is getting a [...]
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Obama gets his own 8GB USB drive
Active Media Products is a manufacturer of unique USB drives so it’s not surprising to hear the company’s latest product just in time for Independance Day. The company has announced an 8GB Obama USB drive in honor of President Obama. The drive will come loaded with 80MB of preloaded material.
The material includes high resolution photos [...]
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Watchmen release to show how Blu-ray extras should be done
As the market share for Blu-ray looks to be growing painfully slowly companies including the biggest of the Blu-ray pushers, Sony, are attempting to make buying the players and discs more attractive. For example, Sony’s recent introduction of movieIQ.
But it may not be the type of content on the discs that is the problem, [...]
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How was your iPhone 3GS buying experience?
Did you pick up an iPhone 3GS yet? I do almost all of my shopping online (as I am sure most of this site’s readers do) but I didn’t want to wait too long for my 3GS so I figured this time around I would buy the phone in person rather than ordering it through [...]
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Japanese DIYer creates devices that Tweets heartbeat info
Ah, Twitter. Is there any task at all that people haven’t found a use for you yet? Wait! Don’t answer that. Today we have another use of Twitter that involves a small device that monitors the most important muscle in the human body - the heart.
Apparently there is a DIY project from Japan that tells you how to [...]
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io9 reviews Transformers: ROTF
Sci-fi blog i09 has posted a fantastic review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the summer blockbuster that was released last week. If you saw the first movie then you probably had some inkling of how ridiculous ROTF was going to be.
i09’s Charlie Jane Anders has put together a (non-traditional) movie review that borders on [...]
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Canon cuts 700 chip equipment operation jobs
Reuters reports that Canon in Japan is feeling the economic pinch and will be cutting approximately 700 jobs. The workers are employed at its chip equipment operations and the cut is thought to equal around 30% of Canon’s employees in that area.
Canon makes chip steppers, which are multi-million dollar machines that etch circuitry on to [...]
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Google bends app stores
Google says AdSense ads are coming to your favorite iPhone and Android apps. As a result, some popular paid apps may become free, funded out of the ad revenue shared between Google and app developers.
After seeing positive test trials of AdSense ads directly embedded in many popular Android and iPhone apps, Google has launched the [...]
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China kills gold farming with new virtual currency restrictions
Gold farming in online games is frowned upon and liked depending on who you talk to. Publishers of MMOs hate the practice and try and ban it whenever accounts are discovered to be doing it, players either denounce it or embrace and use the services of gold farmers to get ahead in a game. Then [...]
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Hollywood loses out, commercial free remote storage DVRs coming soon
On Monday, The United States Supreme Court declined to block a new remote storage digital video recording system that will make it easier for consumers to bypass commercials on stored shows.
This is a major blow to Hollywood studios who have called the court action “unfortunate and potentially harmful to creators and creative enterprises across the [...]
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Windows Mobile Marketplace to ship with 600 applications
Back in April we reported that more than 25 mobile developers had signed on to deliver apps on Windows Mobile Marketplace. Now we’re receiving word (via an interview with Audrey Zolghadr, Windows Mobile Product Manager at Microsoft France) that 600 applications will be certified and available for download at launch. According to Audrey, there are [...]
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