GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Nintendo recently launched a new service in Japan yesterday called Wii no Ma , or, Wii Room in English. The service lets you purchase licensed television content for Wii Points. The Japanese version launched with shows like Sesame Street and Pokemon available for download which shows you the target audience and range of this service. Individual episodes go for about ¥30 to ¥500 ($.35 - $5.63)...
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Think Progress: HARLAN: It looks as if the rogue route is helping Sarah Palin. Her book tour has meant new support. A new Opinion Dynamics poll for 2012 shows her on top when it comes to landing the nomination. Palin is at 70 percent, about a third higher than this ...
Phones Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently according to an article over on engadget, the new HTC HD2 smartphone can do 802.11 Draft-n, apparently you can’t find a single phone in your carries’ store that can do it, but Draft 802.11n can be enabled. The guys get their info on the HTC HD2 supporting Draft 802.11n via the xda-developers forum where it [...]
Laptop blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Vaio X, aside from being thin and light, is notoriously difficult to mod -- simply put, there's not much room in there to play around! Besides, when you've spent well over a grand for a machine, you're not necessarily going to be gung-ho about digging in with your soldering gun. Still, when InsanelyMac forum member Asama was struck by inspiration (in the form of a Vaio P OS X image) he followed...
Bricks and Stones (Free subscription) | yesterday
Katie Couric busts some moves in 2006 Facebook photos! Photos of Katie Couric taken during an after-party that celebrated her CBS Evening News anchor debut have hit the Web and oh what a dancer! Katie Couric’s personal publicist Matthew Hiltzik said that: “Katie had a good time dancing with her daughters—they choreographed the dance and had fun doing it.” They posted the photos...
MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
If it's true that the administration has settled on sending 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, you have wonder if the disconnect get any more pronounced? Arianna Huffington : There's a Category 5 storm about to make landfall, and the president and the officials in charge of preparing for the approaching disaster don't seem to be particularly worried. Sound familiar? Just as Katrina exposed critical...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
coondoggie writes "A radiation-proof Cisco router was sent into space today aboard an Intelsat satellite with the goal of setting up military communications from space. The router/satellite combo is a key part of the US Department of Defense's Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) project, which aims to route IP voice, video and data traffic between satellites in space in much the same way packets...
DailyStab (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photos of CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric dirty dancing have made their way around the internet. In the images, Couric is reportedly celebrating her September 2006 debut as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Girl is getting down!! CLICK HERE to visit Gawker to see all the photos. The pictures of Katie Couric dancing were said to [...]
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
kreyszig writes "The recent story of a cat brain simulation from IBM had me wondering if this was really possible as described. Now a senior researcher in the same field has publicly denounced IBM's claims." More optimisticaly, dontmakemethink points out an "astounding article about new 'Neurogrid' computer chips which offer brain-like computing with extremely low power consumption....
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
1sockchuck writes "Virginia's new state IT system is experiencing downtime in key services because of a mind-boggling oversight: the state apparently neglected to require network backup in a 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing deal with Northrop Grumman. The issue is causing serious downtime for state services. This fall the Virginia DMV has suffered 12 system outages spanning a total of more than...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Audrey23 writes "I am traveling to London from Washington state for two weeks in December for pleasure (use-it-or-lose-it vacation scenario) and was wondering if I should bother bringing my laptop. I know that I would have to change the region code on my wireless amongst other things and the power cord would have to be changed for a UK outlet. Would I be better off not bringing my laptop and just...
Engadget (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Nokia's just confirmed on its official blog that the X6 will hit shelves in Finland and the UK starting next week, with other countries to follow soon after. After hearing a while back that the touchscreen, Comes With Music-lover would be shipping around November 12th -- well, we didn't want to falsely get anyone's hopes up again. But now that the word is official, we can all sit back and behold the...
Engadget HD (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
What we're watching tonight: ABC (720p) has V at 8 p.m. and the season finale of Dancing with the Stars at 9 p.m. CW (1080i) airs 90210 at 8 p.m. and Melrose Place at 9 p.m. CBS (1080i) has NCIS at 8 p.m. NCIS: LA at 9 p.m. and The Good Wife at 10 p.m. Discovery (1080i) has Dirty Jobs at 9 p.m. and Ghost Lab at 10 p.m. FX (720p) has Sons of Anarchy at 10 p.m. DirecTV (1080i) has Eyes at 10 p.m. TLC...
iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
No this is so NOT the iFlip iPhone, or the bastard child of one drunken iPhone and a white MacBook, but you have to give the knock-off artists credit for persistence in snake-oilery if nothing else… [Via Gizmodo] This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. Tuesday Fun [...]
iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Running Backgrounder on your Jailbroken iPhone and looking for a little UI magic for your task switching? Check out MultiFl0w, free to try and $5 to buy, it’s not free like Kirikae but it’s fun. If you give it a go, let us know how it works for you. [MultiFl0w via Gizmodo, thanks Dylan for the tip!] This [...]
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zhang091113 | 13/11/2009
This week at the popular Consumer Electronics Show (CES as everyone calls it) our sister site Engadget was covering all the hoopla. Some exciting technology was unveiled that will allow a theoretical 2 terabytes of data to be stored on a new SD card format called SDXC. An SD card is the kind of card you can put in your camera. Most desktop and laptops have SD drives built in these days, so you probably...
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