Wii-Mote Gets an Upgrade! For all those people that can't quite seem to keep those Wii-Motes in their hands, tossing them at TV's and other things, NYKO unveiled a new charging dock that includes upgraded battery covers that are... Continued
Chinese Teen Kills Himself When Online Love Turns Out Ugly Oh man! How ugly was she that you had to off yourself? BEIJING -- A 17-year-old boy in northeastern China was so disappointed with the looks of a woman he met over the Internet that he hanged himself after ... Continued
Gamers Raise Over $1,000,000 for Children’s Hospitals Seattle, WA - Jan 05, 2007 With the success of its online toy drive and dinner auction, the gamer-supported Child’s Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org) reached an all-time high of $1,024,400.31 in i... Continued
British Tory MP Slams Video Games I guess someone didn't get the system he wanted for Xmas and is throwing a temper tantrum... Outspoken Tory MP Boris Johnson has declared that it's time to "garotte the Game Boy and paralyse the PlayStation"... Continued
Your Next CPU May Be Cooled by an IONIC Wind Looks like noisy fans and huge heatsinks may become a thing of the past... A new type of ultra-thin, silent cooling technology for processors is being developed by Kronos Advanced Technologies in collaborati... Continued
Celebrity Patents Inspired by the recent launch of the Google Patent Search, this fellow decided to search for patents filed by celebrities and came up with some pretty good ones. Among the celebrities that have filed p... Continued
Free CoolIT RAM Coolers: Just Stop By! We just got word that CoolIT Systems, makers of the MTEC powered Freezone CPU cooling systems is giving away free RAM Coolers just for stopping by their booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas start... Continued
The World’s First 2000 Watt PC Power Supply FLETCHER, OH – January 3, 2006 – Ultra Products, a global leader in technology solutions, today announces that it will unveil the world’s first 2000W ATX Power Supply Unit for the PC at next week’s Consu... Continued
Nine Big Wins for Linux in 2006 I found myself reading an article on Mainframe.gr explaining how 2006 was another lost year for Linux and I couldn't help myself but write this response in disagreement. I found that 2006 was the building of a bridge between Windows and Linux, it may not be complete yet but there's already governments coming across. Let me share my thoughts on Linux in 2006. A year of big gains While the operating system market is still dominated by Microsoft and shows little sign of changing that doesn't mean that all other options have failed hopelessly because there were some significant gains made over the past 12 months.
When Worlds Collide: Ten Notable Open-Source Legal Battles The open-source world is bigger than ever, growing by leaps and bounds daily, seemingly unfettered by obstacles to development that hamper just about every other creative field. In fact, the only force more powerful in the sphere of software development these days may be the one that we all live under: 21st-century capitalism. Though free software tries to be exactly what the moniker purports, issues of ownership and originality that we take for granted in, say, the media sphere, must be examined thoroughly nearly every time there’s a dollar to made or a patent to be claimed.
TorrentFreak’s 2007 Bittorrent Predictions Google launches BitTorrent search engine. Google realizes that 33% of all searches on the Internet are BitTorrent related. In April they trade YouTube for Torrentz, and launch their own torrent search engine.
Links Revealing Sensitive Data! Google Notebook users can bookmark webpages or organize content, but should be aware that they can keep the content public or make private. Source: Information Week... Continued
