Many phone manufacturers in Taiwan have been in talks with Apple to cut a deal to produce an iPod Phone, and many say that the “iPhone” is common knowledge in Taiwan.
They say that Apple will launch an iPod with phone functions within the next few months. “An iPod phone is definitely coming. BenQ will […]

Not happy about all the CPU cycles that Dashboard is using? I honestly only use dashboard once in a blue moon. Here is an app that will disable it and free up the memory and CPU that it is using up.
Bye Bye Dashboard is a free utility to easily and painlessly remove the Dashboard. Tests […]

Another day, another IE Security Hole. Anyone else think this will not stop with IE7?
Microsoft plans to release a pre-patch advisory with workarounds for a “highly critical” vulnerability that could put millions of Internet Explorer users at the mercy of malicious hackers.
The advisory, which will be posted here, acknowledges a code execution hole that was […]

It’s been running the rumour mills for several weeks now, with Dell officials even downplaying–and even outright denying–the news that the top PC seller is acquiring Alienware, creator of high-performance systems. Now it’s official, with Dell’s announcement of the buy-in.
Dell said Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary following completion of the transaction and […]

First, they let you pay over the Web using your email address. Now PayPal is about to give its users the ability to send and receive payments through their mobile phones.
The new service, called PayPal Mobile, lets you do just about anything you could do with your traditional email based PayPal service, but via mobile […]

I think that this new piece will please most of the crowd, though I don’t know why people despised the controller so much. Sure, I’d be happier if it had Dreamcast-like triggers at the back, but I thought it looked nice.
After many bad remarks about the controller Sony has decided to pull it out of […]

Samsung has certainly been an “interesting”, to say the least, company to follow. First they completely ridiculed Sony (and others) with their 10 Megapixel phone in CeBIT and now they’re leading the start for HDD drives for portable devices.

This drive reads and writes data in speeds up to 1.5 times faster, doesn’t generate heat and […]

We recently wrote on Microsoft and Nokia applying for patents for various hardware-based digital rights and copyright management. Want more? Well, Microsoft has apparently applied for another patent, the Hardware-based software authenticator, and they seem to have a bias against emerging markets!
Upon authentication via a required multi-function hardware component, coupled to a computer system with […]

Microsoft has applied for a patent for a CPU-based software licensing system that opens up software only upon receipt of a CPU-based activation from a distribution service. Entitled Licensing the use of software on a particular CPU, the proposed technology would in effect lock a particular copy of software (say, Windows, Office, or a console-based […]

Searching through the US Patent office applications, I came up with this one on an IMEI-based digital rights management scheme proposed by Nokia, entitled System and method for using a graphic and/or audio license with digital rights management systems.
License files that include graphic and/or sound files no longer simply take up space in a device’s […]

Here’s something you won’t have qualms letting your six year-old handle: the kid-friendly portable music player from Maxfield.
Special child-friendly features include an audio output restriction to a maximum of 60DB from the main player to protect those growing ear-drums and tough external stereo headphones by Koss are designed not to interfere with developing ears and […]

Reports are surfacing that Apple will be releasing a new high-end iPod in the next quarter and plans to include Bluetooth technology.
The firm said that Apple earlier this month notified its resellers and distributors that the high-end video-capable 60GB iPod was “at risk,” meaning that Apple could discontinue the product and/or replace the product at […]

When I heard the announcement that Vista would be released in November of 2006, I knew it was too good to be true. Now it seems as though Vista will be delayed until January of 2007.
Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin in a conference call said that the company decided to push back the release date of […]

In a continuing competition with Yahoo, Google has announced a financial service properly named “Google Finance”. The new service gives you 15-minute delayed stock quotes, and incorporates some very nice Flash. If you type in a stock quote, say IMAX for instance, it gives you a list of news stories on the right side of […]

A company called Brightonnet has released a cable which will allow you to connect your iPod to your TV with the RGB plugs.

Simple and effective. And it makes me wonder why something like this was never shipped with the iPod Video to begin with.

Lately a few articles have been rising on the internet questioning how much Google observes and registers the information that us, users, deliver to them without even knowing.
Knowing that Google had this info, the Department of Justice demanded billions of URLs and search queries from them just to find out that World of Warcraft is […]