“iPod tax” looking like a Canadian reality
Does anyone else feel like Canada is just a loft apartment over a really great party? We kid our Canuck friends. Who are we to …
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“Peek Squad” allegations heating up
Casting a blue-and-yellow eye on the fine folks at Best Buy, new stories are beginning to surface about Best Buy Geek Squad employees and their …
The first Wireless USB PCs have been announced
Dell and Lenovo have jumped out in front of the pack, announcing Monday the first wireless USB notebooks to hit production. Along with wireless hubs …
Typing boo-boo leads to Microsoft Vista SP1 uproar
If you make a typo at your job, you might cause some confusion. When the Windows Driver Kit team makes a typo in an …
Your favorite spammer makes $480k/year filling your inbox
Feeling underpaid for all your hard work? "Spammer-X" isn’t. He used to be one of the people responsible for filling up your inbox with all kinds …
New PS3 160GB external hard drive about to hit the market
Come August, Hori will be releasing a new 160GB external hard drive for the PS3, removing any need to worry about whether your 20–60 80GB …
Splinters in the Microsoft Family: Silicon Knights Sues Epic Games
Lest one think that making interactive entertainment is all fun and games, the latest story breaking in the game industry should put all of that …
Microsoft teams with JiWire to offer “free” WiFi in a town near you
You see movies in which people can surf to their heart’s content no matter where they are. And we dream of one day being able to …
Spanish ISP wins against music producers
It’s becoming an age-old debate: File sharing…good or bad? The music industry hates it. Users love it. And now, Telefonica has the users’ collective back. …
Microsoft Mouse Phone?
Just when you thought you had heard every concept that was attempting to integrate X into a cell phone, Microsoft throws out another wild …
Blackberry 8820 arrives…But in the UK?
It’s like the girl that lets you buy her drinks all night, but doesn’t actually want to give you her number. The BlackBerry 8820 is …
Google will run your search engine for $100
What used to cost $2k and required hardware and software could now cost as little as $100. Dubbed the "Custom Search Business Edition" of Google’s …
Is the HTC Kaiser coming to the US real soon?
Now that the so-called "Jesus Phone" has landed with AT&T, people have wondered if there is still a place in the world for the HTC …
Don’t like the weather? Wait ten minutes…or shoot into the air
What ever happened to just letting Mother Nature do her thing and complaining about it? If you make your way into the outskirts of Beijing, …
Intel joins One Laptop Per Child initiative
Originally, people called it the $100 laptop project. Until, of course, the laptops couldn’t seem to get any cheaper than $175. A more fitting name, One …
New Adobe promotion is really cool, promises hours of lost productivity
Those familiar with Adobe products are probably already aware that Creative Suite 3 is now all the rage, with popular products such as Photoshop and …
Yahoo! adds suggestive search
New to the feature group of Yahoo! searching is suggestive search. As you type your words, suggested options pop up in a dropdown below the …
AOL admits big boo-boo and pays out $3 Million
In a settlement with 48 states and DC, AOL had agreed to pay out $3,000,000 to those states and drastically revise its cancellation policies regarding …
Lack of Nintendo Wii’s may be even worse over the holidays
Think it’s difficult to find a Nintendo Wii now? Just wait until the holiday season. So says George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing and …
Bidder offers $100k for an iPhone
In an charity event for Keep A Child Alive, a bidder jumped to the front of the pack by offering $100,000 for an iPhone purchased …
Game Console Price Cuts
E3 is the time of the season when a gamer’s mind turns to how cheap they’ll get their next console; that’s how ingrained summer price …
New 80GB Playstation 3 to be “Emotion”-less
Here’s the good news: If you’re willing to spend $600 on a console, you’ve probably already done so by now, which means you won’t …
NYC trying to add 3000 cameras to charge you for driving and fight terror
Big Brother, where art thou? New on lower Manhattan’s plate is the possible addition of 3000 cameras, positioned strategically to view all of NYC’s major …
Creative charging $10 for driver updates
As if Vista users didn’t have enough issues already, what with bugs, granting permission to everything you want to run, and bad resource management…now …
Microsoft raises Xbox 360 warranty to three years, sort of
In an open letter posted to Xbox.com, Peter Moore has acknowledged the PR nightmare facing the company from an unusually high rate of failure for …
WiFi Blackberry approved by the FCC
Yesterday, the FCC put their official stamp and go-ahead on a WiFi Blackberry (pause to let readers rejoice). Though not the biggest surprise in the …
Will they or won’t they: PS3 price drop
Rumors have begun swirling all over about a possible 60GB Playstation 3 price drop at Circuit City in the upcoming weeks. Message board poster "speedy1961," …
Tired of complaining to Sprint? They’re tired of you, too
Most people have glaring complaints about their wireless carrier. A couple bad experiences and the venom sprays pretty easily when asked, "what carrier are you …
Someone suing Second Life character
We’re about to enter a whole new world of lawsuits and laws, ones that govern everything from virtual property, to virtual copyrights. The latter is in …
USB shirt cools you off, makes you look strong
There’s a very fine line between nerdy and functional. This may be something that rides it perfectly. It’s the USB shirt ($159), which uses a fan to …
