-
Gadget Lab Video: A Samsung SLR and the BlackBerry Bold
The Samsung DX20 is a new digital SLR from ... wait, Samsung? Actually, this camera is a collaboration between Samsung and Pentax, and it accepts Pentax lenses -- so if you've got a lot of those, it's definitely worth taking...
11.21.08 -
Internet, Fox News Are Most Trusted News Sources: Poll
The web is the most trusted news medium (over TV and print combined), and Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, according to results from a new Zogby poll commissioned by the Independent Film Channel. Fox ruled with...
11.21.08 -
New MacBooks Take Big Performance Hit With Battery Removed
Apple's new MacBooks are mighty speedy, but they suffer from a huge performance drop if you remove the battery and use the AC adapter as the sole source of power. Gearlog's Zach Honig discovered that the MacBook sees a 37-percent...
11.21.08 -
Danger Room Debrief: How to do Defense, When the Money's Gone
This is the fifth of our Danger Room Debriefs, where we ask smart folks in the military, intelligence, and homeland defense fields to outline some under-the-radar security issues -- and point the way towards potential, often-unorthodox solutions. Today we hear...
11.21.08 -
NASA Test-Fires Next-Gen Ejector Seat
Welcome to the next generation of "ABORT!" NASA test-fired the latest ejector seat for the Space Shuttle replacement this week, sending flames shooting into the Utah sky. To get the crew away from the launch rocket in case of an...
11.21.08 -
Missile Defense Honcho Passes the Baton
A major change of command is underway today. Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, who headed the Missile Defense Agency since 2004, is passing the baton to his successor, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly. During his tenure at MDA, Obering...
11.21.08 -
FedEx Delivers Some Fuel Efficiency
FedEx rang up sales of almost $39 billion last year by delivering more than three million packages each day. Making that happen requires big fleets of trucks and planes that burn a lot of fuel. Express package delivery isn't the...
11.21.08 -
Mini WiiMote Shoots Mario Kart In Your Face
Those keychain flashlights and laser pointers are more annoying than they are useful. But at least Nintendo's Wiimote projector would look kind of cool when your friends shine it in your eye. Resembling a Wiimote controller, the keychain measures 2.25...
11.21.08 -
Telecom Amnesty Illegal, Rights Group Argues Ahead of Court Showdown
Congress had no right to pass a law intended to torpedo lawsuits accusing the nation’s telecoms of massive violating privacy laws when they helped the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans, a privacy group told a federal judge Thursday. The reply brief (.pdf) from the...
11.21.08 -
Alt Text Video: Top 5 Most Guilt-Inducing Videogames
The first truly guilt-inducing videogame may have been Pac-Man. The sad spiral and quacking sound that accompanied Pac-Man's death was enough to make a generation of gamers dig deep in their pockets to find the shining quarters that would restore...
11.21.08
-
American Centipede Threat, you're wanted on Verizon Line One
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/ (((What did they hope they would find there? Three big guesses: Monica Lewinsky; two Monica Lewinskies; three Monica Lewinskies in six kneepads and three thongs. How else can one little creep with some *&$^%# phone gizmo wreck a country...
11.21.08 -
Pakistan's Army Practices Drone Shoot-Downs
The U.S. and Pakistan supposedly have a "don't ask, don't tell" agreement when it comes to killer drone strikes on militant camps inside the country: American officials stay mum about the attacks, and their counterparts in Islamabad only complain a...
11.21.08 -
The Wall Street Journal Eats The Times' Advertising Lunch
As if dealing with crumbling revenues, stalled cash flow and slashed dividends weren't enough, The New York Times is now seeing a chunk of its print advertising stolen away by The Wall Street Journal. Milton Pedrazza, chief executive officer of...
11.21.08 -
Wired Economic Indicators: Camcorder Sales
Forget about talking heads, financial analysts, lipstick and dry goods -- the most accurate bellwether for determining the near future of the American economy could be how many camcorders its citizens are buying. "When camcorders are affected, we've seen bad...
11.21.08 -
Round-Up: What We Know About iPhone 2.2
Now that iPhone 2.2 has had some time to simmer, we're taking the liberty to pour everything we know about the smartphone update into one pot. As we already reported, the major new features are the addition of remote podcast...
11.21.08 -
GeekDad: We Need a Secret Handshake or Something
We met some friends and their kids at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey last weekend, which has been remodeled and expanded since we were last there a few years ago. Although we only got to spend a couple...
11.21.08 -
This Guy Resents Participatory Web Culture
(((You know, it really isn't this easy... it may take me an entire book to attempt to explain why...))) http://gizmodo.com/5083371/a-call-for-revolution-against-beta-culture Link: Bad Technology: A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture. ....This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me....
11.21.08 -
Verizon Employees Snoop on Obama's Cellphone Records
An unspecified number of Verizon Wireless employees snooped into President-elect Barack Obama’s personal cellphone records, the company announced Friday. Verizon immediately suspended all employees who accessed the records and will take “appropriate disciplinary action” against employees found to have looked at them without authorization. Obama...
11.21.08 -
The Gods of Computational Aesthetics
*Man, that is some lecture line-up. What the hell, that makes the hair stand up all over my head. *You'd surely have to be one of the coolest mofos in the world just to REALIZE that these characters are some...
11.21.08 -
Autonomous VW says, "Look, Ma - No Hands"
Kick back, relax and let Volkswagen be your captain with the latest technology in driver assistance systems, the autonomous driving project, a forward-looking research concept that lets the car do the driving for you. This past week, a Volkswagen Passat...
11.21.08
-
Special Forces Get Stealth Robocopter
This month, U.S. Special Forces Command is quietly taking delivery of a radical new drone: the Boeing A160T Hummingbird, which rewrites the rules for helicopters. Thanks to a remarkable piece of design, the Hummingbird can go further, longer, higher –...
11.21.08 -
GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Orb of Yazoom - Solution
A GeekDad salute to Simeon Bradshaw whose correct answer to this week's puzzle wins a $50 gift code to ThinkGeek! (And props to many others and their mad SketchUp skillz!) All readers who check out the solution after the jump...
11.21.08 -
Biofuel-Powered Flying Car Cleared for Takeoff
The closest we've come to a flying car is the one sitting in the Jetsons' driveway. That doesn't keep the dreamers from trying. We've already seen Moller's Skycar, the Transition from Terrafugia, and the AirCar. Now a British company led...
11.21.08 -
Tweak the Nostalgia Bone: 30 Years of Star Wars Treasures
Hurry! Woot.com is offering 30 years of memorabilia from the Lucasfilm Archives including some rare and some never-before-published items, including reproductions of Lucas’s own handwritten script pages. There are flip-though catalogs, posters, T-shirt transfers, stickers, blueprints, production notes, animation cells,...
11.21.08 -
'Fox News has Learned' How to Rip off Danger Room (Updated)
Old school reporters crib from blogs all the time. It happens to Danger Room so often, I hardly even pay attention to it any more. But even my jaded eyes grew big when I read the opening sentence of this...
11.21.08 -
Danger, NPR! (Updated)
I'll be on NPR's Day to Day later on, talking about the Human Terrain murder in Afghanistan. UPDATE: Here's the audio.
11.21.08 -
Broke and Broken
That the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 kept falling Thursday, down to their lowest levels since when Britney Spears was svelte, is no longer news. The news is simply that the bag of tricks upon which...
11.21.08 -
Album Premieres Crucial to Recorded Music's Financial Future
MySpace scored two high-profile album streams this week: Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses and Electric Arguments by The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth). MySpace playcount indicators show that many listeners are only sticking around on MySpace to play the...
11.21.08 -
And now for some refreshing Revolutionary Anarcho-Leftism
*Guys who think BHO is some kinda Marxist need to cozy up to this screed. Rhetoric like this used to be common. Very common. EXTREMELY common. Last time guys were standing around in soup lines, you heard this all the...
11.21.08 -
Traffic Light Hackers
*Man, that's pretty severe. I get it about labor solidarity, but gee whiz, fellas. What if there are labor union members in those cars? Cars aren't Lego blocks, they're like two-ton whizzing body-crushing juggernauts, especially in Los Angeles. ARRESTS, CHARGES,...
11.21.08
-
Sounds like Hugo Chavez has centipede trouble.
*I lack the time to delve into this situation, but it sure sounds delvable. *From the FOREIGN POLICY blog. Ex-wife's mayoral campaign embarrasses Chavez (((Cherchez la femme, then Follow the Money -- who's financing the campaign?))) The world isn't lacking...
11.21.08 -
10 Unconventional Winter Holiday Movies
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It's a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story, to ones that get remade over and over again like A Christmas Carol. Whether or not you like...
11.21.08 -
Facebook App Keeps Danish Cyclists Green and In Touch
Just in time for next year's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory has unveiled Smart Biking -- a project that will allow bike riders in the city of Hans Christian Andersen to log how many miles...
11.21.08 -
Pirates, Terrorists, in Cahoots?
The last three months have seen a huge spike in pirate attacks off the Somali coast. This week alone, pirates wielding AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades seized four ships, including a tanker carrying $100 million in crude oil, bringing to around...
11.21.08 -
The Autopia 2008 L.A. Auto Show WTF? Photo Caption Contest
LOS ANGELES -- Here at the L.A. Auto Show, all of the really, um, interesting stuff is downstairs in Ketia Hall, where the mongrels are kept away from the purebreds upstairs. That's where we found things like a Rolls Royce...
11.21.08 -
GeekDad Pumpkin Contest Winners
At long last, we reveal the winners in the GeekDad Pumpkin Contest. We have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places, two honorable mentions, and a reader's choice winner. We've got some really talented readers when it comes to wondering what to...
11.21.08 -
Kids & Engineering: Australia’s RACV Energy Breakthrough
In a small Australian country town each year, only a 20 minute drive from our (even smaller) country town is an event that celebrates engineering, design, sustainability and innovation whose participants are all aged 6 to 17 years. It began...
11.21.08 -
Vintage Iron Rules the L.A. Auto Show
LOS ANGELES -- The most coveted cars at the L.A. Auto Show were made before your were born. Take, for example, the 1948 Porsche 356 prototype parked between the new Cayman and the new Boxster. It wasn't just any Porsche,...
11.21.08 -
Bay Area Stakes Claim as the "EV Capital of the U.S."
The Mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose got together Thursday afternoon to declare their intention to morph their collective communities into the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the US.” The mayors’ Nine-Point Plan was bolstered by Palo Alto start-up...
11.21.08 -
The Crusade to End a Horrific Disease Costs 10 Cents Per Person
A public health campaign has saved more than 6 million people from filarial worms, which cause elephantiasis and other grotesque maladies, in just eight years. Massive donations from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, made the victory possible according to a report this...
11.21.08
-
Interrogation Drugs at Gitmo Alleged
President-elect Obama has re-affirmed his intention to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This will come as a relief to many who have been concerned about some of the ethical issues involved and exactly what has been going...
11.21.08 -
iPhone 2.2 Launches, Adds Podcast Downloader and Street View
Apple late Thursday night released a major software update for its iPhone operating system, introducing features such as remote podcast downloading and Google Street View. Remote podcast downloading enables users to download audio and video podcasts onto their iPhones with...
11.21.08 -
Got Strange Wishes? You Might Win Christmas On Mars
To keep the spirit of the holidays somewhat bizarro, Listening Post has teamed up with the Flaming Lips to give away copies of the legendary band's finally completed midnight movie Christmas On Mars. And although we recommend you catch it...
11.20.08 -
Black Friday TV Deals Come Early For Retailers
Judging by the significant drop in price of TVs across the country, it appears the faltering economy is forcing retailers to start their Black Friday deals early. Sony, Samsung, LG and other manufacturers have started bringing down the price of...
11.20.08 -
Government's Star Witness Stumbles: MySpace Hoax Was Her Idea, Not Drew's
Megan Meier LOS ANGELES -- The young woman who typed the final, cruel message to 13-year-old Megan Meier the day she killed herself testified Thursday that it was she -- and not defendant Lori Drew -- who came up with the idea to create a...
11.20.08 -
Teen Kills Self on Justin.tv -- Update
Justin.tv viewers comment as Florida authorities recover the body of a teen who committed suicide live on the internet. A 19-year-old Florida teen's suicide death broadcast Wednesday on Justin.tv was a result of an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, the Broward County Medical Examiner &...
11.20.08 -
State Can Ban Prescription Data Mining, Appeals Court Rules
Data-mining companies have no constitutional right to buy prescription data in order to help pharmaceutical companies lobby doctors to prescribe their brand-name drugs, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 3-0 decision by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals re-instates New Hampshire's 2006 ban...
11.20.08 -
Fake Lunar Photos Sent Astronomers Over the Moon
If you wanted close-up photos of the moon in the late 1800s, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And...
11.20.08 -
iPhone Developer May Be Bribing Reviewers
An iPhone developer appears to have paid people to give its application glowing reviews in an effort to boost sales. The developer of Santa Live, a jokey iPhone app for kids, appears to have posted a listing on Amazon's Mechanical...
11.20.08 -
Put Your Hands in the Fire (Or Not) With a Special Ops Glove
A protective glove system that is currently being used in Iraq by the military is now being made available to civilians. Expect plenty of gear heads, wannabe heroes, and disaster preparedness aficionados to add them to their must-get Christmas wish...
11.20.08
-
Coupon Hacker Defeats DMCA Suit
A California online coupon generating company is dropping its Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit against a man sued for posting commands allowing users to print an unlimited number of valid coupons. John Stottlemire was sued last year after posting the commands to his tenbucks.net and...
11.20.08 -
Army 'Human Terrain' Contractor Charged with Murder (Updated Again)
A member of the Army's controversial Human Terrain project has been charged with second degree murder, for an alleged revenge killing in Afghanistan. Don Ayala supposedly shot Kandahar native Abdul Salam in the head, after Salam set one of Ayala's...
11.20.08 -
Bush Admin Rejects NYPD Spying Proposals as Illegal
If you are New York's police commissioner, what does it take to figure out when your city's anti-terrorism squad has gone rogue? Well, if building files on political protesters with high-tech bicycles didn't clue you in, having the Bush administration reject the units' wiretapping plans...
11.20.08 -
Apple Developing Always-On Backlight for iPhone
Apple is devising a method for the iPhone to display status icons even when the handset's screen is turned off. The company this week published a 24-page patent detailing a dual-backlight system, so that in addition to the primary backlight,...
11.20.08 -
The Beatles: The Biggest Bastards on Earth?
Before you reach for your Revolver, let us explain. The title of "Biggest Bastards on Earth" was bestowed on The Beatles by none other than John Lennon in an interview conducted months after the legendary band's 1969 breakup. It has...
11.20.08 -
Artist Wants Nuke Waste Dump to Make New Universes
The nuclear waste buried beneath Yucca Mountain will be there for millennia, untouchable and lethal. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats would put that time and radioactivity to use by turning the dump into a generator of new universes. His plan is...
11.20.08 -
Watchmen Legal War Escalates From Film to Franchise
The Watchmen trailers, posters and webisodes keep rolling out of Warner Bros., but none of that means you're any closer to seeing the movie in theaters next spring. As the legal war between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. creeps...
11.20.08 -
Movies: In Theaters This Week (Nov. 21)
Opening This Weekend Twilight Synopsis: Teenage misfit Bella (Kristen Stewart) moves to her father's house in rainy Washington state, where she falls in love with vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). The unlikely romance triggers a showdown with a rival band of...
11.20.08 -
Marines' Swimming Tank: Adapt or Die
It's no secret that the incoming Obama administration will be taking a hard look at big-ticket weapons programs, with the goal of cutting back under-performing or less-relevant programs. The Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle is one system likely to face...
11.20.08 -
Five for Fighting 11/20/08
* The coming Middle East missile war * Arms control art * Drones = cell towers * Mortar launches UAVs * "Shoe-print database sees the soles of criminals" (High five: Sullivan)
11.20.08
-
Hairdresser: Drew Thought MySpace Hoax Made a 'Funny Story'
LOS ANGELES -- Shortly after 13-year-old Megan Meier began corresponding with a new MySpace friend called "Josh Evans," Lori Drew walked into a hair salon with a "funny story" about the unfolding hoax, Drew's hair dresser testified Thursday. In the first full day of testimony...
11.20.08 -
NASA's Robot Smarts Give Wall-E a Ration of Realism
To give trash-compacting hero Wall-E a more realistic feel, Pixar Animation Studios turned to real NASA robots for inspiration. Early on, director Andrew Stanton and his team wanted insight into how robots move, think and learn. To get the info,...
11.20.08 -
Easyjet Bans Stem Cell Research
In a bizarre story that combines two of the most controversial topics of the modern era -- stem cell research and airport security guidelines -- the BBC reports that a pioneering trachea transplant nearly didn't take place because of some...
11.20.08 -
Wolfgang's Vault Sells Musical Moments
Loyola University professor George Howard, who interviewed SoundExchange head Jon Simson in an entertaining video back in August, tells us he's been working on a new project: helping Wolfgang's Vault digitize and sell live concert recordings from the MC5 and...
11.20.08 -
True Norwegian Black Metal Lands in Los Angeles
Peter Beste's human bestiary is hitting the road, and landing in Hollyweird for one torturous month. So if you weren't enthralled by the fearsome agents of musical evil in his photo book True Norwegian Black Metal, then maybe seeing them...
11.20.08 -
Kidnapped Hacker Found in Turkey, Arrested
A Turkish computer hacker and informant who'd been allegedly kidnapped and tortured by a notorious ATM swindler was arrested this week, according to a report from the Turkish press. Turkish police arrested Mert Ortac on computer hacking charges on Tuesday, reports Haber 7. Ortac, known...
11.20.08 -
AP Could Lose 10 Percent of Staff in 2009
Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley told employees at a company wide staff meeting Thursday that the organization could lose up to 10 percent of its staff next year. “The AP, which recently instituted a strategic hiring freeze, may...
11.20.08 -
Military USB Ban Meant to Stop 'Adversary Attacks'
The military isn't banning the use of "thumb" drives, CDs, and other data storage media just because of a simple, troublesome worm. It's banning the disks and drives because this worm demonstrates how vulnerable the armed force's networks are to...
11.20.08 -
It's Official: Online Spending Stalls in Third Quarter
Online ad revenues ground to a virtual a halt in Q3, with quarter-over-quarter gains of only 2 percent, according to according Price Waterhouse Cooper and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Revenues for the first nine months of 2008 totaled $17.3 billion,...
11.20.08 -
Video: Army Destroys RPG in Mid-Flight
The "Quick Kill" active protection system being developed for the Army's Future Combat Systems is supposed to be the Next Big Thing in vehicle protection: it will be able to shoot down anti-tank rounds in flight. The Raytheon-designed system has...
11.20.08
-
Lo Riders To Be Made To Order
BMW says it will make customizing the Lo Rider concept easy as Toaster Strudel if the bike ever reaches the market. The new Lo Rider concept is a totally bitch'n bike revealed in Milan earlier this month. It's leading the...
11.20.08 -
Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars
Giant glaciers buried under the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts. The discovery, made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offers new...
11.20.08 -
Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals
The clothes may make the man, but if a University at Buffalo professor has his way, the shoes will nab the criminal. Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores...
11.20.08 -
Recession? What Recession? Bentley Debuts Its Most Opulent Car Ever
LOS ANGELES -- The economy has tanked, no one's buying cars anymore and the entire auto industry is in a tail-spin. But such things don't matter when you build cars that cost more than your neighbor's house, and Bentley's pulled...
11.20.08 -
Europe's Answer to Google Book Search Crashes on Day 1
Europe's answer to Google Book Search officially launched Thursday after two years of prep -- and promptly crashed. Europeana hosts about 3 million digital objects: film materials, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers from the past...
11.20.08 -
Punkin Chunkin Hits the Small Screen
Last week I posted on the splendor of Punkin Chunkin. For those that were unable to make it but would like to see what all the fuss is about, I have good news. The Science Channel is doing a full...
11.20.08 -
And the Green Car of the Year Is...
LOS ANGELES -- The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI was named Green Car of the Year Thursday, the first time a diesel has won the award presented each year at the L.A. Auto Show. The 41-mpg TDI beat out a pair...
11.20.08 -
Poll: Can Our Coworker Rap?
I discovered during a recent office party for Wired.com's east coast bureau that we have some homegrown talent on the premises: CondeNet office manager Jason Dees, who raps under the name "Mr. FP." First, take a listen to two of...
11.20.08 -
Wrath of the Lich King Tops PC Sales Records
The latest World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first day of availability, making it the fastest selling PC game in history. The previous single day record of 2.4 million...
11.20.08 -
L'Internet des objets
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2008/11/19/ces-appareils-qui-communiquent_1120361_651865.html#ens_id=1120369 Link: Ces appareils qui communiquent - Technologies - Le Monde.fr. Objets intelligents, communicants, le monde du sans fil ouvre aujourd'hui les portes de "l'Internet des objets". Derrière cette curieuse appellation, une volonté des constructeurs, mais aussi un projet bien...
11.20.08
-
Make Your Own Edible Lego
Are you drooling yet? Well fear not, the web now provides for your confectionery dreams by delivering step-by-step instructions on how to make your own gummy lego blocks. Now, this does require the creation of a silicon candy molds, but...
11.20.08 -
Exclusive: Sony's Portable Audio Plans for 2009
At Sony's annual executive roundtable in New York on Thursday morning, Sony Electronics' president and COO Stan Glasgow told reporters gathered there about the company's forecast for the holiday (grim but not disastrous), how the imploding electronics retail market is...
11.20.08 -
Video: The Fatalities of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
Either you're a Mortal Kombat fan who already plans to pick up Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe or you're still scratching your head wondering who came up with the insane idea to pit the MK fighters against DC's iconic heroes....
11.20.08 -
YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos
YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week. The new format could be a big move...
11.20.08 -
Thingiverse.com Launches A Library of Printable Objects
Just like Flickr is a resource of Community Commons artwork, Thingiverse -- a new website by NYCR cats Bre Pettis and Zach "Hoeken" Smith -- aims to become the resource for individuals looking for objects to create with their RepRap...
11.20.08 -
GTA IV DLC Shifts Focus Away from Niko
The first downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV leaves protagonist Niko Bellic behind, instead focusing on "Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City biker gang The Lost," reports USA Today. The add-on, dubbed "Lost and Damned," comes to the...
11.20.08 -
Bungie Warns Against Installing Halo 3
Halo 3 players should avoid using the "install game to hard drive" feature of the just-released New Xbox Experience, warns Bungie. One boon in installing games is a promise of decreased load times, but according to the development house installing...
11.20.08 -
We Are All Patent Reviewers
There are many areas of government over which President-election Barack Obama has pledged to wave the magic wand of reform. And given the severity of the current economic crisis, fixing the system by which the US awards patents and trademarks...
11.20.08 -
Hands-On With The Feature-Free Vodafone 226
When a pro gadget writer needs a new phone, which one does he buy? Something packed with gizmos perhaps, a Nokia N96, or the bleeding-edge T-Mobile G1? Or, given that he uses a Mac and an iPod Touch, perhaps an...
11.20.08 -
Capcom Wins Dawn of the Dead Lawsuit
The suit filed against Capcom by film production group MKR claiming that the gaming company blatantly ripped off George Romero's classic zombie flick Dawn of the Dead for 2006's Xbox 360 title Dead Rising has been dismissed, according to Gamespot's...