Grabbing the top 10,000 Alexa websites, Yvo Schaap did some number crunching and came up with a couple of interesting figures (take it with a grain of salt, it’s a statistic… and it’s using skewed Alexa):
With Microsoft executives becoming ever more eager to tout the company’s sales numbers of its Xbox 360 in public, and the dramatic success of games like Gears of War, has Redmond given itself such a head start that it will be near-impossible for Sony to catch up?
IBM voted against the certification of Microsoft Office document formats as an international standard. “It is an example of a real open standard versus a vendor-dictated spec that documents proprietary products via XML. ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. We voted for the future,” Sutor wrote in his blog.
Sorry to disappoint gamers who planned on importing Japanese games to play on their consoles, but Nintendo’s Wii is definitely region locked. It’s not enough to just take our word for it, so here’s a video of a guy trying out a US Zelda game in his Japanese machine.
It isn’t only the usual suspects who are tossing their hats into the gaming ring. Enter Hewlett-Packard, who hopes to leverage the newfound graphics muscle they gained during the VooDoo PC acquisition into new directions. Preliminary experiments have testers in England freeing Anne Boleyn from the Tower of London on their iPAQ’s.
Experiencing high-definition television programming on your computer isn’t as expensive or difficult as you might think. Learn how you can turn a PC into an HDTV in under an hour.
Kontron is preparing a line of compact, customizable, multifunctional computers based on its mini-ITX motherboard family. The KIM (”Kontron intelligent mini-computer”) series will ship in February, 2007, in custom and standard configurations, powered by Intel processors ranging from the Celeron M to Core 2 Duo.
I don’t even have a Wii, and I can’t wait for this to get polished up and working perfectly. As soon as it does work (along with the Nunchuck), I plan to buy a Wii Remote for my PC.
All four of Australia’s major mobile phone carriers now offer live TV channels through their 3G networks, with Vodafone being the latest to join the fray.
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Less than a month since it’s been released, the homebrewers are cooking up a storm of innovations.
The new technology, dubbed “Hyper-CD-ROM,” should be able to hold 10 TB (roughly 10,000 GB) of information and has a lifespan of 5,000 years