Red PSP With TV Tuner And Stand Coming To Japan
Coming Dec 13th.
Archive for November 7, 2007
The War Against BitTorrent: Attack of the ISPs
There has been a lot of fuss lately about Comcast’s efforts to throttle and interfere with BitTorrent traffic, but they are by no means the only ISP involved in such efforts. Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all around the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks, time to give an overview, the war is on.
Sony to launch new lighter PlayStation 2
The newly designed PlayStation 2 will hit stores in Japan on November 22 with a recommended price tag of 140 dollars. The internal design architecture of the new system has been completely overhauled.
Iwata comments that the Wii could last longer than the usual 5 years
Most Nintendo consoles only last five years on the market. Iwata says until they can innovate beyond the Wii, the company doesn’t see the need for a new console anytime in the future.
“Horrendous Data Loss” Bug in Hard Drives
“Horrendous Data Loss” Bug in Hard Drives
A bug that has been around since Mac OS X 10.3 was released and is starting to scare Leopard users. The bug occurs when a user is doing an move operation and a network USB or FireWire drive is disconnected. The result is that the user could loose huge amounts of data with an unstable drive. The faulty drives seem to be all Seagate 2.5″ drives that are manufactured in China with a Firmware revision of 7.01. They are also all SATA interface. The error makes the head clash with the platter. This bug has been around since the 10.3 times. Will they finally fix this bug?
Apple set to begin testing of Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard
Internally, Apple has begun passing around the first pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update and plans to begin widespread testing of the software as early as this week, people familiar with the matter tell AppleInsider.
NVIDIA’s Enthusiast System Architecture - ESA is Looking Very Cool
NVIDIA’s ESA promises to deliver some system monitoring tools that reach into system areas that are normally left untouched. Extending a reach into monitoring your PSU, chassis, and cooling system looks to be a very welcome addition to enthusiast hardware.
Best PS3 Deal around is from Dell
For $399, you can get the 40 gig PS3, that includes the Spiderman 3 Blu ray, Ratchet and clank Future: Tools of destruction and Startech 6 foot HDMI cable. If you have been waiting for the best deal around it has arrived.
WP Super Cache - The Ultimate WordPress Caching Plugin
Tired of clicking a link off the Digg front page only to find a crashed or mortally lagged site on the other side? Finally, Donncha (one of the main WordPress developers) has solved the problem once and for all with a plugin that blows WP-Cache away.
Comcast’s Bittorrent Filtering: Phase Two Unveiled
A serious look at the future of Comcast’s Bittorrent filtering policy… Be afraid, be very afraid.
Microsoft Kill MSN Messenger for Mac
Redmond are done with Messenger for mac (which was lets face it, one of the buggyest apps)
But there is a new client which is reportedly (and I believe this is verbatim) “Really really cool, and awesome”!!
EA Confirms EA Chicago is Closing
“Within the EA Games Label, we are committed to running each franchise and facility as a city/state, teams with unique creative identities as well as responsibility for product quality, ship dates and profitability….Unfortunately, EA Chicago hasn’t been able to meet that standard….Closing EA Chicago is the toughest decision I’ve made.”
