WildCharge Inc.’s new wireless charging pad has recently won several awards and sparked the interest from the electronics, automobile, and furniture industries as one of the first wireless charging devices.
The BBC show Click journeys to Sweden and talks to the Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party. Really interesting documentary.
At San Francisco’s iSummit party Jimmy Wales announced :
The Wikimedia Foundation board voted to approve a deal beetween the FSF, CC and Wikimedia. We’re going to change the GFDL in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
In observing the GameSpot/Jeff Gerstmann affair, one thing comes to mind. “Videogame journalism.” Someone once told me that it was an oxymoron. I’m beginning to believe he’s on the money. It isn’t GameSpot, CNet or Gerstmann or the firing who are the focus of this article however - it’s the industry covering the affair (and readers as well.)
If you aren’t using VLC to play video files, you should be, and if you are, you need to check out this update! The transition to and from full screen playback is also a nice touch.
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Destructoid is really laying it on thick now. Check out their new banner and URL.
Long lines form for the big release.
Looks like the members of Gamespot aren’t too happy right now…
The iPhone has no built-in BitTorrent client yet, but you can use it to access uTorrent remotely from anywhere in the world. The iPhone web interface for uTorrent makes it easy to manage your torrents when you’re away from your desktop computer.
The government of Peru has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 of the $188 machines, Uruguay has ordered 100,000, Carlos Slim is buying 50,000 for Mexican children, the Give 1 Get 1 program has so far reached 190,000 orders (half going to Afghanistan, Rwanda, Haiti, Cambodia..) - It’s going to be a Merry Christmas for more than 610,000 children.
Yesterday, the internet was aflutter with rumors that GameSpot editor and reviewer Jeff Gerstmann had been fired. It was believed that it was the result of his negative review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Now, CNET has issued an official response, one that only appears to clear their name without confirming or denying the allegations.
