Archive for December 12, 2007

Next-Generation Nintendo DS Mock-Up

It’s got a slimmer profile and a seamless shell thanks to a MacBook-style hinge. Inside: more power, larger screens—the top one being a 3.5-inch widescreen to play downloaded movies—a flash card slot for media and continuation of that amazing sleeker look. Hit the jump for our high-definition mock-up with full specs.

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Best Buy Hates Satire and Free Speech

Best is giving out Holiday cheer via Cease & Desist Letter!

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KDE4 RC2 released!

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks the last mile on the road to KDE 4.0

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Amazon sends best Customer Service letter ever!!

After not getting offered a discounted laptop in Amazon’s Customer Vote promotion, one customer wrote a “cheeky” letter to Amazon Executive Customer Service. It’s only appropriate that Amazon had their own cheeky response.

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The Year Ahead: PC Gaming in 2008

With this year’s gaming harvest already played and beaten and filed away into memory like so many save files, it is time now to look on.

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NBC bleeding cash after ditching iTunes

…the reality is that NBC/Universal seems to just not have all that many shows worth watching these days missing pretty much all of its advertising goals, forcing it to refund on average about $500,000 per advertiser. Looks like our Peacock voodoo doll is working after all.

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Nokia and Apple seem to have succeeded in suppressing ogg

Ogg Vorbis and Theora are two media formats — for audio and video, respectively — that could have been part of the HTML5 spec, and would have allowed for a standard method of broadcasting audio and video. Apple and Nokia fought and seem to have successfully removed it from the HTML5 spec.

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Congress Yells “Kiddie Porn,” Tries To Kill Public WiFi

It’s the Patriot Act of wireless porn, forcing Starbucks clerks to turn into snitches and join Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton in wagging their nagging finger in the latest high-tech chapter of the culture wars, to the detriment of public WiFi:

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