Nintendo Torpedoes Wii Grey Market
A look at Wii eBay sales in the holiday months and how a single press conference by Nintendo seemed to have torpedoes the gouging. With graphics.
Archive for January 8, 2008
Sceners Threaten to Destroy BitTorrent One Step at a Time
SuperTorrents recently fell victim to an attack by alleged ‘Scene’ members who revealed the site owner’s identity. Further action was promised against torrent sites and today another tracker admin’s life has been turned upside down. The attacker’s message: “Destroying The P2P’s, One Step at a Time”
ABC and MGM join Xbox Live Marketplace video service
Yes, you can download HD episodes of “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” to your Xbox. Then, watch “Rocky” and “The Usual Suspects” in HD too. More details from CES.
Not sure what console to buy? Here’s the flowchart you need!
This should help you decide on which next gen gaming system you should purchase.
Xbox Live Server Problems Cause Achievements To Disappear
As if the recent Xbox Live issues hadn’t caused enough problems, it now appears that you can actually lose an unlocked achievement as well. Read on for details and a possible fix.
Comet Dust Reveals Clues About Our Solar System’s Past
Four years ago, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft did something remarkable. It chased down a comet and collected grains of dust blowing off its nucleus. Samples of the comet dust were shipped to scientists all over the world to analyze its makeup. The studies of cometary dust are part of a larger effort to trace the history of our solar system.
Story of the Year: The October Surprise
With Radiohead, Madonna, and Nine Inch Nails leading the charge against major labels, one month in 2007 may be remembered as birthing a revolution that shook the industry to its core. But have they truly created a brave new world?
HDDVD: Get a shovel and a Pine box now!
If this happens its lights out for HDDVD!
CompUSA Ressurrected: Assets Snapped Up By TigerDirect
CompUSA will live on, thanks to a deal with electronics marketer Systemax. Systemax, which owns popular computer parts reseller (and CompUSA competitor) TigerDirect, announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the CompUSA brand, trademarks, and e-commerce business.
If Your Hard Drive Could Testify …
The government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect the hard drive of every laptop that enters the country in the same way it looks through suitcases.
Cool! iPhone can ID song playing on the Radio!!
Picture it: you’re riding in the car and a great song comes on the radio. You’re dying to know what it is so you can go buy it ASAP but there’s no satellite radio receiver to tell you what’s playing. How can you find out what song it is? Whip out your iPhone, put it near the car speakers, and watch the screen. Poof! There’s the song, artist, and al
Free the algorithm: Wikia launches open-source search engine
Jimbo Wales talks with Ars about the launch of Wikia’s new open-source search engine. Even algorithms are editorial statements, he says, and Wikia wants to let its users take control of those statements.
