Archive for December 12th, 2007

Dell Latitude XT tablet will have multi-touch, just not for a while

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs If you're at all like us, you spent a little time scratching your head after the Latitude XT's launch wondering just what Michael Dell really meant when he mentioned the convertible having multi-touch. Sure, he talked up the laptop's myriad capabilities when he showed the XT ...

USB missile launcher goes wireless

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless Never content with leaving their gimmicky products as is, the perfectionists over at Brando are prepping yet a third iteration of the wildly-popular USB missile launcher, with the new model featuring an upgrade to wireless control. Cubicle commandos now have over a 15-foot range from their workstations ...

AT&T gets into the kid-tracking game

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless, Networking While it probably won't be peddling this new tech in California, there's still a whole world of youngsters out there for AT&T to track with its new RFID- and GPS-based mobile resource management systems, which the company has designed specifically with school districts in mind. ...

PlayStation emulation coming to iPhone via psx4iphone

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming Those of you who have already loaded up like 1,000 NES ROMs on your iPhone will be excited to learn that an even more powerful emulator is on the horizon, this one for the original PlayStation. Called psx4iphone, and currently in pre-beta, the software is being developed ...

Microsoft pulls Vista from snooping offer

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsYesterday, we told you about an offer wherein you could completely sacrifice your privacy for a free software bundle from Microsoft which included Windows Vista Ultimate and Office Ultimate '07, amongst others. Well, apparently the big M has decided to pull the offer of free software -- ...

Nyko rolls out Charge Base 2 for PS3

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Gaming Nyko's already delivered one SIXAXIS charging station in the form of the original Charge Base, but those that don't need to charge four controllers simultaneously may do well to consider the company's just-announced Charge Base 2, which'll accommodate a pair of controllers and save you a few bucks. ...

CompUSA sends out layoff letters: bad service extends to employees, too

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Would you check out this layoff slip CompUSA sent around? We know we shouldn't expect their director of HR to get all blubbery or anything, but it's like the corporation really is as soulless as it gets credit for. Like, you're really going to sit in your ...

Goldman Sachs says second-gen iPhone is in “final design phase,” Apple TV to get LCD screen

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable VideoWe're not certain why anyone treats the inevitable arrival of a second-gen iPhone sometime next year as earth-shattering news, but Goldman Sachs released a note to clients yesterday saying that the rumored 3G version is in its "final design phase." The investment ...