Archive for May 20th, 2008

Napster unleashes a-la-carte, DRM-free MP3 store

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio Heads up, MP3 lovers, because Naptser launched its DRM-free music store today. As promised to throngs of fans, the historical pirate network has converted its entire music catalog of an impressive six million songs into MP3s to be sold at $.99 each or $9.95 for ...

Logitech’s new Pure-Fi Mobile speakers do it Bluetooth style

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless There's no dearth of Bluetooth-based wireless speakers out there, but Logitech put a nice bit of polish to this new Pure-Fi Mobile set, which is always appreciated. The A2DP stereo manages 12 hours of battery off of rechargeable batteries, and can work as a speakerphone with ...

NBC admits “inadvertent” broadcast flag use, still doesn’t explain why it actually worked

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCsJust an update on the broadcast flag controversy: NBC has copped to an "inadvertent mistake" in flagging the broadcast of American Gladiators as content prohibited from recording, while Microsoft stated it is only following the FCC's rules, and "fully adheres to flags used by broadcasters". ...

Oilman T. Boone Pickens drops $2 billion on wind power

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIt looks like wind power in the United States is getting a boost from a somewhat unexpected source, with billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens recently announcing that he's spending $2 billion to build a 667 wind turbine-strong wind farm in Texas. That would translate to roughly 1,000 ...

Midiator lets you use a PS2 controller as a MIDI controller

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming We've seen plenty of attempts to use game console hardware as MIDI controllers, but they've usually involved complicated hacks and strange software kludges, so we're pretty curious to see if Curious Inventor's Midiator actually works as promised. The nondescript black box is supposed to map virtually ...