Archive for July 3rd, 2008

Sony to launch slimmer PS2 in India and Russia this year

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Filed under: GamingAccording to a report in the Economic Times, Sony will be introducing a slimmer (well, "slimer" if you want the direct quote), sleeker, and "more suave" version of the PS2 in Indian and European markets come Fall. If you believe what you read, the new system will include ...

SSD-maker responds to nasty report, says it’ll do better next time

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Storage If you were shaken to your very core at the recent report that SSDs may not be as power-friendly as you'd been led to believe, driver-maker STEC wants to talk you down from the ledge. According to the company's Patrick Wilkison, the Tom's Hardware article which benchmarked (and ...

German “Future Store” lets you grocery shop with your cellphone

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones It's been a long, long time since we've heard from Germany's "Future Store" -- the ultra-futuristic German grocery store that might have sprung directly from the Sprawl trilogy -- but they've got a new feature we thought you might be interested in. Shoppers in the store can now ...

Nanowire-based memory promises leap in storage capacity

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Filed under: StorageNanowires being used for memory is hardly a new idea, but a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania seem confident that they've found a way to leapfrog the competition, and shake up storage devices as we know them. Unlike other nanowire-based memory methods, their system employs ...

Apple accidentally ships MobileMe to .Mac customers

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Apparently someone at Apple HQ got a little trigger happy on shipments of MobileMe. According to reports, the company mistakenly mailed boxes of the all-syncing, ever-loving software to at least a couple of current .Mac users ahead of schedule. When Apple was alerted to the gaffe, the ...