Posted in Games & Gadgets on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Microsoft, facing its second Xbox 360 headache of the year, will replace parts of its Wireless Racing Wheel video game controllers after 50 reports that they overheated and released smoke.
The $US130 steering wheel-shaped controllers mimic the physical sensations of race car driving for games such as “Forza Motorsport 2.” About 230,000 have been sold to [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Sony develops an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars and that can generate enough electricity to power a music player and a pair of speakers.
Sony has developed an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars and that can generate enough electricity to power a music player and a pair of speakers, the Japanese company [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Armed with a soldering iron and a large supply of energy drinks, a slight, curly haired teenager has developed a way to make the iPhone, arguably the gadget of the year, available to a much wider audience.
George Hotz of Glen Rock, New Jersey, spent his last (northern hemisphere) summer before college figuring out how to [...]
Posted in Money, Pay Per Click on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
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Posted in Games & Gadgets, The Net on Aug 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Halo 3 is getting closer and closer - September the 26th in fact. Bungie are currently down under, well a part of Bungie - Lars & Frank. They showed the good old people from Cybeshack their new secret weapon, and they also handed the controller over.
You can check out Cybershack’s interview with Lars [...]
Posted in The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs website reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.
Before the scheme was uncovered last week by researchers at Symantec, con artists had filched legitimate user names and passwords from recruiters who search for job candidates on Monster.
Then [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sharp shows off a 29mm (1.1 inches) thick prototype TV it says is the thinnest, lightest and lowest energy-consuming liquid crystal display in the world.
The 25kg display, which has a tuner and other TV features encased in its panel, weighs about half of current LCD panel TVs and consumes about half their power, according to [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Japanese mobile phones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step - becoming completely three dimensional.
Japan’s Hitachi has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones.
The 1kg gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic [...]
Posted in YouTube on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won’t be the type common at sites elsewhere.
Starting today, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semi-transparent “overlay” ads at the bottom of selected video clips.
The ad disappears after about 10 seconds if the viewer does nothing; the featured clip automatically pauses if the viewer clicks on [...]
Posted in Google, SEO, Site Promotion on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
“Black hats” need to be ever more cunning in their struggle for search-engine ranking, writes Dan Skeen.
It may now be the most coveted real estate on the web - the top ranking in Google for a competitive search phrase. But even the world’s richest marketers cannot lease this inventory.
Google’s goal is to deliver the most [...]