May 11, 2008

Pandora prototype “demoed” — screen turns on

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
For scale, the Pandora crew set up a semi-working unit next to a Nintendo DS and flipped the switch. As you’ll see, the demo isn’t too impressive, but there’s clearly some promise here. ...

Circuit City looks for a suitor, Blockbuster likely to be it

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming
abnormally sufficient, the far-fetched proposal is apt to be accepted. Circuit City has reportedly solicited the services of Goldman Sachs to help “negotiate a deal,” which will essentially put the troubled electronics ...

Stolen laptop recovered with Back To My Mac

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Here’s a little story for you: An Apple Store employee had a party in her apartment. A couple weeks later her place was cleared out to the tune of about $5,000 worth of electronics, including her new ...

Innocent Spam: Displeased with the measurement of your Willy?

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Filed under: Fun, Internet, E-mailCheck the junk folder of your newsletter service, and we’re guessing you’ll find hundreds of messages offering to enhance various body parts, decrease others, or ask for your help withdrawing large sums of ...

Fisker Karma hybrid sports car spotted on experiment track total with stripes and video

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Filed under: TransportationDespite all the lawsuit hoopla by who-stole-what, Fisker Automotive is trudging along with its $80,000 Karma plug-in performance hybrid. New, stripey pictures of the actual vehicle in experiment runs popped up that week telling us ...

Fisker Karma hyrbid sports car spotted on analysis track total with stripes and video

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008


Despite all the lawsuit hoopla by who-stole-what, Fisker Automotive is trudging along with its $80,000 Karma plug-in performance hybrid. New, stripey pictures of the actual vehicle in pop quiz runs popped up that week telling us ...

Raging Thunder 0.7.1 - championship mode now working, suspend cipher added

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Raging Thunder 0.7.1 has just been released. To all of you racing game fans out there, that is something that you could try out with your iPhone. Great news fixes have been implemented to the latest build.

Here ...

Google Speaks in Tongues

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Teaching a computer to understand languages isn’t rocket science — it’s not nearly that easy, said Peter Norvig, director of research at Google. It takes a limited number of calculations to send a spacecraft to the moon, ...

eBay considers PayPal requirement, invites Australians antitrust scrutiny

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Filed under: Business, InternetThis is a story we’ve kind of been expecting to bring you since the day eBay bought PayPal. The company is thinking of requiring members to use PayPal to total transactions — in Australia ...

Environmental Group Puts More Heat on Apple

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008


Apple has been given a failing grade by Climate Counts, and was placed at the bottom of a list of 12 electronics companies additionally ranked by the organization. Climate Counts ranks companies on their practices to ...

Apple finally settings its legal sights on the HiPhone?

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

Oh, there are plenty of naughty Chinese iPhone knockoffs out there, but the HiPhone may be the reigning champion these days — so it kind of seemed like a matter of duration before Apple loosed the hounds ...

Amazon Unbox substance going HD on TiVo

Filed under: Review - 11 May 2008

We had a pretty good feeling that would go down eventually, but we certainly didn’t see a confirmation (of sorts, anyway) coming that soon. Jim Denney, VP of product marketing at TiVo, has been quoted as saying ...

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