Archive for: September 19, 2007

Filed under: Gaming
It’s confirmed! It has rumble! No price yet, no release dates, but US users can expect to get it in Spring 2008.Continue reading Sony announces Dualshock 3 controller! Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the capabilit…

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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Kaz Hirai has come to the Tokyo Game Show bearing good news indeed: Sony’s finally putting out a SIXAXIS with rumble, the DualShock 3. The controller will look precisely like the SIXAXIS, and is going to be hitting Japan that November, and North America and Europe in…

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Filed under: GPS, Transportation
The Dynasty-esque drama of the New York City taxi / GPS saga doesn’t seem to be petering out. Two weeks ago, thousands of New York City cabbies went on strike (albeit not very successfully) to protest the city’s insistence on adding elaborate GPS / entertainment syst…

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Just in case I wasn’t crystal clear in my earlier post about Southwest Airlines’ new online boarding pass lottery, I despise the carrier’s “cattle car” seat assignment scheme. There’s at least one intelligent entrepreneur (and future Webware T-Shirt wearer) out there who feels the same way I do …

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If you are a long time reader of my blog, you know how much I like to post about the launch of new social networking sites. I recently had the opportunity to speak with the founders of TagSum.com, the latest in the long line of social sites, and I think you will find this to be an awesome design. I was fortunate enough to have the following written by one of TagSum’s designers:

We have worked long and hard, but we finally launched our beta web 2.0 application and framework. We spent the past several months designing and building a system from the ground up that is both flexible and scalable. We used mysql clustering and replication along with memcache for storing database queries in memory. We designed a flexible xml language system so we can port our site across the world in multiple languages, and we created a framework for what we think will be a series of innovative ideas to help people find information easier online The bulk of our features are still under development, but here are some slides that show off our current features to give you an idea of what our site has to offer.

I will let the slides speak for themselves:

As you can see above, we have some innovative ideas in place to help you connect with like minded people. We’ve got the foundation in place to become a social search engine because everything is tag based and thus very flexible compared to traditional categories. So stop by, take the tour again, register, and start posting stories, voting on elements, and connect with people! ...

Filed under: Desktops, Home Entertainment
Bose, everyone’s favorite quasi-audiophile audio-goods manufacturer is lowering themselves down into the seedy world of PC audio and introducing a new set of speakers designed for your desktop. The new Computer MusicMonitors — 5-inch by 2-inch, 25-watt spea…

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Well, that didn’t take towering. Hot on the heels of the iPod touch starting to ship, spunky Chinese upstart Meizu has announce the M7, a curiously-familiar PMP featuring a 3-inch touchscreen. Meizu CEO Jack Wong announced the player on the company’s forums, so details are a little sketchy, but …

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On Wednesday, news aggregation community Digg announced a number of new features designed to take the site’s social networking beyond simply “digging” and “burying” headlines and blog entries. Starting later on Wednesday night, members of the site will be able to further customize their history prof…

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You may remember good-old David Maynor, the notorious hacker who caused a stir in the Mac community by “exploiting” a “loophole” in a MacBook’s WiFi that allowed an external user to gain control of the system. Of course, the hack was thereupon promptly disputed by all sorts of public, said t…

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After the release of the new iPod touch, it won’t be enlarged before the NES.app will be finding its way into the device. Meanwhile, the NES.app has gone through some major revisions since the final update and is looking the better for it.The latest release has undergone revision from nervegas and d…

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It’s been some time since we’ve heard anything from Mexens Technology, but now its virtual GPS system is finally available for the iPhone. Yeah, the program still utilizes “WiFi and cellular tower triangulation techniques,” but according to the firm’s CEO, “this is just as whether the iPhone wer…

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As the news continues to flow from Intel’s Developer Forum, we’re now hearing that the chip maker could build “surprise moves into consumer electronics chips.” increasingly specifically, it seems that the outfit is looking to “roll out a system-on-a-chip code-named Canmore aimed at HDTVs and oth…

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