Archive for December 17th, 2007

More details on the Palm Treo 800w uncovered?

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones According to some dedicated -- and, might we add, thorough -- Palm fans, it looks like we've gotten a few more bits of data about the (rumored) forthcoming Treo 800w. If you believe the data, FCC documents detailing emails between Palm and the agency reveal the code names ...

Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsLike California and Florida before it, habitual swing state Ohio has just issued a report slamming its three providers of electronic voting equipment -- including, of course, renamed Diebold -- and recommending that the 50 counties which use them scrap the machines in favor of a paper-trail-leaving ...

DDR your GBA

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Gaming This one's a little messy, and involves the death of a perfectly likeable DDR pad, but it's all for a good cause. Jason1820 modded up his DDR pad to control his Game Boy Advance, and got himself a good game of Pac-Man going. The video after the break ...

Palm Treo 755p goes live (at last) on Verizon, costs more

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Here's a special present to those Palm diehards out there that've been sticking with their Verizon service for the past months, hoping against hope that Palm will notice them hanging out over on the largest CDMA network in the States: the Verizon Treo 755p costs $400 with ...

Microsoft hit with $2.4 million copyright suit in the Philippines

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIn an unusual situation for a company so vocal about protecting intellectual property rights, Microsoft is being sued for allegedly distributing material copyrighted by a Philippine college -- despite the fact that the material in question seems to have only been given to fellow educational professionals. Southeastern ...

Researchers create light-based quantum circuit that does math

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIt looks like quantum computing could now be one step closer to some form of practicality, as a team of researchers from the University of Queensland have announced that they've created a light-based quantum circuit that's capable of performing basic calculations. According to ZDNET Australia, that was ...

PS3 firmware version 2.10 apparently coming tomorrow

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: GamingIt looks like PlayStation 3 owners could be in for a welcome surprise when they boot up their console tomorrow, at least if an apparent slip-up on Sony's European website is any indication. As a user on the NeoGAF forums noticed, it recently put up a page which ...

Sony’s cookin’ up a mylo 2

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Filed under: Handhelds, Wireless Well hello there, never-before-seen-device bearing the mylo name, nice to meet you. We can only assume by your camera-equipped backside (and your designation as the "COM-2") that you're the mylo 2 we'd heard rumors about -- but no thanks to the tight-lipped FCC, we don't know much ...