admin | April 20, 2009
It’s every child’s dream to one day walk through a trio of space robot legs as entering Silicon Valley, and if a proposed art project goes through, said dream will become a reality for budding tech superstars who land in Mineta San Jose International Airport. The $300,000 initiative would see a so-called Space Observer built [...]
admin | April 19, 2009
Just as Buffalo did in December of last year, OCZ Technology is busting out a duo of netbook / notebook-ready SSDs in 16GB and 32GB capacities. Obviously aimed at the smaller, more low-cost machines, the company’s first ever Mini-PCIe solid state drives are a so-called “affordable flash-based storage option to significantly increase the capacity for [...]
admin | April 18, 2009
We’re pretty stoked to see that upcoming dual-screen sequel to the XO, OLPC’s promised XO-2. Until then, OLPC is sprucing up the insides of its current design with a new VIA C7-M processor that can be clocked between 400MHz and 1GHz depending on the task at hand. Alongside the new processor the “Generation 1.5″ model [...]
admin | April 18, 2009
One of the hottest topics within the S60 Community, both here at Symbian-Guru and in other communities around the web is that of signed and unsigned applications. If you’re an S60 user, chances are, you’ve come across some great application, designed by a great independent developer, only to be frustrated to discover that the application [...]
admin | April 18, 2009
Genius. Pure genius. In order to save us all from smashing buttons on our digital alarm clocks or stripping the gears in our analog ones, designer Denis Guidone has dreamed up this masterpiece. The Ora ilLegale clock boasts no numbers and is obviously missing a significant portion of its base; these two factoids enable it [...]
admin | April 17, 2009
The reason Blu-ray recorders have migrated from Japan to the UK recently — and why you’ll likely never see them in the U.S. — is all about the copyright holders. Danielle Nagler, head of BBC HD, hit the blogs to break down the wheres and hows of the DRM changes associated with bringing FreeSat disc [...]
admin | April 17, 2009
In what’s being described as a landmark verdict, four men responsible for assisting throngs of dubious internet users to download all sorts of copyrighted material are being ushered off to prison cells for twelve whole months. The Stockholm district court in Sweden found the defendants guilty not of hosting materially illegally, but of “providing a [...]
admin | April 16, 2009
Here’s a tip folks: don’t get in car wrecks. If you someday find such a situation unavoidable, however, here’s another: keep that laptop of yours in the trunk, or at least in a case tucked down behind the driver’s seat. Mounties in British Columbia are reporting that a Canadian woman who perished in a car [...]
admin | April 16, 2009
Months later we’re still thrilled at the discovery that the original Dream G2 doesn’t run the free and open Android OS, but instead a carefully built, stylus-driven clone. Well, SciPhone’s Dream G2+ followup continues in that noble tradition, running with some tweaked looks and the addition of WiFi on top of what looks to be [...]
admin | April 15, 2009
Back in late March and early April, when we first heard the terrifying tale of two shifty, hapless carrier pigeons intercepted while attempting to smuggle cellphone parts to inmates in a high-security Brazilian prison, we thought it was merely an isolated incident. Well, now that another pigeon has been caught — this time outside a [...]
