Archive for July, 2009

Digital Cowboy’s DC-MCNP1 2.5-inch NAS doubles as media player

It’s a little hard to believe that we’ve gone two whole months without a new device from Digital Cowboy, but at long last,


Acer reaffirms that Android-based netbook still coming in Q3

In an effort to quell all sorts of kicking and screaming that resulted from an evidently erroneous report earlier in the week,


MSI Wind battery used as a not-exactly-portable, unreliable USB charger

Yes, we find the fact that our USB port won’t charge our phone when our laptop is sleeping to be pretty annoying, too.


DARPA’s CALO project, the militaristic Clippy, set to invade iPhones this year

Microsoft’s little Clippy, the uppity paperclip who just wanted to help, never got a lick of respect in the ten years he graced the Office suite.


Robot with iPhone 3GS head reminds us of a cuter, more magnanimous Steve Jobs

Who’s this little guy? Oh, that’s just Robochan — the Kondo KHR-2HV bot with a fully-functioning iPhone 3GS fused to his head. Not interested?


Ballot scren headed to XP, Vista, Opera worries about IE logo recognition

Like sand through the hourglass, the browser ballot soap opera continues with a a whole new set of interesting developments.


Trion World Network hiring for PS3 MMO development

Whenever we post about MMO developer Trion World Network, two facts inevitably come up:


CSR debuts SiRFstarIV location-aware architecture, kisses slow fixes goodbye

Nary half a year after snapping up SiRF, CSR is already tooting its horn about an all new SiRFstar architecture.


Sprint acquires Virgin Mobile USA for a cool $483m

Remember Virgin Mobile? Sure you do — not long ago the last-man-standing MVNO snapped up Helio, and seemed ready to take its place as one of the few boutique prepaid operations still… er, operating.


‘New THQ’ hires old Midway exec to head Darksiders marketing

THQ has hired, as MCV puts it, “popular Midway exec Mark Cook” as marketing manager for UK and Europe.