According to an Interview with Phil Harrison via Gamespot, Playstation 3 users will be able to start beta-testing Playstation Home, beginning November 2007. Despite numerous push-backs, Harrison says that the service will hopefully still be going live sometime in 2008, although a definite date was not specified.
Many PS3 owners have been popping huge e-boners over the Home service, which aims to create an online 3D world akin to Second Life but without the sex and pornography and with more video game stuff.
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Despite the need to push their new Vista OS, Microsoft has decided to listen to the criticisms of its users and has made the unexpected move to extend the Windows XP lifespan by 5 months. Originally, XP was scheduled to conk out in January 2008 but that date has been changed to June 2008.
Many PC enthusiasts are still clinging to Windows XP, as they wait for Microsoft to patch and polish up the sourly crumbled Vista OS. “Thank God I can still purchase XP for my clients until summer 08,” said Barth Bill an Internet PC seller. “Microsoft’s been dodgy with their whole business model for rolling out Vista. They don’t listen to their customers. People say ‘We want XP’ and Microsoft basically comes back saying ‘No, you’re getting Vista.’ It’s like walking into a shoe store, trying to find a pair of new Nikes and instead, the salesman starts to fit giant pieces of shit onto their feet.”
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In a recent press release, Apple has gone on record saying they will be discontinuing service for users who have “unlocked” their iPhone. Unlocking the iPhone allows users to run unauthorized software applications, which is strictly prohibited by Apple. This Friday, Apple will be releasing an update that will be pushed out to phones on the network which is intended to disable the phones that have been unlocked. To help guise the update, Apple will also include the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store capability in the phone with the update.
We all know how important killing off 3rd-party support is for Apple. Unfortunately, it’s like having testicles but without a penis.
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Edmund Scientific has created what is being marketed as a brain massager. Basically, what it does is provides acupressure-style simulation on your head, which emulates hundreds of fingers simultaneously massaging your scalp.
The cap fits comfortably on any head and easily adjusts to accomodate different sizes. The patented design is lightweight and easy to use while at your office desk, on the morning commute, or while enjoying your evening television program.
We automatically figure that this is the perfect device for Halo 3 enthusiasts as the stress-levels during an online deathmatch can go through the roof on many occasions. Plus, you’ll look that much more futuristic to your buddies in real life, so much that they would pretty much have to start referring to you as the Master Chief incarnate. The device retails for $49.95.
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Unbeknownst to the majority of the world, prisoners in the UK are fully allowed to play their favorite video game consoles while they serve their sentence. It’s obvious that we no longer live in a world where going to prison means having to endure horrible atrocities, but instead are rewarded with getting to play the latest and greatest video games while prisoners wait for their sentence to end.Unfortunately for inmates, it was announced today that their precious gaming consoles would be taken away, amidst fears that the consoles could be used to conduct horrible amounts of terrorism. Prisoners will have to return to playing Gin Rummy and Go Fish.
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After only two months since it’s release, Apple has decided to slash the price of the iPhone by $200! The decision came amidst terribly poor iPhone sales since it’s initial release and the lack of sales since forth. Apple’s aggressive advertising campaign has been mediocre and word-of-mouth advertising has been filled with phrases such as, “buggy video support,” “no MP3 ringtone support,” “lack of games,” “absolutely no third-party application support allowed,” and “one in ten iPhone shipped defective.”
Regarding the price-drop, forum users are pissed. “I just bought the fucking phone last month and this month, it’s $200 less! Bullshit! No place around town would honor retroactive price drops, so now I look like a fucking idiot.”
Jeremy Ball said, “I am a totally dedicated Apple fan so I made sure to buy the iPhone the day it was released. Now I am treated to a ridiculous $200 price drop only two months after my purchase. What the hell?”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ response was, “First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane.”
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I think I will stick with RIM’s Blackberry.
The Burton Group released a report, suggesting that, with the help of Wi-Fi 802.11n, many companies will be switching their wired LANs over to wireless networking. What a ridiculous claim.
It’s uncertain as to what company was behind the funding of the Burton Group report, but it’s obviously clear that this report was put together in an attempt to publicize selling upcoming network technology.
“One can analyze the differences between 802.11n and Ethernet with regard to performance, security, manageability, cost and impact on staff,” DeBeasi said. “However, the definitive and unalterable competitive advantage that 802.11n has over Ethernet is pervasive mobility.”
For those of us living in the real world and not at network fantasy camp, we know that wireless is a far from perfect technology. Sure, in a couple years from now, the technology may improve a bit, but if we look back two years from now and see how far we’ve come, well, it’s really hasn’t changed all that much. Realistically, the technology is still at least 6-10 years away before we start to see LANs becoming completely wireless, and even so, it will only be very small networks that make the switch over. This report is completely ridiculous.
Wireless technology is not a magic cure-all solution for our networks and best left for laptop-surfing at Starbucks.
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After a short lull from their previous rootkit shenanigans in 2005, Sony has green-lighted a new kind of rootkit to infect users computers — this time in their USB sticks! The exact model of the stick that contains the rootkit is MicroVault USM-F which contains a fingerprint reader. When inserted into a system, the rootkit installs a driver that is carelessly hidden in “C:\WINDOWS\”
This USB stick with rootkit-like behavior is closely related to the Sony BMG case. First of all, it is another case where rootkit-like cloaking is ill advisedly used in commercial software.
I’m pretty sure by 2010, doing something as simple as opening up a Sony laptop will proceed to do the following things:
- Take your picture via built-in webcam
- Scan your retina
- Read your fingerprints as you type
- Send all your data back to Sony Headquarters for processing
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In the ripe old year of August 17, 1982, German engineers spread their legs far apart, squeezed hard and gave birth to what is known today as the compact disc. The following October, Sony released the world’s first CD Player, enabling CDs to be played for those rich enough to afford the costly device. It wasn’t until about 5 years later that the CD started to make it’s way around normal households worldwide and thenceforth becoming the standard of the way we listen to music. Unfortunate for the CD, around 1995, a new format of digitized music was created: the MP3. Today, CDs sales are rapidly declining as digital downloads and MP3 trading soars to new heights.
The next step in the future of digital music is sound being produced through telepathic waves, requiring neither a player nor media. Customers will be charged based on brainwave activity.
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