This Day in Tech - 1948: An inversion layer settles over the rust belt town of Donora, Pennsylvania, trapping industrial pollution in the atmosphere. When it clears six days later, 20 people are dead, another 50 are dying and hundreds will live out their days with permanently damaged lungs.
Inversion occurs when the air near the [...]
Illustrating both that the PS2 is still a relevant gaming machine and that the Japanese gaming public adores weirdness, Seaman 2 debuted at the top of the Japanese sales charts this week, edging out DS Bungaku Zenshuu.
One other PS2 title, Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor, cracked the top ten, but for the most part it [...]
GMail has gained IMAP support, one of the most requested features for Google’s web-based e-mail service.
More than storage space or other features, free web-based IMAP access pushes GMail over the top when compared to offerings from Yahoo, Microsoft and most other web-based e-mail services.
If you log into your GMail account and head to “settings,” [...]
During the Q&A portion of Monday’s Q4 earnings call, Apple’s COO Timothy Cook made an interesting statement.
Cook said he estimates that 250,000 of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones Apple has sold were “bought with intention of unlocking.”
That’s almost 20 percent of all iPhones sold to date. Can Cook be serious?
The admonition came while [...]
Microsoft said it would cut the Japan price of its Xbox 360 game gear by 13 percent to 34,800 yen ($305.00 USD) on November 1 in a bid to shore up demand for the console struggling in a home turf of Nintendo Co Ltd and Sony Corp.
The move follows a Sony announcement earlier this month [...]
Want an ASUS Eee laptop?
The low-spec Linux laptop with the low-set price tag will be on sale in the U.S. on November 1, according to Eeeuser.
PC World reports they sold out within minutes in Taiwan.
Without any big marketing efforts, the same’s not likely to happen in the U.S., but given that $300 [...]
