Time Warner lobbies government to cripple community ISP
The incredible wave of negative publicity from Time Warner's (now postponed) plan for bandwidth caps on all of their broadband internet plans has barely died down. That isn't stopping the increasingly despised ISP from giving people another reason to hate them, though. This time around, Time Warner is lobbying the... Read on »
Neowin interviews DestroyTwitter developer Jonnie Hallman
With Twitter's increasing popularity and growth into the mainstream media, many developers have come forward with both mobile and desktop clients that are meant to make your Twitter life just a little easier to manage. One such developer, Jonnie Hallman, and his Twitter client, DestroyTwitter, entered the game pretty late,... Read on »
Microsoft Ad: 'I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac'
Having gone through quite a few ad campaigns in the past year, Microsoft is at it again. This time around, they bring us a series of ads entitled "Laptop Hunters". The idea behind the advertisements is to break down laptop shoppers into segments such as gamers, jetsetters, socialites, designers and... Read on »
Verizon introduces warranty service for your electronics
You can sit and argue, until the end of time, about the value of buying an extended warranty from a retailer and... Read on »
Nintendo announces Wii Menu System 4.0
While Nintendo didn't have any ground breaking news, for the Wii, at the Game Developers Conference, they did show off the new... Read on »
Blockbuster OnDemand coming to TiVo
Blockbuster is hoping to expand the reach of its own OnDemand service with the announcement that the service will be extended to all broadband connected TiVo boxes sometime in the second half of the year. Blockbuster's service will join the likes of Amazon, Netflix, CinemaNow, and Jaman on the much... Read on »
Microsoft gives students up to 91% off Office Ultimate
If you're a student looking to purchase Microsoft Office on the cheap you may be in luck. Microsoft has just announced the start of their Ultimate Steal Promotion. The new program, through a partnership with both The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Society of Hispanic Professionals in... Read on »
Bang On: It's easy to hate the Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 has had quite a poor record when it comes to build quality. My experience with Microsoft's wonder console does little to change what so many people already know: The Xbox 360 is more fragile than paper-mâché in a rain storm. It's almost as though simply glancing at... Read on »
Bigfoot Networks shows off $179 Killer Xeno network card
If you've managed to laugh in the face of the recession and feel the need to go overboard with every aspect of your PC, then Bigfoot Networks has you covered. The company, known for it's first "Killer" network card, has announced the latest version of their high priced networking hardware.... Read on »
Halo Wars sells one million copies
Halo Wars, the latest game to bear the name of Microsoft's favorite franchise, has recently eclipsed the one million copies sold mark. While that may sound somewhat impressive on it's own, you have to remember this is the first Halo game to step away from the first person shooter genre... Read on »
Mozilla decides that Firefox 3.1 is actually 3.5
While Firefox 3.0 was just updated with a bunch of security and stability fixes, Firefox 3.1 has been in beta for a tad bit longer than Mozilla had originally planned. This is mainly due to the inclusion of a new javascript engine that's been dubbed "Tracemonkey." Although the next beta... Read on »
Review: Major League Baseball 2K9 (Xbox 360)
Take Two and Visual Concepts have been struggling to make baseball fans happy since they won exclusive rights to the Major League Baseball a few years ago. Starting with Major League Baseball 2K6 and heading on through all the way to 2K8, the franchise has become known for glitchy gameplay,... Read on »
Yahoo readying free POP3 access?
Now that Windows Live Hotmail has joined the rest of the crew, most of major free email services available offer free POP3 access along with their webmail access. Yahoo! Mail, however, has been resistant to this change, continuing to insist that users pay a yearly fee to obtain access to... Read on »
Bang On: I love Windows Mobile
It's still pretty cool to hate Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. With the iPhone and Android getting so much attention and feeling so new, the aging mobile OS from Redmond can tend to feel dated and unintuitive. Sometimes it's enough to make you question what you did so wrong to... Read on »
Bang On: We all need Apple
Even if you don't own an iPod or an iPhone and regardless of whether or not you run OS X, there is one inevitable truth that many people may overlook: As consumers and geeks, you and I need Apple. I'm sure Apple fans are cheering and Windows and Linux users... Read on »
Party like it's 1234567890
This is one of those tidbits only a true geek will appreciate. For those of us who are completely out of the Unix loop, the operating system measures time by counting seconds from January 1, 1970. Needless to say, quite a few seconds have passed in the past 39 years... Read on »
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