The suits in Cupertino already confirmed the existence of a proprietary chip in the new iPod shuffle headphones, but if you’re squarely in the tin foil hat crowd, we’ve got one more shred of evidence to win you over. iLuv’s newest adapter, the iEA15, outrightly asserts that it is “equipped with a remote control chip [...]

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The Xbox 360 will be added Twitter and Facebook to its list of web services, Microsoft announced today, with some of those social networking services interact with the console’s game library.
Microsoft’s Facebook implementation on the Xbox 360 looks to offer much of what’s available via a regular web browser: status updates, photo sharing, email and [...]

We’d heard it through the grapevine that Microsoft was gearing up to right the wrong and nix that ludicrous three application limit for Windows 7 Starter Edition, and sure enough, it did just that via The Windows Blog. The company admitted that it was removing the three application at-a-time limit previously slated for inclusion in [...]

testadicazzo writes “Micheal Lynton, the guy who said ‘I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet. Period.’ has posted an editorial at the Huffington Post titled Guardrails for the Internet, in which he defends his comment, and suggests that just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the [...]

After digesting loads of scuttlebutt here lately, we’re elated to see that Pentax has finally come clean with its new K-7 DSLR. The 14.6 megapixel shooter packs a rugged magnesium alloy body and arrives with an HD movie mode that captures video at 640 x 416, 720p (1,280 x 720) or 1,536 x 1,024 — [...]

Whoa, back up the disappointment truck. “Broken Steel” might not be the last expansion for Bethesda’s Fallout 3. Pete Hines recently told OXM that profit would provide the motive for the creation of at least one other bit of DLC.
“Whether [‘Broken Steel’ is] the absolute last one remains to be seen,” he said. "Because [...]

bokske writes “An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill. Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday, after the flagrant fumes prompted someone to call 911. A hazmat team [...]

According to Apple, there aren’t any PCs with fast processors and big screens that work without viruses, crashes or headaches. But folks, this isn’t reality, this is advertising. In fact, this is Apple’s first jab since Microsoft took off the gloves with its Laptop Hunters series of pokes against Apple. So grab a Coke [...]

Canadian hardware store chain Rona has created one of the most brilliant billboard advertisements ever, and they couldn’t have done it without Apple.
In an effort to get the word out that Rona not only sells, but recycles paint as well, they hung up this banner under one of Apple’s iPod nano “dripping” [...]
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