Stolen PS3 tracked through PSN
Buying a second hand PS3 is not always the best way of obtaining a new games console as one person in the US found, when his girlfriend bought a PS3 from a second hand games store.
Having used the console several times the new owner was surprised to get a knock on the door by the [...]
DS is the new beauty consultant
The days of the lady of the house having to pop down to the local, beauty consultant for help and advice on how to look great may be over and it is all down to Nintendo!
The handheld games console the Nintendo DS has evolved from a simple games machine to becoming a lifestyle guru.
In Japan [...]
Apple the new Microsoft
No one can that Apple has come back recently from a fairly quiet period, but the ideas that come out of Apple are still innovative and interesting, as we would expect from Apple. However, coming up with brilliant ideas is one thing, putting them into practice is another.
Therefore, they have the idea, say for instance [...]
A million 3G iPhones sold
It Apple around seventy five day to sell a million original iPhones last year, with the latest 3G model this figure was achieved in only three days. This has to be by anybodies standards a massive achievement and just goes to show the excellent PR job that the first iPhone had done.
Although it [...]
Visiting SL with your mind
Researchers at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio University have developed a remarkable piece of engineering with a device that can enable a disabled person to chat and walk around the Second Life site by simply using their brainwaves.
In a demonstration a forty one year old male who suffers from a muscle disorder [...]
Torrent fines not paid
This is a slightly worrying subject which seems to have made its way under the wire, but no more. It has been found that the in recent years the attempts of lawyers acting on behalf of the media companies who believe that they are in breach of copyright.
This information comes from Logistep who are an [...]
The world’s fastest computer
It may have cost around £50 million to build, but the computer which has been called “Roadrunner” is reputed to be the fastest computer in the world.
It was announced by scientists in Washington, USA that the computer will be able to perform around 1,000 trillion actions per second. This was found by running the computer [...]
The DS finished off by Apple
There are probably many people out there who are going to think that this is really crazy, but could it be the end for the Nintendo DS?
With Apple bringing out the iTouch to partner the iPhone it has to be a direct competitor for DS even though since it has been revamped and modernised, the [...]
Gardening or computing
For some parents it is a full time job just getting the kids off of the computer these days, for what ever the reason, be it home work, surfing or talking to their friends, some kids just stay glued to their seats and are rarely seen coming out of their rooms apart from when there [...]
April 4, 2008Music downloads free with broadband packages
Some of the major music companies have seen the light and started to talk with the UK ISP’s with a view of providing a free or low costing music download system for their subscribers. How this will be operated is not yet known, but there are several possibilities.
The music industry has two ways that could [...]