TechnoBlog: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Is Your Mobile Phone Giving up Your Phone Number?

When mobile users surf the Web they also may be inadvertently disclosing their phone numbers, a security researcher said Thursday. The problem lies in the way that some networks are reformatting Web data on what are known as proxy servers, which are used to help Web sites display properly on the tiny screens of some phones. According to...

First cut of MeeGo available today for N900 and Atom devices

While making it crystal clear that this is only intended for developers that want a mega-early look at the platform, Intel and Nokia's MeeGo team has just announced that the very first cut of the melded Moblin / Maemo mobile platform is available for download. Specifically, users of N900s, Atom notebooks, and Atom-powered Moorestown MIDs...

ASUS Eee PC 1001PX has a thing for carbon-fibre starts at $279

We won't detail our murderous wrath for glossy netbooks, but we will tell you that ASUS is on our good side today by striking the shiny lid on its newest 10-inch Eee PC 1001PX in exchange for a carbon fiber-like replacement. The little guy boasts the same specs as the budget Eee PC 1001P -- an Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard...

Ipad launch day: what you need to know

Have you heard? The iPad is launching this Saturday, April 3rd. After centuries of anticipation, Apple is returning to the tablet space after its ill-fated Newton, and while many have brushed off the iPad as a big iPhone, its retail approach is dramatically different. Follow with us after the break for a full breakdown of everything you need...

Google Envelopes turn Gmail into snail mail, wraps it in precisely routed Maps printout

It's a fantasy come true for the avid nerd / traveler, but unfortunately for us, it's but a concept in its current form. Syracuse's own Rahul Mahtani and Yofred Moik have dreamed up Google Envelopes, and if brought to production, this might just make the USPS as relevant as it was during the heyday known as 1985. Put simply, the solution...

PS3 firmware 3.21 is out: say goodbye to 'install other OS'

Just a tad ahead of schedules -- perhaps as a macabre assurance this isn't some April 1st joke -- firmware 3.21 for the PS3 is now being seeded to anyone who tries to log onto the PlayStation Network. As far as we can tell, all the update seems to do is remove the "install other OS" option and kill access to anyone who does have another platform...

What's the Best PC Monitor/TV for Under $350?

A reader asks: One of my college housemates just moved out, which is a good thing, but he took his TV with him. This is a bad thing. So I'm looking for a PC monitor that can do double duty as a TV, too -- something reasonably big, as good quality as possible, fast enough for console games and is around $350 or so. I'm stuck with a laptop...

World of warcraft (GUIDE) ,Spiritual Guidance: The professional priest

Welcome back to Spiritual Guidance, hosted by the spectacularly dark Fox Van Allen. Though he should be preparing for his final showdown against gnome-sympathizer and lolsmiter Dawn Moore, he has chosen to instead pop a few Flasks of Vodka Tonic (with that sweet Mixology bonus) and spend all night kareoke-ing with Mike Sacco. He's not afraid...

Student-Made Gaming Vest Simulates Gun Shot Feel, But Not Medical Bills

Have you ever wondered what that bone-crushing tackle in 'Madden NFL' would feel like? No? Well, neither have we, but that doesn't stop a University of Pennsylvania graduate student from investigating the effect. According to Wired, Saurabh Palan has created a gaming vest that, due to four solenoid actuators in the chest and back, delivers...

Facebook plans to take over the entire web with a universal "like" button

Facebook is already the most-visited site in the US, and now it's looking to expand its reach across the entire web. TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook plans to release a new set of features that allow other websites to integrate with Facebook. They're starting with a universal "like" button, so you can give a thumbs up to anything...

Want to start your own Chatroulette clone? Got a hundred bucks?

Wow, that didn't take long! Chatroulette, the trendy new random webcam chat service started by a Russian teenager, is so popular that a company is now selling "start your own Chatroulette clone" scripts. If you've got $100, CamChat will hook you up with your own private Chatroulette, with extra charges to remove branding and get professional...

Awesome new version of Trillian might be the best iPhone chat app

When I first reviewed Trillian for iPhone, it showed promise, but it wasn't quite ready for the bigtime yet. I had a couple of minor issues with the 1.0 release, including a lack of landscape mode and making it too much of a pain to close a chat. Well, Trillian has fixed both of those issues, and much, MUCH more in the new version 1.1. Trillian...

The Saboteur has much more color on iPhone

EA's The Saboteur must've gotten lost down an alley or something, because it's just emerged on the iPhone. Developed by Hands-On Mobile, the port takes a noticeable departure from the strong visual style its console-bound comrade went with, yet retains a lot of the narrative elements: you still play as Irishman Sean Devlin and he's still...

Battalion Touch CZ-11 multitouch gaming laptop gets Core i7 processor, keeps things classy

iBuyPower's back with a refresh to its simple, yet understated 15-inch touchscreen gaming notebook. The Battalion Touch CZ-11, newly announced today, features a Intel Core i7 processor, ATI Radeon HD 5650 graphics, a 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) multitouch display, 4GB memory, 500GB storage, WiFi b/g/n, and optional Blu-ray -- not too...

New double Twist for Mac adds built-in Android Market functionality

The latest version of doubleTwist for the Mac (1.0b1b to be precise, available now) adds a whole new Android Market element to the application. Much akin to the iTunes Store for apps, doubleTwist lets you browse Android apps in a beautified, desktop interface, but the "twist" is that you can't actually download and sync apps with your phone....

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition review roundup: novel, but not for everyone

We've been fortunate enough to spend a bit of time with an Eyefinity setup before, but up until now, it's been somewhat of a hassle to get a fully functional six-screen setup into a consumer's home. Today, AMD is taking the legwork out of the equation with the introduction of the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, a standalone GPU with 2GB...

Facebook Revealed Private Email Addresses Last Night

A brief rift in the Facebook privacy shield has been healed, but not before dozens of people documented it. For about 30 minutes late Tuesday, private email addresses were revealed—and then, just as suddenly, they were hidden again. One tipster documented the breach in real time: "6:46PM: I cannot fucking believe it. Everybody's email has...

Splinter Cell launch trailer: Sam's gonna cut you down

By now, it should be apparent that Sam Fisher is no one to be trifled with. We've watched him slamming heads against toilets and executing hapless henchmen for some time now, but maybe there are still a few people out there that don't quite get it. Obviously aware of this problem, Ubisoft has released a launch trailer for Splinter Cell: Conviction that should make things perfectly clear. With a little help from Johnny Cash, the...

Politician Booted For Playing FarmVille On The Job

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Those budget meetings of the Plovdiv City Council in Bulgaria must be a major bore. So much so that council members have been caught playing the Facebook game FarmVille instead of paying attention. The problem hit such a sour note last week that virtual farmer Dimitar Kerin was voted off a council committee assignment...

Google Earth used for arresting a man for illegal dumpin a boat near home

PACE, Fla. -- A Florida Panhandle deputy was able to track down and arrest a man on charges of illegally dumping a boat near his home with a surprising tool: satellite pictures provided by Google Earth. Deputy Gregory Barnes used the images after finding an 18-foot boat dumped in an undeveloped subdivision about 15 miles north of Pensacola. Google...

Obama Gets Prayers Emailed Daily To His Blackberry

President Obama is a notorious--and self-proclaimed--Blackberry lover. "I'm still clinging to my Blackberry," Obama told reporters just a few weeks before his inauguration, when rumors surfaced he might have to give up the device for security reasons. "They're going to pry it out of my hands," Obama warned. Official correspondence aside,...

The retro-style Linkin Park iPhone game you've always wanted

Nu-metal band Linkin Park is craaaaaaaawwling into an 8-bit skin for a bizarre new iPhone game. Called Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion, the app is a side-scrolling fighter with social networking features in which players, in customizable chibi avatars, assist a retro-styled Linkin Park in fighting an evil corporation. Along the way, you can unlock both original and chiptune versions of Linkin Park songs, including one unreleased track. This...

Ipad sodoku: Real Edition

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Table Games for IPAD

Instant Fun. Game Table provides everything you need to play classic board and card games with your friends and family using the Apple iPad. Game Table gives you all the "virtual pieces" to play Checkers, Chess, and most card games without hunting for boards or missing pieces. What it is. Game Table is not a video game. There is no "logic"...

Iphone new text app

Quip is an iPhone application that provides simple “private” photo sharing without MMS. A flaw in the service was posted to Reddit a day ago by FlamingZebra90:Here’s the deal. As stated in the title, QuipText is a service that lets iPhone users send picture messages to others over the internet. The service works by saving the image as a...

iPad game announcements out early and often

In hopes of competing with Craigslist, eBay unveiled today a revamped classifieds site called eBay Classifieds. It will replace the company's old site, Kijiji, which just couldn't keep up with Craigslist in the U.S. According to The New York Times, Craigslist tallied about 4.5 million visitors in February, while Kijiji had about 2 million...

eBay Takes on Craigslist With Revamped Classifieds Site and Mobile Apps

In hopes of competing with Craigslist, eBay unveiled today a revamped classifieds site called eBay Classifieds. It will replace the company's old site, Kijiji, which just couldn't keep up with Craigslist in the U.S. According to The New York Times, Craigslist tallied about 4.5 million visitors in February, while Kijiji had about 2 million...

Apple's iTunes App Store Gets Its Own Facebook Page

In a move we should've seen coming from a mile away, the iTunes App Store now has its very own Facebook page. Everybody is on Facebook these days, so it only makes sense that Apple would join the fray. According to Mashable, the page, which was developed and powered by the social-branding service Vitrue, gives users all the standard options...

AMD launches 12-core Opteron server chips, Intel counters with the 8-core Xeon 7500

You thought six cores were nifty? This week, AMD and Intel have begun the multithreaded battle in earnest -- if only on the IT front -- with chips that have up to double that core density. First up, AMD has officially brought us that Opteron 6000 series leaked last week, a set of 8- and 12-core processors aimed at dual- and quad-CPU servers...

More bad juju for JooJoo: shipping delays, pre-sale questions

Monday, March 29 was supposed to be a happy day for Fusion Garage -- that's when the first JooJoo tablet pre-orders were scheduled to greet customers. Unfortunately, it's looking like Tuesday, March 30 will instead go down as yet another day full of unresolved questions for the fledgling company: not only did the 29th come and go without...

Sharp's Snapdragon-powered, Android-running IS01 MID gets a hands-on

Sharp's new IS01 MID for KDDI au proved to be something of a letdown when it was announced earlier today, partly due to raised expectations, and partly due to a lack of a decent look at it. Thankfully, Akihabara News has now come through on the latter point, and provided a fairly extensive hands-on look at the Snapdragon-powered MID. Anyone...

Coolest wearables (Must see, Must have)

WiFi detecting Shirt Here we're pretty lazy when it comes to technology. We expect our gadgets to do all the busywork while we focus on the high level important tasks like reading blogs. That's why we hate to have to crack open our laptops just to see if there is any wi-fi internet access about... and keychain wi-fi detectors, we would have...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Airtel Intros 50Mbps Broadband in India (Using VDSL technology)

India has been consistently lagging behind other countries when it comes to the availability of bandwidth and the overall Internet speed. While the situation is way better than what it use to be during our dial up days, even the best mainstream broadband connections averaged around 2 to 4Mbps in the country. This, at a time when countries...

Must have things for gamers!

Never, in the entirety of history, has there been so much gaming to be done. You can hardly finish a game without the Next Great Game appearing in your mailbox or on your hard disk -- because you pre-ordered it on Amazon or Steam, of course. Believe it or not, we actually have too many good games at the moment. Until recently, gamers could...

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