Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Phones
Xperia X10 Looks Much Snappier In New Hands On Video
11:25PM Danny Allen | Appears that Sony Ericsson have made inroads optimising the X10 Android phone for its 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The pre-pro handset shown at earlier this month ran the Rachael interface in slow-motion, but this new prototype looks much more responsive. More »
Online
Mark Cuban’s Plan To Choke Google’s Super Powers
10:58PM Danny Allen | Musing on his blog, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has thrown out a crazy idea for Microsoft. Instead of spending billions promoting Bing, what if they paid the top 1000 sites a million bucks to de-list from Google? More »
Computers
Laptop Reliability Study: Asus And Toshiba Come Out On Top
10:16PM Danny Allen | New data from SquareTrade (one of the bigger warranty providers) says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over three years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems. Oh, and crappy netbooks are worst of all. More »
Games
Facebook Continues Ruthless Attack On Gadgets By Conquering PS3
8:10PM Dan Nosowitz | Facebook is goddamn everywhere. It’s on my phone, my computer, my Xbox 360 and even my alarm clock. And now, the PS3 3.10 update allows it to take root in the PS3, just like we thought. More »
Random Stuff
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Diagnosed With Cancer
7:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Paul Allen, known both as the co-founder of Microsoft and for his multitude of philanthropic pursuits, has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer. More »
Design
Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Is Stronger Than The Wall It Papers
6:10PM Dan Nosowitz | Holy crap, you guys, bomb-proof wallpaper. This stuff is strong enough to keep very heavy flying objects from breaking walls — in tests, one thin layer was enough to keep a wrecking ball from knocking down a concrete wall. More »
Games
Slaughtering Nazi Zombies Not As Insanely Fun On iPhone
5:30PM Matt Buchanan | For some reason, shanking a Nazi zombie and watching a mist blood spray across the screen, with five more waiting to gnaw my arm off in a dark, disgusting prison cell just isn’t as much fun on the iPhone. More »
Entertainment
4:22PM Nick Broughall | One of the truly unforgivable aspects of the Foxtel Download launch recently was that it didn’t support 64-bit Windows systems. Fortunately there are people smarter than me who have worked out a way to get around this limitation. More »
Enjoy Foxtel Download On Your 64-Bit PC
4:22PM Nick Broughall | One of the truly unforgivable aspects of the Foxtel Download launch recently was that it didn’t support 64-bit Windows systems. Fortunately there are people smarter than me who have worked out a way to get around this limitation. More »
Hardware
Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD On The Market
4:20PM Dan Nosowitz | HotHardware took a look at this consumer-focused PCI-Express SSD from Fusion-io, and found that while it’s pretty damn expensive at $US900 for 80GB, it’s blazingly fast, hitting 700MB/s read and 300MB/s write speeds. More »
Software
