Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Mobile

Xperia X10 Looks Much Snappier In New Hands On Video

11:25PM November 17, 2009 | 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 November 17, 2009 | 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 »


Computing

Laptop Reliability Study: Asus And Toshiba Come Out On Top

10:16PM November 17, 2009 | 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 »


Gaming

Facebook Continues Ruthless Attack On Gadgets By Conquering PS3

8:10PM November 17, 2009 | 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 »


Geek Out

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Diagnosed With Cancer

7:30PM November 17, 2009 | 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 »


Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Is Stronger Than The Wall It Papers

6:10PM November 17, 2009 | 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 »


Gaming

Slaughtering Nazi Zombies Not As Insanely Fun On iPhone

5:30PM November 17, 2009 | 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

Enjoy Foxtel Download On Your 64-Bit PC

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4:22PM November 17, 2009 | 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 »


Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD On The Market

4:20PM November 17, 2009 | 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

Adobe Flash 10.1 And AIR 2.0 Betas Released: Life Is Better Now

4:11PM November 17, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The first betas of Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 — delivering full GPU acceleration for buttery smooth Flash video playback and multitouch gesture support — are out. You should get them now. More »