At 12 years old, I successfully conquered a pile of dirt when I moved it from one side of my yard to the other. Alex Miller, currently 12, conquered a difficult Firefox security flaw, earning $US3,000 in the process. More »
The product isn’t exactly new, but I just got in Netgear’s Powerline AV Ethernet adapter kit, which promises ethernet connection of up to 200Mbps over your home’s powerlines. From early indications, it works a treat, but it does have one major design flaw: More »
Really Nvidia, what the hell? After steadfastly arguing that its defective graphics cards were limited to notebooks only—they’ve even sent me a lovely email or two reiterating that claim—HP has just confirmed that 38 different desktop models are plagued with faulty Nvidia graphics cards.
While I was more impressed by the T-Mobile G1 than I thought I’d be, the list of catches for Android and the phone are quickly piling up—some that might very well be dealbreakers. Topping the list, it’s tightly integrated with your Google account—so tightly that you can only use one Google account with the phone . If you want to switch to another account, you have to do a whole factory reset.
A Googler told us the workaround they’ve been employing is using a separate IMAP mail app for their secondary Gmail accounts, but that still screws you if you’ve got calendars on multiple Google accounts—like if you’ve got a hosted Google Apps account for your site and a personal one, you’ve gotta pick one or the other. This is a technical limitation of Android 1.0, so it should be fixed in the future, but for now, as someone with a work account and a personal one, it definitely stings.
Sony’s issuing a recall for Vaio TZ laptops sold between May 2007 and July 2008: apparently there’s a risk of overheating leading to “abnormal heat deformation of the enclosure”—which sounds like a lot more than the usual knee-burn heat of a laptop. It’s not due to the battery, mind you, rather it seems like a manufacturing flaw related to the power connector and LCD frame. The news relates so far to just Japanese machines, with Sony offering free inspection and repair, but keep your eyes peeled for news of the problem in other countries. [PCWatch]
