Archives: 2008 February

Filed under: Gaming

It looks like Wii users wanting to expand their Guitar Hero arsenal (or replace an axe after they got a little too into things) won’t have to wait much longer, as Red Octane is now set to let loose a separate wireless Les Paul controller for the system. It doesn’t exactly come cheap, […]

Last year, Drew celebrated turning 32 with a trip to Hawaii, and it looks like romantic getaways might be a birthday tradition. This year she showed off her new bikini and new boy in the waters of Mexico. We’re feeling a little overloaded with PDA from these two lately, but they do look […]

Oh, how I hate tabbing back and forth from Firefox to iTunes. It just takes so much time! If you’re a geek, you know our goal is to make things easier for ourselves, not to control + tab our life away. Thankfully, we have FoxyTunes, to allow us to control our music player — right […]

Filed under: Cellphones

We’ll be honest with you — it’s a bit disheartening to watch the (seemingly) inevitable happen to Helio. After all, it’s managed to soldier on despite hordes of other MVNOs hanging it up here in the US of A. Nevertheless, data gleaned from EarthLink’s most recent annual report shed some light on […]

Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that significantly improves the desktop email experience (particularly search).
Microsoft may have first approached the company months ago and floated an offer of […]

Filed under: Networking
Sure, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have already sent data 50 miles at 25.6Tbps, but it looks like now they’re going for distance rather than speed: the company announced yesterday that it’s now pumped bits over a 1584-mile long link at 16.4Tbps. Sure, that’s slightly slower than the record, but being able to firehose […]

Paris Fashion Week rolls on and Karl Lagerfeld didn’t go with understated to show off the new collection for Chanel — check out the big show here. Some of his favorite little celebrity munchkins were out to see the show, like the Olsens who wore those Willy Wonka sunglasses and got a big hug from […]

Filed under: Gaming

We already knew it was coming, but if for some reason you’ve been holding out on buying a PSP until you could get a minty green model, you can now finally get your fix — in Japan, at least. As DCEmu points out, however, you can also go the importing route courtesy of […]

Web Exclusive: ABC’s ‘Lost’ posts its lowest scores of season — An “American Idol” lead-in helped boost Fox’s unscripted series “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” to record highs Thursday night, nearly catching ABC’s “Lost” for the hour’s lead in demos and winning in total viewers.

Web Exclusive: Groups to discuss West Coast contract April 7 — The Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees will hold early negotiations with the AMPTP on its West Coast contract, starting on April 7.