The much-hyped CARS program may be drawing to a close, but you know you you’ll still be longing for one of those cute-as-a-button MINI Coopers even after that clunker rebate vanishes. If you needed just one more excuse to give your local dealer a visit, how’s this? MINI USA has today become the first automaker in the US to offer a dedicated mobile assist application for iPhone and select BlackBerry handsets. MINI owners simply download the free application, fill in vital vehicle statistics (VIN number, etc.)
BlizzCon 2009 – Cataclysm In-Game Video!
More news from BlizzCon 2009, actually, it's in-game video from Blizzard's newly announced expansion pack for the World of Warcraft.
Here, you will see in-game fly-overs of The Barrens, Ashenvale, Darkshore, Desolace, Stonetalon Mountains, Gilneas, and The Lost Isles.
Gogo Inflight Internet Turns 1, Looks To Bring Wi-Fi To More Planes
Has it already been a year? Aircell, the company responsible for the now-heralded Gogo Inflight Internet service that’s in far too few planes (though that’s changing for the better on a month-by-month basis it seems), is this week celebrating the service’s first birthday. Aw, ain’t that just so sweet? As the service turns one, it’s completely clear that consumers who fly have a hunger for Wi-Fi in the skies. The biggest knock on air travel for business is the lack of productivity while in the air. Heck, even
Hardware Roundup
Video:ASUS EAH4770 FML/DI/512MD5/A Radeon HD 4770 Videocard Review @ PCSTATS.comAMD 785G Chipset IGP Video Performance Preview: Part 2 @ NeoseekerPhilips Brilliance 225B monitor review @ IT ProMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Lynnfield Motherboard Preview @ Hardware CanucksASRock P55 Deluxe Review part 1 @ OCWECS X58B-A2 Motherboard @ PCShopTalkProcessors:AMD Phenom 955 II x4 Review – XSReviewsMemory and Storage:Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64GB Solid State Disk @ TweaktownSSD Stackup – VR-Zone.comSystems:Lenovo
PNY Extends XLR8 GeForce GTX Series Warranty
If you own a XLR8 GeForce GTX Series graphics card from PNY, the company has some good news for you: It has just extended the standard 1-year out of box warranty to a lifetime warranty. You’ll have to register at PNY.com to get the extended warranty, but that’s a minor tradeoff for what you’ll get in exchange. Check out the press release below for full details on which models qualify and how you can take advantage of the offer. PNY Announces New Lifetime Warranty forXLR8™ GeForce® GTX Series Graphics
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Unveiled
Coming to you live from the floor of BlizzCon 2009, we have heard from the Blizzard executives as they announced plans for the third expansion to World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Stay tuned as Legit Reviews will bring you video from the floor as well as preliminary gameplay of this and other Blizzard titles.

In Cataclysm, players will witness the face of Azeroth being altered forever, as the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing awakens from his subterranean slumber and erupts onto the surface, leaving ruin and destruction in his wake. As the Horde and Alliance race to the epicenter of the cataclysm, the kingdoms of Azeroth will witness seismic shifts in power, the kindling of a war of the elements, and the emergence of unlikely heroes who will rise up to protect their scarred and broken world from utter devastation.
BlizzCon 2009 – Opening Day Coverage
Today, Legit Reviews is proud to bring you floor coverage of Blizzard Entertainments 4th BlizzCon Gaming Convention in Anaheim, California. We are literally across the street from the “Happiest Place on Earth”- Disneyland, but for the 25,000 attendees and more than 40,000 online viewers, they could care less about Mickey Mouse.
Plantronics Unveils Discovery 975 Bluetooth Headset
Plantronics introduced the next generation of its popular Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset. Called the Plantronics Discovery 975 Bluetooth headset, the new version promises an improved audio experience with AudioIQ2 and WindSmart technologies. Two microphones combined with the next generation of Plantronics’ AudioIQ digital signal processing technology, AudioIQ2, capture the user’s voice and cancel background noise at the same time. Thanks to three layers of WindSmart technology, the headset is also able to block
Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 Surpasses One Million Downloads in First Weekend
Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 from Activision and developer Treyarch topped more than one million paid downloads during its first weekend of availability (August 6-9) on Xbox LIVE online entertainment network and the PlayStation Network. With this latest release, all three map packs for Call of Duty: World at War now total a combined 6.5 million downloads worldwide, and counting.
The three map packs are available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 800 Microsoft Points and on the PlayStation Store for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system for $9.99. Call of Duty: World at War is rated “M” (Mature) by the ESRB for Intense Violence, Strong Language, Blood and Gore.
Intel Larrabee Based Graphics Card Coming in 2010 Still
Intel has made a rare public comment on the unreleased Larrabee Based Graphics Card by saying that they are still working on it and that it will be coming out in 2010. Recent rumors have claimed that Larrabee is having some problems when it comes to power (TDP) and the software drivers, but the same rumor starters have also stated that Intel is working on a couple other cards right now as well.
Nick Knupffer who works at Intel Global Communications manager has told Fudzilla that We [Intel] are working on the very 1st version of Larrabee, a new many-core instantiation of the Intel Architecture. There have not been previous versions, those allegations are quite frankly nonsensical rubbish. We are currently working on the very 1st Larrabee product and this Product is due for a 2010 launch, Nick continues. Since Larrabee 3 and 4 have been mentioned a few times by both people very close to Nvidia and ATI, we guess that if Intel is right, these people from the graphics competition have to be very wrong. You can believe what you want to believe but in case Intel had taped out three chips so far, it would not be happy to share that with the rest of the world.