Sony and Microsoft Talk Blu-Ray For The Xbox 360

According to a report in the Financial Times, Sony is in talks with Microsoft about offering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360.  As many of you know, until recently Sony has touted Blu-ray as an advantage the PlayStation 3 holds over the Xbox 360.  Microsoft had backed Toshiba’s HD-DVD format and offered an affordable, external HD-DVD drive for the 360, but by now we all know how that worked out… “A Blu-ray drive in a 360 would make Microsoft more competitive with the PS3, but it would also mean extra

Flatscreens Are Flat, So Pioneer Drops Them

Japan’s Pioneer Electronics is giving up on manufacturing their own plasma panels, and will simply buy them from other manufacturers and market them to consumers. The market for the panels is intensely competitive, and Pioneer has been bleeding red ink ever since it purchased  the plasma manufacturing operations of NEC Corp in 2004. As it downsizes its plasma business, Pioneer will now try to rebuild itself with help from rival Sharp Corp Pioneer and Sharp last year formed a capital and business partnership

Palit Multimedia Launches PalitLAN.Com For Lan Parties

Graphics card manufacturer Palit announced the launch of PalitLAN.com yesterday in a press release. Simply put PalitLAN is designed to be the greatest source of information about LAN Parties ever created. Palit has dedicated over $30,000 in software development alone to create the PalitLAN community space with tools, forums, and event listings to help event organizers, gamers, and enthusiasts come together.

LAN Party Organizers can enter their events details into an online form which is then used to populate a dynamic set of resources including a unique event page and event calendar. These event pages will include details like the games to be played, number of seats, costs, date and location. They will also include pictures of past events showing gamers competing, winning prizes, and just about everything else that happens at a LAN Party.

All Your Digg Are Belong To Us

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Powerful more-or-less user-run news aggregator Digg.com is apparently for sale.  But unlike the last handful of times you heard that, this time four potential buyers have been identified, and are performing due diligence towards an actual sale. Perhaps you’ve heard of two of them: Microsoft and Google.Digg has been working with investment bank Allen & Co, and is pitching big tech and media companies on a sale. It is even prepared to take less than the $300 million

Denver Airport Censors Free Wi-Fi Network

It’s free, so do they have the right to censor it?Officials have blocked access to content they deem provocative on the airport’s free Wi-Fi service.The Denver Post points out that some of those questionable sites include, Vanity Fair, the gossip column perezhilton.com, the hipster-geek site boingboing.net, and photos from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Of course, hard copies of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue are displayed on newsstands in the airport along with issues of Penthouse and Hustler.But

Help Center: Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2007 Documents and Windows Mobile

Microsoft Office 2007 uses a new Open XML standard for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and this format doesn’t play nice with Office Mobile. If you want to view and edit Office 2007 documents on your Windows Mobile device, you’ll need to make a few changes. In our latest Help Center article, we’ll show you how to make Office 2007 documents and Windows Mobile play nice.

Hardware Round-Up

Video: Gigabyte GV-NX88T512HP TurboForce – Second look @ Hard Tecs 4 URadeon HD 3870 X2 in Crossfire X Tested @ TweaktownASUS EN8800GS TOP 384MB (GeForce 8800 GS) @ HardwareZoneMemory & Storage: Patriot Memory PC2-9200 2GB EP DDR2 Kit @ Tweaktown Power: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750w Power Supply Review @ OCIA.netCases, Cooling, & Misc.: ATP Electronics ProMax II CompactFlash Card and Reader Review @ Bigbruin.comAttache Laptop Stand from Lapworks – Review @ PCMechCoolink Chip Chilla Chipset Heatsink

Maximo iMetal iP-HS1 & iP-HS2 Headsets for iPhone Users

Maximo iMetal iP-HS1 & iP-HS2 Headsets for iPhone Users

Are you looking for an iPhone-compatible headset designed to provide premium quality and style with a great price? Maximo Products recently released the iMetal iP-HS1 & iP-HS2 stereo headsets for the Apple iPhone and they have been designed with high-fidelity in mind. Would you rather have a 15mm neodymium driver or the 9mm neodymium driver? Read on as we look at both headsets and help you figure out which headset is right for you.

The iPhone Gets Exchange Support, SDK

Today the iPhone got its SDK, but more than that, Apple announced Exchange support via ActiveSync.  All those CEOs will not start bugging IT departments around the country, you can bet.Apple® today previewed its iPhone™ 2.0 software, scheduled for release this June, and announced the immediate availability of a beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers. The iPhone 2.0 beta release includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) as well as new enterprise