Apple Learning Interchange: Security Compromise

Filed under: Apple , Security Apple is warning that Learning Interchange account passwords have been compromised. Apple warns that members who commonly use the same credentials on multiple sites may be at risk. If you are an ALI account user, please consider updating any accounts that use identical credentials. Here is the Apple quote, which … Read More

Ask Engadget: Best Bluetooth mouse out there?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Sang-Jung, who is desperately in search of the perfect cordless critter to take some of the strain away from that trackpad. “I’m heading … Read More

Engadget HD explains: Where to put your DVR when you wall-mount your HDTV

With CableCARD enabled HDTVs being a complete bust and the crazy popular trend of mounting HDTVs on the wall, many wonder what they can do with their DVR or cable box. As you might expect, the crew over at Engadget HD is more than familiar with the options and lucky for you they actually wrote … Read More

Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Adds Events and Photo Albums, But No Push (Yet) [IPhone Apps]

Here’s what Facebook for iPhone 3.0 looks like—pretty nice. Besides the new giant button home screen, you’ll be able to actually RSVP to events and create new photo albums. No push yet, but here’s the full list: 1. The “new” News Feed 2. Like 3. Events (including the ability to RSVP) 4.

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Google Voice Now Lets You Change Your Number. It’ll Cost You $10.

When I first signed up for GrandCentral a few years ago, I lived in a different city. As such, I had a different area code. And that was fine until I moved and Google, which bought GrandCentral in 2007 and subsequently put it on lockdown, prohibited me from changing it. I didn’t think much of … Read More

Asteroids heading towards the big screen?

According to The Hollywood Reporter , Universal has won an all-out “bidding war” over the film rights to Atari’s classic Asteroids video game. We’re not entirely sure who all was involved in this “war,” but the conflict couldn’t possibly be prompted over the universal themes tackled by the story of the plucky little triangular spaceship … Read More

App Store Rejections: Apple rejects iKaraoke app, then files a patent for a karaoke player

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Bad Apple , Apple , iPhone , iPod touch As if the waters surrounding the App Store approval process weren’t murky enough, one developer has just hit an unprecedented wall . Apple rejected his app, iKaraoke, citing that it duplicated functionality of the iPod application. Of course, the “duplicate … Read More

Sony exec says UMD-less PSP was "always the plan"

Well, it’s no secret that plenty of folks have been talking about a UMD -less PSP since day one, but it looks like that’s been the case behind the scenes at Sony as well, at least according to the company’s head of product planning, Naoya Matsui. Speaking with GameBusiness.jp , he said that Sony has … Read More

Rupert Murdoch: Facebook is Just a Directory

Rupert Murdoch , the 78-year-old CEO and chairman of News Corp., just gave a revealing interview to The Street’s Dan Freed. In this interview, Murdoch argues that the latest headcount reduction at MySpace was necessary because the number of employees at the company had grown out of control. In addition, he also told Freed that … Read More

HP releases professional workstation with Six-core AMD Opteron processor

HP is no stranger when it comes to releasing new computers, but this time round things are a little bit different. After all, they have just announced the availability of their highly sought after Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor-powered line of HP Workstations, targeting businesses and homes that need all the processing power they … Read More

Wind powered knitting machine takes the tedium out of your heirloom production

Knitting is one of those acquired crafting skills we just never fully warmed up to. We’ll embroider, crochet, or quilt until the sun sets for the last time on the day of the apocalypse, but knitting is just so… boring sometimes. Luckily, ingenious artist Merel Karhof has a solution for the monotony of the knit … Read More

SUPERTENDO portable SNES hack elevates an artform to something impressively commercial

Yeah, we’re all been-there-done-that with portable SNESs these days, but we’ve never seen it done like this. Marshall posted his creation, dubbed the “SUPERTENDO,” to Ben Heck’s forums, which seems to imply (along with the looks) that he took some queues from similar designs already floating around those parts . What really sets this one … Read More

UK moviegoers treated to industry’s first interactive 3D game

Now here’s a way to make us show up for the previews. O2 has evidently figured out that getting moviegoers involved in the action is a good way to get more fundaments in seats, and starting next week, the first in-cinema interactive 3D game will be rolled out in 20 Vue theaters around the UK … Read More

Video: D-Touch drum machine keeps heads, hands bobbing

Oh sure, we’ve seen countless drum machine hacks over the years, but there’s just something special about one that’s so simple, yet so fulfilling. D-Touch is hailed as a visual markers recognition system “that enables the development of low-cost tangible user interfaces and mixed reality applications,” and here, we’re seeing it used to create movable … Read More

iPhone App Prices Fluctuate As Developers Adjust To OS 3.0; Nav Apps Gain Pricing Power

Ever since OS. 3.0, the latest operating system for the iPhone, launched on June 17 , prices among the top 100 apps in the iTunes App Store have been fluctuating wildly as developers push out apps taking advantage of all the new features in the OS. Some of the new features we are starting to … Read More