Archive for March, 2008

Nintendo’s Wii Wheel priced at $14.99

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
We’ve known that Nintendo would be bundling a single Wii Wheel in with the forthcoming Mario Kart Wii title, but now it seems that folks riding shotgun (or riding your tail) can grab one of their own. According to a recently released flyer from GameStop, extra Wheels — should the plethora of […]

Creative halts unauthorized distribution of homegrown Vista drivers

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Chances are that if you do your duties on Vista and rely on one of Creative’s sound cards to get your dance on, you may have become frustrated by the firm’s inability to offer up a driver package that lived up to those loosed for Windows XP. ‘Course, if that rings […]

Linux becomes only OS to escape PWN 2 OWN unscathed

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Laptops

After a week full of Red Bulls, Fruit by the Foot and dreams of In-N-Out, the mighty Sony VAIO loaded with Linux stood as the only machine unhacked by the end of the PWN 2 OWN hacking contest at CanSecWest. As you’re well aware by now, the MacBook Air on display was seized […]

BlackBerry service outages keeping your weekend interesting?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Having some BlackBerry troubles? You’re not alone, we’ve been receiving some sporadic tips on the subject, and some forum users have reported outage trouble as well, though for other users it seems just fine. Let us know how your service is doing. Or don’t — this might be just the chance you were […]

South Korean police aiming to equip all new handsets with GPS?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS

Presumably taking a note from Japan, it’s being reported that South Korean police are backing a highly controversial plan that would equip each new mobile sold in the nation with a GPS chip. Reportedly, Song Kang-ho, chief of the investigation bureau of the National Police Agency, has stated that the government has […]