The video games industry may be looking on to see if Sony’s Move and Microsoft’s Kinect hurt sales of the Wii, but Nintendo has just lost a bunch of money for a very different reason. The company has announced a loss of $289 million in the April-June quarter. That’s 25.2 billion yen, down from 42.3 […]
While the publishing industry, and indeed readers themselves, are still figuring out just exactly what to do with e-readers and e-books, Amazon’s certainly not flagging. Engadget, and about 200 other media outlets, reports that Amazon’s new Kindle—in WiFi only format, of course—is going to be a paltry $139, just in time for the new school […]
As we reported earlier this week, a revised interpretation of copyright laws means it is now legal to jailbreak an iPhone: that is, to modify it so it can run any software, including apps not approved by Apple. But the real question is what difference it will make. From a legal standpoint, the answer appears […]
If you’re in the United States you might know that there’s this very confusing copyright law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, that (in short) criminalizes certain means of circumventing copyright protection (i.e., digital rights management, or DRM, i.e., that stuff that wouldn’t let you play your MP3s wherever you want). The DMCA […]
[Special Comic Con Coverage provided by Mike Templeton, for those of you who aren’t able to make it out this year, or have never been able to take part. This is a breakdown of the first day of the San Diego Comic Con 2010.] Getting Started The day began by camping out in line for […]
On Tuesday we reported on an attempt to fly a plane for a full day without a drop of fuel. That attempt was a success – and the designers say they expect to one day fly a similar plane around the world. As the name implies, the Solar Impulse project’s plane HB-SIA is powered entirely […]
Part of being a geek is an unending quest for information. While not all of us are scientists, even in our daily lives we seek answers. We apply logic and reason to even the most simple tasks. Part of it, I think, is that we believe information can help us better understand our world. And […]
According to National Geographic, scientists suspect that volcanic ash from Iceland may have colored our moon a pale red this past Saturday during an eclipse. While not a total eclipse, the show in the sky began at dawn in North America, in the central and western part, that is. Those of us on the East […]
Online freedoms appear to be under threat across the world — with the exception of Australia where a national Internet filter has been shelved. The European Parliament has voted to approve a call for search engines to keep records of all online activity (in the same way as internet service providers), a move billed as […]
Seeing mistreated books just makes me hurt inside. No, don’t drip ketchup onto that library book! Broken spines, curses! Also, I have a deep loathing for mayonnaise (yes, I realize that many of you think I’m crazy, but I really do find it gross). So reading about the capture of this serial book defiler in […]