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Microsoft sues DHL over Xbox train derailment

Filed under: Gaming, Transportation

You know who Microsoft hates? No, not Apple. It really hates DHL. Apparently, the delivery service has hit the folks in Redmond where it hurts: in the Xbox. It seems that 21,600 consoles were totally messed over by “impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage” when one of the company’s freight trains derailed […]

La Fonera 2.0 emerges for developers, encourages USB-related shenanigans

Filed under: Wireless, Networking

La Fonera fans, it’s finally time to celebrate. Iteration 2.0, which is fittingly dubbed the Liberator, is at long last ready for shipment… to developers, at least. The La Fonera 2.0 box will certainly look familiar to owners of the first, with just 1,000 of these being prepped for consumers in France, […]

Cowon’s O2 PMP ships in Korea October 13, starts at $224

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Goodie! The long, excruciating wait for more information on Cowon’s exceptionally sleek O2 PMP is finally over, and two of the more important tidbits you could ever want to know have been revealed. The PMP, which supports a gaggle of file types including MP3, OGG FLAC, AAC, WMA, DivX, MPEG4 […]

Apple Migrating to NVIDIA Chipsets in new MacBooks

Appleinsider reports that they have “confirmed” that the new MacBooks will utilize NVIDIA’s new MCP79 platform. While Intel will continue to supply the main processor for Apple’s notebooks, the underlying support chips will be made by NVIDIA:

Latest spy shots show AT&T Fuze defaced with carrier’s logo

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

We’d been encouraged in previous spy shots that AT&T was intending to keep a clean, brand-free look on the front of the Fuze, but what were we thinking? That’d never sit well with the suits up on the 49th floor of AT&T’s headquarters (we just made that up, by the way — […]

Asus intros WiMAX-equipped M50Vm-A1WM 15.4 incher

Filed under: Laptops, Wireless

A new variant of Asus’ M50Vm-A1 laptop — the M50Vm-A1WM — just showed up on Newegg and Amazon. Soulcrushingly long (mostly) alphanumeric string aside, it’s a decent 15.4” machine for its $1,399 price point, with desktop replacement specs: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, 4GB of RAM, a GeForce 9600M with a satisfying […]

12.1-inch Dell E Slim laptop spotted in the wild?

Filed under: Laptops

It’s hard to say what we’ve come across here, but if our retinas aren’t deceiving us too badly, this looks to be an in the wild shot (sans blur, amazingly) of Dell’s forthcoming E Slim. If you’ll recall, we caught a glimpse of said device way back in June, and the two look […]

CarTel uses wardriving for science, better driving directions

Filed under: Transportation, Wireless

If you’re not satisfied with the driving directions you get on Google Maps, a few smart guys at MIT have created an elaborate new toy called CarTel just for you. They’ve equipped a fleet of Boston-area cars with computers that automatically connect to any 802.11 access points detected in transit, then send […]

Two-Tone MacBooks and a Questionable MacBook Video

With only four days until Apple’s “notebook” media event, the rumor mill continues to ramp up.
9to5mac claims that the laptop pictured on Apple’s event invitation does not represent the new MacBook. Instead, they believe that the new …
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Apple says some MacBook Pros hit by faulty NVIDIA chips

Filed under: Laptops

It’s pretty far behind the likes of Dell and HP in getting to the bottom of the whole defective NVIDIA GPU situation, but Apple has now finally come out and confirmed that some of its MacBook Pros are indeed affected by the problem. According to a just posted Apple support document, the specific […]