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Video Game Sales No Longer a Billion-Dollar Industry

According to new industry numbers released this month, sales of video game consoles are down last month by 30% compared to May of last year. While experts say that the sales of games might follow shortly, they noted that for the first time since August of 2007, the video game console industry is no longer [...]

Spying On Printers Via The Sound They Make?!?!?

At Saarland university, students and researchers now say they can, with up to 70% accuracy, detect what a printer is printing only based on the sounds that they make while they print. That’s scary. Although it took a while because they had to match word in the dictionary to words that could be printed, they say [...]

Recap of Today’s iPhone Developments

Wow, what a day for Apple, their products and the iPhone! Today, at the Worldwide Developers Conference hosted by Apple in San Fransisco, we saw a new iPhone’s release, new 3.0 iPod Touch and iPhone OS update as well as other product announcements from Apple on topics like their new and improved MacBooks. But, in [...]

The “Netbook” Trend

More and more in the past two months or so, I’ve seen people with and commercials for a semi-new tech-gadget, the netbook. While that’s not a specific brand or anything, netbooks, are in essence, tiny computers, smaller than a laptop, but not as small as a UMPC, a trend back around Q3 of last year. [...]