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According to the World Health Organization, cell phones probably won’t give you brain cancer; however, Dong thinks they can do much, much worse things.
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I know that many of you are anxiously awaiting the release of XP SP3, but it’s almost as if Microsoft has kept it out of the public’s hands to put all eyes on Vista SP1. After a mirage of release dates it looks like we may have some more that bare consistency with what we’ve heard thus far. Neowin managed to get their hands on the internal schedule for Windows XP SP3, and it goes something like this:
The key dates that you’ll want to remember are April 21st and April 29th. It won’t officially be available to the public until April 29th, but if MSDN and TechNet subscribers get it on April 21st you can bet the bank that it will be “leaked” all over the Internet the same day. These dates all match the “late April” release date that we previously heard for XP SP3.
And as expected it will be about a month and a half after the release for it to be pushed out via Windows Update.
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When an inmate at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick, West Sussex, England, needed access to a tattoo gun (presumably banned in UK lockups, just as they are in the US) inspiration struck. According to The Sun, the inmate used the motor of a PlayStation’s optical drive to move a sharpened ball-point pen. Sure, there are better ways to get ink — such as waiting to be released — but it ain’t exactly a prison tattoo if you don’t get it in prison. The paper goes on to say that from time to time a similar contraption made from “Nintendo consoles” turns up stateside, although the only such device we’ve ever seen was in an episode of The Wire, and it was made from an old cassette player. Either way, this is one mod we surely won’t see from Ben Heck any time soon.
PlayStation tattoo gun mod gets inmate a stern rebuke, admiration from his cell block originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
CNET reviews the Samsung BD-C5500, finding its expandable Samsung Apps platform and DLNA compatibility make it stand out from other entry-level players, although it’s one of the slower players we’ve tested.
The Samsung Messager Touch is the latest touch-screen messaging phone for U.S. Cellular pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20005823-85.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Dialed In/a/p
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We never had any doubt that Comcast’s anti-net-neutrality court victory would prove to be more of a defeat in the long run, and that’s exactly how it’s shaping up: some 74 Democratic members of Congress have voiced concerns about the FCC’s plan to re-classify broadband as a more highly-regulated “telecommunications service” instead of as an “information service” in letter sent to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski today, and a group of Democratic senators and representatives are planning a series of meetings in June with the goal of revamping US telecommunications law in general. According to Senate staffers who spoke to the Washington Post, the idea isn’t to pre-empt the FCC’s plan, but rather to bring the law into alignment with the modern market instead of trying to fit a round peg into a square hole — our current telecom law was enacted in 1996 and is based on law written in 1934, so a more modern revamp could bring sweeping changes to the way broadband providers are able to sell and manage their services.
We don’t know what the specific agenda is yet, but we’d bet the FCC’s recent finding that there’s no “effective competition” in the wireless industry is sure to play a big part in these discussions, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see some serious talk about cable providers and set-top hardware as well. Whatever happens, we’ll be keeping a sharp eye on these meetings — this is the first time we’ve seen the government take up the issue of modern telecommunications policy with this level of interest and momentum, and we’ve got a feeling some big things are afoot.
Congress investigating general revamp of telecommunications law originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 18:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cracked iPhone screens are an all-too-common occurrence. Have it fixed at an Apple store and it’ll cost you at least $200. But do it yourself and you’re looking at around $20. See how one 10-year-old kid did it. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20005801-233.html” class=”origPostedBlog”iPhone Atlas/a/p
From the same development team behind Grand Theft Auto comes Red Dead Redemption, the story of an ex-outlaw named John Marston who has been given a second chance at life. Set at the end of America’s Wild West, Redemption is a truly ambitious effort from every angle. Does Redemption hold water on its own, or is it just Grand Theft Auto on horseback?
Leave it to NVIDIA to kick off the week with some good old Intel trash talking. Let’s start with the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who when asked if the Atom Z6 processor could be competitive, quickly responded with a “not possible.” Why? Well, if you ask him, “you could give an elephant a diet but it’s still an elephant.” He called out the Z6’s x86 roots and being behind Tegra in wattage — he claims it will be years before they can reach the power levels of the ARM based chip. That’s certainly an interesting analogy, but NVIDIA product director Bill Henry also has a way with words. When talking about Tegra versus Atom in tablets at the Netbook Summit, he said Intel was trying to put the power of a dump truck into a Tonka toy. Oh, but the strikes weren’t only at Intel — Henry added that the “iPad set the bar too low” and cited the typical lack of Flash and inability to handle 1080p video shortcomings of Apple’s tablet. That all sounds good and well, NVIDIA, but it’s time to stop talking and start showing some real Tegra 2 phones and tablets.
NVIDIA: Intel’s Moorestown is like an elephant on a diet, iPad set bar too low originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 17:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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