Monthly Archives: June 2011
Free Servers
Geeeeet your free servers, roll up, roll up, while stocks last, freeeeee servers! But seriously, Wikimedia (Wikipedia’s daddy) is giving away a pile of hardware to worthy projects because they’re upgrading all their own stuff. More info @ Wikimedia Foundation … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Wikipedia
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iTunes Match: Legit Piracy?
I was just reading an article on Ars about some guys who run a small soul music label and their opinions on iTunes Match. Besides what’s presented in that article though, it got me thinking. iTunes Match, for those unaware, … Continue reading
PogoPlug Takes Up Smoking
If you’re a PogoPlug Video owner, you should probably read the product recall note on the official PogoPlug blog (link below). Affected models are Pogo-P11, Pogo-P12, Pogo-P13, and Pogo-P14, and the problem apparently lies in the video processing hardware, a … Continue reading
Posted in Overheating, PogoPlug, Recall
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Fujitsu Invents Mobile Smell-O-Vision
Oops, my mistake, it’s just fashion speak for “hopeless gimmick”. What the hell am I talking about? Fujitsu have just announced the F-022 flip style stupidphone for release in China on the 24th of June and it comes with what … Continue reading
Posted in China, Fujitsu, Phone
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Samsung Cyanogen SII Surprise Supply Shock
AtinM, CyanogenMod developer, just received a Sammy Galaxy S II direct from Samsung themselves. Not much more to say on this one really but it’s awesome that Samsung have provided a phone to assist the development of a community ROM … Continue reading
Posted in Android, OS, Samsung
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You’re Kidney Me, Right?
Apparently Apple products really do cost an internal organ, as a 17 year old Chinese teenager named Zheng demonstrated last week. Such was his urge to keep in step with the Jobsian shiny-shiny, the kid flogged his right piss-factory to … Continue reading
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NDA-Holes
Kotaku’s a bit pissy with Warner Bros. just at the moment, they’ve just refused to cover any Warner video game for three months. This attempted punch in the nose is a result of NDAs, the Gawker game people are upset … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Internet, Warner Brothers
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Rovio Bags Anim Studio
Jesus, all that pig-slinging must’ve earned Rovio Mobile super mega cashola piles. Then again, perhaps it was the $42m in funding they just picked up. Either way, they’ve just borged themselves a Finnish animation company by the name of Kombo. … Continue reading
Posted in Angry Birds, Finland, Games, Rovio
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Medion Thinkpad
Two words which, when combined, make me want to be violently ill out of respect for the famed ex-IBM laptop brand. Apparently China’s Lenovo Group have a rather different view though, having just announced their intention to purchase a majority … Continue reading
