Did your cool new Apple gadget just die?   Well, maybe it’s not so new anymore. The two or three years since you bought your last iPod have just flown by. That’s the lifespan Apple gives the Lithium Ion batteries used in its iPod. iPhone is a bit too new to be talking battery lifespan but its time is surely coming.   Of ...

Craig’s list is booming with iWait stand-ins. It seems there is no shortage of enterprising young men ready to stand in line for you if you must be first on your block to get yourself an iPhone. You’ve got to hand it to them, it’s probably the most interesting thing I’ve heard of in iPhone news in at least a few days. Gizmodo has this ...

There are few parts along the surface of the human body where one would appreciate physical injury.  However, there is one special area that must avoid abuse at all costs.  Ever watch a “free kick” in soccer?  It’ll give you a good idea of how critical Lenovo’s recent laptop recall is. The announcement surrounds Lenovo’s ...

Last year AMD bought the graphics chip designer responsible for the GPU in the Xbox 360 for $5.4 billion. Back then, visions of CPU wonder chips with built in graphics APIs danced in our heads. Now the merger’s first offering is a motherboard chipset. It may be far less sexy but had to happen first and here’s why: The new RS690 chipset will ...

Bill Gates kicked off his world tour to promote Windows Vista’s worldwide retail release by appearing on the Jon Stewart’s Daily show. This promised to be an interesting meeting as Gates isn’t known for irreverent conversation. Stewart gave the Gates appearance a double sized interview slot. Most of his interviews appear after the final ...

FitnessGear101.com is a growing fitness community run by personal trainer and blogger, Anna. It gives fair advice on everything from jogging outdoors to grunting in the gym. But now the fitness help site has taken a confrontational swipe at gadget heads... A recent article on Anna’s blog blames this winter’s hot Christmas gifts like PS3 for a ...

 Samsung has been doing tricks with flash memory all year. Early in 2006 at CeBIT the company demonstrated its 32 GB hard drive made entirely from solid state NAND flash memory. The device uses a 50 nanometer architecture and was shown off at CeBIT in a laptop. The storage device inside that laptop has already been introduced to the public, ...

The RIAA is one of my favorite scumbag organizations - for as much misery as they cause I must admit some of the group's antics are downright entertaining. In recent RIAA court battle Arista v. LimeWire Arista, a recording company is seeking to sue LimeWire (a widely used file sharing application). Since it happens that most of the files ...

Wide bandwidth applications like HDTV and Voice over IP communications have created demand for faster wireless networks in the home. According to one wireless advisory group called Farpoint, products are arriving to store shelves before they’re ready to be released. Linksys released products based on the latest word in high speed wireless ...