I made two crucial discoveries at the age of thirteen.  I found my Dad’s “secret video tape” while searching for Christmas gifts. I found my ice hockey wrist shot significantly improved in a matter of months. Relationship?  You decide.  But, the former certainly had something to do with Ron Jeremy, star of nearly 2,000 ...

No one really likes Digital Rights Management, or DRM.  It’s the technology that prevents you from copying certain audio CDs more than a set number of times, or performing similar practices with downloaded music files.  Even Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made it known that he’s hardly a fan, proclaiming that an open DRM system would ...

Is there a Zune phone in Microsoft’s future? That’s almost a certainty according to Chris Stephenson GM of Zune Marketing. Apple won’t go it alone converting its popular media player technology into a cell phone. Fans of the new iPhone say it stands to revolutionize the current genre of media phones. You can bet Microsoft will be looking closely ...

The struggle between Apple and Cisco over “iPhone” is getting nasty as Cisco appears to be announcing to the world it has no desire to let go of its ownership of the name. According to the NY Post, Cisco bought a full page ad in the NY Times to toot their horn over its upcoming iPhone, in case there was any doubt about where this war over the ...

Another major console release has come and gone already. How time flies! It seems like only yesterday I was standing out in the cold wishing I could get my hands on Microsoft’s gaming machine. Here are some highlights of the area’s PS3 release madness.   See GizmoCafe's full PS3 vs. Xbox360 head to head comparison   See More ...

As if all the new iPods weren’t enough for a press release, Jobs went on to add information about iTunes 7. According to Mr. Jobs, a host of new graphic navigational features promise to make browsing iTunes easier and more intuitive - this includes Cover Flow, a feature that lets you view album covers. It’ll allow you to casually browse your ...

Those of you thinking of defecting to Microsoft’s Zune Nation this year will now be competing with ‘next gen’ iPods. In a press release yesterday Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several key improvements to the new line of iPods, and then added: “One last thing...” It’s a tagline Jobs is becoming famous for in his press releases, ...

Samsung announced that it's beginning mass production of 8Gb NAND flash memory chips. The fast storage devices were first developed by Samsung in September of 2004. There is no word yet on exactly what devices will come armed with the new chips. Samsung's new chips are a 60-nanometer technology. A nanometer is a measure of length equaling one ...

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 ...