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I have not yet bought a portable music player; I've been holding out for one with 100+ gigs of storage, and there aren't any out there. But when there is, I will make sure that it works with this Yahoo service.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/2240358613635558/

Get out your check book.

The sources on this report are actually kind of iffy. The first place I saw the report was on endgaget, and they say that the specs "were posted and then quickly pulled from the TeamXbox forums." The thing that makes them interesting is the proximity to the actual release date, and the reaction once it was posted. But bottom line, it could be entirely fake.

FYI, there's a picture of the controller beside a headset on a plastic head model. So, yes, there is a point of reference to the actual controller size. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000490042605/ You are quite flamebait.

I doubt the iPod Photo is capable of playing video (I could be wrong.)

You are wrong. ipod photo can play video

Trying to infect Prius with a Symbian "virus" is like trying to infect a tree with a choc chip cookie . Hey I can come up with a better one - it's like trying to infect shampoo with a book on eating disorders (now go picture that in your head for a second). But this is so sweet - it takes one dumb kid with too much time on their hands and one even dumber kid to moderate at voila! you get slashdot "news".

Whenever thousands of Prius owners and millions of concerned drivers hear a rumor about some virus that can infect cars, it is always cause for concern. I had heard about this before, and was actually relieved (not that much, but still) when I read this story. And, even if I had read the post you referenced, I would still be glad that a statement made by ArrayIndexOutOfBound on a tech news site was validated by F-Secure, a company that _knows_ viruses.

Still, I (a reasonably intelligent and informed /. user) personally have no knowledge of how the bluetooth virus everyone has been talking about works. I know nothing of what OS the Prius uses and how it compares with certain cell phones. I thought this was news.

Lighten up, jerk.

http://i4u.com/article3233.html

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?date Publish=2005/04/21&pages=A8&seq=42

Try this

you probably could tell if it's much smaller by using a bit of, er, relativity?...

this pic: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000293041091/

the dark grey/silver streak is probably the same size of a regular CD tray, so measure it up in pixels, measure up the dimensions of the existing xbox cd tray, do some maths and then you should have some idea as to the size of this guy.

• Some nasty Samsung phone back in the mid-90s
• A Nokia 5190 (for which I had a faceplate that matched my indigo iBook G3, the toilet seat edition)
• A Nokia 8290, still one of my favorite phones ever
• A Nokia 3390, which I never really liked (too big)
• Another 8290...
• An Ericsson T28 Worldphone (hands-down worst UI I've ever seen on a phone, but at least I could make calls from Italy on it)
• A 1st gen Danger Sidekick (actually, I had four of them... They kept dying on me)
• A Motorola Mpx200 running Smartphone 2002
• An Audiovox SMT 5600 (aka Typhoon) running Windows Mobile 2003

That said, I am pretty envious of the visual styling on the Moto Razr; those things are incredibly cool. But being able to sync to an Exchange server, and write C#-based managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 for my phone are totally killer features in my book.

I'm really looking forward to the day when I can just keep my music on my phone, or stream it over the network via gprs, instead of having to keep my iPod on me at all times.

And yes, I do work for Microsoft. And I do work on Visual Studio, so take my words with whatever grain (or grains) of salt you feel necessary. That said, I really do feel like the products we have in the marketplace today in this space are really cool, and well-worth looking into, especially since Cingular decided to keep carrying the SMT 5600 after their ATT merger.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000040042613/
The start button looks like the XP start button. :O

Also note the open/close button. The 360 probably uses a tray.

There are NO controller ports on that XBox2, see this picture, you can see that those ports have "Memory Unit A/B" written on them, so the controllers must be wireless. The black port on the left might be a USB one, however thats just a guess.

Did anybody else notice that there are only two controller ports on this thing?

retro?? I thought we explained this to you already on Engadget...

As already commented on Engadget it looks like a USB connection. For recharging and/or connecting a headphone?

It's the same for many major sites - check the whois data for Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, Altavista.com and others... All returning similar results seemingly centred around gulli.com, which appears to be a German (registered in Germany) hacking/cracking site. Pick a major search site and do a whois on it, they're all suffering.

Also, my whois is now responding with a message saying VeriSign's whois server is down - maybe they're trying to fix it, or it's been flooded with requests from curious ./'ers (another story here.)

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000960042343/

this also provides some more info on this

http://meinherz.net/

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000810042014/

By 'completely closed and proprietary' you mean ISO9669 format and totally open correct?

Added to the fact that Sony may opening up the UMD format so that black market blank UMDs could be available, it very well could be in the future

Who's got a list of format's not hacked?
- PSP UMB
- N Gage
- DVD
- Audio CD
- DVD Audio

all have been visited by hackers

It's now available, posted this afternoon on Engadget.

XBox 360 Projected Specs

The XBOX 360 will definitely not be using the Cell...it has been known for some time now that it will be using PowerPC-architecture based processors. You probably confused this with the fact that the Cell's main core (which 'directs' the other SPE's) is thought to be using a PowerPC architecture also, though this hasn't been confirmed I think...check the ARS article for more info.

The Blessed Base Station

like this?

Look on the bright side. At least the parishoners at this church in Germany are getting decent reception.

woohoo -- just a few clicks gets you to this:

http://www.engadget.com/entry/5686037513758915/

I guess something like that would make you happy to just see a plain cell tower after that, eh?

The best ones are the palm tree look-a-likes.

A palm tree is fairly symetrical to begin with. And if it is well taken care of, it just looks like a bunch of fronds on a big pole.

Here is a decent example.

installed by Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and is now all fired up about RSS.

The screensaver shows a swirling mist of RSS headlines from a selected feed, and every few seconds zooms in on one, lets you read it, then twists it away into vapor.

Hard to describe, but there's a movie here which shows it in action.

Pure eye candy of course, but majorly cool!

If Verizon doesn't care about the money they get from selling ringtones, games, etc, then why do they lock out bluetooth profiles that allow users to load ringtones and games from a computer, or transfer pictures and phonebooks? I had considered Verizon until I heard about this very shady practice.

They love to talk about how they have the "largest calling area," but it's a fair assumption they are making a small mint on ringtones and games.

Engadget has pics of the entire console here

Well, I think you're right--all of a sudden you'd have millions of pissed off gamers taking a quick glance at their PC, then looking again, and thinking, "hmm, maybe America's Army isn't such a bad bet after all."

All the army guys would have to do then is promise the XBOX Live outage victims that they could play with something like this, or this, or these or even better, one of these

Conveniently leave out the part about pushups and getting yelled/shot at and you'd have hordes of HALO fanatics breaking down your doors to come join up. So hey, Al Qaeda, if you're reading this, better leave XBOX Live alone!

The price isn't as important as the category. This AirScooter doesn't need a pilot's license so it's more accessible, something that didn't appear in the summary. As usual, Engadget got it right 2 days ago.

There have been four or so generations of the original ipod, then a few generations of the ipod mini... all of which allowed song list synchronization (at least for mp3 files) with any desktop to which they were attached.

WRONG: Please don't spread misinformation. iTunes continues to be updated to PREVENT this exact action. There are 3rd party tools which do it. But that is because Apple keeps changing iTunes from being allowed to drag files from the iPod to the computer. Once you get them on there, they don't come back off without hax. Please read this website for more information: Getting music off your iPod

You're asserting that in light of that history it's unreasonable to assume the same might be true of the shuffle...

You are seriously out of line. The history shows that Apple has put fourth significant effort to keep 3rd parties from getting songs off the iPod once they are loaded on. Your facts are the ones that are wrong. Just because somoen cracked the ipod and figured out how to get songs off it doesn't mean this feature isn't disabled from the factory.

This is the SAME EXACT thing that the article is bitching about on the SONY player. Did you not read the above posts AT ALL?

Your refusal to see the issue any more flexibly is itself rather strong evidence of bias on your part.

Your refusal to not admit that the iPod doesn't allow you to drag files off it by default. You must use 3rd party plugins which have figured out a workaround to apple's protection. Someone even wrote a workaround and apple disabled it in future updates (rad the article I posted from engadget). You are simply uninformed.

Come on slashdot, you can do better than this...


No, no they can't.
If you want up-to-the-minute news, you hit Gizmodo, Engadget, heck, even Fark had this!

Check this tool out.

It will contain songs in the form of programs which can change every time they're played. One idea is to create a real-time life remixer, which takes input from a microphone, and plays it back in 'some mangled form'. So, you're walking down the street with your headphones on. The box is taking in the noises of cars going past and people talking, and it's spitting some kind of remixed interpretation of the sounds into your ears. from Engadget

Finally, I can build my own [engaDGET] reteo-encabulator.

A solution like the laser keyboard could be ideal for the situation, though it will be a while before the cost comes down. Since it projects onto a surface, the table/counter could be cleaned easily.

Yep. Today slashdot, fark, etc, tomorrow...

Why in the hell does Sony use the "X" - you know, the universal symbol for closing/exiting/canceling in everything else electronic - as the friggin' *select* button?

Familiar my ass - maybe familiar to the people who have another playstation...

People are working on it. They've already managed to get non-Duo memory sticks working on the PSP, and they claim that this is a proof of concept to getting non-Sony media in there. From the article, "were not going to rest until weve got it running on SD. Natively."

More info can be found here.

There are a number of articles that describe a process known as "broadcatching." Basically it uses RSS feeds from certan TV torrent sites and a BitTorrent client. EnGadget has an article describing this, and how to do it. It's what I do and I don't even live outside of the US! Shows usually come out an hour or two before they broadcast in my local area, which means, for example, I can download the HDTV version of my favorite show (without commercials) and finish watching it even before it starts in my time zone. Amazing!

Bluetooth modules are apparently also available for this device. Engadget has a description and a link to a cool video of this Gameboy/Lego interface in action

Bluetooth modules are apparently also available for this device. Engadget has a description and a link to a cool video of this Gameboy/Lego interface in action

a US District Court has ordered Sony to pay Immersion Corp. $90.7 million for infringing several patents related to computer-controlled vibrating motors (which Sony uses in their Dual Shock PlayStation and PlayStation 2 controllers).
From engadget

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IMMERSION CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA, INC., SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, INC., and MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Defendants.

No. C 02-0710 CW

JUDGMENT

This action came on for trial before the Court, the Honorable Claudia Wilken, United States District Judge, presiding, and the issues having been duly tried and the Jury having duly rendered its verdict as to the claims presented to it, and the Court having entered its findings as to the defense of inequitable conduct,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

That judgment is entered in favor of Plaintiff Immersion Corp. (Immersion) against Defendants Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., (SCEI) (collectively Sony) on Immersion's claims of infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,424,333 and 6,275,213. Judgment is also entered in Immersion's favor on Sony's counter-claims for declaratory judgment of non-infringement. Immersion shall recover of Defendants SCEA and SCEI jointly and severally the amount of $82,000,000.00. This sum shall be paid directly to Immersion forthwith; no escrow account is required. In accordance with the portion of the Court's January 10, 2005 order awarding Immersion pre-judgment interest at the prime rate, Immersion shall recover of Defendants pre-judgment
interest in the amount of $8,703,608.00.1 Immersion shall recover its costs from Sony.

In a separate order, the Court also issues a permanent injunction against Sony, stayed pending appeal to the Federal Circuit, and a compulsory license fee for the duration of the
stay.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 3/24/05

CLAUDIA WILKEN
United States District Judge

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IMMERSION CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA, INC., SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, INC., and MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Defendants.

No. C 02-0710 CW

ORDER ENTERING PERMANENT INJUNCTION AND GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO STAY INJUNCTION PENDING APPEAL

For the reasons set forth in its January 10, 2005 Order, and having entered judgment in favor of Plaintiff Immersion Corp. (Immersion), the Court hereby PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., (SCEI) (collectively Sony) from manufacturing, using, and/or selling in, or importing into, the United States the infringing Sony Playstation system, including its Playstation consoles, Dualshock controllers, and those games found by the jury to infringe. [FN1: The jury found that the following games, in conjunction with the Playstation consoles and Dualshock controllers, infringed either the '213 patent, the '333 patent or both patents: A Bug's Life; Amplitude; Ape Escape; Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Bloody Roar 2; Cool Boarders 3; Cool Boarders 4; Cool Boarders 2001; Crash Bash; Crash Team Racing; Drakan: The Ancients' Gate; Emperor's New Groove; Extermination; FantaVision; Final Fantasy X; Formula One 2001; The Getaway; Gran Turismo; Gran Turismo 2; Gran Turismo 3; Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; Grand Theft Auto 3; Grind Session; ICO; Jak & Daxter; Kinetica; Kingdom Hearts; Legend of the Dragoon; The Mark of Kri; Medal of Honor Frontline; Medievil 2; Metal Gear Solid 2; Monster's, Inc.; Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus; SOCOM Navy Seals; Speed Punks; Spyro: Ripto's Rage; Spyro: Year of the Dragon; Stuart Little 2; Syphon Filter 2; Syphon Filter 3; Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3; Twisted Metal: Black; Twisted Metal 4; Twisted Metal: Small Brawl; Treasure Planet; and War of the Monsters.] As described in the January 10 Order, no recall is required of products already sold, but Sony will pay a license fee on all products already placed in the stream of

I wonder where the extra 8.7M fits it?

Interest.

[...]In accordance with the portion of the Court's January 10, 2005 order awarding Immersion pre-judgment interest at the prime rate, Immersion shall recover of Defendants pre-judgment interest in the amount of $8,703,608.00.1 Immersion shall recover its costs from Sony.

(found that here.)

That's nothing. I got a pretty nice mountain bike for only $39.99

You paid way too much. You could have gotten the same bike for just a few cents.

Why? The movement of this is controlled with a simple two-D joystick.

The Yahoo story is full of incorrect information. Engadget did a good job of pointing it all out.