Gigabytes Archive

  • Taking “Unlimited” to the max with the iPad/AT&T torture test

    Taking “Unlimited” to the max with the iPad/AT&T torture test

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Zach Epstein from Know Your Cell has managed to burn through 30 gigabytes of data on his iPad in two days, just to test AT&T's claims that the iPad plans are truly unlimited. 30 gigabytes! Two freakin days! AT&T! Unlimited! Fire! Ok, I made the fire bit up... basically, the upshot is that, yes, when AT&T say "unlimited", they actually mean it this time.

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  • Mythical beast spotted: Samsung to launch 32GB microSD cards next month

    Mythical beast spotted: Samsung to launch 32GB microSD cards next month

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    So there you are, on your way home after purchasing the brand new smart phone you’ve been wanting for weeks. You’re reading the specs on the side; “Supports microSD cards up to 32 Gigabytes”, it boasts. “32 Gigabytes? That’s like a million!” you think to yourself as you pull up your handset’s browser. You hop [...]

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  • Study: Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day

    Study: Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    There's a pretty interesting report that was just published today entitled “How much information?” It was put together by the Global Information Industry of the University of California at San Diego. It looks at the year 2008 and tries to quantify how much information the average American consumes across all forms of media: TV, newspaper, Web sites, radio, you name it. When you crunch all the numbers, it looks like the average American consumes 34 gigabytes of data every single day. (That's 3.6 zettabytes in total.) That's a lot, yes.

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  • SanDisk rolls out new Clip players, say hello to the Sansa Clip+

    SanDisk rolls out new Clip players, say hello to the Sansa Clip+

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Sansa ClipSanDisk has revved its line of tiny Sansa Clip players -- now called the Sansa Clip+ for those of you keeping score at home -- and, thankfully, hasn't changed too much from the already-great device (see our Sansa Clip review here).

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  • Brute forcing success: load any operating system onto your TI-83+ calculator

    Brute forcing success: load any operating system onto your TI-83+ calculator

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    ti-gameIt's been a very long time since I last used a Texas Instruments graphing calculator. I thought it was cool to write programs on the TI-80 I used in college. It seems that in the time since, things have gotten a little more complex: TI calculators now have cryptographically signed operating systems! Ostensibly this is to prevent clever hackers from loading their own operating systems onto the calculators (the horror!). Leave it to the hackers, though, to find a way to do what they want!

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  • Review: Acer Aspire One 751h netbook

    Review: Acer Aspire One 751h netbook

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
    Short Version: The $399 Acer Aspire One 751h is an affordable netbook with marathon battery life, a gorgeous screen, and an excellent keyboard. As long as you don’t expect to watch high-quality video clips, this machine makes for a very compelling purchase. Specs: Intel Atom Z520 CPU at 1.2GHz Windows XP Home SP3 11.6-inch widescreen display at 1366×768 Intel GMA 500 [...]

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  • MJ flash drive includes Thriller album and sad, cynical marketing ploy

    MJ flash drive includes Thriller album and sad, cynical marketing ploy

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    I Took My Flash Drive On A Saturday Tweetup “Boy Is That Flash With You” “Yes We’re One And The Same” Now I Believe In Gigabytes And An 2 Gig Model Is Shipping Tonight But, If You’re Thinkin’ About My Flash Drive It Costs $19.99 And Comes In Black And Green

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  • Don’t expect to see World of Warcraft on consoles any time soon

    Don’t expect to see World of Warcraft on consoles any time soon

    Posted on June 25, 2009 | No Comments
    A bit of World of Warcraftnews for you this Thursday afternoon. If given the chance, how many of you would play the game on your Xbox 360 or PS3? It doesn't even matter, as Blizzard's executive vice-president of game design, Rob Pardo, said that producing a console version of the game would run into a whole host of challenges that would need to be overcome. Chief among them: an input device. Do you go create a specially designed WoW controller, or leave it up to people to bring their own mouse and keyboard?

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