Huge News Archive

  • Like a candle in the wind, iPod Touch with camera appears and disappears on eBay

    Like a candle in the wind, iPod Touch with camera appears and disappears on eBay

    And you thought Giz was the only game in town when it came to Apple dev units. Some folks on eBay posted two development iPod Touches with cameras placed at the center of the rear panel and running some odd variant of OS X. It’s not huge news – we knew the Touch was getting [...]

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  • Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

    Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

    Potentially huge news for Zune HD owners—that means Devin and I. It has been hacked~! Yes, the good folks over at ZuneBoards have hacked the Zune HD to pieces, giving homebrew developers full access to the hardware, access that otherwise lay behind the XNA development kit. The Zune HD isn't too shabby, so I fully expect to see ports of popular emulators like FCEUX in no time at all.

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  • U.S. authorities identify Chinese hacker partly responsible for Google attacks

    U.S. authorities identify Chinese hacker partly responsible for Google attacks

    The Chinese hacker saga continues, with some pretty huge news having emerged in the past few hours. U.S. authorities have identified, so they think, the sole person responsible for the underlying code used on attacks on Google and others. He's a "freelance security consultant" in his 30s, and he was able to take down almighty Google by exploiting a previously unknown hole in Internet Explorer. Being an Internet Explorer public relations guy must be pretty difficult.

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  • Study: Internet radio reaching 32% of households, e-readers are hot

    Study: Internet radio reaching 32% of households, e-readers are hot

    L.E.K.’s Media Consumption Survey polled over 2,000 consumers, asking them about their general media “diet,” from ereaders to online video. The results? Ereaders are big, older folks are into the Internet, and online radio is finally reaching the mainstream. Most of this isn’t huge news but the statistics are pretty striking. For example: 32% of users listen [...]

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  • Confirmed: Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    Confirmed: Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    Rumor no more! Are you standing? Then sit down. Are you sitting down? Then stand up, then sit down again, for there's huge news to share: Michael Jackson is now confirmed to have written the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

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  • Open ye 27-inch iMacs while ye may

    Open ye 27-inch iMacs while ye may

    iFixit has torn up the new iMac to reveal the delicate inner workings of both the machine and its attendant Magic Mouse. Obviously the biggest issue here is removing the massive piece of glass on the front, a process that requires a spunger, suction cups, and a sense that life is futile and electronics [...]

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  • Music is forever changed: Sony Ericsson’s MH907 headphones sense when they’re in use

    Music is forever changed: Sony Ericsson’s MH907 headphones sense when they’re in use

    We (well, I) completely forgot about the BIG Sony Ericsson announcement that went down yesterday. It may have to do with the fact that nobody e-mailed us (well, me) about it, and that the FCC announced its Net Neutrality deal. Be that as it may, we now know, definitively, what Sony Ericsson was on about last week: yes, it's a pair of headphones that sense when they're in use. People are dancing in the streets already.

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  • World of Warcraft is back in China~!

    World of Warcraft is back in China~!

    Chinese gamers can once again feel the joy of buying an epic on the Auction House for 100G, then selling it for 300G to some sap. Yes, World of Warcraft is officially, 100 percent back in China. This is clearly huge news that's totally worth your time of day.

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  • Get thee to the Snow Leopard updatery: 10.6.1 is here already

    Get thee to the Snow Leopard updatery: 10.6.1 is here already

    Apple has just announced Snow Leopard 10.6.1, a mild update to everyone's favorite mild update. The improvements include fixing some of the printer problems plaguing users and fixes to mail problems. Huge news this isn't.

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  • The iPhone finally goes China (starting this October)

    The iPhone finally goes China (starting this October)

    Major Chinese news portal 163.com is reporting [Google machine translation] that Apple has finally signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone 3G to mainland China in October. This is huge news for Apple, which is now to enter a market with around 700 million mobile phone users, the biggest in the world (US: around 270 million). Following months of negotiations between Apple and China Unicom, "industry insiders" are reportedly expecting an official announcement to be made by the country's second biggest mobile telecommunications company tomorrow in Hong Kong.

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  • Apple finally enters the world’s biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in October

    Apple finally enters the world’s biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in October

    Major Chinese news portal 163.com is reporting [Google machine translation] that Apple has finally signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone 3G to mainland China in October. This is huge news for Apple, which is now to enter a market with around 700 million mobile phone users, the biggest in the world (US: around 270 million). Following months of negotiations between Apple and China Unicom, "industry insiders" are reportedly expecting an official announcement to be made by the country's second biggest mobile telecommunications company tomorrow in Hong Kong.

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  • Android Development Kit goes native

    Android Development Kit goes native

    When the iPhone SDK launched and the platform was opened to native applications, it was huge news. No longer limited to cruddy web apps, developers flocked to the platform and the App Store exploded. Last night, Google announced that developers were now free to develop native applications for the Android platform. Unfortunately, this move isn’t nearly [...]

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