Archive for November, 2007
How would you change Rock Band?
Filed under: Features, Gaming
There’s only a select few titles that are really worth obsessing over for nearly half a year, but apparently, Rock Band is indeed a member of that upper echelon. After months of drooling over images of the game’s accompanying hardware assortment, the star-studded title …
NVIDIA launching GeForce 9 series next February?
Filed under: GamingDetails are unsurprisingly light on this one, but DigiTimes has it that NVIDIA is gearing up to launch its next-generation GPU just after the Lunar New Year in February 2008. Reportedly, “sources at graphics card makers” have revealed that the GeForce 9 series will include the D9E…
Talks between Apple and China Mobile squelched… or are they?
Filed under: Handsets, China Unicom, Apple, OS X, China MobileBarely a fortnight after Apple began talking with China Mobile about getting the iPhone into the ginormous Chinese market, it seems that negotiations are off — or still on, or something. Yesterday, Nanfang Daily reported that China Mobil…
Wii Fit hits Japan today, America’s still fat
Filed under: Gaming
Doesn’t Nintendo know we’ve got a bit of a weight problem going on over here Stateside? The company just released its highly-anticipated Wii Fit in Japan today, which will most likely sell like gangbusters, while simultaneously symbolizing the death of the hardcore gamer in Ninte…
Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update due next week, Microsoft tells all
Filed under: Gaming
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about next week’s Fall Dashboard Update for the 360, but Microsoft’s finally ready to spill all of the beans. Obviously, the biggest update is the “Xbox Originals” downloadable Xbox games, but other improvements include enhanced online profiles, inc…
Mystery, climate-saving invention to be unveiled at swanky dinner
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
While some past pronouncements of world-changing inventions haven’t exactly panned out as promised, this latest one will at least have a pretty large stage on which to prove itself, with none other than Al Gore and others paying £1,000 or more apiece in the audience…
No commentsNEC develops real-time Japanese-to-English mobile translation software
Filed under: CellphonesWe’ve already seen the idea of data-to-voice translation passed around, but NEC’s latest software is far beyond the drawing board. Reportedly, the firm has developed a system that can understand around 50,000 Japanese words and translate them to English text on the mobile’s di…