People hard at work haxing PSP
Posted by play_boy_2000 (4 Comments)	Wed Apr 6th '05 07:50:29 AM
Sony's new PlayStation Portable is turning into a great tool for Web browsing, comics reading and online chat -- and it also happens to play video games, movies and music, if you prefer that sort of thing. It took very little time before techies added the kinds of functions to the PSP that Sony did not include -- and may never have intended. One man needed only 24 hours to get a working client for Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, an older messaging platform. Other "hacks" include a way to transfer TV shows recorded by the TiVo digital video recorder to the PSP; a program for reading ebooks, and a viewer for comics downloaded from the Internet. Much of the new PSP functionality comes from using the Web browser built into the racing game "Wipeout Pure," which was meant to go to a Sony site. By changing some of the PSP's network settings, the browser can be pointed to an Internet portal. A number of people have already set up such portals, formatted to fit in the PSP's screen and offering links and a place to enter Web addresses. The technology blog Engadget has rounded up a number of those links. Sony Computer Entertainment of America, the Japanese conglomerate's U.S. gaming unit, did not respond to requests for comment There's some speculation that sony left loopholes on purpose, and tbh i wouldn't be at all surprised if its true.
News Source: Yahoo!	Genre: Console Gaming

It's Election Time!
Posted by harry (5 Comments)	Tue Apr 5th '05 09:02:03 PM
Blair sets 5 May as election date The general election will be held on 5 May, Tony Blair has formally announced. Speaking after asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament next week, Mr Blair said Labour had a "driving mission" for a third term in office. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders pre-empted the announcement by starting nationwide tours of key seats. Michael Howard accused Mr Blair's government of "losing the plot" while Charles Kennedy said he would focus on people's hopes, not their fears. Government drops ID card plans Controversial plans to introduce a compulsory ID card scheme across the UK will not become law ahead of the election, Charles Clarke confirmed. The home secretary said the Tories had decided "to kill the bill" and said Labour would re-introduce the plans if re-elected on 5 May. Mr Clarke blamed splits within the Conservative Party. A Tory spokesman has said it would be "quite wrong" to blame them for any failure to pass law before an election.
News Source: BBC News	Genre: Politics

Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution
Posted by James (3 Comments)	Tue Apr 5th '05 08:11:28 AM
Hitachi announced today that 20GB 2.5cm hard drives will be commercially available by the end of next year. This represents a "density breakthrough" which will allow much higher capacities than today's drive technology. Current micro-drives, such as the ones used in the iPod Mini, max out at 6GB. This new "perpendicular" recording technology would allow for a 20GB iPod Mini in 2007. Capacity of such micro drives are expected to reach 60GB within 5-7 years. The technology, of course, will also bring increased capacity desktop drives which could max out at one terabyte.
News Source: ZDNet	Genre: Tech

entrepreneur builds internet motorhome
Posted by Pud (6 Comments)	Mon Apr 4th '05 07:58:12 PM
Quote An internet entrepreneur with a taste for the open road is having a hi-tech motor home built for him in north Wales. Online sales agent Ben Tristem, 28, has travelled the UK since selling his flat in London and moving into a camper van. But now he is upgrading to a £250,000 vehicle complete with computers, home cinema and solar panels.
News Source: bbc	Genre: Intrawab

The Pope Is Dead
Posted by joe (8 Comments)	Sun Apr 3rd '05 02:01:05 PM
Italian officials and Vatican clerics have been paying their respects to Pope John Paul II, whose body is lying in state in the Vatican. Mourners, including Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, filed past the Pope shown on television dressed in a crimson robe and a white mitre. Earlier, tens of thousands of mourners in St Peter's Square in Rome attended an open-air Mass in honour of the Pope. John Paul II died on Saturday after a long illness, aged 84.
News Source: BBC News	Genre: Tech

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