Items tagged with 'Death'
Man Loses iPhone Prototype, Commits Suicide
Talk about a sobering story. Just hours before Apple is expected to deliver its Q3 earnings via conference call, the Cupertino, California-based company is dealing with a tragedy halfway across the globe. Reports from China began popping up a few days ago that a man working in a Foxconn manufacturing facility had done the... Read More
Bequeath Your Facebook Account When You Die
Making contingency plans for the possibility of becoming incapacitated or for our inevitable demise is seldom a pleasant subject to discuss or even think about. Many people often postpone or even never get around to creating a living will or a last will and testament. For those that do, their concerns are usually focused... Read More
Razer Announces Ltd. Ed. PAX 08 Razer Deathadder
RAZER™ ANNOUNCES THE LIMITED EDITION PAX 08 RAZER DEATHADDER™Only 400 units of the customized multi-award winning Razer DeathAdder will be available for sale at PAX 08 Seattle, WA – August 28, 2008 – Razer™, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming peripherals, has announced... Read More
Bebo Blamed in 13-Year-Old's Death
Many have heard of Megan Meier, the teenager who committed suicide over a MySpace romance gone bad - one which turned out to be a hoax. Here we have another social networking death; is this a troubling trend?A teenager said to have been bullied on the social networking site Bebo has been found hanged in his bedroom.Blaming... Read More
FPS Circle of Death Keyboard - Huh?
Some folks step into the ring ready for battle with a round-house kick and a 1-2 jab-cross. Still others would rather enter the arena with a plasma cannon, link gun or sniper rifle. It all depends on whether your prefer the real or virtual octagon. Then again the octagon could be more of a circle of death... Read More
HD DVD Death Watch Over - Toshiba Out
As the saying goes, it's all over but the shouting and we're sure there are more than a few heated words that are still yet to be exchanged. Reports are continuing to flow in quickly since Friday, on the news that Walmart was stepping back from the sale of HD DVD players moving forward, offering only Blu-Ray... Read More
Sick Site: Predict Britney's Death, Win PS3
Here's the ultimate in sick and tasteless websites: a site that is offering a PS3 if you correctly predict the date of Britney Spears death. The site is linked above. Let's be honest: her lifestyle is destructive, but predicting her death? The site says: We’ll all have a date with our maker someday, but like Amy Winehouse,... Read More
Myth: Black Screen Of Death
If you're running a pirated copy of Vista and worried about the Black Screen Of Death (the other BSOD), then rest easy for the next few minutes.Apparently the info that PC World Australia picked up isn't exactly accurate according to Microsoft:“Microsoft was quick to debunk this e-mail warning of a Black Screen of Death.... Read More
Reports of Quicken's Mac Death Incorrect
What was that old saying? "The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated?" This appears to be the case with Quicken for the Mac, despite Internet reports of its cancellation.The Macintosh version of Quicken is s alive and well, according to Intuit spokesperson Jodi Reinman. Reinman refuted reports floating... Read More
Let's Start A Deathpool For 15" Monitor Size. I Call 2009.
LCD monitors are getting bigger and more affordable. Likewise LCD televisions. Although slightly more expensive, the LCD monitors are competing against TVs now, as their increased functionality makes up for their slightly higher prices. Digitimes does some research into the near future and and predicts who'll be buying... Read More
I'm Me. Are You You? The Death Of Internet Anonymity.
Anonymity on the internet isn't working out. Phishing, spamming, spoofing, and all the other ways bad people wreck -- or steal -- your stuff is getting out of hand. The answer to a lot of it is TPM --Trusted Platform Module -- and it's already being built into computer chips: The TPM chip was created by a coalition... Read More
Rebel Alliance, Galactic Empire Pick Out Drapes Together For The Death Star
Microsoft and Novell have announced a truce in their ongoing war over Windows based proprietary and Linux open source compatability: Large businesses and organizations typically have complicated computer systems that run both open-source software, such as Linux, and closed- or proprietary-source software from Microsoft.... Read More
VIA Introduces K8T800 Pro, Intel to Confirm Death of "Tejas", So Long Leo...
Good morning folks. We've got some major announcements today, some good, some bad, all very interesting. Let's jump into it and see what is going on... VIA Raises the Performance Bar for the AMD64 Processor Platform with Introduction of VIA K8T800 Pro Chipset Asynchronous bus architecture enables power users... Read More
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