The MIT-engineered One Laptop Per Child computer that was widely praised for costing just a hundred bucks now costs almost twice that, according to the non-profit group in an announcement last Friday.
The OLPC laptop is meant for international release for schoolchildren in depressed and developing countries, in a noble effort to improve education. Among its […]

Reports have come out that Apple has tweaked the new iPods (Classic, Touch, nano) so that iTunes breaks when you use the Linux operating system.
Some folk who like Linux a whole lot (or dislike Apple in general) have repurposed the older iPods to run off Linux instead, but Apple seems to have inserted new code […]

In the wake of recent gadget releases like the new iPhone-ish iPods, the release tomorrow of the next iteration of the Sony Playstation Portable, the PSP2, also known as the Slim and Light PSP, is decidedly underwhelming and anticlimatic, particularly due to the new and innovative features (or lack of them). And beside the still-peaking […]

For the few unbelievers out there, here’s actual video of an iPhone unlock, courtesy of our colleagues at Engadget:

I thought the whole point of the shuffle was to make the most affordable, minimalist digital music player around, but apparently some folk think otherwise.
See the Heyerdahl special edition diamond-encrusted, pink and white gold iPod shuffle called the iDiamond. Currently on display in Oslo until October 1, the not-for-sale, one-of-a-kind digital music player’s casing and […]

A lot of the talk about iPhones being “finally” liberated from the Apple/AT&T tyranny and being unlocked for service anywhere in the world this past month have been either of two things: an incredibly complicated hack worthy only of the best hax0rz, or totally bogus.
Of late, more and more of these stories are turning out […]

Trying to leech off the free internet in a mall and getting a blistering snail’s pace most of time, have you ever wondered where the Philippines would be, internet speed-wise, in the grand scheme of things? Wonder no more. World Politics Review created a chart showing the relative ranking of countries as far as available […]

Large LCD monitors are a dime a dozen these days - or make that maybe P10k each. A far cry from the old days when they cost an arm and a leg - this editor can attest to that: I once bought a 17″ Apple LCD six years ago for almost P60K. Dumb, yes, but […]

Gizmodo sneaked out some glamour shots of the forthcoming new Palm Centro, formerly known as the Gandolf(sic), a new Treo aimed at the youth market, and so tiny that its QWERTY keyboard is likely the smallest ever placed on a cellphone. It’s so small adult hands have great difficulty typing on them, but since it’s […]