If you’ve read Ars’ review of the iPhone 3G, you know our opinion on its usefulness as a replacement for the ubiquitous Blackberry family from RIM. (Hint: not quite there yet.) That doesn’t mean the two communication/Internet handhelds aren’t going up against each other for market and mind share.

Determining exactly what impact the new iPhone will have on RIM's chunk of the smartphone market appears to be tricker than you might think, though. At least one market analyst seems to think RIM is doomed, and dropped his rating on the…

Psystar surprised the industry in April by announcing an extremely cheap but unlicensed Mac clone for $399. Everyone waited for Apple to fire off a lawsuit, and it finally has.

This past April, Psystar made instant waves by announcing a bargain-basement Mac clone for $399 that could run Leopard, the latest version of Apple's Mac OS X. Psystar's PC is an upgradeable tower with a respectable amount of…

“There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop tutorial websites floating around in cyber space. Instead of wasting your time scouring the web looking for good Photoshop tutorials, Instead of wasting your time scouring the web looking for good Photoshop tutorials, stick with this list of the 10 best. You will actually learn something on these!”

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For modern pundits, “presumed guilty” has more entertainment value than “presumed innocent”. In newspapers, on television and radio, and now on the Internet, pundits and politicians treat accusations as truth and make sweeping declarations of guilt-shattering lives without waiting for the legal system.

“Nice dog. What's its name?” I asked my friend's 10-year-old son. “Bob,” he said. “And your cat?”"Bob.”"How do you keep them straight?”"Well, one is Bob Cat and the other is…

In a rare example of the PC’s performance tuning culture translating to the Mac, a new utility has surfaced that lets Mac Pro owners overclock their systems beyond Apple’s official specifications.

In a rare example of the PC's performance tuning culture translating to the Mac, a new utility has surfaced that lets Mac Pro owners overclock their systems beyond Apple's official specifications. The German edition of ZDNet has posted a…

MobiComp is a mobile application company that offers backup and restore features, a social networking tool, and a news ticker for mobile phones. Microsoft hopes to integrate the company’s offerings into Windows Mobile and Windows Live services. Eight-year-old MobiComp offers three main mobile products

If Microsoft wants sales to grow by 50 percent, the company needs to work hard to integrate these offerings into Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to arrive in either the first or second quarter of 2009. Version 6.1, released in early April, was…

When you’re an uber-geek, there aren’t many things you can pimp. Few “geek rides” are pimp-ready. Case mods, on the other hand, make it possible for geeks to pimp their PCs.

SupergamerWhy settle for one old school console when you can have four? This 4-in-1 mod - nicknamed the SuperGenintari - includes the innards from Genesis, NES, Atari 2600 and Super NES, and it will play games from all those…

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have plugged in to Flickr to create a database of over 6 million images tagged with geographic and text information. Using their software, they could take a random picture and identify where it was taken, give or take 200km, at a rate 18 times better than chance.

To get a computer to approximate this capability, the authors needed to provide it with a large database of outdoor scenes that have geographic information associated with them. That's where Flickr came in. At the time of the research, it…

At LugRadio Live in San Francisco, Google developer Robert Love gave a presentation about the Android mobile platform and described some of the ways that it will empower users and developers. Google still has some work ahead of it before Android is ready for prime time, however.

Indeed, some of the process problems that emerged after the initial SDK launch in December demonstrate the validity of that argument. As we noted then, releasing early is only helpful when infrastructure is in place to facilitate proper…

Do you LOVE music? Do you think playing an instrument is the coolest thing EVAR? Do you rock? Do you respect yourself? In that case, don’t buy this crap. This is the most stupid infomercial for the most stupid device in the history of stupid infomercials and stupid devices.

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By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - A new version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp’s dominant Internet Explorer. The program’s…

Mozilla is in a battle with Microsoft, which unveiled an experimental version of its Internet Explorer 8 in Las Vegas earlier this month and is looking to expand its presence on the Web through its bid to acquire Yahoo Inc.

“Getting teens to come to the library is right up there with getting them to go to church: It’s not exactly the first place they want to go.” To get teens to come in, a Michigan library has stocked it’s shelves with 1823 games with an average of 1300 checked out daily. They are also holding Guitar Hero and DDR competitions every few weeks.

“Getting teens to come to the library is right up there with getting them to go to church: It’s not exactly the first place they want to go,” Christine Lind Hage, library director, told the Detroit Free Press for a story Sunday.

But its still only for Europe

SkyHD is as bad as Sky+, believe me. Although the Planner isn’t in HD, it is much clearer over HDMI than Scart at least.PlayTV is a good product, but I have SkyHD, as such its not really of much use - its only Freeview anyway, which is…

Will Wright’s amazing Spore is coming to a handful of platforms on September 7. Check out Joystiq’s detailed coverage of Spore Creatures on DS, with brand new screenshots and details on the portable version.

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