Nintendo: Apple is enemy of the future

Nintendos president, Satoru Iwata, has instructed his subordinates to consider Nintendo victorious over Sony.  Instead, Nintendo now considers Apple its “enemy of the future.”

Sales of the Wii are down nearly 21 percent year over year, and the company’s net profits have seen an almost identical decline. While Nintendo hasn’t been selling either the Wii or the [...]

iPad international availability set for May 28

The iPad will finally be available internationally on Mat 28th 2010… with pre-orders starting on may 10th.  Canadians are expected to may 50$ more than their US cousins!

Apple’s iBookstore which is currently only available in the US will also become available the day of the launch.

Apple released the following iPad pricing for Canadians:

WiFi Models:
$549 [...]

Linux on the iPhone: Android on iPhone 3G

If you own an iPhone 3G, you are tech savy and want to test run Google Android here is your chance!

Source: Linux on the iPhone: Android on [...]

Apple wants to embed cardiac sensors into an iPhone case to identify you

Here is an interesting new patent from Apple.  It is about biometric authentication using your heart beat to identify you.  This is probably the best biometric identification scheme I have seen yet.  Forget about loosing a finger, an eye or another body part for identification purpose.  For this one to work you need to be alive [...]

Clamcase, a step back for the iPad?

Clamcase is selling a nice looking but questionable case for the iPad.

The idea is to put the iPad in a hinged case that contain a bluetooth keyboard to use for typing instead of the on-screen keyboard.  This essentially turn the iPad in some sort of disfunctional netbook (try to use a netbook without a mouse/trackpad).

Sure it [...]

My new iPad is on it’s way

So I got tired of waiting for iPad to sell in Canada.  So what one do when in need of something not sold around? eBay!

Yep, I went on ebay and started looking around for iPads.  I was blown by how much they are selling for! Easilly 600+ for the 499 16 WiFi… and that is without [...]

iPad, iPhone OS 4, HP Slate, Microsoft Announcement

There is a lot of interesting things going on out there.  1st, the iPad just got released in the wild… the next thing you know Microsoft is preparing some announcement on April 12 2010… something about sharing… I wonder what this might be… Maybe something to fight the iPad?

Then the next thing you know Apple announce [...]

Listia, the new anti-ebay

I stumbled on this new anti-ebay service called Listia. It allows you to unload all the stuff you don’t need in exchange for “Listia Credits”. You then use those credits to acquire goods other Listia members are listing. Simple? Yep!

I am currently running an experiment where I am offering a gift card [...]

Live TV news on your iPhone straight in the browser with no app required

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As you may recall, Livestation was the first company in the world demonstrating live streaming on iPhones back in 2008.

A selection of Livestation’s partner channels is now available to watch live on iPhones/iPod Touches and soon iPads worldwide by simply opening the default browsers on the device and pointing it to http://mobile.livestation.com.

Currently there is [...]

RIMs Lazaridis warns iPhone is prophet of data network doom | 9 to 5 Mac

Oh my god, what a complete bush… this is! RIM‘s Lazaridis proclaims:

“Manufacturers had better start building more efficient applications and more efficient services. There is no real way to get around this,” “If we dont start conserving that bandwidth, in the next few years we are going to run into a capacity crunch. You are already [...]