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Tech Digest: The Enquirer is reporting that the PS3 has some way to go to reach its final, real hardware and hasn’t got much time. While developers and official magazines still, apparently, haven’t received test kits, the components currently are 50 per cent too big for the “empty” boxes Sony have been saying are PS3s. […]

Tech Digest: PC users are being urged to apply software patches that close a “critical” vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Since coming to light in late March, the flaws have proved popular with hackers, who have created hundreds of webpages that use the bug to take over vulnerable computers. The most serious of the four […]

Thanks to Phone Scoop and Rhian (our roving reporter): GreatCall Inc. today launched a new MVNO service called Jitterbug targeted at older users. The service will launch with a special phone designed in cooperation with Samsung. The Samsung A120 features a simple design and UI, oversize buttons and graphics, and a cushioned cup around the […]

Engadget Mobile: Just over a year ago, Kyocera dropped the press-bomb related to partnering with Boingo to develop 3G cellphones with built-in WiFi. Now they’re showing off a BREW-based WiFi/CDMA prototype at CTIA which allows public WiFi roaming, on the Boingo WiFi network, natch-urally. No doubt you might be wondering what Boingo, a WiFi hotspot […]

Tech Digest: Rather than letting a select few hackers run Windows on a Mac, Apple has introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available as a download from today, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based […]

The Boston Globe:Your next pet robot will probably be able to do more than terrorize your toddlers and cats. It should also, with a few modifications, be smart enough to pick up the living room and may perform another killer app that roboticists have long dreamt about: It is called, ”Fetch me a beer.” The […]

Mobile Tech News: CTIA, Las Vegas — In Direct Competition with Blackberry, Microsoft, Intellisync and Others, emoze Makes Email, PIM Data Available to Anyone, Anywhere, with the Widest Range of Existing Devices Emblaze Ltd. today launched emoze, the world’s first free and secure push email and personal information management (PIM) service. With emoze Personal […]

Tech Digest: The shape of things to come? Fujitsu is currently showing off some concepts for portable computing at Milan’s Triennale di Milano - with their idea of how an ultra-mobile PC should look certainly drawing attention. A long way from Samsung’s Q1, rather than dispense with the traditional keyboard, Fujitsu have kept it, […]

Engadget Mobile: Posted Apr 1st 2006 1:56PM by Ryan Block Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile Nope, this ain’t no April Fool’s joke, people, this is the real deal: when everybody’s clocks skip forward an hour for Daylight Savings Time this year (at 2:00AM on the first Sunday in April — i.e. early […]