Xbox Holiday Bust

Angry users have voiced out their concern with the total poor performance of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 website. The company failed to foresee the influx of many users causing the site to bog down overwhelmed by the influx. This has left many irate customers whom Microsoft was hoping to appease with a free game for console [...]

Posted by Nick at 5:55 am

Upgrading IEEE 1394 – Firewire

News for champions of the Firewire standard, the system or standard will be undergoing another evolution boosting transmission speeds up to 3.2Gbps from the current 800Mbps standard. The regulatory body which manages the standards for the said communications protocol say that the new upgrade will not require any new gadgets or connectors and use the [...]

Posted by Nick at 2:18 pm

Paper Thin Television Sets …Anyone

Samsung once again leads the technology race in consumer electronics mainly in areas which utilize LCD’s with other industry giants quickly following pace in research and development in the said technology. Other companies such as Sony, Mitsubishi Chemicals, Eastman Kodak and many other in hot pursuit Their current preview into the successful use of Organic [...]

Posted by Nick at 11:35 am

LED – Lighting for the Future… and beyond

LED’s or Light Emitting Diodes are electronics components that have been around for quite some time in the area of consumer electronics and other products. They were previously restricted to applications such as the power indicators on your gizmo’s and gadgets and other low power devices which makes it such an alluring prospect for the [...]

Posted by Nick at 10:42 pm

$1M challenge for speaker cables

Hardcore audiophiles — the geeks of the music listening world — claim that buying those prohibitively expensive audio cables (they run to the thousands of dollars) can have a significant contribution to your audio system by actually making it sound better. I myself kind of bought into this whole belief by exchanging a perfectly [...]

Posted by Nick at 3:43 pm