Guitar Hero IV adding other instruments, vocals

According to the May issue of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine, the game Guitar Hero will be a bit more like Rock Band in its next version.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick sys that upgrades to the next version of Guitar Hero will include additional instruments (including vocals and most likely drums) as well as “local content” from [...]

Samsung expects to release affordable OLED TVs beginning in 2009

No question that OLED TV’s have gorgeous image quality, but its currently too expensive for most to even consider getting.
For example, Sony’s 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV will set you back $2,500.
Samsung SDI’s vice president of marketing Woo-Jong Lee says that medium and large sized OLED displays are coming beginning in 2009, with Samsung expecting to [...]

Asus Eee PC 900 shipped better batteries to reviewers than consumers

In what Asus is calling a mistake, early adopters of the new 8.9-inch Eee PC 900 in Hong Kong are finding that their beloved UMPC has a 4-cell, 4400mAh battery while units sent to reviewers had a 4-cell, 5800mAh battery which provided longer battery life.
Asus says that the 4400mAh battery is the correct one for [...]

Windows XP SP3 coming April 29th

Microsoft has announced that Windows XP SP3 has been released to manufacturing and will be available for download on April 29th.
Microsoft says that they are not adding significant Windows Vista functionality to XP but they are including a new Network Access Protection (NAP) to “help organizations that use Windows XP to take advantage of new [...]

Palm preparing to test new Wi-Fi equiped Treo 800w?

According to emails from Palm sent to select Sprint customers, Palm is looking for “season business professionals” who use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to help them test a new device.
The winning candidates will be users who “commute and spend a ton of time working on email and on the phone.”
The device isn’t named, but its most [...]

Lawsuit fallout: Some DISH Network DVRs can longer longer be sold, activated

When DISH Network lost their appeal in the TiVo lawsuit that claimed DISH violated TiVo patents with their DVR’s they were quick to tell everyone that their DVR software had since been upgraded and no longer violate the patents and that no customers would see a service interruption.
Its true but only part of the story.
The [...]