JanRain, creator of some of the most popular OpenID software libraries and a forum-like communications tool called Pibb, has released a new SaaS offering for websites that want to become relying parties for OpenID.
We’re told that the service, simply called RPX, makes it possible to start accepting users with OpenID accounts within one day. This is actually the second SaaS solution provided by… → Read More
Google Trends, which shows you the hot search queries on Google at any given time, is more than two years old now (this year they added website/domain tracking as well). PR professionals and brand managers use it regularly to track how hot their assets are, and there are countless other uses for the service.
One use though, which is becoming increasingly popular we hear, is for blogs, mainstream… → Read More
Video: Kota the triceratops robot now available Bob Dylan’s ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’ starts today on XM, Sirius XM, whatever its name is today Internet radio on a stick from Aluratek Augmented Reality? The Tuttuki Bako box needs your finger to play with virtual characters Kingston joins the 32GB USB flash drive club → Read More
The new expansion will pit you as an ODST marine aka New Hero and will serve as a prequel to Halo 3. We’ll have the teaser trailer up soon and box art. Update: Trailer after the jump. Update 2: Luke posted this snippit over at NeoGaf. The word “stealth” here isn’t really a great word. This isn’t a stealth action game like a Splinter Cell game. This is a Bungie-made… → Read More
NXE is launching in 24 countries on November 19th. Read about NXE here. → Read More
We’re going to live blog MJ’s live blog and Kotaku’s live blog. We’ll pick apart the major stuff for you, so stand by. → Read More
The Kota missed its September launch, but the 3-foot tall Triceratops is finally here! Back in July we first saw the 37-pound robotic dino and John came away impressed, I think. The tiny giant beast isn’t the most agile dinosaur robot out there, but your kids can sit on it while he/she/it wags its tail, moves its head and chomps down on fake foliage. Buy one now for $300 form Sears, Target… → Read More
Is your boss like Lumbergh? Maybe you should start looking for new opportunities. Check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Click for some of the postings from the past week. → Read More
What a great quote! Ohio’s Secretary of State was interviewed for ComputerWorld and revealed the ridiculous level of error that was present throughout the certification and troubleshooting process. The results of the (deep breath) Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing (EVEREST) analysis were that every single system they looked at had… → Read More
Looks like this episode was released a little prematurely. Episodes 1-4 → Read More
I was actually excited to see this announcement from Logitech until I saw which games it supported. Sadly, it only supports Boogie, High School Musical, Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore and Rock Band. Well, I guess I could use it for RB1. And RB2 and GH: WT come with wireless mics, so I guess I don’t really have anything to complain about. Logitech’s Wireless Microphone up to… → Read More
This is a fantastic story. You remember how in Tron, the players force a computer light cycle into a wall, then escape through the hole to get at the rest of the system? Well, this guy recreated that event inadvertently with his own IIGS version of Tron. I don’t know if any of you will find this funny, but I can’t spoil the surprise. This is a seriously good story. → Read More
That’s about a four to five second difference in load time. Is Microsoft going to start gouging us with higher capacity HDDs? via Kotaku → Read More
I guess the upside is that a stock can’t fall below zero, so there’s an end in sight to the ongoing destruction of jobs and shareholder wealth at Yahoo. The stock closed at $13.76 today, down another 5.6%. And this isn’t just part of the market’s overall meltdown – the Nasdaq fell just 0.8% today, and Google, Yahoo’s main direct competitor, was down just 2.3%.
At this point I’ve moved beyond… → Read More
One more month! Episodes 1-3 → Read More
http://gamevideos.1up.com/swf/gamevideos11.swf?embedded=1&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&src=http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/videoListXML%3Fid%3D20981%26adPlay%3Dtrue The following are requirements for Windows machines with Mac specs after the jump. You have a month to prepare for the Lich King, nerds. PC System Requirements OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)… → Read More
Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors (and he was also an early investor in Google), wrote an email yesterday to the CEOs of his portfolio companies. In no uncertain terms he outlines a bleak immediate future, and gives advice to his startups.
It’s the same advice, actually, that he gave in 2000 during the tech meltdown that was then happening in real time. Lower your… → Read More
Oh dear, this won’t go well. What does it say about your company when a product ships with a virus intact on the hard drive? Does it say something about their quality control? Or maybe about the internal security of the company? Whatever it says, it ain’t good. If I can’t trust them to run a virus scan on their junk before sending it out, can I really trust the build quality? The… → Read More
Say hey, that’s New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, also known as my new fantasy football quarterback since about halfway in to the first quarter of the Patriots-Chiefs game when Tom Brady’s leg exploded along with my dreams of a good season. Anyway, Electronic House has an interesting piece on Eli’s New Jersey condo. It’s apparently an exercise in automated simplicity, as most of the… → Read More
He’s not as nerdy as the commercials portray. *sad clown* → Read More
Enjoy. Video #1 Video #2 → Read More
Don’t forget to drop your guess off in comments, folks. The rumors are swirling about when the New Xbox Experience will launch and we’ve got plenty of gadgety goodness around the office to throw your way. If there are multiple entries that land within one day or the actual day, we’ll find a way to make everyone happy. I just received the Mortal Kombat: Kollection so that’s… → Read More
Bridging the gap between the first GoW game story line and the upcoming sequel is Joshua Ortega’s Wildstorm series from DC Comics. The first six issues will get you ready for the November 7th launch of GoW2 with all sorts of filler for you to froth over. Download a preview here. Or you can hop on down to your local comic book store and pick one up for $4. There’s also an alternative… → Read More
The Internet rumor mill seems to be stating that Apple’s big secret, the Brick, is really a new manufacturing process. Who knows what exactly we are looking at above, but it appears to be a MacBook Pro chassis cast out of a single piece of something – hopefully some sort of metal but it kind of looks like shinny plastic. It kind of makes sense that if the codename is… → Read More
Every so often, hardware makers strike out in a new direction, improving their product in an almost random manner — double the shader processors! stick two cards together! — and sometimes it actually has good results. The big move happening right now is a vast increase in the amount of RAM available to the video card, even though that’s not really what’s limiting game… → Read More
Naughty America, a porn production company based out of Southern California, is building an Adobe Air-based storefront called Naughty America Direct that is basically an iTunes for porn. The app includes full-length DRM-free scenes for $1.99 each that are available in formats compatible with the iPod and iPhone, and requires no subscription. To grab an invite to the app’s ongoing private beta… → Read More
You’ll like it if you’re looking for a high-quality webcam with decent software, autofocus, and good low-light performance. But not if you’re a Mac user or you can’t justify spending $100 on a webcam for simple stuff like videoconferencing and short, quick videos. Full review (with video) after the jump… → Read More
The RealDVD saga continues, quickly becoming one of the more interesting tech stories of the past few months. As we already know, both RealNetworks and the MPAA have been suing each other left, right and center over the past two weeks. Well now Real has issued an official statement, one sure to send shivers up the spines of the MPAA’s lawyers. We are confident that the Court will determine… → Read More
Oh my! Three of the biggest laptop makers out there all announcing 4G/WiMAX/XOHM service. All on the same day, too. It’s almost as if it was planned. Acer has it in their big ones, Toshiba has it in their little ones, and Lenovo has it in just about their entire line. Boy, with all these laptops sucking up the signal, they might want to put those WiMAX points on higher ground! → Read More
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