Archive for July, 2007

PSP modder extraordinare Dark Alex calls it quits

After nearly a year of playing cat-and-mouse with Sony’s legal and dev teams, it looks like the heat was too much for Dark-AleX, the modder behind a couple (in)famous PSP cracks, including the “run any PSX ISO” 3.02 firmware and the bust-it-wide 3.10 “Open Edition.” In a terse posting on his website, the cracker says [...]

iPhone makes Napster sad

It seems like everyone wants to get a piece of the Apple pie this week — even old, crazy Napster. According to an article in InformationWeek, Napster has issued a damning statement to investors “warning” them of the “possible” impact the iPhone might have on its business, due to the incompatibility of the online distributor’s [...]

Free Software Foundation releases version 3 of the GPL

Although June 29, 2007 will probably be most remembered for the release of some cellphone, another release that will hugely affect the tech community went out on that fateful Friday — version three of the GNU General Public License was officially released, revising the terms that govern the use and distribution of many open-source projects, [...]

Belkin’s iPhone accessory salmagundi now shipping

What better way to cap off a recent $600 or so purchase than to spend even more money accessorizing it? The myriad of Belkin wares we spoke of a short time ago has hit the market just in time to grab your attention (and dough), and users itching to wrap their precious toy up in [...]

Panasonic prepares 4x DL BD-R burner: 50GB in 46 minutes

Panasonic is set to join LG with the introduction of their own 4x speed BD-R recorder. However, while LG’s GBW-H10N Blu-ray recorder burns are limited to single-layer media, Panny is boasting of a 4x burn to a dual-layer BD-R platter. That’s 50GB in 46 minutes in case you’re keeping track. No pictures or price but [...]