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After the rumors running wild for about 24 hours now, EMI and Apple finally announced officially that EMI will now be offering DRM-free music to be sold on iTunes, and a higer audio quality than was offered before. This announcement spurs memories of Steve Jobs and his rant on DRM on the official Apple blog. Now that EMI has decided ...

We thought the Xun Chi 138 was the smallest cellphone we were ever going to see. Despite their lack of operation, these weeny sized Mini Japanese cellphones are ridiculously smaller than anything else on the market. Of course, these phones are totally incapable of making any calls or sending any texts, but you could probably fool some 6-year-old that what ...

Well, that settles it then. The Russian guy shown in the GTA IV trailer seems to be confirmed through the newest cover of Game Informer magazine. After the release of the uber-hyped Grand Theft Auto IV trailer late last week, speculation was a brewin’ on whether the man featured in the trailer was to be the main character or was ...

Today we saw two pictures of a supposedly Nokia premium phone with QVGA screen, this is speculated to be the brother of 8800 Sirocco: the 8600 Luna. Specs are non-existent for the mean time, but we expect the phone to run on the Symbian Series 40 platform and house a 2 megapixels fixed focus camera. This should not be an ...

Sega finally officially confirmed the sequel in its NiGHTS series, Nights: Journey of Dreams. After a decade of waiting, Sega fans let out a huge sigh of triumph with the announcement that NiGHTS 2 is officially in the works for the Wii. Other than the logo and a small sampling of artwork, information is scant about the sequel. Much like ...

We don’t usually put too much confidence in projected stats, since a lot of the time they turn out to be totally false in everything they stand for. We do, however, would love to see the day where IE is no longer the most popular web browser. According to trends and stats that are too complicated to verify, it’s being ...

Be afraid…be very afraid. The SnuzNLuz Alarm Clock teaches you to be more punctual in one of the most torturous ways possible. SnuzNLuz connects directly to your bank account and donates money to an organization you can’t stand every time you oversleep. The example used is the GOP. For all we care you can set it to be the NAACP. ...

We swear we fell for it. OK, maybe not, but it’s good to know that one of the biggest companies worldwide has such a good sense of humor. This April Fools mock-up would actually be kind of cool if it were for real. The idea is for a free mail service where Gmail would be sent through the postal service. ...

Sunload presented its solar energy charger bag at CeBIT 2007. Sunload’s flexible solar panels allow for solar technology to be integrated into fashion products, including these bags. The bag can charge your gadgets using a 8-cell Li-Ion battery, car charger, or through its two USB connection ports. Solar technology is becoming more integrated into everyday life. The Sunload charger bag ...

[ev type=”youtube” data=”ltQNlqo3vmQ”][/ev] The level of excitement 12-year-old Kyle Krichbaum gets from vacuums is simply disturbing. He’s had an obsession of them since he was born and now owns over 150 of them. There’s really no reason anybody should know so much about cleaning machines, which is why we bow down to him in humble envy of his fanatic gizmo-loving. ...