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This Week At Giga Gamez (03/19/2007 – 03/25/2007)

Here’s our weekly round-up of the top stories on Giga Gamez from last week. PC gaming to end up more like console gaming? Alex takes a look at the new bootable games. The PS3 is selling faster than the 360 did comparably. Does it … Read More »

Top 5 Trends to Expect at CTIA

CTIA 2007 PREVIEW: While you’re checking out this 5 points user guide to the CTIA convention – the Super Bowl of mobile conferences – I’m likely trying to find a comfortable position on a redeye headed for hot Orlando. Hopefully it’s not too bumpy. Like Helio’s … Read More »

 
 

Get Ready for DDR3

Any talk of DRAMs is likely to induce sleep in most of our readers, but we are willing to bet that the pending arrival of DDR3 memory is going to ward off an attacks of Zzzzs! DDR3 is for personal computers, what HGH is to baseball … Read More »

iPod sculptures featured in art exhibition

Currently on display at the Vertexlist gallery in Brooklyn through April 22 is the “Random Access Poetics” exhibition, which includes a series of iPod sculptures by the artist [dNASAb]. According to the gallery’s write-up, the sculptures are “continuously looping, wall hanging, … Read More »

Top 10 Must-have Firefox Extensions from Lifehacker

Thanks to Gina and the others at Lifehacker for rounding up their top 10 Firefox extensions. But they put them all on separate pages! Here’s their list in easy-to-read format with my own brief descriptions. For more detail, check out Lifehacker’s gallery and their comments, … Read More »

WEEKEND FEATURE: The importance of a technical innovation cannot be appreciated unless it results in what amount to small joys of daily life. The first time I understood the power of mobile phones, when my brother called me to share the news of his fatherhood. At the … Read More »

Be careful if you’re using two different operating systems as I am.  Don’t let this happen to you: Read More »

A blogger has uncoverd a user’s manual for a new Gateway Tablet PC that sheds some bulk from the current Gateway Tablet offerings.  The manual is a PDF that has some interesting information, such as Vista is on-board.  What’s of particular interest (but unclear in … Read More »

A GottaBeMobile forum member did some sleuthing and uncovered a lot of details about the upcoming Motion LE1700 slate Tablet PC.  The LE1700 is the long awaited successor to Motion’s … Read More »

According to Digital Spy, market research firm NPD says the PS3 is selling marginally better in its first four months than the 360 did for the same period. “Figures show that the PS3 is selling slightly faster in the US than the Xbox 360 did … Read More »

Can Social tools save plain ole’ Radio?

Social networking around music has emerged as a class of Web service. While terrestrial radio has yet to fully embrace this, music social networking represents a large opportunity for terrestrial radio stations to gain relevance and currency online. Fundamentally there are two functions around … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 94 is 36:32 minutes long and is a 33.4 MB file in MP3 format.INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta … Read More »

More Must Reads

Mac fans rejoiced when Apple TV finally hit the shelves this week. Their happiness was shared by a growing number of third-party software vendors whose business models are almost as interesting as their products are colorful. Want to watch your DivX downloads on your Apple TV? Just … Read More »

YouTube’s defense against claims of copyright infringement has long been the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which clears service providers from liability related to material transmitted through their systems. But if Google were to implement copyright filters, proactively screening content before … Read More »

Apple has denied the rumors of Leopard being delayed until sometime in October, according to Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenberg. Just spoke with Apple who confirmed the reports are wrong and Leopard is still scheduled to ship in this spring as they previously announced. The rumor mill … Read More »

Goldilocks left the kitchen, stomach nicely full from the big bowl of Honey Nuts N Oats cereal she’d just eaten.  Heading into the back of the Bears’ home she walked into the study and her eyes got so wide!  "Look at this, there are 3 … Read More »

If you’ve ever used the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store, you’ve used their Concierge Service. You can sign up from Apple.com/retail from anywhere (not just within the store itself) for a convenient time that day and then head on in at your … Read More »

Disintermediation will be complete when Facebook becomes “a massive publisher.” That’s where CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests his company is headed in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal today (see it here; official version here). Facebook’s newsfeed, a personalized account of recent activity across … Read More »

YouTube’s defense against claims of copyright infringement has long been the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which clears service providers from liability related to material transmitted through their systems (see text). But if Google were to implement copyright filters, proactively screening content before … Read More »

I got a Zune player for Christmas and was immediately impressed with the player.  The simple interface is easier to manipulate than the iPod, and the nice big screen makes it a joy to watch videos.  I carry a lot of jkOnTheRun video reviews on … Read More »

CTIA 2007: Symbian, the mobile OS company is expected to announce an upgrade to its OS to version 9.5 at CTIA, that hopefully will decrease its reliance on smartphones, its main patron Nokia, and also ward off competition from fast growing rival mobile operating systems, … Read More »

Take your pick, which conversation do you want to join? The GigaTeam will be at some of the following notable events. The Startup Epicenter Program from March 27-29 in Mountain View, CA aims to create a truly really “hands-on” program for entrepreneurs. The event gives founders … Read More »

Giga Gamez tries to keep you guys up to date on what’s happening in the market, and, as always, we’re happy to hear suggestions on new stocks to include. Notes for the day: One of the main things that we’ll want to keep in mind as we … Read More »

We gave San Francsico-based Tiny Picture’s mobile photo sharing service Radar an almost sickly sweet review when we first checked it out last September. It’s not that uploading camera phone photos to the web is a new idea — not by … Read More »

Another day, another round of venture funding. At least that’s what it feels like if you follow the mobile world. Today’s featured company, according to Digital Media Wire, Pulse Mobile, has raised another $7 million for their second round of funding. Pulse Mobile is … Read More »

Not since the last presidential election, when a Bush supporter photoshopped John Kerry and Jane Fonda together, has a digital mashup created outside the aegis of an official campaign had a media impact like “Hillary 1984″ (AKA “Vote Different“). It can probably now … Read More »

When you purchase something in the real world, you pay tax on it. That’s the way it goes. However, what happens in virtual worlds? Sometimes people use real money, such as in Second Life, to purchase virtual goods and services someone else created. In other situations, … Read More »

Just a couple days after the Apple TV ceased to be a figment of the imagination and started showing up on shipping trackers, hackers worldwide have already begun to explore and expand the device’s functionality. Of course, what does it say about the device that … Read More »

Starting this Monday, March 26th, you’ll be able to try out the Verizon Wireless network for thirty days. Under a new plan called "Test Drive", Verizon will give you a month to try their phones and service. If you don’t like the "can you … Read More »

Its been a little over three months since we launched NewTeeVee, our site devoted to the fast changing world of online video. Secretly, we aspired to be the Variety of this new medium, though we aren’t foolish enough to think that it was even possible … Read More »

Now you can read your paper mail online with RemoteControlMail. RemoteControlMail is an online service that was launched last year in Portland and is expanding to 18 additional cities. The service receives and scans all of your postal mail for you … Read More »

In what could be viewed as the big KO-punch, a federal judge has told Vonage to stop using Verizon patents, and has two weeks to comply with the order. For Vonage, this clearly is bad news, and you can tell, VZ and incumbents Read More »

Chris Buffa of GameDaily has written a highly questionable Top 5 Most Overrated Industry People article. It’s all about shock value, being contrary, and attracting readers with a controversial list. Buffa caused quite a stir last July when he penned a feature titled “Why … Read More »

Welcome to the brand-new NewTeeVee! Three months ago we started this project with little more than an orange-tinged GigaOM design and an imperative to create ‘the Variety of online video.’ We had high hopes but also quite a bit of doubt about whether we could attract a … Read More »

Amidst all the hubbub about frontrunner YouTube’s legal troubles and wannabe front-runner ‘NewCo’, smaller sites are taking their disappointing developments under the radar. In the last day, news got out that Viacom’s IFILM will be folded into the website of its brother property SPIKE … Read More »

After first saying he would grant an injunction to stop Vonage from using technology that Verizon said violated its patents, a federal judge said Friday he would instead wait two weeks to consider Vonage’s requests to stay the injunction, Reuters is reporting. Better make all … Read More »

A recent report by Screen Digest titled “Western World MMOG Market: 2006 Review and Forecasts to 2011″ has produced some bold predictions for one of the fastest growing segments in gaming. Some of the findings are obvious (World of WarCraft is the most popular subscription … Read More »

It was around this time last year that PayPal launched its text-based mobile payment service. Eh, cool, but text-to-buy or ‘send money by phone’ is pretty far from a mobile web shopping experience. Now, word is out that PayPal is working hard on its … Read More »

Kongregate.com is pitching itself as “video games meet YouTube.” YouGame? Whatever the game, the company recently raised one million in venture funding for their ad-supported site. So does Kongregate live up to its ambitions, or did someone use a buzz word (read: YouTube) to raise … Read More »

Yesterday came the announcement NBC Universal and News Corps are teaming up on online video in an effort to rival YouTube, recruiting Google’s top competitors as distribution partners. Upon hearing early details, we were initially impressed by how open the group seemed to making content … Read More »

Just when you get used to purging all the liquids from your carry-on luggage, it turns out there’s another everyday threat lurking in our flying habits: batteries. Web workers, of course, are a major source of this problem: step on to a plane with your laptop, … Read More »

Glu Mobile, Aruba Networks and now Limelight Networks – we are seeing an increasing number of companies that are still deep in red tapping (or trying to tap) the public markets. It is a dangerous trend, because it could very quickly shut the window of … Read More »

What’s the first thing you usually do with a new device? I do what many others do: I start looking at all the cool settings to see what … Read More »

Temex Chile has turned on its WiMAX network in 15 towns in the South American nation. The network is based on 802.16e-2005 standard and uses the 3.5 GHz frequencies. The network uses Alcatel-Lucent gear. Telmex wants to cover 91% of the country with its WiMAX … Read More »

According to Mobile Industry, Gameloft, mobile gaming developer, has signed a deal with Airtel to provide its games to the Indian public. Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone provider, has over 30 million subscribers and they can now offer Gameloft’s Desperate Housewives, Might and Magic … Read More »

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