I guess Steve Jobs must not be too happy about the reviews he’s been getting with the ROKR, because the ROKR E2 will not have support for iTunes. Instead, the ROKR will work with iRadio, a subscription service from Motorola (MOT). The iRadio service, will include 435 commercial-free radio channels, including genres such as Heavy Metal, Rockin’ Cowboys and Angry Women. Its satellite rivals also provide specialized music channels, often without ads. I guess the question here is who dropped who? Read more »

When you go to Grokster.com now, a message from the government appears stating the following: The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal. Copying copyrighted motion picture and music files using unauthorized peer-to-peer services is illegal and is prosecuted by copyright owners. There are legal services for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them. YOUR IP ADDRESS IS (INSERT IP HERE) AND HAS BEEN LOGGED. Don’t think you can’t get caught. You are not anonymous. Does this sound like a threat to anyone else? Kind of funny though. By the way, if you feel like putting a Read more »

Today, Forever Geek passed a milestone, we passed the 2500 entries mark. This was the 2500th story. This is the currently the 2504th story, and there have been 12722 comments averaging at around 5 comments per story. We have also had 938 TrackBacks. We hope that you continue reading here, and hope that we can provide you with 2500 more quality posts. Thanks again. Read more »

If you’re one of those 90′s CD collectors, and you want to update your technology, you’re in luck. Millennium Music is offering to give you an iPod if you give them your old music CDs. All you have to do is ship them your CDs, and they will value them based on physical condition. The conversions of CDs to iPod is here: 45 CDs = 512 MB iPod Shuffle 65 CDs = 1 GB iPod Shuffle 85 CDs = 2 GB iPod Nano 110 CDs = 4 GB Nano 130 CDs = 30 GB iPod 175 CDs = 60 GB iPod If you don’t have that many CDs, you can Read more »

The US Government has posted a torrent file on one of their .gov domain names. The torrent file is for a program, Worldwind. It’s the first known torrent file posted on any government website. The torrent file can be downloaded here. Read more »

While I do believe this is pretty far-fetched, Insider Scoop is claiming that Microsoft puts up $715 to manufacture every XBox 360 console, meaning they lose $315 – $415 excluding shipping costs. That would mean that they would have to sell 6 – 8 Microsoft games before they broke even, or have 6-8 years of Xbox Live subscription. BusinessWeek estimates that Microsoft is losing $126 per console. Read more »

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have created a way in which to transfer data between people and electronic devices. The technology uses transceivers called RedTaction to create a safe network transmission path, which in turn creates a HAN (Human Area Network). The technology isn’t slow either, it is able to transfer at 2Mbps. HAN is ready to ship for next year and will probably revolutionize the way you can transfer files. Imagine going to work and touching a pole, allowing you to receive all the files that you need to work on for the day. Or imagine going to your friend’s house, and transfering all their songs to your Read more »

A writer at Java Developer Journal has found out that Microsoft has a sense of humor. This writer was reading an End-User License Agreement for Microsoft Desktop Operating Systems, with an excerpt that contains the following: “The software product may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines , or weapon systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, Read more »

“Intel Inside” has been Intel’s (INTC) modo since 1991, but the new year will bring a new tagline. You’ve probably seen that logo on stickers on PC computers. There are a couple things that probably triggered this change. The biggest reason is probably bringing a fresh look to the Intel brand, secondly because AMD has been slowly chipping away at Intel’s empire, and this may be a far-fetched guess but it may have been influenced by Steve Jobs. Jobs probably had a tussle with Intel over allowing the sticker to be on Apple computers for aesthetic reasons. Maybe Jobs will allow the new logo to be included on Apple computers. Read more »

Recently, I posted a story on Digg.com. The story related to a Vidcast called Systm. The host of Systm, Kevin Rose, is also the founder of Digg.com, meaning that it was going to be a hit. In fact, it was able to get to the homepage in under an hour. The story can be viewed here. Currently it has 2582 diggs. The problem was that the story’s domain name Revision3.com was not allowed to be submitted to digg, because it had been reported by some jokers. I got around this by creating a javascript redirect page, hosted on my own server. The stats on my server jumped, the results were Read more »