Jun 5, 2011

It has been reported some time ago that Mad Catz won the exclusive rights to produce Xbox 360 wireless headphones. Now it appears that the company is ready to unveil its new Mad Catz Warhead 7.1 wireless headset, according to a report by IGN. With the new device, gamers do not need to be tethered to their controllers for voice chat or plugged into a wall to be...

Feb 28, 2011

Some of our UK readers have woken up to the less than awesome discovery this morning that their phones have lost all connectivity to the outside world. 3G, 2G, SMS, and BlackBerry services on the Vodafone UK network are all down for what seems like a significant proportion of its user base — an issue the carrier has since identified as being caused by a...

Feb 28, 2011

T-Mobile cares about you. It cares so much that it’s spending all its advertising dollars lately making sure you know full well that the iPhone 4 can’t do “4G” the way its own phones can. The latest salvo in this crusade of enlightenment includes the above graphs showing just how much faster and further your money can go if you ride...

Feb 28, 2011

Verizon’s Motorola Xoom 4G upgrade guidelines. Image: Droid Life The Xoom tablet has a respectably fast Verizon 3G connection, but Motorola promises a free upgrade to Verizon’s faster 4G network within a few months. To do that, however, you’ll need to ship your Xoom back to the manufacturer for more than a week. It’s not often I laugh...

Feb 27, 2011

The nine-dot pattern lock option is one of those uniquely Android things — it’s been there ever since the G1, and even if you don’t personally use it, odds are good that you recognize it. So when we see it on an iPhone — apparently on an app used by Apple internally — you can appreciate why we’re going to do a double take....

Feb 27, 2011

Inside the new 15 inch MacBook Pro, complete with Thunderbolt controller The little pinky nail sized chip you see up there, inside the green square, is almost certainly the controller chip for the new MacBook Pro’s Thunderbolt port. The chip, and its tasty thermal paste topping, were found inside the new MacBooks by the teardown experts at iFixit. The...