Lenovo is offering free replacements for batteries that do not recharge or suffer from “irreparable damage,” according to Lenovo’s support Web site. Below is an extract from the support website. A limited number of ThinkPad users have reported the following symptoms: Irreparable damage or battery cannot be charged error message from Power Manager or Message Center, [...]
This is for all proud owners of Nintendo Wii 4-Dock Battery Recharge Station. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall for around 220,000 units of Psyclone Essentials and React Wii™ 4-Dock Battery Recharge Stations because the battery pack can overheat and can cause fire hazards to the consumers. Below is a picture of the device [...]
The much awaited Xbox 360′s LIVE Dashboard update has finally arrived. With this update, you can download full Xbox 360® games and play them without a disc, and you and your friends will be able to party watch movies online through Netflix! Dress up your avatar to impress with premium props and branded apparel from [...]
A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The court prohibited Microsoft from “selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or into the United States” any version of the software that can open custom XML files (with file extensions .xml, .docx, [...]
iGoogle has released 19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets. These widgets adds new social and sharing features to users of the service. Click here and take a look at the features of the new widgets. Below video gives you an overview of this new service. If you are in Unites States and don’t see your [...]
Google announced this week a project it has been working on to develop a faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive search engine. The announcement of the project, code-named ‘Caffeine’ (a clever play on words implying that the project will boost speed), seems a little out of character for Google which usually makes these sort of [...]
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “borrowed” quite a few features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates. Obviously Facebook has already built out some [...]
Using Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances, enterprises have the ability to see and control Twitter, which allows them to set appropriate IT policies to either enable or control collaboration. Understanding which social media tools are being utilized and how employees are using them is valuable information that helps network administrators set and enforce corporate policies, said [...]