iPhone HD to Hit the Market this Summer?

The internets are all abuzz this morning as rumours of two new iPhone make the rounds. The Wall Street Journal is reporting a CDMA model will hit the US, along with a new HD model of the Jesus Phone.

The iPhone HD is expected to be officially announced by Apple on June 22nd. The upgraded model will have an A4-class SoC, a 960 x 640 display, a front-facing camera, and OS 4.0 which will enable third-party multitasking. Another rumour is it could take advantage of WiMAX, which would make it a true 4G phone.

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BioWare Celebrates Turning 15 With Free Stuff For Their American Friends

When an unexplained countdown clock on BioWare’s website hit 00:00 two things happened:

1. Their servers shut down for an hour (the curiosity of many, many fans will do that, you know)
2. The game developer launched BioWare Bazaar to give away some very awesome stuff over the next two weeks to celebrate of the company’s 15th anniversary

Starting now, followers of @Biofeed on Twitter can participate in simple (so far) contests and questions to earn tokens that can be used in auctions starting on April 6. And it’s the auction items that have folks all a-buzz with goodies that range from copies of games to artwork to painted PCs.

But here are the catches: you have to join the BioWare social network and live in an American state to participate. Well, not all American states–Florida and New York are out. And, oh yeah, Canada wasn’t even invited.

That sound you hear is the cold rumble of discontent originating from the frozen north spurned by its favourite son.

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MSI Says RTFM… Just Kidding

I think every support person has the same dream. A customer calls with a simple-to-solve problem. Instead  of repeating the instructions that can be found in the quick start guide or the user manual, they can say one simple thing: RTFM. Ah, bliss.

MSI was living the dream… briefly.

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Sony Removes Linux Support From PS3

Sony will be removing the ability to install Linux on your Playstation 3. If you’ve taken a close look at your XMB on your PS3 you may have noticed the “Install Other OS” option. Ya, expect that to disappear.

SCEA’s Patrick Seybold explains that the removal of said functionality is necessary “due to security concerns … [and] will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system.”

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LinkedIn to Open Office in Canada

It’s the Facebook of the professional world. More than 60 million people now belong to LinkedIn, and it continues to grow. The company has already opened up offices in Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, India and the United Kingdom, now it has its sights set on Canada.

LinkedIn has confirmed it will open up an office in Toronto. The move shouldn’t come as a surprise as more than 2 million Canadians now belong to the professional social networking site.

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Shaoxing, China Named Malware Capital of the World

Even the buildings look evil in Shaoxing

Symantec has named Shaoxing, China as the malware capital of the world.  The city earned the dubious title after the American company discovered almost 30% of “malicious” emails were sent from China. In fact, 21.3% came from the city of Shaoxing alone.

China isn’t the only country to blame for all that spam you receive in your inbox. While China was the source of 28.2% of global targeted attacks , Romania came in a close second with 21.1%. The United States came third, followed by Taiwan and then Britain, with 12% of attacks.

China has always been at the top of the list when it comes to cyber crimes, but up until recently hackers have been able to hide behind servers in Taiwan, resulting in skewed numbers.

[Via Times Online]

The First “Unhackable” USB Drive

We’ve seen other USB drives hidden away in Swiss Army type knives before, but not one with a claim as strong as the Victorinox Secure Pro. Victorinox claims the Secure Pro is 100% hack proof and completely “unhackable”. In fact during the company’s launch it invited anyone to try and hack it, with a cool £100,000 prize to any hacker who had success. No one did.

So what makes this USB tick? It’s a mixture of AES256 technology and fingerprint security. And to top it all off, there’s a self-destruct mechanism that burns the CPU and memory chip if there’s any attempt to open the drive. Awesome!

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The Science Of Steins And Cold Beer

Pop into any pub where people take beer seriously, and you’ll learn that many brews are meant to be consumed a just the right temperature. But if you’ve ever nursed a beer while holding the can, bottle or glass, you’ll have experienced how the fluid temperature can change rather quickly through energy transfer. Ever enjoy a warm beer when it’s supposed to be cold? Yeah, I thought not.

Enter Funranium Labs and the Steins of Science–uber-containers to keep beer (or some other liquid) at exactly the right temperature for much longer than you’d actually need. Add is the geek-cred of being made from top quality materials normally found in a lab and you have the perfect mug to draw attention and appreciation from all the highly-educated attendees at next year’s Oktoberfest.

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Apple Buys iPad Name From Fujitsu

When Apple announced the iPad earlier this year, a lot of people in the know were baffled by the name choice. Sure iPad is catchy, but it was fairly well known Fujitsu already owned the iPad name for its retail computing device. In fact Fujitsu was the proud owner of the iPad name for seven years! So what happened? Well Apple simply stepped in.

While details remain scarce, documents now show Apple has indeed acquired the naming rights for iPad. Rest assured Apple probably threw a lot of money at Fujitsu for the naming rights. The name was transferred over on March 17th, almost two months after first announced the device.

[Via Patent Authority]

Quick Tips To Reduce Your Energy Use

Since it’s Earth Hour tomorrow, here are four quick tips to save money. These are by no means the best tips but these are things you can do in your home right now. Yes, buying an EnergyStar rated machine does save you money on the electricity bill, it also doesn’t make sense if you already have a perfectly good washer or fridge at home. So here’s some stuff you can do to save energy but at a low price.

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