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Hitch iPod2iPod Allows Direct iPod Data Sharing Without a Computer

The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting on the Hitch iPod2iPod USB Transfer Device available through ThinkGeek. The Hitch, which is based off a Linux operating system, allows the user to hook two USB storage devices such as a pair of ipods and select which data to transfer between them via categorizations such as songs, albums […]

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Tekkeon Releases myPower GO for iPod and Other Devices

MacMinute is reporting that accessory firm Tekkeon has announced its myPower GO emergency power module for devices such as cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, video cameras and iPods. The myPower GO, which uses four AA batteries, arrives with multiple charger tips to enable the device to charge a wide variety of units. A full charge, […]

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One Laptop Per Child Project Ships Initial Laptops to Eight Nations

The One Laptop Per Child project, the effort undertaken by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with dozens of technology industry partners, has announced that it will ship nearly 2,500 of its $150 laptops to eight nations this month according to an article on ZDNet. The shipment will function as an experiment prior to […]

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Apple in Talks with EA About iPhone Game Titles

An article on BusinessWeek.com cites Apple as having tapped game publishers such as Electronic Arts and Namco to deliver a slew of casual video games such as Tetris, Pac-Man, Sudoku and Texas Hold’em. The games, when complete, could be downloaded from the iTunes Store for US$4.99 each with the target market being the customer base […]

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Intel Puts 80-core Chip Design Through Its Paces

Macworld News is reporting that Intel researchers are putting an 80-core processor that could perform multiple teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) through its paces. The chip design could also use less electricity than a current desktop PC processor. The processor design fits 80 individual chip cores onto a fingernail-size 275 square millimeter […]