Nintendo announces the Wii Remote Jacket, a durable, silicone cover for the Wii Remote that provides a variety of benefits for the player. Nintendo will include the Wii Remote Jacket with all Wii hardware systems and with all Wii Remotes sold separately or packaged with Wii Play. Hardware featuring the Wii Remote Jacket will begin shipping to retailers on Oct. 2 and is expected to be on retail shelves the week of Oct. 15.
George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications: “We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and make sure everyone has a safe and fun experience, many electronics manufacturers provide similarprotective covers for products like cell phones, PDAs and MP3 players.”
Current Wii owners who want to equip their Wii Remotes with the new Wii Remote Jacket free of charge can go to Wii.com or nintendo.com, or call 1-866-431-8367 to place an order. Nintendo will begin taking orders on Oct. 2, and Wii Remote Jackets will begin shipping the week of Oct. 15.
Ever since Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we’ve known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June. But we haven’t known exactly when.
Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular (we called 800-947-5096 and were transferred to sales) gave us that date late Thursday, but, alas, said he didn’t have any additional information beyond that.
That date is no coincidence. It’s the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15. (Incidentally, the agenda includes a focus on Leopard, the next generation of OS X that’s supposed to be released sometime in the second quarter of 2007.)
Rumors have been swirling about the iPhone release date. One blog pointed to a release date of June 15 based on alleged documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, but those have been shown to be a hoax.
BOSTON - One of the cheapest places to buy software is on eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a mark-up to distributors.
But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams.
Consumers Union — which tracks Web retailers and advises consumers on Internet shopping through its ConsumerWebWatch.org service — urges buyers to use common sense. (more…)
Today, IBM announced a new and emerging technology that can help the blind and visually impaired people “see” Internet multimedia. This new technology that enables blind people to experience streaming video and animation on the Internet has been designed at IBM’s Tokyo Research Laboratory.
This new multimedia browsing accessibility tool developed by IBM has the potential to open a world of rich content to visually impaired people all over the globe.
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With a family of four, I’ve lately been trying to figure out how to wedge my crew into a single car. Sounds easy, but have you seen how big car seats are now? The one for our toddler consumes so much space that the front passenger seat in my Subaru Forrester is pushed all the way forward and can’t be moved back. My four-year-old daughter, who sits behind me on the driver’s side, is wedged in to the point where here feet are constantly in my back. Isn’t the point of an SUV (even a small one like the Forrester) to avoid such cramped spaces?
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Vonage’s V-Phone is a curious device. You plug a headset microphone into the bullet-shaped memory stick. You then plug that memory stick into any Windows personal computer that is connected to the Internet and use an on-screen soft phone and your mouse to take and make calls to any phone number around the globe.
It’s that simple, and a great way for frequent travelers to make relatively cheap calls without the fuss of carrying around cellular modems and the like.
On a recent trip to Japan and South Korea, the bright orange V-Phone worked moderately well. Calls sounded fine in the earbud headphones that came with the memory stick, though people on the other end complained my voice sounded far away until I placed the microphone on the wire directly in front of my mouth. (more…)