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SigNature DNA used in security product

Applied DNA Sciences and Printcolor have come to an agreement, with the latter agreeing to use APDN’s SigNature DNA Markers as part of its recently launched spectraCRYPT line of security inks. Printcolor believes that SigNature DNA is currently best solution [...]

Leopard upgrade kills wireless

There are certain segments of Mac users who are reporting a number of problems concerning their wireless connections after upgrading to Leopard – and one of the biggest problems faced so far is the steady degradation of their wireless link. [...]

Voiceserve to launch VoiceSIM 2.0

Voiceserve has placed a date to its VoiceSIM 2.0 card – December 1st, 2007 to be exact. This announcement was made with anticipation of the mad holiday season rush, and benefits users with free roaming in more than 120 countries [...]

Bug Labs Gadgets Better Than a Blackberry? [Bug Labs Vs BBerry]

No. Peter Semmelhack explains why his open source gadget hardware will never be as lean and mean of an email chucking machine as the Blackberry. The BB’s about doing a few things particularly well, while his hardware is meant to [...]

Eye-Fi hands-on, impressions

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Features, Peripherals, Wireless, Networking You may have seen the Eye-Fi, launched this week, nearly a year and a half since we first heard about it. If you’re just catching up on the news, it’s basically a [...]

100k iPhone Users Jailbreak’d Yesterday [Apple]

Approximately 100k iPhone users, and what I’d guess as about 5-7% of all iPhone users, browsed to jailbreakme.com to put apps back on their 1.1.1 iPhones. That’s not far from the 9% owner base that Apple brags picked up 2 [...]

V7 launches new GPS units

V7 from Ingram Micro has just released the NAV740 and NAV730 GPS navigation systems. Both of these units are extremely portable, with a SiRFStar III GPS chipset inside and a 400MHz processor to run everything. It comes with an SD [...]

Nokia debuts N500 at SEMA 2007

Nokia has just introduced the N500 portable navigation device – the first of its kind after Nokia bought over Navteq last month. The N500 looks like any other GPS navigation device, featuring a 4.3″ color touchscreen display, an integrated speaker [...]

Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader delayed until end of the year?

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds Although it hasn’t had the buzz of some other longstanding rumors, we’ve been heard a lot about Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader over the past year — everything from shady pics to tagged content to a [...]

Western Digital stings with Scorpio HDD

Western Digital has released its new 320GB Scorpio 2.5″ SATA II drive, bringing a maximum burst speed of 300Mb/s, 8MB of cache and an estimated seek time of 12ms to the table. Not only that, it was designed to function [...]