Archives for the day Friday, August 10th, 2007

Although the problem does not appear to be widespread, several online reports, as well as a discussion thread on Apple’s support site, indicate that some iPhone owners are experiencing what are being referred to as “dead spots” on the device’s touch-screen. An analyst report has claimed that the rights for the iPhone’s touch-screen technology were purchased from a bankrupt Finnish company that was trying to make a similar…

Add gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes…


While the DS and PSP aren’t without their squabbles in the past, there’s the fact that no matter how much you compare the two, there are certain obvious differences in approach that make it a bit of an apple to oranges scenario. That’s why it’s so intensely awkward to look at the screen above — a DS emulator on the PSP. It’s running a DS homebrew game, GeoWars, and running it pretty slowly at that, but still. DS on a PSP. The DeSmuME emulator was ported by Japanese homebrew developer SofiyaCat, and while we really can’t imagine many DS titles that would benefit in any way from playback on the PSP, the sheer triumph over logic on display here has made us total fans of the effort.