Oh dear Sega, just what are we going to do with you? First your little white Dreamcast facepalmed spectacularly, and ever since its just been a downwards plummet to complete and utter insecurity, with an awful of lot hedgehog corpse raping involved. In an attempt to not only stay relevant, but probably also alive, Sega are shifting things about again in order to encourage integration between their Western and Eastern departments. What they haven't done is announced the things that people actually want, ... Read More

I'm stunned at the outcome of this trial! I had a gut-feeling that the Piratebay guys would be fined, and maybe given a slap on the wrist, but jail-time?? C-Net UK reports: The Pirate Bay has officially lost its trial. The four men accused -- Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom -- have been sentenced to one year in prison, and a collective fine of 30m krona (£2.4m). After the court made the announcement, it was stated that the jury's ... Read More

It was literally only yesterday that myself and Techmole-Mike were discussing how cool it would be if we could play games cross-console. It's a regular annoyance to me that I can't play, for example, Street Fighter 4 online against my friend who has it on a different platform to me. However, it would appear that first small step to bridging said gap may have appeared in the shape of Rockstar Games. Using a nifty new service developed by GameSpy Technology, players of the ... Read More

The awesome self-repair gurus over at ifixit have cracked open Nintendo's latest update to the DS range, the DSi. Personally, I find the software results of this kind of thing more interesting than the hardware geekery; luckily, a SlashDot reader has summerised the findings, so we don't have to: "It seems that an experienced hand can completely disassemble the DSi in less than ten minutes using standard tools, especially since the job does not require a tri-wing screwdriver. This should make repairing and ... Read More

PocketGamer are reporting that there could be a brand spanking new PSP out just in time for Christmas, if their conveniently unnamed source is to be believed. It all sounds rather rosy - the source reckons the next PSP will feature a sliding screen that will reveal the controls, which apparently will include sanity saving dual thumbsticks. Interestingly there's more comparisons to Apple's iPhone than the runaway leader of the handheld market, the DS (which recently evolved into it's third money making form, ... Read More

I enjoy watching the rise of Digg-founder Kevin Rose from Internet celebrity, to main-stream success-story. One of the great side-effects of this transition is some of the cool things he gets to do, or rather gets access to. Digg Dialouge is a series of interviews with celebrities, conducted by Mr Rose, that sources questions from the users of Digg.com. Questions are posted, and then 'yay or nayed' by means of the Digg voting system; the questions with the highest votes get posed ... Read More

There is something about this phone which looks familiar. Hmm, I know what it is; the "multi-touch handwriting", I've seen that before. Of course I'm talking about the HiPhone, which was featured in the press and online media about a month ago. The term Shanzai and what it stands for has became known to the western world and the word is now associated with cheap fakery of the Chinese variety. But the HiPhone is not the only gadget cloned by Chinese companies or ... Read More

I'm not trying to scaremonger anyone when I say this but if graffiti is replaced by Twitter 'tweets' then civilisation is in big, big trouble. This is courtesy of Urban Prankster. Read More

In another sneaky move from the European Union, Internet Service Providers are now being forced to store details about every single email you send. A hush hush directive was propositioned back in 2005 after the London bombings and as of today your ISP is under strict orders to log your emails, under the pretence of national security. Records, that will be held for 12 months, will not have actual conversations saved but instead will be used to determine connections. So presumably the police ... Read More

And so the Google Street View privacy saga continues: the BBC reported over the weekend that a few residents of Broughton, a village in Milton Keynes, had made a rather pathetic protest against the omnipotent Google street car. After seeing the modified Google car drive past his house, resident Paul Jacobs found himself in an uncontrollable fit of anger, and took the street with his neighbours to block the car's passage. It might sound ridiculous, but his technophobe arguments are rather sound: "What I ... Read More