Jeff Bertolucci - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Jeff Bertolucci

Article | 23/07/2009 iPhone suicide case spotlights tech's dark side

The computer or smartphone you're using now, do you know who made it? Where it was made? Never mind the logo or brand on the case. It won't tell you m...

Article | 22/07/2009 Xbox Live's games on demand to debut next month

Microsoft promised games-on-demand for the Xbox 360 at last month's E3 show., and now it's ready to launch the service on August 11.

Article | 21/07/2009 Seven reasons Microsoft's profits are tanking

Microsoft's profits are seriously down, and you don't have to be Warren Buffet to figure out why.

Article | 16/07/2009 Apple bans Palm Pre from iTunes: get the work-around

The latest iTunes update, version 8.2.1, may offer up a few bug fixes, but its real purpose is to prevent the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes. The m...

Article | 15/07/2009 Apple: more than 1.5 billion apps served

It's no secret that iTunes' App Store has proven wildly successful--so much so that Apple's smartphone competitors are scrambling to duplicate the con...

Article | 8/07/2009 Music pirate mum deserves a new trial

Attorneys for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota mother of four slapped with a $1.92 million fine by a federal jury last month for illegally downloadin...

Article | 7/07/2009 World's oldest Christian Bible goes digital

Time is never kind to paper manuscripts, particular those written more than 1600 years ago. Some 800 pages remain of the Codex Sinaiticus, a version ...

Article | 3/07/2009 Will iPhones get tactile feedback, fingerprint ID?

It's always fun to speculate about what Apple has up its sleeve, and one way to get the rumors flying is to uncover Cupertino's latest patent applicat...

Article | 2/07/2009 Hybrid satellite-cell pocket phone may arrive this year

Previous attempts to create a mass-market satellite phone may have failed miserably--just ask the backers of Globalstar, Iridium, and Odyssey--but a V...

Article | 1/07/2009 Pirate Bay users vent over site sale

Calling The Pirate Bay's owners "sellouts" who made a "deal with the devil," users of the notorious torrent-tracking site expressed their frustrations...

Article | 26/06/2009 Are some Vista users getting screwed on Windows 7?

Not all Microsoft customers are cheering the just-announced Windows 7 pricing that puts the cost of an upgrade at as little as US$50.

Article | 24/06/2009 Google: We've made a breakthrough in image search

Humans may excel at pattern recognition, but computers aren't very smart at identifying images. Our brains can immediately identify photos of famous ...

Article | 19/06/2009 Why doesn't anyone want a Blu-ray Player?

Blu-ray may have won the war against HD-DVD, but American consumers aren't exactly warming to the high-definition disc format.

Article | 17/06/2009 Five questions about Opera Unite

Opera Software lit up the blogosphere today with the debut of its Opera Unite, a collaborative technology that embeds a Web server in its Opera 10 bro...

Article | 13/06/2009 Dell Tweets its way to $US3 million in sales

So you thought Twitter was a waste of time? Just fun and games? Stupid even? Dell doesn't think so.