Is Nintendo Wii-ing on us?

Why do I feel like the Nintendo Wii could just be a big scam which Nintendo did to hype up the Nintendo Revolution AS MUCH AS IT IS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE? And it seems that I'm not the only one… Kotaku did a little feature suggesting this fact…

"Crazy? Here is the first clue, “By letting the gaming community vent now about the name, they will be less distracted as launch titles for the system are announced and initial reports about what it’s like to play the games begin to come in.” Allowing your audience time to vent is not SOP in a name announcement, and also telegraphs that Nintendo knows what a stinker this name would be.

Second, it’s not possible to engineer a worse name for this product.

Third, and this is a big one, there are no trademarks registered by Nintendo nor by any dummy corp in the U.S or over there for Wii. This is unprecedented for Nintendo and it is not possible that his is an oversight. If Wii were the name, they would have registered it. In fact, no new trademarks have been registered by Nintendo at all. This leads us to conclude that Nintendo has in fact registered the real name under a dummy corp, which is SOP when trying to keep a name a secret prior to launch." – Kotaku

Update: This just in from Nintendo on the subject of the missing Wii trademark: “Nintendo has filed many trademark applications for Wii. Trademark Web sites often take time to update, and you can expect the Wii trademarks to appear shortly.”

Update: Seems like Wii was genuine after all. Hey, I only posted his to see what the reaction would be.
Kotaku: Did Nintendo Punk Us with Wii? 

Wii’re joking…

Well, they do say the Wii is good at streaming…

See more (and some even in support of the Wii!) at Sideath's Flickr.

Podcast Alley ‘blacklisted’ by Microsoft, and Adam Curry’s response

Those of you who have emailed me regarding your vote for Chimpware on Podcast Alley, and the fact that you haven’t recieved the verification email. My guess here is that Microsoft has blacklisted Podcast Alley, therefore if you have a .hotmail or a .msn account, it’s likely that your vote hasn’t been counted. This is due to the huge number of emails that Podcast Alley send off to Hotmail accounts.

Pope Gets an iPod

All Apple who art in heaven
iMac be thy name
Thy iTunes comes
Sells a billion songs
and iPod gets given to the pope… sorry that was crap.

Yes, the Pope has been given an iPod…

The playlist? Besides the Vatican Radio podcast, they’ve got Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Puhleese.

‘Pope Benedict XVI got an iPod on Friday, thanks to a group of workers at Vatican Radio.

Calloo, Callay!

For those with an eye on the news might have already noticed, but there is a precedent for legal Peer-to-Peer filesharing being set in France; albeit only for non-commercial purposes.

See the link for more information.
Link : Register: France Legalises Peer-to-Peer

How does China Censor the internet?

One of the main events recently in the world of technology is of course, Google censoring in China. But how does the Chinese government actually perform this feat? Wikipedia reveals all.

A highly recommended read

‘Internet censorship in mainland China’ Wiki article
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