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I surely hope he’s joking — Mike Lazaridis hates on tablets and touchscreens. [Update]

It’s one thing for a co-CEO of a company to talk trash about another competitor’s technology. It’s a totally different thing if the co-CEO’s company also is struggling to put out the same technology. Who am I referring to?

RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and his comments regarding Apple’s recent success with touchscreen-only devices and over the launch of the new iPad.

While touchscreen phones aren’t for everyone, blatantly (and ignorantly I might add) claiming that “touchscreens aren’t popular” is a true flag highlighting Lazaridis’ incompetence. If touchscreens weren’t popular, how are Apple as well as other contenders such as Android (and soon Windows Phone 7) demolishing the mobile segment as we speak?

Ubisoft stands by their always-on, “vital”, consumer raping DRM. Apparently, they hate money…

Ya, there’s a lot of gaming related news today. Sorry if it’s not your thing. But it happens to be something I feel is important — Ubisoft needlessly destroying their future with their senseless and apparently “vital” always-on DRM.

It started a month or so back when Ubisoft debuted two new games — Settlers VII and Assassins Creed 2 — with a new type of DRM that required a constant connection to the internet. The company pushed the pros of such a requirement. Pros such as cloud-based backups, game saves, and stats all free from the horrors of local hard drive crashes. But the cons are vastly superior unfortunately…

Crytek decrees: “Free demos are a luxury that is dying…” Me: Peace out then

If you hold game demos near and dear to your heart, the tides are a changin’ in ways that just aren’t too friendly for consumers. First, a few weeks back EA announced that they were toying with the idea of charging $10-$15 for “premium demos”. Naturally, a fair share of gamers weren’t too pleased. But another developer has spoken out in favor of such things.

Kindle tries, and fails at 2nd life as GameBoy Classic.

Think the Kindle is washed up, used, and useless in leu of all the other e-readers/tablets that have come on the scene recently? In many ways, those looking for a feature packed e-reader would be somewhat correct. Then again, if you buy a device specifically made to read digital books, how many bells and whistles do you really need?

AT&T: “Me too — We also serve 220+ countries”

Hey, if your biggest, baddest competition is claiming seemingly impossible feats of reality (such as servicing more countries than there actually are), your company had better come up with something bigger and better. Right? Just like Verizon can’t count, AT&T itself seems to have flunked kindergarten math and geography as they too have a case of the 220+ coverage-itis.

Victorian Organ Command Desk goes to the “nth degree”

Some call it addiction, some call it passion. Whatever you call it, the Steampunk genre of gadget modding has a loyal following no less. We’ve some pretty determined and unique creations pass by here. But the Victorian Organ Command Desk that resides in Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum’s house looks to be the best and most complete ‘punkified mod of a gadget I’ve seen yet. (Of course, I say that every time…) But this particular mod is but one small part of an overall bigger picture — The Steampunk House. Yes, their entire house is tweaked to turn back the pages of time back a couple centuries.