As a result of two recent pedestrian deaths in Senator Carl Kruger district in New York, Senator Kruger is reported to introduce legislation that would ban MP3 players in metropolitan areas within New York. The proposed ban would ban MP3 players, cellphones, and any other electronic device while crossing the street.

The thing to notice in this article is the use of the word iPod: "New York may ban iPods while crossing street". Is the iPod name going to lose its unique brand identity and become a generic term? It is get ...

According to a recent survey commisioned by MSN Games Americans are feeling more stressed out and starved for time than ever, with 56 percent of men (age 18 to 34) and 71 percent of women (age 18 to 34) spending less than an hour on themselves a day engaged in activities that provide downtime or alone time and are pampering or relaxing to them.

Although stress reduction and mental dexterity are often cited as reasons people of all ages play casual online games, males in the 18 to 34 age bracket are most likely to list playing games as a daily escape -- a chance to indulge in some "me time." Men are also more likely than their female counterparts to play a game at work, with mal ...

This week's highlights:

• Installing Vista on the Samsung Q1 UMPC - Not really a new story, but it has generated the most search engine traffic this week. Must be a lot of people wanting to upgrade to Vista.
• Zune executive to leave the company
• Vista Launch Notes - The big story thi ...

Now that Vista is officially launched, Microsoft has updated the Vista updates site to include Ultimate Extras. Owners of the Vista Ultimate version have available to them extras, currently the extras consist of security features, and games. We'll most likely see more of these down the road.

UPDATE: Several Microsoft partners are now releasing PR after PR in conjunction with the Vista launch:

• NVIDIA Offers Consumers the Widest Selection of Windows Vista-Certified Graphics Processors and Motherboards
• McAfee Upgrades Consumer Security Suites to Ensure Compatibility With Microsoft Windows Vista Opera ...

Microsoft announced the big hoopla over Vista today. Yesterday Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was all over TV. I watched the Daily Show where he did well, but nothing major stood out from the interview.

Vista is being launched in 39,000 retail outlets around the world and locations online. Some larger retailers are participating in special launch events to celebrate the launch Vista.

Before, digital content meant written documents, e-mail or business files. Today, however, digital content is the "stuff" your life is made of -- like family photos and home videos, things you create on the computer -- or personalized entertainment collections that can include thousands of songs, video games, and even full-lengt ...

Here's our weekly highlighted items of the week:

• Zune Takes 10%
• Vista Media Center Online Content Now Available
• More CES Coverage: Xbox 360 iPTV

These aren't deserving of their own post, but a mention should be made.

1. Zune: Rumor mill has it that Microsoft will be offering free music on the Zune followed by a few seconds of a commercial afterwords. Gee, sounds like radio to me.
2. Windows Mobile: According to the 'Net, Windows Mobile 6 has been leaked and two ROMs are available for download via your favorite torrent client.

The Mr. Obvious Award goes to the NY Times:

The NY Times has an article today entitled: "Demand Outpaced Supply for New Game Consoles"

When you have Wiis and PS3s selling on eBay for twice the retail value or more, of course demand outpaced supply. Do I really need an analyst's opinion to tell me this?

The article is interesting if you want to know the actual sales numbers. Another point is that the PS3 turned out not to be the Xbox 360's main competition, rath ...

Not that I'm one to toot my own horn, but RedmondGadgets.com hasn't been around for a month yet, and the site is doing extremely well. The site has finally received a Google rank, and our initial rank is a 5. A page rank of 5 is pretty respectable for a site that is under one month. In addition, we have made it to the front of digg.com (the first day of launch), and consistently beat many weblogs with news and information about your favorite devices. We currently average over 300 users per day, not as good as my other site wwwCoder.com which gets over 4,000, but excellent nonetheless.

Th ...

In my previous rant, I compared the new Apple iPhone against Windows Mobile and how there really isn't anything revolutionary about the features it provides. Over at engadget.com, they point out that the design really isn't that revolutionary either. It appears that the Apple iPhone is very similar to the LG KE850.

In another development, the name iPhone isn't even revolutionary. It ...

The news today out of the Mac world is the iPhone will become available sometime in the future. This was anticipated in the Apple fanboy community for a while now. According to the story on MSNBC.com, the phone will support touch screen, wireless Internet browsing, and music and video playing. All of this is supposed to be cutting edge and new. According to Steve Jobs:

“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” he said during his keynote address at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. “It’s ve ...

One of the big news items out of CES is the addition of Windows Home Server to be released by Microsoft this year. This will provide a central place for storing files, printer management, backing up, and accessing your media. According to the release, Windows Home Server will integrate into Windows Live for access via the Internet.

Windows Home Server is a major step towards device and media centralization. Microsoft puts out so many devices like the UMPC, Xbox, Zune, Vista, Media Center, and Windows Mobile, but all of these are somehow seen and marketed separately. Many people like myself, are corporate users of Microsoft technologies, but in addition, we have Media Ce ...

Here's your chance to keep an eye on what's going with Microsoft at the CES in Las Vegas, NV. Microsoft has placed a new up on the Web for you to keep up to date with their going ons.

http://microsoftatces.com/Default.aspx