Cuba is set to get broadband internet access in the year 2010 and you can sure as hell bet that CrunchGear will more than happy to provide Cubans everywhere with half-cocked news and reviews that may or may not pertain to the world of technology.

Apparently, some documents have been leaked (site is currently down, unfortunately) detailing an undersea cable to be stretched between Cuba and Venezuela as a workaround to that pesky trade embargo that Uncle Sam’s handed down to our friends off the southern tip of Florida. Speaking of Florida, it’d be a lot easier and cheaper to stretch a cable from there to Cuba but, again, they’re in cahoots with the Soviets and they like communism and we don’t trade with communist countries except for China, Vietnam, and most of the others.

According to InformationWeek, “the Cuban government has estimated a Havana-Florida cable would cost $500,000” and it’s unknown how much the way-longer cable from Venezuela will cost. The leaked documents say that the new cable will be able to handle data, video, and VoIP services, though. You’ll recall that personal computers came to Cuba earlier this year along with cell phones. So things are looking up!

We were as pumped as everyone else to see what was going on with Bungie, and their big countdown suggested it was both big and imminent. So we were just as disappointed when they were a no-show altogether. What’s up with that? Bungie posted yesterday:

“For the last several months, we’ve been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on,” studio President Harold Ryan wrote. “We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were changed by our publisher.”

“Publisher” being Microsoft. So why would Microsoft leave such a heavy hitter out of their press conference? Click on for some details on this debacle.

If you’ve got a goose that lays golden eggs, why would you kick it out of the coop just before the neighbors come to see? (I know, it’s a pretty awful metaphor, but bear with me) Well, maybe you’d do it if you’ve got two other golden geese to show anyway, and maybe that first goose is getting a little ruffled. See, Microsoft had Gears 2 there for their big sequel news, and then they had the jaw-dropping announcement that Final Fantasy XIII would be coming to the 360 as well. With those two they had a knockout combo, and as their presentation was already running over two hours, they decided to save that third goose for when things get dull.

Can you blame them? It’s bad for us — who doesn’t want to find out what Bungie has cooking? — but it’s sound business practice. If they’d known how unremarkable stuff was going to be at E3 this year (I mean it was nice but nothing crazy), they might have chosen otherwise and really stood above the crowd, but at least they’re manning up and saying “Yeah, we did it, and we did it because we don’t need the Halo effect any more.” I guess you have to give them some credit for that.

Nothing solid from Bungie yet, but I’m sure they’ll use this time to polish and tweak whatever it was they were going to drop on us, and then start the counter over again. please be Marathon

Last week Apple filed a copyright infringement suit against Psystar, alleging the company “misappropriated Apple’s proprietary software and intellectual property.” That’s no shocker, but that Apple is asking for, along with damages and an injunction, that every Psystar Mac OS-based OpenComputer be recalled, could turn into more than just the usual lawsuit.

Psystar began selling the Open Computer in April, which uses, according to Apple, a modified version of its OS X. Since Psystar launched the PC everyone has been waiting for Apple’s suit. But the terms of the suit could have serious consequences for other companies who might be thinking about selling PCs using Apple’s OS and for Apple, see CNET’s analysis of the case and its possible outcomes.

In short: if Apple wins the suit and all clones are returned and destroyed, then any other copycatters waiting out there will have learned a discouraging lesson, but if Apple wins the suit and instead of recalling the clones, the court decides Psystar owes Apple some sort of licensing deal and fees, then we could see an army of Mac OS clones hitting the market.

The full text of Apple’s claim is available, here.

I guess it’s not so much a rumor as sound business practice (and scamming), but as long as it’s not confirmed, I’ll continue calling it a rumor. The Register has heard (although they decline to quote the Nintendo rep as saying so) that the big N is planning on integrating the precision enhancement accessory into the Wiimote in the future. That’s a natural course of action (it guarantees yet another wave of Wiimote sales), but I’m not sure I believe anyone at Nintendo would be so callous as to mention it only a couple days after they announced the thing in the first place. We’ll keep you posted.

While many parents worry themselves to death that they’re going to give their children some sort of weird complex, I say to get it over with early by making your baby wear a toupee. After all, society has it in for bald people – bald babies are likely no different. Look at that kid wearing “The Donald” – ha! What a goof! He looks like Donald Trump if Donald Trump were a small baby-like child. If that baby could talk, he’d probably say “You’re fired!” but instead he’ll probably have to say it using that baby sign language that seems to be all the rage right now.

Currently there are four styles available: The L’il Kim, The Donald, The Bob, and The Samuel L. Each goes for $21.99, future therapy sessions not included.

BabyToupee [via Geekologie]

This guy Andrew has added lyrics to famous theme songs, including the Batman theme which is halfway between being absolutely brilliant and intensely nuts.

via BB

Activision chose not to participate in E3, but they still made their presence felt in LA by holding their own press conference off site. They covered a handful of titles that included Guitar Hero: World Tour (details on this coming later today), Quantum of Solace, Spider Man: Web of Shadows, Wolfenstein and Marvel Ultimate Alliance II: Fusion. Regard the latter, Activision gave a tiny tidbit that’s pretty cool. You can fuse together super hero powers to make some ginormously awesome super power.

But you want to know more about Call of Duty: World at War, right? Here are a few of the major facts in case you can’t watch videos right now. Kiefer Sutherland will be voicing over one of the main characters. There will be 4-player co-op as well as two-player split screen. Everything was built off of the COD4 engine, so you know it’s going to kick some major ass. The video shows off a trailer and actual gameplay footage from two-player split screen. Enjoy.

According to recent research by Gartnerand IDC, Apple is creeping up in the charts to become the third largest PC vendor in the U.S.

While Gartner’s estimates show Apple inching ahead of Acer, with 1,397,000 units shipping during the second quarter to Acer’s 1,331,000 units; IDC’s pegs Apple at only 1,329,000 units to Acer’s 1,331,000. Either way Apple is gaining on Acer’s U.S. market share, and bucking sour economic trends. Gartner says that overall PC shipments in the U.S. grew just 4.2% year-over-year, while Apple’s shipments increased 38.1%.

Top U.S. PC vendors in both research firm’s findings were Dell and HP, with more than 5 million and 4 million units shipped respectively, during the quarter.

And IDC research manager David Daoud told Network World that he suspects Apple will sustain its strong growth in the U.S. market.

And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, and every lizard-shaped pen, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good and the pen was only $1.99 and $5 shipping. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And let your ink not run out while doing your homework.” And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Get over to Alibaba because they’ve got all kinds of unlocked iPhones 3G for your purchasing pleasure. They only cost $1,000 each and they’re apparently carrier agnostic, which is great since there really isn’t a software or hardware unlock for the device yet. It even has some specs:

* iPhone 3G ORIGINAL from Apple coming soon
* GPS
* SMS
* YOUTUBE
* 8GB
* 16GB
* iPod
* Nano
* Nikon Digital camera & Lens

That’s right: it comes in both 8 and 16GB and a Nikon digital camera and lens. You know it’s good when they say “ORIGINAL.”

via AOL