Archive for August 25th, 2007
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
InfoWorld - Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) will cover the direct costs of a battery recall affecting 46 million Nokia mobile phones, which could be as high as $172 million.Source: [Link]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
AP - Armed with a soldering iron and a large supply of energy drinks, a slight, curly haired teenager has developed a way to make the iPhone, arguably the gadget of the year, available to a much wider audience.Source: [Link]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Canadian Press - SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp., facing its second Xbox 360 headache of the summer, will replace parts of its Wireless Racing Wheel video game controllers after 50 reports that they overheated and released smoke.Source: [Link]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Canadian Press - NEW YORK (AP) - The iPhone makes me mad. Not, mind you, at the iPhone itself, but mad at cell-phone manufacturers who have saddled us for years with interfaces that lure us into labyrinths of menus.Source: [Link]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Canadian Press - (CP) - A video clip on website YouTube.com may have forced Quebec's provincial police to admit undercover officers were involved in a protest this week, and in an age of proliferating cellphones with video capability, ordinary citizens are poised to become watchdogs of police accountability, experts say.Source: ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
PC World - A European Commission plan to simplify the licensing of Europe-wide mobile satellite services could boost the nascent market for broadcast TV services over handheld devices.Source: [Link]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Reuters - Juggling rather than
throwing his mobile phone, a teenaged circus performer won the
freestyle gold medal at the world championships on Saturday.Source: [Link]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
We'll be straight with you: we wouldn't send a dime to this place just yet, but a strange e-tailer appears to be offering up three different Eee PC models for pre-order, with availability showing "1 to 2 weeks." A little digging has revealed that this webstore opened ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Surely not as flashy as the gilded i.Beat organix seen at last year's CeBIT, TrekStor's i.Beat blaxx still looks mighty fine in its own right. Debuting at IFA, this diminutive player weighs in at just 26-grams and features a 1.3-inch 160 x 128 resolution display, ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Features
It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Laptops
For those of you out there who are actually interested in this thing (and we know there's a few), we've got some additional details and a slew of photos on the new Dell XPS M1730 that should make you very happy. The first juicy tidbit concerns the graphics ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Robots
We're told this type of battle is indeed legal in certain corners of the universe, but we honestly never thought we'd see the day when a gallinaceous bird came to the human's side to fend off the impending robotic takeover. Ryan: "That sound? Seth Green and Adult Swim ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio
The almighty "i" prefix has somehow bled all the way over to the car audio realm, as Rainbow Audio has now glossed up a couple of amps and thrown 'em in the iPaul lineup. The iPaul 4.300 can put out 4 x 90-watts when ran at 4-ohms ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: GPS, Transportation
It looks like the contentious issue of GPS-equipped cabs in New York City is still far from being resolved, with one advocacy group saying that the planned strike over the matter is still on, while another is now saying that "there will be no strike." In the ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
As the wave of recalls continue to flow in, a pair of backpack blowers from Shindaiwa look to be claiming next. Reportedly, the "muffler's outer shell can melt, allowing exhaust gas to exit from the bottom or back side of the muffler." Consequently, the "exhaust gas may ...
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