Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Filed under: Transportation, WirelessAs you know, American Airlines is prepping in-flight WiFi in addition to, uh, anti-missile systems. Good news on the former, pricing is set. Good if $10 WiFi for flights less than three-hours or $12.95 for longer flights excites your fiscal sweet-spot like it does American's. Rollout will ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/Gizmondo_to_rise_again_in_2008'; Oh cruel, cruel word... is it true? A teaser site for Gizmondo just appeared in the fetid bowels of the Internets boasting that the "legend is reborn." A cruel hoax or has Stefan Eriksson, freshly sprung from the clink, ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Cell_phone_bill_on_the_rise_Check_your_SMS_charges'; If you've been paying attention to mobile carriers' SMS pricing lately (and something tells us you haven't) you'd be surprised to discover a fairly disturbing trend amongst providers: price hikes. Over the past year or so, nearly every major carrier in the US has ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Filed under: WirelessLTE took another big step forward with an announced specification approval by the 3GPP. Who are they, exactly? Try China Mobile, DoCoMo, ETRI, Motorola, Nokia, Intel, LG, Qualcomm, RIM, Verizon, Vodafone, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile... round about 80 of the industries biggest movers. That puts the spec on deck ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones
The well known and respected iPhone hacker Nate True has discovered some very, very interesting information concerning Apple's latest update, 1.1.3. According to Mr. True, the boys and girls in Cupertino have all but prepped the device's OS for native applications, altering the functionality of SpringBoard to display ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones, Features, Portable Video
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Poll_How_did_HTC_mishandle_the_video_driver_controversy_2'; In case you haven't been following all the drama over at Engadget Mobile, Taiwanese smartphone kingpin HTC is seeing a rather unexpected customer backlash over sub-par video playback in recent devices employing Qualcomm's MSM7xxx chipsets -- apparently, handsets like the ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Obviously, we can't confirm nor deny the authenticity of the above image, but a particular Japanese citizen managed to snag several ads that do a fairly decent job of showing off the supposedly forthcoming K20D and K200D DSLRs. On the downside, most everything here is penned in ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: Wearables, Wireless
Bluetooth watches and Bluetooth helmets -- been there, done that on both points. Still, Voz Sports is keeping our attention with its attention to detail on the Multy LYNK helmet and Sports Frequency wristwatch (shown after the jump). As for the latter, you can expect a black ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Storage
Believe it or not, Olympus' original Type M xD-Picture Card crashed the scene over a year ago, so it's about time its successor showed up, don'tcha think? The revamped (and ever-so-slightly renamed) M+ card promises data transfer speeds of up to 1.5 times faster than the ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: CellphonesZut alors, big things are underway at RIM for BlackBerry users as Waterloo's finest prepare to roll out the big guns by way of an update during the first half of the year. We've got your features here friends, mail is set to see significant changes with both ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Don't pretend that you've "thrown away" or "misplaced" your old iPod nano / Shuffle case -- we know you Apple folk respect Cupertino's packaging just as much as what's inside (we kid, we kid). If you just so happen to have the case that your first- ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
While we've become accustomed to Blu-ray players being released every six months, it's a little ridiculous when we're forced to wait for a new player longer than it's on the market. Eventually we expect the cycle to slow down -- like when BD Live players are ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Filed under: Transportation, Wireless
It's taken a while, but it looks like Southwest Airlines is the latest (and no doubt far from the last) to jump on the in-flight WiFi bandwagon although, as with most, it's still quite a ways from rolling out the service across the board. Still, according to ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Filed under: Laptops
Forget the MacBook Air: those folks seeking the absolute lightest notebooks on the planet know that Windows machines are still the only way to go, and Toshiba has proven that once again with an official 3G upgrade to the already impressive Portege R500. According to Akihabara News (which ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Filed under: Desktops
Got that song stuck in your head? You know, the song. Go ahead, hum a few bars, nobody's going to notice. "This was a triumph..." Bet it's in there now! Now, while you spend the next 6-8 weeks trying wrench that beautiful melody from you head, you can ...
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