Archive for April 10th, 2008

Ubuntu Mobile and Moblin get investigated

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds Still confused about the whole MID thing? Fret not, as you're certainly not alone in nodding your head furiously up and down. About the recent Bossaconference 08, one particular fellow managed to get some quality face time with Ubuntu Mobile and Moblin and break things down in bulleted ...

Modder swaps touchscreen into Everex Cloudbook

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Not content with just ordering a touchscreen-packin' Cloudbook from Japan, Azazel decided to take matters into his own wonder-working hands and hack up his vanilla unit to include the oh-so-coveted touch support. Based on his reports, disassembling the rig and stuffing the new panel in was a lesson ...

Van Der Led’s WM2 cellphone is Slayer approved

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables Can it be? Why... why yes, a watch with integrated cellphone we might (might!) actually wear. The Van Der Led WM2 is a quad-band GSM watch with itty bitty 1.3-inch, 260k color touchscreen display, stereo Bluetooth, up to 240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk, and 1GB of ...

EMT Paintball Sentry Turret renders your personal militia useless

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Automated paintball machines have been spotted holding down a-many of forts, but it's still been relatively hard to find one pre-built and ready for purchase. Enter Evolution Model Technology, whose Paintball Sentry Turret is mighty enough to mow down even the deepest of crosstown rival cliques trying ...

Iomega acquired by EMC for $213 million

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Filed under: StorageNot even a month after we heard that Iomega was warming to a revised takeover bid from EMC, the two lovebirds have finally let their true feelings be known. Announced today, EMC is acquiring the famed Zip Drive manufacturer for $213 million. The final figure is nearly $7 ...

AMD’s quad-core Opteron processor now available in select systems

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops Some seven months after AMD first tooted its horn about creating the "world's most advanced x86 CPU," the quad-core Opteron is finally shipping. Effective today, consumers eager to wrap their brains around all that purported power can find the chips residing in a variety of HP machines (read: ...