Archive for July 25th, 2008

“Whole-day” Eee PC batteries coming later this year?

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsTaiwanese industry and rumor site DigiTimes is reporting (without citing a source) that ASUS expects to deliver "whole-day" battery options to its Eee PC range of netbooks. In addition, ASUS also plans to offer some level of Internet storage, apparently beyond the 20GB they already offer to new ...

Yahoo! Music Store taking DRM servers offline, freezing out customers

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Portable AudioIn a move which at best could be described as unsurprising, Yahoo! has announced that it's taking its Music Store DRM license key servers offline come September 30th... and freezing customers from ever registering their music with another computer. Ever. Like a twin-sister rehash of ...

xTablet T8700 left alone in a pool with stranger, does indeed work under water

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Filed under: Tablet PCs Poor xTablet. First it's used as a hammer and now it's submerged under water by an accented man in a wetsuit. In the latest test of the xTablet T8700, the guys over at RuggedPCReview swam gingerly with the machine all the while tapping away at its screen, ...

Analyst says Android and Symbian to merge, Nokia and Google to get matching tattoos

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates, Google's Android OS and Nokia's Symbian will "combine to provide a single open source OS," sometime in the very near future... say, three to six months. Sure, Android is just about to launch on devices in late 2008, and ...

Vonage gets an infusion of cash, changes in the boardroom

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Filed under: HouseholdVOIP provider Vonage is doing a bit of reshuffling at the top, while putting the finishing touches on a $215 million infusion of cash from Silver Point Finance LLC. Dry enough? Perhaps, but we're sure Jeffery Citron, CEO and current interim chief executive of the recently embattled company ...