October 16th 2008
T-Mobile has finally announced that the official U.K release date will be the 30th October.
Pre-orders for the Google G1 have already notched up 25,000 in the U.K already!
It seems a global buzz is defying the predictions of some analysts.
The HTC manufactured handset is expected to notch up 600,000 sales by the end of the year, [...]
October 16th 2008
Why you shouldn’t translate your corporate websites via Google Translate: according to TUAW, Apple’s attempts to inform the French that the new MacBooks were “perfectly designed” was translated into grenouille as “perfectly dumb”… or, more vulgarly, “perfectly shit.”
Zut alors! MacBook announcement doesn’t translate well [TUAW]
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October 16th 2008
The passing mention of an application kill switch in the Android Market terms of service is sure to raise the hackles of the same eyebrow archers who saw the presence of an App Store kill switch in the iPhone as downright perfidy.
Still, read closer, and Google’s explanation on when, why and how they’ll refund [...]
October 16th 2008
Google-owned Youtube Inc. has responded robustly to pleas from the McCain campaign for special treatment over copyright infringement allegations.
Several McCain campaign videos have been taken down by Youtube after the company received ‘takedown’ notices filed under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The law allows copyright holders to demand that sites remove content which [...]
October 16th 2008
When Steve Jobs announced back in August that the iPhone included a “kill switch” capable or removing malicious applications, iPhone customers were understandably concerned. “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull,” said Jobs.
Well now it seems the iPhone isn’t the [...]
October 16th 2008
With the latest firmware update for PlayStation 3; users will be able to capture screenshots and video to share with friends. Along side those new features Sony has also decided to start utilizing Google’s YouTube to offer up PlayStation related videos.
Part of the content on the official PlayStation YouTube channel will be given over to [...]
October 16th 2008
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There is a lot riding on the shoulders of T-Mobile’s G1 Android…
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Tags: Android, Digg, G1, Gadgets, Google, Mobile Phone, Shoulders, T Mobile
October 15th 2008
• Gizmodo: The G1 phone and the Android operating system are not finished products..
• Engadget: The G1 isn’t going to blow anyone’s mind right out of the gate.
• Om Malik: Will I recommend this phone to anyone out there looking for a smart phone? The answer is yes, especially if you don’t much care for [...]
October 15th 2008
We’ve only had a few short days to get our feet wet with a T-Mobile G1 phone and while there are definite similarities to other devices and platforms, this is certainly a different beast. First and foremost, the entire Android ecosystem is much more open from a development point of view. While this is clearly [...]
October 15th 2008
Symantec has used the Symantec Visions 2008 conference to highlight a concern over the security of the Android operating system. That concern doesn’t stem from the OS itself, but because of its open source nature.
Google’s Android allows anyone to create applications to run on the OS because it is an open platform. Symantec believe this [...]
October 14th 2008
Yahoo! seems to believe that their hail mary pass to prop the company back up and return it to its golden days; is to complete an online ad partnership with Google. The only thing standing in Google’s way is the federal government’s antritrust regulators. Based on some of the details behind the partnership it seems [...]
October 12th 2008
We have seen the big buzz over the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. We heard the stories about the difficulty getting a pre-shipment order in to T-Mobile. The only thing we could assume was that Google, HTC and T-Mobile were making as many G1s as they could because the orders were flying fast and [...]
October 11th 2008
Twenty or so of the tech who’s-who partied large in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” a couple of days ago.
Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Dave Morin and Aaron Sittig of Facebook, Sam Lessin of Drop.io and Jessica [...]
October 10th 2008
Gmail takes another step towards maturing their IMAP offering with new controls and options available. You can now pick and choose which IMAP folders (aka: labels in Gmail) are kept in synch between your client and the server.
I’m also thrilled to see that you can choose how to handle archived messages. Up to now they’ve [...]
October 10th 2008
I love the look of Yamaha’s latest audio gear, especially the A-S700 amp on top: big knobs, chunky buttons, and nary an unnecessary display by which to be distracted.
Press release (Google Translated) [Yamaha.co.jp via Engadget]
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Tags: Amp, Audio Gear, Google, Jp, Knobs, Love, Press Release, Yamaha Audio
October 10th 2008
Another week has flown by, it must be true that the older you get the faster time flies. It’s been a good week for mobile tech and the Manor has been a busy place. The week has seen too much netbook news that’s for sure. You can’t turn around without seeing netbooks all over the [...]
October 10th 2008
Back at the beginning of September we reported that Google had managed to get exclusive commercial access to the high-resolution images the GeoEye-1 satellite would beam back to Earth.
A month and a half later and GeoEye-1 has seen a successful launch with images starting to be sent back as it orbits the planet. These images [...]
October 9th 2008
Google just rolled out a new set of ads, making the total number of ad-based revenue streams roughly equal to the number of petabytes they search daily. This one appears at the bottom of the map when…
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Tags: Ads, Bottom Of The Map, Google, Google Google, Google Maps, Petabytes, Revenue Streams
October 9th 2008
I love the look of Yamaha’s latest audio gear, especially the A-S700 amp on top: big knobs, chunky buttons, and nary an unnecessary display by which to be distracted.
Press release (Google Translated) [Yamaha.co.jp via Engadget]
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Tags: Amp, Audio Gear, Google, Jp, Knobs, Love, Press Release, Yamaha Audio
October 8th 2008
We warned you that Google would soon be snapping shots of your backyard with GeoEye-1, a military-controlled satellite with the highest-resolution terrestrial camera now in orbit. Well, yesterday at…
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Tags: Geoeye, Google, Orbit, Satellite Pic