October 16th 2008
Last month, we reported on a new physical format for music called slotMusic. The new format consists of a 1GB microSD card with DRM-free music in MP3 format. As stated in the original report, it is expected that retail stores will have music in the new slotMusic format by the holiday season.
Though a microSD card [...]
October 13th 2008
When I recently interviewed Frank Meehan, GM of 3G Handsets and Products, Hutchinson Whampoa/3 at our Mobilize event, he kept coming back to a key point: people want to do anything and everything they can with their phones. It’s not always about which handset has the most glitz and glamor, but about the services and [...]
October 13th 2008
I’ve been a flip-phone fan ever since my Motorola StarTAC days, but much of the smartphone market has stayed away from the form factor. There have been a few exceptions and RIM adds another one today with the launch of their BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 on T-Mobile’s network.
The 3.6-ounce handset is small like most flippers, [...]
October 13th 2008
Back in July we reported that a new BitTorrent site had appeared on the Internet focusing solely on textbooks. Textbook Torrents, as it was called, had slowly grown in popularity since it’s original launch in January 2007, but this year started catching the attention of book publishers. In July Pearson Education was demanding that 78 [...]
October 10th 2008
A report’s afoot that Apple retailers just received inventory info listing an $800 laptop. An anonymous source, according to Inquisitr’s Duncan Riley, claims that Apple sends these lists out 10 days ahead of time and includes 12 price points, 4 up from the last batch of notebooks, indicating an entire line of new models.
Apple netbook? [...]
October 10th 2008
This is sort of intense: a beta tester for the soon-to-launch PlayStation 3 game Little Big Planet has created a working 8-bit calculator inside the physics-and-apparently-logic simulator. Because there are basic electronics simulations in LBP, the creator “Upsilandre” reminds that this is an electronic calculator, not simpply a mechanical one, using 610 magnetic switches, 500 [...]
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
A report’s afoot that Apple retailers just received inventory info listing an $800 laptop. An anonymous source, according to Inquisitr’s Duncan Riley, claims that Apple sends these lists out 10 days ahead of time and includes 12 price points, 4 up from the last batch of notebooks, indicating an entire line of new models.
Apple netbook? [...]
October 9th 2008
This is sort of intense: a beta tester for the soon-to-launch PlayStation 3 game Little Big Planet has created a working 8-bit calculator inside the physics-and-apparently-logic simulator. Because there are basic electronics simulations in LBP, the creator “Upsilandre” reminds that this is an electronic calculator, not simpply a mechanical one, using 610 magnetic switches, 500 [...]
October 9th 2008
Back in January we reported that Sling Media would soon launch what it called the SlingCatcher. The SlingCatcher is a device which allows content to be delivered wirelessly to practically any television. This includes broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content.
The good news is that the SlingCatcher launched this week in the U.S. as [...]
October 8th 2008
Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience, the upcoming dashboard system that’ll let you create avatars and social network, now has a set date for its worldwide launch—November 19. The guys from Redmond showed…
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Tags: Dashboard, Launch, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox, New Xbox, Nxe, Xbox, Xbox System
October 8th 2008
Research In Motion has announced the launch of a new BlackBerry this fall which is quite a departure for the company from previous models. That’s because the company’s newest BlackBerry is the world’s first “clickable” touch-screen smartphone. The BlackBerry Storm is being launched in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless and by Vodafone in Europe, India, [...]
October 8th 2008
In a bid to entice us all to start buying Blu-ray versions of films instead of DVD, Sony Pictures is launching a new rewards scheme called the Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club.
The concept of the club is simple; the more Blu-ray films you buy and register, the more points you earn, with each disc earning you [...]
October 6th 2008
After today’s reveal that RIM will launch an official app store in the near future, TechCrunch reports on BerryStore, which not only promises to provide apps for the Storm, but the rest of the…
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Tags: Blackberry Apps, Launch, Party Competition, Rim, Third Party
October 5th 2008
T-Mobile, despite tripling “availability” of the Android-powered G1 smartphone, says all of them have “sold through.” G1 hits stores on October 22. Here’s a note, up at their official site, regarding orders:
Given the great anticipation and the heavy pre-sale demand for the T-Mobile G1 with Google, we nearly tripled the number of phones initially available [...]
October 4th 2008
T-Mobile, despite tripling “availability” of the Android-powered G1 smartphone, says all of them have “sold through.” G1 hits stores on October 22. Here’s a note, up at their official site, regarding orders:
Given the great anticipation and the heavy pre-sale demand for the T-Mobile G1 with Google, we nearly tripled the number of phones initially available [...]
October 3rd 2008
Nokia announced yesterday the launch of its “Comes With Music” digital entertainment service. The service works with a Comes With Music device which will give a consumer unlimited access to a catalog featuring millions of songs for at least one year. Once the year is up any music the consumer has downloaded will be theirs [...]
October 2nd 2008
It seems like the stars are aligning for that rumored MacBook intro event on October 14. Nvidia, which was supposed to launch their MCP7A chipset on September 30, has announced the chipset will…
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Tags: Launch, Nvidia
October 2nd 2008
Despite the “free” and “open” buzzwords bandied about during the G1 launch, app developers stand to make a good deal of money the platform — that is, when the Android Marketplace lets them….
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Tags: Apps, Buzzwords, Developers, Launch, Marketplace, Mdash, Money
October 1st 2008
Her nom de blog is Ethlite the Pole Dancing Philosopher, but in the halls of Cupertino, she appears to be Helen Hung Ma, an Apple software engineer tied to the disastrous MobileMe launch. And unfortunately for her, an unwise early morning post on her personal blog, since whisked down, is about the only glimpse we [...]