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Watch on YouTubeBill Gates Looks Back…On Gizmodo
Posted by Zealot on Jul 24, 2009 | Comments
For the last week, Gizmodo has been running an excellent series about the world of technology back in 1979, the year that arguable the PC revolution was born. There have been lots of great stories which have brought up massive nostalgia and warm fuzzies for those of us who were alive back then…*cough*like me*cough*.
However, what is most impressive to me is that Microsoft founder, visionary and likely one of the most...
WebOS v1.1 Released…Palm 2, Apple 1
Posted by Zealot on Jul 24, 2009 | Comments
Engadget has a partial list of the confirmed updates in the new version of Palm Pre software released yesterday. Nothing game changing but a lot of nice fixes that cover some major complaints users have been having…
Scrolling through long lists (like contacts) seems improved. We’re seeing a lot less loading, and only the occasional hiccup.
Push email now seems to actively delete (and represent the count properly)...
VAIOs with Touchscreens, Lower Pricetags Coming
Posted by Zealot on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
Laptop magazine has run a great interview with Mike Abary, senior vice president of Sony’s Information Technology Products Division. This division, newly reorganized, has responsibility for some key Sony lines, including PlayStation, VAIO, Walkman, and Reader.
Abary made a number of comments that indicate that Sony may finally be waking up to the fact they have been viewed as a company specializing in over-priced,...
Is Visual Voicemail down for you?
Posted by Adam Wyss on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
After finding out a few days ago that VVM was broken, I have been manually checking my voicemail the way all other phones have to do it and I found out last night that I received 2 voicemails, both work related. I’m just going to throw out a suggestion here, but I’m planning on doing this myself and I hope you all do too. Once you find out that this problem has affected you, call AT&T immediately! ...
Windows 7 Released to OEMs
Posted by ctitanic on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
This is a good news guys. The Beta is over and soon we all we have W7 in our PCs replacing the Vista Fiasco.
As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant testing and meeting our quality bar for RTM. Then, it goes though all the validation checks required for RTM including having all languages...
Foxconn Selects a Scapegoat
Posted by Zealot on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
In a move that surprises no one, Bloomberg is reporting (via China Daily) that Hon Hai Group, Foxconn’s parent company, suspended a security official they would only identify as “Gu” after an employee, Sun Danyong, killed himself due to a lost iPhone prototype.
Gu has supposedly been turned over to Chinese authorities but Hon Hai isn’t saying anything else except that they are “unaware of the reason behind”...
Wal-Mart Opens Back to School Season
Posted by Zealot on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
We aren’t even in August yet but already major US retailers are announcing their Back to School electronics values. The NYT today is reporting that US retail leviathan Wal-Mart is increasing their laptop selection by 40% in a drive to become a major force in PC shopping this year. In addition they are aggressively blurring the line between Notebook and Netbooks by dropping prices and intensifying the focus on consumer...
HTC Moves Further from Windows Mobile
Posted by Zealot on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
At the top of the year, HTC said they would be continuing to focus on Windows Mobile phones in 2009 while diversifying with Android devices. According to Digitimes that balance will be shifting in 2010.
First and foremost, HTC’s newest 3G phone will feature not WinMo but Qualcomm’s BMP (Brew Mobile Platform) operating system, including TouchFLO and the HTC Sense interface. No other details are available except that...
Art with the iPhone
Posted by Paulzie on Jul 23, 2009 | Comments
Art changes with every generation. Today many artists are venturing to digital forms of artistic expression. More people are adapting the iPhone into their personal and business life, and of those people are artists who have discovered a new viable pallete.
Many Artists are using their iPhones to create masterpieces.
Layers, a new app that uses natural media painting brushes, gives you tools to design works of art.
Today...
Contest: 16GB MicroSDHC from SanDisk – WINNER
Posted by Chris Leckness on Jul 22, 2009 | Comments
Ok, so Zealot reviewed the 16 gig MicroSDHC card from Sandisk and we decided to do a contest to give one away. This was one of the most simple contest we’ve had in quite some time. Well, the winner is “Jake_Speed “. Congrats sir, get in contact with me via our contact forum or direct email with your contact info and we’ll get this out to you asap.
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Hollywood loves the Sony VAIO UX series
Posted by ctitanic on Jul 22, 2009 | Comments
This is something that I have been noticing since a long time ago: The Sony VAIO UX being shown in many movies or series. Apparently I was not the only one that have seen that, here is what UMPC Portal posted today:
Over the years, the Sony VAIO UX series has appeared in a surprising number of films and music videos, often toted as a futuristic high-tech gadget, or a high-class luxury device. With the help of my...
Motorola to release….iPhone Pro?
Posted by Zealot on Jul 22, 2009 | Comments
No real specs are available yet, but new photos of the upcoming flagship of Moto’s Android lineup, the Morrison, have been leaked and posted by Phandroid…
Look familiar?
Consider the mocked up image that raced around the blogosphere some months ago for the potential iPhone Pro? Similar?
Separated at birth, or just Moto’s long delayed revenge for the original ROKR?
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Tim Cook: “I think some of the netbooks that are being delivered… are very slow”
Posted by Zealot on Jul 22, 2009 | Comments
Apple has had another boffo quarter in terms of profits, with the numbers coming out like this…fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009 and posting revenue of $8.34 billion with a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion. That is a LOT of money. That is all the more impressive in that it is heavily iPhone driven, selling more then 600 percent more iPhones then they did in Q3/08. Traditional iPod sales are definitely...
iPod Phone?
Posted by Zealot on Jul 21, 2009 | Comments
Wired is reporting that they have strong rumors that the upcoming next gen iPod Touch, expected in September, will be sporting not only a camera, but a mic.
A well-connected source tells us those rumors are on the money, and that Apple’s factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.
If iPod Touches...
Pinetrail Gets Longer
Posted by Zealot on Jul 21, 2009 | Comments
As Atom based netbook sales continue to thrive, with new models becoming available almost every day, Intel is faced with a new problem. Originally Intel was worried that Atom sales would cannibalize their low cost Celeron line but soon seemed to realize they would not be able to stop that and largely gave up trying. Now they are concerned their next generation Atom platform, codenamed Pinetrail, will steal sales from...
It’s Just a Phone…
Posted by Zealot on Jul 21, 2009 | Comments
Sometimes it seems like we can lose sight of that simple fact. All of this is just about objects and tools, things, it shouldn’t be about people and lives. It is business, nothing more nothing less, not life and death no matter how hard some people try to make it so.
VentureBeat is carrying the story today, translated from Chinese sources, of Sun Danyong, a 25 year old employee for Foxconn in China who had the...
“I can taste your ZUUUUUUNNE”
Posted by Zealot on Jul 21, 2009 | Comments
I have loved Penny Arcade for ages (and the fact that the creators are tight with one of my personal gods, Wil Wheaton, doesn’t hurt) and normally I overlook their fanboy hate on all things from Redmond…but I admit I found the following strip REALLY funny.
…and maybe a bit prescient.
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Open Letter to AT&T
Posted by Adam Wyss on Jul 20, 2009 | Comments
AT&T, why must iPhone users suffer the way we have? When you partnered with Apple to release the original iPhone back in June 2007 you were seen as an innovator. People left Verizon, Alltel, Sprint, T-Mobile, and many others in mass quantities because they must have the iPhone. It was the most advanced smartphone available and Apple has continued the innovation with the 3G and the 3GS. Unfortunately...
SkyVoyager Free Today Only July 20 th.!!!!
Posted by Mic W. on Jul 20, 2009 | Comments
SkyVoyager (App Store link) is a powerful planetarium program for the iPhone and the developers are offering it for free today only. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, they have reduced the price from $14.99 to free. It contains a database of 300,000 stars to 10th magnitude, and 30,000 deep sky objects, including the entire NGC and IC catalogs. It renders the planets and moons in detail,...
WebOS Getting it’s Game Face on?
Posted by Zealot on Jul 20, 2009 | Comments
Fast Company is reporting on signs that Palm is continuing to try to position their webOS to go head on against Apple’s iPhone and are willing to ante up to get dealt in. Since games are the biggest sellers in the AppStore (unless you count fart apps) and the gaming community is squarely in Apple’s sites, it is little wonder that Palm is looking to improve the gaming profile of their OS.
Kim Eaton at Fast Company...
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