Archive for September, 2009

  • More Motorola Tao (Sholes) Android shots leaked

    More Motorola Tao (Sholes) Android shots leaked

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Lots and lots of Big Red’s customers (not to mention potential defectors from other carriers) are getting really excited about the purported launch of an Android-powered, Motorola-made mobile for Verizon. New images of what was originally known as the Motorola Sholes, and more recently rumored to be named the Motorola Tao, have surfaced on the [...]

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  • Your “weight” for an internet-connected scale is over! Get it?

    Your “weight” for an internet-connected scale is over! Get it?

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The “WiFi Body Scale” from French company Withings records your weight and BMI and automatically uploads it to a secure website, which would be a lot easier to make fun of if it weren’t for Wii Fit, which does that stuff but doesn’t upload it anywhere.

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  • SNES on the Nokia N900? Yes, please.

    SNES on the Nokia N900? Yes, please.

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    You know what? Your phone could play Crysis at a high resolution with the settings cranked way up, and I wouldn’t really care all that much. But coax it into playing SNES ROMs? I’ll take three. With a bucketful of elbow grease and more tech know-how than anyone should be allowed to have, Konttori (One of [...]

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  • Jay Leno really is helping NBC at the 10 p.m. time slot

    Jay Leno really is helping NBC at the 10 p.m. time slot

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    I've heard good things about The Jay Leno Show recently, which might be why he's improving NBC's TiVo stats. Previous seasons NBC saw nearly 70% of its viewers timeshift during the 10 p.m. time slot. Leno has managed to improve that to only 46%, with 20% of those people watching the show at 11 p.m. instead. That number is actually great considering CBS and ABC have been running 65% and 63% respectively over the last two weeks Leno has been on the air. Maybe I should watch this show...

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  • The Queen’s Digital English: The Kindle is coming to the UK

    The Queen’s Digital English: The Kindle is coming to the UK

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Seems our compatriots across the sea will have the Amazon Kindle as soon as next week. "Reliable sources" have confirmed that the publishers involved signed non-disclosure agreements, adding weight to our previous suspicions that the e-book reader would be available in Britain this fall. It's all quite a cloak-and-dagger event. Amazon's current wireless provider, Qualcomm, seems to be the one that will handle the magical spells wireless solution that gives Kindle owners access to an entire library in their pocket.

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  • AT&T desucks the 3G in Colorado Springs

    AT&T desucks the 3G in Colorado Springs

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Colorado Springs: Home to 415,000 people, scary-ass gravity-defying boulders, and, as of this morning, AT&T’s 850 Mhz 3G Network. As we saw in San Francisco and New York last month, Colorado Spring’s towers have now been tweaked to dedicate the 850 Mhz spectrum to 3G data rather than TDMA, which theoretically ups the number of simultaneous [...]

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  • AT&T launching Genus satellite smartphone with TerreStar

    AT&T launching Genus satellite smartphone with TerreStar

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    AT&T announced today that they are teaming up with Terrestar to release a smartphone with satellite capabilities. Previously, satellite phones were limited to just voice calls, or the occasional tethering (that didn't work very well).

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  • Yeah, Apple wasn’t integral in Light Peak transfer technology

    Yeah, Apple wasn’t integral in Light Peak transfer technology

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    So Apple wasn't so integral in that whole Light Peak thing after all. Rumors that Apple was integral in the design Light Peak process seem to be false which could put a damper on Apple's plans to implement the technology in its new hardware.

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  • Get ‘em while they’re hot: HTC releases Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 hotfixes

    Get ‘em while they’re hot: HTC releases Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 hotfixes

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    CellPhoneForums.net member Cathy was kind enough to post information regarding two new HTC hotfixes, one for the Touch Pro2 and the other for the Diamond2. The first hotfix (available here) provides an update for the HTC Touch Pro2’s caller ID display: “This update for the HTC Touch Pro2 lets you, your friends and loved ones become [...]

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  • DoubleSight outs three new USB mini-monitors

    DoubleSight outs three new USB mini-monitors

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm a fan of USB mini-monitors. They're super handy if you're a photoshop'r or to house Tweetdeck, but they can also get a little expensive and sometimes cost more than full size LCD monitors. But these from DoubleSight are little more on the affordable side. Plus, there is a webcam add-on for the larger model and everyone loves webcams.

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  • Sprint looking to drop their Touch Pro 2 down to $199?

    Sprint looking to drop their Touch Pro 2 down to $199?

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    sprint (These guys are excited that they might soon be able to buy the Sprint Touch Pro 2 without declaring bankruptcy.) Good news, everyone! According to some dude on the internet who heard it from another dude -- and a bunch of people who have already managed to get the deal -- the Sprint Touch Pro 2 is going to see a huge price drop as early as tomorrow.

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  • Recession slows the sales, adoption of Intel’s Classmate PC

    Recession slows the sales, adoption of Intel’s Classmate PC

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The worldwide recession looks to have taken a bite out of sales of Intel's Classmate PC, a computer that was supposed to bring the power of, um, computers to the developing world. Since governments have been devoting resources (read: money) to fighting the recession, they have less money to buy “superfluous” items like computers for kids.

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  • LG announces new “Pop” mainstream touch screen phone

    LG announces new “Pop” mainstream touch screen phone

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Korean electronics giant, LG, believes there is an entire segment of mobile consumers who’ve been left out in the cold, i.e. the mainstream public, when it comes to touch screen phones. In other words, not everyone wants a full-fledged (read: “complex”) smartphone, but most people do lust after a touch screen. In light of this [...]

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  • New device brings wireless Internet to boats

    New device brings wireless Internet to boats

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    We have Internet access in planes now (Virgin America offers it in the US, for example), so why not on boats? That's what one of Japan's biggest telecommunications companies, KDDI, thought and now gives us a device that will allow ship passengers to enjoy wireless broadband Internet while being out on the water.

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  • Borders to offer free Wi-Fi

    Borders to offer free Wi-Fi

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    In an effort or "re-engage customers as a serious bookseller," Borders is offering free Wi-Fi powered by Verizon in over 500 stores. Fair enough. Might be a nice little treat for those dudes who sit in the anime aisle reading book after book or the weird guy who is totally angry at the latest of Atlantic Monthly and willing to tell everyone about it near the cafe. It will, in short, make the Borders experience just that more varied and magical.

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