Drop In The Bucket Archive

  • Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up?

    Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up?

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    I assumed that VHS tapes had gone the route of Polaroid film and were continuing to be phased out of existence. I must have been too hasty, because according to the Entertainment Retailer’s Association, videocassette sales in Britain have more than doubled in the past year. In the grand scheme of home entertainment, these numbers are [...]

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  • Mobile Boarding Passes Take Off With 1200% Usage Increase In 2009

    Mobile Boarding Passes Take Off With 1200% Usage Increase In 2009

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Alright, lets pat the pockets and run through the mental checklist one last time before security: Passport? Check, front pocket. Headphones? Definitely in your backpack. Boarding pass? Uh oh. Where’d that boarding pass go? Oh, that’s right! It’s on your phone – because you, like a rapidly increasing number of other people, opted to have it [...]

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  • Nokia’s 6788 for China Mobile hops across the Pacific for FCC meeting

    Nokia’s 6788 for China Mobile hops across the Pacific for FCC meeting

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    The 6788 looks just different enough from any other Nokia in the lineup that you might find yourself with an irresistible, inexplicably urge to own one (or destroy one, depending on your disposition), but unless you happen to be within earshot of a China Mobile outlet, you're probably going to be out of luck. Of course, that leads to the obvious questions of why a China-only Nokia -- the company's first to support TD-SCDMA, in fact -- would've found its way into an FCC lab. The answer's far less sensational than you might've liked: China Mobile's TD-SCDMA footprint is still a drop in the bucket of its much larger GSM coverage area, which means the 6788's gotta support it, and part of that is a US-usable 1900MHz radio. Without 850MHz coverage, you'd have to have an almost committable obsession with this trick one-off to justify using it in the States, but hey, good news -- if you do, you'll be legal.

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  • Windows Marketplace now available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1

    Windows Marketplace now available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Long before Windows Marketplace launched on Windows Mobile 6.5 as Microsoft's answer to the App-Store-Craze, we knew it would be extended down into Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 - the only question was "When?. The answer, it seems, is today. Microsoft has just announced that the Marketplace is available to 6.0 and 6.1 users beginning immediately.

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  • NASA needs $50 billion to reach the Moon by 2020

    NASA needs $50 billion to reach the Moon by 2020

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Hopefully John Hodgman was correct in calling Obama the first nerd president. If not, humans might not reach the Moon anytime soon because we all know a jock wouldn't fund a science project. The current target is 2020 and the development is already underway of the vehicles needed to get people there. But there is one small issue: Money. NASA needs lots of money.

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  • Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up [...]

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