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  • Sprint offers up a $100 credit with a new Palm Pre activation

    Sprint offers up a $100 credit with a new Palm Pre activation

    Posted on September 8, 2009 | No Comments
    There have been a few rumors about Sprint cutting the price of the Palm Pre the last few days. Those might still work out, but until then there is this deal. There is a lot of fine print with the offer, but if you've been eyeing a Palm Pre, you should definitely see if you qualify.

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  • Oh yeah, that Iwata dude from Nintendo is crazy…

    Oh yeah, that Iwata dude from Nintendo is crazy…

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    What's your greatest achievement? Satoru Iwata rescued Nintendo from its N64+GameCube lethargy (commercial success-wise; only a fool would deny the quality of many of those games) and turned it into a ridiculous success with the Wii and DS, so he's not sweating it either. That's why I'm loathe to criticize the man when he defends the Wii Vitality Sensor.

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  • Foxconn employee interrogated over lost iPhone prototype, suicide ensues [Update]

    Foxconn employee interrogated over lost iPhone prototype, suicide ensues [Update]

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    So the story goes that a 25-year-old man at Foxconn - where iPhones are born - was to send 16 iPhone prototypes to Apple, but one was lost somewhere. The Foxconn security department then proceeded to illegally search the man's apartment and interrogated him. But that was too much for the man that might be responsible for leaking a prototype of the next iPhone. Update after the jump

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  • Crazy Eddie was really insane, but not in a good way

    Crazy Eddie was really insane, but not in a good way

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Giz has some great videos from Crazy Eddie, the guy who went nuts in New York and New England back in the 70s and 80s, selling home appliances and CE to a trendy and naive audience. It’s interesting to note that Crazy Eddie could have been lying about his low-low prices. In an era where the [...]

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  • Giant Router Clock Shows When Internet Tubes Are Clear

    Giant Router Clock Shows When Internet Tubes Are Clear

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    If you took a roulette wheel and the old electronic follow-the-music game, Simon, you’d end up with something like the Route O-Clock. It is a (prototype) broadband router which detects bandwidth use and displays this information using colors on a clock-like display which divides the day into half-hour segments. The idea is that it helps [...]

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  • Slab-Like iPhone Case Hewn From Solid Metal

    Slab-Like iPhone Case Hewn From Solid Metal

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Every morning my inbox is almost full of pitches for various iPhone cases. Gel skins and anodized pictures of sock monkeys are today’s offerings. They are almost always humdrum, and usually virtual clones of one another, probably all starting life in the same Chinese factory. But the Exovault is different, and not just because no PR [...]

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  • IPhone OS 3.1 Fixes Video Editing, Adds Bluetooth Voice Control

    IPhone OS 3.1 Fixes Video Editing, Adds Bluetooth Voice Control

    Posted on July 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple has taken the latest build of iPhone OS 3.1 in its gentle hands, climbed to the roof of the Cupertino campus and lofted the update to the winds, shouting “Fly, my little one! Fly!” The beta version of the next update contains some new features, most of which will only be useful to 3GS owners. [...]

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