High Hopes Archive

  • Stargate Universe season finale trailer and teaser

    Stargate Universe season finale trailer and teaser

    We’ve made it. We’ve made it to the end of the Stargate Universe’s first season and it’s finally starting to look like the Stargate of old. I have high hopes for tonight’s finale, too. Hopefully I’m not let down like I was with Warehouse 13’s final episode. Trailer up top and teaser after the jump. [via [...]

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  • Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 new, Twitter-powered cell phones

    Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 new, Twitter-powered cell phones

    We've shown you the summer cell phone lineup from KDDI (Japan's No. 2 carrier) yesterday. Today, Japan's third largest carrier, SoftBank Mobile, showed its own summer lineup during a special press conference, and all of their 13 new models have one thing in common: they all come with Twitter pre-installed. The buyers of these cell phones will be able to access Twitter either via a pre-installed app or through a pre-installed widget on the homescreen. The background is that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son himself is a huge Twitter fan (he has almost 300,000 followers) and believes Japan is set to become Twitter country. And in fact, by some measures it's already No. 2.

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  • EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    What's it going to take to dethrone World of Warcraft? One of two things, I'd say: one, an asteroid smashing directly into the planet, with Blizzard at the exact location of impact, or two, Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft 2. The asteroid is more likely at this point. So you can imagine the time and money EA is putting into The Old Republic, the only MMO with a chance in hell of taking away even a fraction of WoW's subscribers.

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  • The Qisda QCM-330 is gorgeous, headed for Vodafone, and quite possibly Android-powered

    The Qisda QCM-330 is gorgeous, headed for Vodafone, and quite possibly Android-powered

    When it comes to bar-shaped smartphones, it takes a good amount of effort to design something visually appealing. There’s really only so much you can do with a flat slab – and whatever can be done likely already has. With that said, there’s just something about this handset, the Qisda QCM-330. I’m not sure what that [...]

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  • Hands-on with the Logitech Harmony 700

    Hands-on with the Logitech Harmony 700

    I didn’t have high hopes for the Harmony 700 this morning. It looked like a cheap remote. The press shot made it look very utilitarian. But then I got my hands on one and boy was I surprised. This remote is nice. Yeah, it’s not as shiny as the Harmony One or 900, but it’s [...]

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  • TSA unveils paperless, cell phone-based boarding pass system at SFO

    TSA unveils paperless, cell phone-based boarding pass system at SFO

    Although not the first of its kind (in fact there are similar programs operating at 29 other U.S. airports, and in Europe), the newly announced paperless boarding pass system at San Francisco International Airport allows passengers to download their “ticket” onto their mobile device, be it a cell phone or PDA, by visiting a secure [...]

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