Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
Rumors have been spreading out around numerous websites that the iPhone 3G will get a (RED) makeover just in time for the holidays. Could it also be joined by a 32GB upgrade for the iPhone 3G and a 64GB upgrade for the iPod Touch?
Photo Courtesy of http://www.macblogz.com
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
While configuring the HP Blackbird 002 on HP’s website, I noticed that the unreleased, unannounced NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT was an option in configuring the Blackbird 002. The card supposedly has 512MB GDDR3 of SDRAM, but no other information about the card is listed. Maybe it could just be a stupid mistake and the card is [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
MacBook touch: no this picture isn’t real, but it’s a great mockup of what a product could look like. (courtesy of Gizmodo)
Apple had its quarterly earnings call on Monday and it revealed that a “product transition” would lower gross margin next quarter because “Apple makes state of the art new products that the competition just [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Editor-in-Chief of Engadget, one of the largest tech blogs out there, Ryan Block confirmed today that he will be stepping down from his current position to start a new company with the founder of both Engadget and Gizmodo, Peter Rojas. According to Block, the new company will be online and gadget-related, but not a direct [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Facebook’s redesign has been in the works for around a year now and after a few months of sample screenshots of the new design, Facebook is now allowing users to test out the new Facebook. Simply type new.facebook.com as the link in your browser and you should be directed to an unfamiliar look of Facebook. [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
With Friday’s iPhone 3G launch coming around soon, more news about the phone roams the web.
The reviews are in - David Pogue (NY Times), Walt Mossberg (WSJ), and Ed Baig (USA Today) all published their iPhone 3G reviews today, with most talking about the drastic speed improvements, but that it’s not a need-to-buy due to [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Toyota will redesign the Prius next year and along with the new design will be a new, even more eco-friendly feature: solar power. No, this doesn’t mean the entire car will be solar powered, but the air conditioning will be. When Toyota releasesed the Prius way back in 1997, it was the first gasoline-electric hybrid [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple chopped $500 off the price of the MacBook Air with SSD (solid-state drive). The price drop was not even mentioned on Apple’s home page. The $500 drop, bringing the better Air to a new $2,598, is due to a $100 decrease in the price of the 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo chip and a $400 [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
So, for all of you PC enthusiasts out there who wanted a drive that performs like the velociraptor, but has more space and is cheaper, you shall wait no more. Although Western Digital announced this drive about a month ago, this drive was nowhere to be bought. As soon as benchmarks are made, they will [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
iPhone 3G packaging will be considerably more green than the previous iPhone’s packaging due to the inclusion of a paper tray made out of potato or tapioca starch. The new tray produces a carbon footprint a tenth of the size of a plastic tray, like the one in the original iPhone’s box. Apple hired Dutch [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple released an update to Mac OS X Leopard today, bringing the version up to 10.5.4. For the details on the update, check out specs here. So open up Software Update on your Mac and hit the install button.
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple has flipped the switch and activated Me.com email addresses for some .Mac customers. In other words, if a current .Mac customer has username@mac.com, email sent to username@me.com would be forwarded to their .Mac account. @me.com emails are part of MobileMe, Apple’s upcoming replacement to .Mac. For more information on MobileMe - check out me.com [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Rumors started surfacing of Virgin Mobile buying Helio recently, and the companies confirmed that today. Virgin Mobile is buying Helio from SK Telecom and Earthlink for $39 million worth of Virgin Mobile USA stock. The deal is set to close in Q3 2008, but Helio customers will mostly not be affected. Helio’s 170,000 customers will [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Today, June 27, represents a major day in history. Today is Bill Gate’s last day as a full-time Microsoft employee. He will still step in once a week to check in, as well as remaining Microsoft’s Chairman and largest shareholder. The move will show Gates moving to a being a full time philanthropist and a [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Don’t start jumping up and down just yet, but if this latest rumor is true it would be worthy of much more than jumping. MMS (multimedia message service) support, or the ability to send text, pictures, and possibly video to other MMS capable phones, is one of the most requested iPhone features. iPhone Atlas has [...]
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