Archive for: October 25, 2007

October 25, 2007

We’ve got Leopard, what do you want to know?

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Features, Laptops
nowadays we snagged our copy of Apple’s latest version of OS X, Leopard — something one or two of you may be slightly familiar with. So besides all the stuff found on the 300 features page, besides all the stuff you’ve seen in the months of public betas, wha…

Babel TV set-top-box weds Freeview, PVR, and internet

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
We’ve never been much for using one’s television as their primary web surfing display — after all, how do you expect to get any work done with final week’s episode of The Office drawing your attention absent from that oh-so-critical PowerPoint — but for those …

Asus’ Eee PC 701 gets reviewed, adored

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

Filed under: Laptops
“Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet.” certain, you could stop right there whether you’d like, but where’s the fun in that? Laptop Mag was able to get their paws around an Asus Eee PC 701, and while you may not think a meager 900MHz Intel Celeron proces…

Boynq rolls out Wake Up iPod speaker / alarm clock

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

Yeah, what you see above actually is yet another iPod speaker / alarm clock mashup, but being that it’s from Boynq, it looks noticeably better than most of the alternatives. The interestingly designed device does fairly a few things aside from wake you from your slumber, as it additionally inclu…

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Toshiba denies denying Xbox 360 with built-in HD DVD rumor

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

Ok, here’s a strange one. Remember how yesterday, Toshiba supposedly nixed the rumor of a Tosh-branded Xbox 360 with built-in HD DVD? Well, get that: we were contacted by Nelsom Bostock Communications, Toshiba’s PR company (in the UK at least), and asked to take down the post (which we haven’t)….

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OLPC experiments with cow-powered generator for laptops

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

While the OLPC Foundation is no stranger to unconventional ability sources, a team working in a village approach Mumbai now looks to be taking things to a whole new level, with them currently experimenting with a cow-powered generator to keep the laptops charged up. According to OLPC’s Arjun S…

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Nokia decapitates tablet puppy, upgrades to N800

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

We’re not certain whether the new OS or upgraded features actually give it anymore bite, but Nokia’s adorable little tablet puppy has on first glance been beheaded and rebuilt with an N800 for a noggin. Actually, after an exhaustive observation by the Humane Society, it was determined that the 7…

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Intel fires up Penryn production at new Arizona facility

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

We don’t proclaim to be experts in chip making or anything, but it seems like everything at Intel’s new Fab 32 production facility in Chandler, Arizona better function mighty smoothly in order to meet that November 12th street period the firm is still holding to. Yep, nowadays marks the day that…

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Dell XPS One coming next month

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

You probably remember the unannounced Dell XPS One we brought you the other day, and now we’ve received increasingly info indicating that that media-centric all-in-one will launch “mid November.” Unfortunately there was no price associated with that supposed release window, but the document we s…

RIP, Classic Mac OS: 1984 - 2007

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

It’s not a huge surprise, but Apple’s gone ahead and posted a note confirming that Leopard will not support Classic, even on PowerPC machines. Of course, Intel Macs have never been able to run Classic besides, so only like Hypercard user groups and the three printshops still running QuarkXPress …

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Vonage settles with Verizon, owes up to $117.5 million

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

The world’s favorite ATM is being hit up for even more coin nowadays, as Vonage (presumably begrudgingly) agreed to resolve the patent lawsuit amidst it and Verizon. Reportedly, the actual amount that the VoIP provider will be forced to pay “depends on how the Court of Appeals decides Vonage’s p…

Mexican developer bundles free electric cars with domestic purchases

Filed under: Review - 25 Oct 2007

Offering incentives like free TVs and even free cars has enlarged been part of the condo developer’s sales toolkit, but a domestic builder in Mexico is aiming for the green crowd by offering potential buyers a free electric car. Sadly, the car in question is not the Tesla Roadster, or even a mod…

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