Archive for: October 26, 2007

Filed under: Ask Engadget, Features, Misc. GadgetsLast week’s question about HDTV opinions was a bit loaded, so we’re going to take it down a notch for that week’s Ask Engadget. Of course, there’s always room for controversy next week, so be certain to send in your questions to ask at engadget dawt …

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Gadgets

An under-the-radar lesson action lawsuit against Sprint Nextel is winding its way towards a settlement that week, and it contains a pretty huge concession by Sprint: the company will unlock phones for both current and former customers, and will start training its customer service reps on how to …

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Cellphones, Gadgets

We’ve been poring by Leopard since getting our copy, and no doubt about it, there’s just way too much to say. The number of fixes, updates, and new features in that release is astounding. Granted, many aren’t major (and some aren’t even easily immediately noticeable), but the marquee apps li…

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Desktops, Features, Laptops

Apple entered its final countdown Friday for the release of Leopard, an update for its Mac OS X. The question Apple will be able to reply by late Friday evening is, considering its delay of several months, coupled with a rather low-key marketing campaign, will rally Mac owners to go out and …

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Macintosh

It’s been out in Europe for a good few months already, but the Neonode N2 has now finally landed into the FCC’s all-important hands, which would seem to propose that a US release isn’t all that far off. From the looks of the tests reports, however, the touchscreen-based handset doesn’t seem to…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

These big OS upgrades are always bittersweet moments. You know that for all of the fanfare surrounding the release of a shiny new system, someone, somewhere is getting the shaft. In the case of today's release of Leopard, the big losers are Apple's OS 9 and its fans.

The latest iteration of Apple's OS X will not support Classic--that goes for MacIntel and Power PC Machines. Engadget has some appropriately macabre footage from Steve Jobs' mock funeral for the OS at 2002's WWDC.

Just a day after hearing that Intel was firing up its new Arizona-based facility in order to crank out heaps of 45-nanometer Penryn chips, along comes increasingly news on the next best thing. Granted, Intel already gave Nehalem a share of the limelight earlier that year, but new documents are g…

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Desktops

There comes a time in a woman's life when she must take a stand and say no to bush. One such anonymous UK-based female did just that by creating the Web site MillionDollarPubes.com. The aptly-named site was set up in order for her to have the necessary funds ($1 million) to receive laser hair removal in the coochy.

This woman in question struggled with every method available to try and rid of her jungle: waxing, shaving, applying creams...laser treatment seemed like the only logical choice.

In order to help support her laser treatment costs, each of her pubic hairs are offered for sale for $200 on the site. But wait, there's more! With every purchase of a hair, you also receive a 10 by 10-pixel advertisement on the homepage of MillionDollarPubes.com. To date, the site has attracted over 50,000 pervs visitors.

To get started, click on the "BUY PUBIC HAIR"' link. You'll be presented with a screen in which you can select exactly where on her body you would like your advertisement and link to appear. However, if you wish to just place an ad and not receive her pubic hair, she understands. Approximately 200 hairs have already been purchased. So get busy.

Those that compose a habit of chatting it up all day in their vehicle may want to consider Elan’s new Vero ENB-100 device, which the company claims is the “world’s first” solar-powered Bluetooth hands-free car kit. As you can no doubt surmise, it promises continual charge-free operation as enl…

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Cellphones, Gadgets, Wireless

It’s no surprise to take in that Leopard smokes on the latest Intel box, right? That’s all fine and dandy for new Mac owners but what about the rest of us (the majority) who are still pumping that legacy PowerPC architecture beneath Cupertino’s OS? How does Apple’s OS of tomorrow run on say, an …

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Features, Gadgets

Apple may be hogging the OS spotlight today with the much-lauded release of Leopard, but that won't stop Microsoft from grabbing a bit of the glory. According to company officials, Microsoft has managed to move more than 88 million copies of Vista worldwide since the OS's January release.

Not too shabby, especially considering that a lot of folks in the industry were recommending that consumers hold off, at least until the release of the Vista's first service pack.

Sales of the OS have been growing steadily, up about 20 percent for each subsequent quarter since it shipped.

The countdown to Leopard's final release is in its final hours on Apple's website, but PC Magazine's Software team can give you a sneak peek at the new Mac Operating System right now. We still need to test it out some more, but from what we've seen so far Leopard has the potential to leave Vista in the dust. Get your first look at Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" in our hands-on preview and slideshow.