Archive for: December 19, 2007

Filed under: Desktops
The fury has really been unleashed by at AMD, as the cats in 2nd place take aim at the pocketbooks lowdown, dirty overclockers. Feeling like getting into it? thereupon you’ll probably want to get your hands on the extra-special Phenom 9600 “Black Edition” quad-core processor, w…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Announcements
We know, our site totally just hooked up comments circa 2004, but we’ve finally added avatars! We plus gave the comments a slicker new look, and made it possible to reply to a comment by clicking the entire reply-to bar, not just the word “Reply”. It’s the little things, y…

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Gadgets

As part of its quadrennial “Choose or Lose” youth voting initiative, MTV has announced a “Street Team” of 51 young amateur journalists, one from each state and the District of Columbia, who have been selected to cover the 2008 election and stress issues vital to the younger generation.

“We couldn’t…

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Web

Big buzz circulated the Apple homebrew community when PsyKoh recently announced the release of Alpha 1 Preview version of Jiggy, an application creation suite for the iPhone. Apparently, the suite is offered for free to any interested takers, and it doesn’t require the insane wrestling with Safari o…

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Apple

Filed under: Features, LaptopsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.

In a year in which the OLPC foundation turned attention on its child-optimized OLPC stateside and Palm’s spine curved as it contracted Foleosis, an unlikely …

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Gadgets

Filed under: Laptops
We’ve seen a couple sweet Eee PC mods, but that seamless addition of a touchscreen is probably the best so far. It looks like that specific Eee is running XP, and the $60 eBay-sourced car touchscreen our enterprising hacker bolted on seems to work seamlessly with both pen and fi…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Transportation
We’d heard that problems with the Tesla Roadster’s transmission were going to lead the company to ship the cars with “temporary” transmissions, but our friends by at AutoblogGreen were recently contacted by Tesla and told that while the company is indeed considering shipp…

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Gadgets

Palm’s latest quarterly results might have been pretty gloomy, with a loss of $9.6M on revenue of $349M and an expected drop in revenue to $310M next quarter, but according to CEO Ed Colligan, the ship is about to be righted. Speaking to analysts during the company’s financial results conference…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

Google Desktop Search provides full text search over your email computer files chats and the web pages you ve viewed By making your computer searchable it puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files emails and bookmarks

Yahoo Messenger allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends Unlike e mail instant messages appear as soon they 39 re sent By downloading the application to your computer you can send instant messages Other features include voice chat file transfer mail and stock quote alerts sports scores news and much more

It’s unconfirmed at the moment, but we’re hearing that Sony is planning to discontinue sales of all rear-projection HDTVs, including its 3LCD and SXRD lines, after current inventories are exhausted to focus on the hot-selling Bravia LCD line. We’ve been tipped on it twice nowadays and now that W…

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Gadgets, Home Entertainment

So we know that AT&T slipped its MediaFLO-based mobile TV launch from the end of 2007 out to early ‘08, but just how “early” are we talking? Well, “as early as possible,” to be specific. That rather unhelpful statement is all that’s coming out of AT&T for the moment regarding its go-live…

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Cellphones, Gadgets, Portable Video