Archive for: April 27, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Details are fuzzy right now — and what details there are have been officially denied — but the Japanese press is having a bit of a field day by the opportunity of a Sanyo selloff to Matsushita / Panasonic. Apparently Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo, and Daiwa own some 67% of San…

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Ben (aka Benjamin Linus), leader of the Others and all around creepy manipulator, doesn’t just shoot guns all the day — as we find out in a flashback to 2005, he plus apparently shoots Nikon as well. Now, there’s certainly nothing wrong with a D100, but Ben does kind of strike us as the calcula…

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final week I discovered I was using Twitter too much. After an hour online with Twhirl, I got that notice in the app: “Limit exceeded, paused 5 min.” The error condition cleared up shortly, but the next AM, after just a few minutes, it came back and did not resolve. I had to go back to accessin…

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Waiting for a price drop on the Nintendo Wii or DS? Don’t hold your breath. Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata told analysts on Friday that there are no price drop plans for the hot-selling units. Iwata insisted that is considering Nintendo doesn’t want to irritate those who already paid full price, but we…

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Back at MIX, the habitable Platform Services team announced a new standard APP-based protocol for accessing your habitable details, and at Web 2.0 the habitable Mesh team has announced plans to extend that API with synchronization-ready access to goods, devices, application and activity feeds. Ori …

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Finally, the EU’s Giove-B GPS satellite was shot into space by the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Strapped atop a Soyuz-FG rocket, the Giove-B reached orbit at 8:01am that dawn, and is the moment satellite launched for the nascent next-generation European Galileo satellite navigation system….

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It is true that the earbuds that Apple ships with their iPods and iPhones are not the most comfortable. They have gotten a little better, as the newer ones are much less unpleasant than the original earbuds. While I would not say the sound on the earbuds are horrible, they still just do not supply t…

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Filed under: CellphonesThe times has a verbose 2,000 word piece about the high stakes world of high-end cellphone manufacturers (no way!), specifically centered around RIM’s post-iPhone trials and tribulations. Besides a bit of indistinct lip service paid to the 9000 series, they’re claiming that tw…

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Is it just us, or has there been an explosion of online scheduling services by the past few weeks? First there were Jiffle, Tungle, and When is Good. And now there’s Presdo. Like the other services, Presdo makes it easy to schedule assembly with one or more public. You send out a demand, and oth…

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Unless you have been living under a rock the final few months, next you know that the 3G iPhone is one of the restricted hottest news items being discussed right now. that week is no different. One rumor of it may offer a little light at the end of the tunnel though. The 3G version of the BlackBerry…

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Though there are already ways to control your iTunes, the thought of the ability coming straight from Apple is an all new kind of excitement. A isolated control application from Apple for the iPhone would allow it to have all sorts of functionality that Apple would not allow a 3rd party application …

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Back in the day, integrated GPS units were the stuff of luxury cars, gargantuan SUV cruisers, and lost old ladies. Suzuki is looking to change all of that by including the Garmin T.R.I.P. on all 2009 SX4 Sport and SX4 Crossover vehicles — at no additional charge. As Suzuki gleefully points out,…

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