Archive for: May 15, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
that little bundle of plain-vanilla familiarity is seemingly the first habitable picture of Palm’s upcoming Treo 800w for CDMA networks, known internally as the Zeppelin — you know, the out of date airships that had a tendency to spontaneously combust. Specs on th…

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Filed under: StorageWe’ve had a little love affair going on with storage vendor Mtron ever since we saw that “battleship” SSD RAID array, and it looks like the company is after our hearts once again, that day with the Pro 7500 series of SSDs, which it says are the fastest around. That’s really only …

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Chicago residents are no strangers to the city’s many CCTV cameras by that point — whether anyone knows precisely how faraway to stop at Roosevelt and State to avoid the red-light cam there, you let us know, okay? — but it looks like that summer is going to bring a new t…

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It’s been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary education project to just another tiny Windows laptop with a useless keyboard — albeit one with a pleasantly whimsical design. Yep, it’s official: Microsoft and OLPC just put out a …

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Laptops

In a press release nowadays, Sprint and Samsung “declared” that mobile WiMAX technology is “now ready for commercial service.” Sounds exciting right? Well, it’s kind of like saying that a car is “ready to drive” — you still can’t do much without the keys and a road. Since Sprint has seen recent…

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Wireless

We know, the huge majority of you either graduated or got past one more wave of exams that past week, but there’s no better moment to buy a lappie for school than when you actually have moment to enjoy it, right?

“I’m looking to buy a laptop before I head off to college in a few months. I kno…

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Gadgets, Laptops

In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, “Bill Gates’ house, for example, is totally out of term now. He built it right before wireless happened. The big tunnels for all his wires - he doesn’t need any of that stuff anymore.” The composition wasn’t about networking, or even tec…

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It looks like we could one day be buying our OLED displays by the jar or the bucket-full, at least whether some researchers from Sumitomo Chemical and Mitsubishi Chemical have their way. They’re now working on what they describe as “spreadable” OLEDs, which could either be spread or “painted” on…

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Displays, Gadgets

Talk about product overlap: just by a month ago, Mitsubishi introduced its XD500U, boasting a pixel count of 1,024 x 768 and brightness of 2,200-lumens. Now say “hello” to the XD211U, with the same pixel count, brightness, and BrilliantColor specs. The XD211U weighs in at 0.5-pounds lighter and …

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HDTV, Home Entertainment

Whoops! Looks like Sumitomo President Hiromasa Yonekura was “misquoted” just a few days back, and there may actually not be any large OLED TVs churned out by the outfit in 2009. According to a new report, Sumitomo is currently “working with partners,” thus the “timing of any product launch is no…

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Three weeks after introducing SearchMonkey in limited preview, Yahoo! is opening its new development platform to all developers. According to Yahoo!, the new platform has three components:

1. Site owners share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web services), and page extraction. 2. Third party developers build SearchMonkey applications. 3. Consumers customize their search experience.

SearchMonkey was created with the intention of developing customized searches and mash-ups, using content from sites like CitySearch, StumbleUpon, eBay, and Epicurious to further enhance results. Developers can build apps in the form of Enhanced Results or Infobars.

Yahoo! also announced a new SearchMonkey Developer Challenge, judging submitted apps in four categories: Best Enhanced Result, Best Infobar, Most Innovative Use of Structured Data, and Best Data Service. The grand prize winner will walk away with $10,000.

For more information on SearchMonkey and the Develop Challenge, check out Yahoo's Search Blog.

Filed under: Wireless, Networking
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from the mobile-friendly folks at Cradlepoint, but it looks like they’ve hit all the right marks with their new 3G-ready CTR500 travel router, which takes all the features of the preceding CTR-350 model and adds a few wel…

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