Archive for: June 8, 2008

June 8, 2008

Details surface for future ThinkPads: X200, SL, T and R series

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen — we’ve got a preposterously large helping of ThinkPad news coming at you tonight. We’re talking details and photographs of the forthcoming X200, SL, T, and R series laptops, so without further ado, let’s get to know the X200 a touch b…

The not-3G iPhone unboxing gets faker still

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
C’mon guys — you’re going to have to do better than that. First you show us that beat looking gray phone with the “dot” front-facing camera. Now the dot has magically grown, and the gray face looks more and more like a Colorware job or a badly cut sticker. But you know what’…

Sling announces proof-of-concept SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
We had a feeling it was coming any day now, but now we have confirmation that Sling won’t be leaving iPhone and iPod touch users in the lurch when it comes to streaming TV to their devices. The naughty news is the software they showed us was pre-alpha proof-of-concept, and th…

Robbie Bach says no Zune Phone, no Xbox Blu-Ray… perhaps a touchscreen Zune

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Someone clearly didn’t want Microsoft fans being left out at that duration of extreme Apple coverage. In an interview with SFGate, Robbie Bach manages to deftly deny the rumored Xbox / Blu-Ray match-up, deny a Zune Phone is coming anytime soon (although he intimates Zune software may come to pho…

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Bach touts Windows Mobile by iPhone, BlackBerry

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president of Entertainment & Devices Division, told the San Francisco Chronicle in an interview published Sunday that the company has no plans to put up a Zune phone to compete with iPhone.

Robbie Bach, president of En…

Sling Media to demo SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Filed under: Internet, Video, iPhone, Beta

Want to watch habitable TV on your iPhone? Pretty soon you may be able to… assuming you’ve got a Slingbox set up at domestic. While Sling Media has been releasing client software for Windows, Mac, and a variety of cellphones for years that lets you strea…

Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Atari founder biopic

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Like something out of Bizzaro World, word on the street is that hunky dreamboat Leonardo DiCaprio will play Atari uber-nerd Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic. According to reports, the film will detail Bushnell’s life from his early work at amusement parks, through founding Atari and eventual…

WWDC 2008 is tomorrow: 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET, be there

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Yep, Apple’s big developer conference kicks off in under 24 hours. We know some of you won’t sleep well tonight, but you’ve got some instance to kill, so why not take a moment to produce your original iPhone feel appreciated one final duration — before you kick it to the curb in favor of the ne…

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Moog offers up Paul Vo Collector Edition guitar

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio
With a name like Moog, it has to be good, no? The creator of all types of strange and wondrous music makers has stepped up with the Paul Vo Collector Edition guitar, a fanciful six-string that does fairly a bit more than just light up whatever amp is lucky decent to get i…

BlackBerry Thunder touchscreen phone in habitable shot

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Here’s a little something that might put the brakes on some buyer’s 3G iPhone dreams that week — a real, habitable shot of the forthcoming BlackBerry touchscreen phone, the Thunder. There’s not much info to glean from that image, save for the fact that it will be virtually l…

Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina’s Body

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

The story of Hans Reiser, the eccentric file system programmer, is a tragic one. The author of the ReiserFS was arrested under suspicion of the murder of his wife Nina Reiser in 2006, and was declared guilty in April 2008. Some still placed doubts about the conviction, stating that he might be harml…

Visopsys’ Partition Logic in PC World’s Top 100

Filed under: Review - 08 Jun 2008

The partitioning ‘live’ CD known as Partition Logic, which is a specially-configured version of the alternative operating system Visopsys, has been chosen as one of PC World magazine’s “The 100 Best Products of 2008″. Okay, so it’s only at number 96, but it’s still an honour.Original post by donotre…

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