Archive for: August 1, 2008

Filed under: GamingSure, Wii is great and all, but we’re guessing a man in China who tried to extort $1,400 from his parents by “kidnapping” himself and demanding a ransom after they refused to buy him a “Nintendo computer” was probably a little too infatuated with Ninty’s white box. The man, (who w…

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Filed under: HandheldsAmazon’s been pretty cagey with Kindle sales numbers, apart from to say that it sold out the first batch in 5.5 hours and that more are finally arriving. Still, you can’t keep a secret forever, and TechCrunch says they have it on good authority that Bezos and Co. have sold some…

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Filed under: Cellphones
It has technically been available for three weeks nowadays (and a few hours in the US, but who’s counting?), although we’re confident fairly a few of you are still waiting to actually hold your very own iPhone 3G. Still, those that have braved the excruciatingly long lines an…

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Filed under: StorageHitachi certain does love some perpendicular recording, and in amoung making trippy videos about the tech, it seems like it’s engaged improving it — the company just announced that it’s increased the max storage density of magnetic recording to 610Gb per square inch. That’s far …

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Apple’s deal with AT&T obviously got re-done in order to get the iPhone 3G on the street for a subsidized $199, but it looks like Steve gave in on a little more than revenue-sharing when he re-upped with Ma Bell: USA nowadays says that AT&T’s US exclusive on the iPhone has been extended …

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One of my favorite Facebook features is auto-tagging. It happened to me final night by accident and ended up being one of those very rare moments of using a product where I got a big grin on my face. The feature comes into play when the service recognizes that a photo or video upload happened arou…

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Yeah, midday Solar’s collection of sun-lovin’ bags are pretty stylish, but external of that, we haven’t seen a single one we’d be caught dead (or alive) with… until now. sakku has introduced the Solar Buddy for those who just need something tossed by their shoulder, and while the solar panel i…

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Microsoft’s 20GB Xbox 360 Pro already stooped to $299, but one specific mole — the same one who correctly called the 60GB edition of the console — is suggesting that further slashing is in store. To be specific, we’re talking about a $199 Arcade (no HDD), $299 Pro (60GB HDD) and a $399 Elite (…

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We already knew that Id Software co-founder John Carmack was on board with the iPhone to some extent, but at the now-happening QuakeCon 2008 in Dallas he’s revealed just how impressed with the device he really is. According to Apple Insider, while Carmack admits that graphics memory could be a…

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Jerry Yang and the Yahoo! board took some heat at the company's annual shareholders meeting, with participants questioning whether the executives should be making as much money as they do, asking why Yahoo! continues to lag behind Google in search, expressing concern over the failed Microsoft deal, requesting resignations, and also giving the company a hard time on its China policy.

The issue came up during a question-and-answer session with shareholders after Yahoo! successfully urged shareholders to vote against proposals that would require the company to establish policies on Internet censorship and create a committee on human rights.

Despite the failure of those two proposals, Yang insisted that Yahoo! is "a leader now in Internet human rights efforts."

Congressional hearings in 2006 revealed that Yahoo! had provided information to Chinese officials that led to the imprisonment of online activists for several years. Yahoo! has since settled and set up a fund to help cyber dissidents obtain legal aid, but Michael Samway, vice president and deputy general counsel for Yahoo!, admitted to Congress in May that the company has little control over what user information gets handed over to the Chinese government.

As a company, Yahoo! has conducted its own internal investigations, set up a fund to help Internet-related and other human rights abuses around China, set up an internal operating group to gather metrics and analysis about every country with which Yahoo! does business, and has continued to advocate and push for an industry code of conduct, Yang said.

"I want to make sure that you understand that this is about doing what's right and Yahoo! has done a lot since the last shareholder's meeting," Yang said.

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Location based Services (LBS) haven't exactly been an explosive industry in the US, but according to at least one research firm, you can expect that to change over the next few years.

ABI predicts that revenues from location based social networks will top $3.3 billion, in five years. "While location-based advertising integrated with sophisticated algorithms holds a lot of promise, the current reality rather points to licensing and revenue-sharing models as the way forward for social networking start-ups to grow their customer base and reach profitability," said ABI analyst, Dominique Bonte. "Recent evidence: the agreements between GyPSii and both Garmin and Samsung. Similarly, Loopt has established partnerships with all major US cellular carriers."

Naturally, it's tough to invest too much into this manner of prediction, especially this early in the game. Loopt gets tossed around the discussion a lot, but we've yet to see the killer location-based app, thanks in part to carrier restrictions and the fact that American cell phone owners in general don't seem to be utilizing their devices to their full potential to the same degree as their overseas counter part.

The key here seems to be integration with existing services. Take, for example, the new Yelp app for the iPhone. Given the device's still-rolling-out GPS capabilities, that plucky little program may certainly prove on of the App Store's biggest hits.

possibly it’s the ambiguity and possible masking of truth that just adds to the allure here, but whether it really lived or not, you now know what an Optimus Maximus looks like after an impromptu greeting with lukewarm java. Sir tema clearly states that the keyboard “survived” its first recorded…

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