links for 2008-04-03
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
No, Microsoft hasn’t suddenly transformed its 30-inch, multi-touch Surface into a big-ass cellphone. It has, however, chosen AT
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones, Features, Handhelds
One ultra-glossy phone plus a dozen or so overly ornate chandeliers is a recipe for video disaster, and indeed, we managed to capture the
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Microsoft’s Surface computer will make its commercial debut April 17 in ATT stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco.
Microsoft first unveiled the Surface bac
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Did you fall for it? The internet didn’t really cry, we were just kidding. You gotta be on your toes! And just in case you managed to blissfully glide thro
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Samsung Instinct, second pass, this time in a room with real lighting! Besides learning that it’ll come out for under $300, we took another look at the web browser, which we weren’t sup
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Capcom reckon a game’s shelf lifetime can sometimes be measured in days. A view EA don’t, predictably, share. See, while Capcom are pushing games to the hardcore, whose interests are fi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Oh my. Anyone preparing to throw the Wii Wheel out with the bathwater when their copy of Mario Kart arrives may want to know this. The latest fact sheet handed to us from Nintendo conta
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Something big is brewing between Google and Ebay’s Skype, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Actually, for weeks now there have been low level rumors of the two companies talking, but n
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Firefox with Stylish: The Gmail Redesigned user stylewhich requires the Stylish extension to useskins Gmail with an attractive, well laid-out, and completely overhauled look. Everything
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I got into a long conversation with the manager of a Blockbuster Video store I’ve frequented since before the DVD era began today, regarding the company’s increased focus on gaming. You
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** An interesting end to the Craigslist hoax story over the weekend that left an Oregon man minus his stuff: A couple named Brandon and Amber Herbert apparently placed the ad as a cover to
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones
We had heard whispers about the Blackberry Curve hitting Sprint this month, and it looks like they were dead-on — say hello to RIM’s latest, the Curve 8330,
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I finally got access to Google Docs offline, the launch of which I covered yesterday. I understand why Google is pitching it as a safety net for a flaky online connection, as opposed to
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Call of Duty 4 Map Pack Hits Next Week. Infinity Ward’s “Variety Map Pack”, originally scheduled for April 3 to hit alongside the Game of the Year edition of Call of Duty 4, may now ins
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Okay, last Google April Fool’s joke coverage (maybe). This one is my favorite, along with the paper airplane option in Google Docs. The picture says it all: AdSense for Conversations. E
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I won’t lie. I’m not all that impressed with the LG Vu. It’s about as craptacular as the LG Voyager. It’s a little more refined and cleaned up than the Voyager. It’s lightweight, but fe
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows 6.1 is officially out, and after a hands on with the standard and prodessional versions of therefreshed OS, I’m still not sold on it. There’s no denying the redesigned home scre
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** HTC’s Touch Dual is now officially headed to US markets, and after a brief hands-on with it I’m a fan of the hardware. But at the end of the day, it’s still a WinMo phone. The phone pai
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Readers are submitting their best life hack for a chance to win an autographed copy of our new book, Upgrade Your Life. Here’s our latest winner.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Who do you think is gonna win? Mista T or some punk ass fool who sleeps all day and nibbles on people’s necks? That’s right. His mouth is gonna meet my fist, and my fist makes a good fi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Blogger Samar Kamat loves keeping up with his favorite web sites with Google Reader, but noticed Reader can take forever to load feeds with longer items. His solution? Switch to List Vi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Add another one to the list of Google employee departures: Google VP Engineering Douglas Merrill has resigned, a source says, and will be joining UK and NY-based big music label EMI Gro
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - New features for Google’s online apps offer a Web-based alternative to traditional software.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows XP is one of the two available OSes for the Eee PC, but there’s a problem: The Eee PC is fairly new, but Microsoft has publicly said it is planning on killing XP in the near fut
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - RealPlayer and Air will ship for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) running Linux, Intel said at IDF.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - Auction of the laptop containing Vista attack code from a hacking contest violated eBay rules against harmful merchandise.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** It looks like AT
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Sadly, this is the only one left.
Analysts are predicting that a new 3G iPhone will appear sooner than later based on supply problems at 20 Apple retail stores nationwide. Piper Jaf
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Canaccord Adams has an optimistic outlook for RIM’s quarterly report coming out tomorrow, claiming results will exceed expectations. There’s high a volume of orders out there for the re
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Need something immediately? Want to check on a price? Text your search term to 262966 (”AMAZON”) and Amazon will hunt down a few items from its online store. Reply and Amazon will call
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Official Playstation blog just announced that the the DUALSHOCK 3 rumble controllers have started shipping to stores and should be on sale by next week, a week earlier than the orig
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** A new study by Rubicon Consulting finds that most iPhone users are very satisfied with their purchase that the most popular application is e-mail. 75% of iPhone users claim to do more m
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Will eBay sell Skype to Google? It’s no secret that many in Silicon Valley regard eBay’s 2005 acquisition of the telephony service as a $2.6 billion misstep. But new rumors, reported la
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Linux only: Want to have your system shut down at bed time, or restart while you’re away? GShutdown, a free Linux utility, lets you tell your system to turn off, restart, or log off at
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** ATT has teamed up with TeleNav to launch a branded GPS service on a wide range of smartphones. It comes with everything you’ve come to expect from a GPS suite: written and spoken direct
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reviewing games has its place, but there’s no cast-iron rule that says we always have to review games as though they were games. We could, for example, do more of what MetaFilter poster
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Storage
Reader John V. just reminded us that Samsung’s 500GB SpinPoint M6 is now overdue. Sure, companies miss deadlines all the time — but this time, it’s different. F
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Characters from Super Smash Bros. Brawl re-envisioned as characters from doujin visual novel Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Not all the Brawl characters, but enough to satisfy our curiosity
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AFP - US software giant Microsoft has won recognition for its key Office software package format as an international standard, the body charged with regulating such matters said on Wedn
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Driving
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Fans of alternate Wii control schemes were obviously psyched when it was revealed that Mario Kart Wii would
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Peripherals
Let’s get ready to rumble! Sony’s PlayStation Blog announced today that DualShock 3 controllers are currently shipping to North American
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Capcom have just announced that they’ve sold 6.3 million Monster Hunter games. Yeah, you can say that’s tempered somewhat by the fact the series has appeared across three platforms (soo
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message.
To use the service, customers text the name of a produc
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming, HDTVDigiTimes is feeling pretty confident about the rumors they started yesterday regarding the Xbox 360 with integrated Blu-ray. They are so confident that they’re
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3Back in the golden days when we did a lot of gaming on PC, installations were known as “get pumped” time. You looked through the instruction booklet, you
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Windows, Linux, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0We really like snarky comments. Or maybe we just really like the sound of our own voices, if by saying sound we mean
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Maybe. Who knows! Unity Technologies, the guys behind the Unity 3D engine, which while being a regular engine is also able to be run in a web browser (see Velociraptor Safari), have ann
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: GPS, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Oh my. Look at what Lenovo is cooking up with the help of Intel’s newest Atom processor. Unveiled at Intel’s IDF in Shangh
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
Finally, the game that created such a kerfuffle on the Joystiq Podcast (and a couple of great Photoshops on our Facebook group) is now availab
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones
Carriers have been making some strong strides in the direction of open access, and the recent 700MHz auction was a particular win for consumers, but the FCC i
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Intel’s Nehalem chips were just officially announced a couple weeks ago, but the company’s already showing off early samples at the Intel Developer For
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Western Digital’s been churning out these My Book external hard drives in all sorts of configurations, but this 1 and 2TB Studio Edition IIs seem to be the most feature rich yet. It’s g
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Wednesday unveiled new features to make Web search easier and more relevant to mobile phone users, the latest step in its battle with Google Inc in the next front
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Lordess Tracy Chevalier Esq., an authoress and head of the UK Society of Authors believes that the Internet will destroy books as we know them. As we all know, book piracy is rampant on
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** These are some new images of the Nintendo Wii game Mario Kart Wii
Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Mario Kart Wii
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the latest version of the Internet Explorer Mobile browser during the CTIA Wireless 2008 conference. The software giant also announced Windows
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The NPD Group (those same people who bring us all the neat sales numbers) just published their annual results charting how much of the US actually plays video games. And yeah, we alread
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Nikon has eaten into Canon’s lead the digital SLR space, according to numbers released by IDC, which were then turned into this pretty graph by CNET. Canon SLRs accounted for 42.7 of th
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Square Enix’s attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Final Fantasy VII with their Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series of games hasn’t been going too well so far, especially in N
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** In case anyone is wondering what the exact difference between the older u740 from Verizon and the new Alias is I decided to snap some photos of the two versions. Like I said before, the
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Apple’s iPhone is in short supply at many of its U.S. stores, which could indicate a component shortage or a clearing of shelves for a new model, analysts said on Wednesday.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Fees for using two of the most common suffixes for Internet addresses are going up for a second consecutive year.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Posted by Meredith Whittaker, Program Manager
Google Docs is all about being able to share and collaborate, and now we’re taking the idea of sharing a step further with a new Google
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** We all pretty much figured that the SIXAXIS was on its last legs now that the DualShock 3 is hitting shelves. And today a Sony rep has confirmed with MTV that this is indeed the case. T
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** All platforms: Mozilla’s just made the latest release of the Firefox 3 beta available for download. Mozilla says Beta 5 “includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy ships in North America on June 3 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, Sierra announced today. “We’re creating a video game that is distinctly Bourne, based on
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Utilities
When you go to download a file from the web using Internet Explorer, you can choose to save the file or run it from its current location (which basic
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, VoIP, Beta
The Skype team has just released a new beta version of their internet telephony client for Windows. Skype 3.8 beta primarily focuses on audio qualit
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** There are a scant few features of the latest release of Safari for Windows and Mac OS X that you can’t recreate in Firefox with the help of a few add-ons and tweaksexcept for Safari’s i
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
Though it’s hard to imagine anything more exciting than obtaining The Hulk’s autograph or shaking hands with Iron Man (watch out for that palm
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Mozilla just released Firefox beta 5, the final beta beforr the browser’s expected June release date. There’s a new “thanks for helping test out Firefox” splash screen (pictued above).
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home EntertainmentIf you’re suddenly overcome with a feeling akin to dj vu, go ahead and kill that speed dial to your physician. For the second time in a mont
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Screens
GamePro had some time to check out the Wii version of upcoming Lucasarts game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. During their time with it, they managed to si
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Culture, Business
NPD’s new “Online Gaming 2008″ report states that 72% of people in the US played games in 2007, up from 64% in 2006 (although the quantity of play isn’
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC, Sports
American Football fans will have to turn to one of of their consoles or portables to get their next Madden fix, as Peter Moore has revealed EA’s cancellation of -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The DualShock 3 just landed on my doorstep, right next to that pink and green frosting. Even though I’ve messed around with one before I was still surprised at it’s heft. It makes the s
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