Archive for June, 2008
Google Tools Will Tell You If Your ISP Is Slowing Down Your Connection [Google]
And I was starting to feel unfulfilled by the stuff coming out of Google’s labs. Its senior policy director, Richard Whitt, says that they’re cooking up software that’ll tell you if your ISP is screwing with or slowing down your connection because you’re hogging too much bandwidth, and what exactly they’re doing to it. (There’s […]
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Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times [Nature]
Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is helpful. Oh, and no one was […]
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Video of the Samsung Omnia i900 UI in Action [Cellphones]
If you were thinking about picking up the new Samsung Omnia SGI-1900 with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, a little video demonstration of the touchscreen UI could go a long way in helping you arrive at a decision. All-in-all things look great, just don’t be surprised if you fall asleep watching the following video. Not because […]
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More iPhone 3G details: future Apple-made chips, varying visual voicemail, and new video features
Filed under: Cellphones
There’s still plenty of emerging details and news on the iPhone 3G kicking around, but here’s what you need to know from the minor bits floating around over the past few days:
Jobs also told NYT that Apple’s acquisition of PA Semi was, in fact, intended to reduce Apple’s reliance on third-party chip makers. […]
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Treo 700wx to get Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrade?
Filed under: Cellphones
According to some slides unearthed over at TreoCentral, it looks like the Verizon Treo 700wx could be an unlikely candidate due for the Windows Mobile 6.0 (not 6.1) treatment. Usually carriers like Verizon won’t bother upgrading devices as old as these with newer versions of their mobile OS — partly to induce future […]
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Intel’s 3.2GHz Nehalem Extreme gamer chip in Q4?
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
Check it gamers, things are about to get like, so extreme in Q4. RegHardware has it from “motherboard-maker moles” that Intel will be loosing its smokin’ Nehalem architecture before the end of the year starting with a trio of quad-core “Bloomfield” processors aimed at desktop users. A top o’ the line 3.2GHz […]
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Price cuts and 60GB Xbox 360 rumored for E3
Filed under: Gaming
E3 is set to roll next month from July 15th to the 17th. With it comes the annual deluge of gaming rumors. Today we’ve got a pair for Microsoft. No, not another Blu-ray Xbox 360 whisper. Rather, we’ve got a resurrection of the 60GB Xbox 360 courtesy of Trusted Reviews as well as […]
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PSP firmware 4.00 due “soon,” adds Google search to XMB
Filed under: Gaming
There’s no indication of an exact release date just yet, but word just dropped on the official PlayStation blog that the PSP will be getting a boost to firmware version 4.00 “soon.” That’ll bring with it the addition of Google search directly form the XMB interface, which Sony says “replicates the Google Internet […]
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