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Sources: Bell to carry iPhone Nov. 4

October 13th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
The iPhone for Bell should arrive near the very start of November and will have very familiar device and rate pricing, according to Electronista sources.

Dell tries for a rebirth of cool

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15 years ago
Dell has just teamed up with Vice Magazine, they of the Do’s & Don’ts, to create a new news site/blog/coolness injector called Motherboard.tv. After those strange, heady days of the Dell Dude, the company has fallen off the coolness radar.

GPS device alerts you to red light cameras, doesn’t do turn-by-turn directions

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15 years ago
Raise your hand if you’ve been caught on camera running a red light (I am raising my hand). Depending upon how often you get caught by red light cameras and how much you have to pay per ticket, this $200 “Red Light Camera Detector” may end up saving you some money and insurance headaches in the...

Nokia offers more Booklet 3G details and pricing info

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I mentioned back at the beginning of the month that the Nokia Booklet 3G had turned up in the Best Buy inventory with a price tag of $599.99 attached. Nokia has now officially confirmed that price tag for machines that are purchased without an accompanying data plan.

Acer AOD250-1613 Android-powered netbook up for pre-order

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15 years ago
I have to say that Android is making big moves right now. It has fast become one of the most talked about mobile phone OS’ and is finding its way into other products. One of the products that many people have been waiting for Android to turn up in are netbooks.

Office 2004 mainstream support extended to January

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Filed under: SoftwareAs you probably recall, Microsoft dropped Visual Basic from Office for the Mac with Office 2008. At the time, I was working for a company that had a huge investment in systems that relied on Visual Basic, and that change was a real blow.

First Recordable Bluetooth Headset VR1

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15 years ago
Say hello to the world’s first recordable Bluetooth headset, the VR1. With the ability to record up to eight minutes of conversation, gossipers beware.  The new headset features Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, noise cancellation features and 6 hours of talk time. Cost, $109.

National Geographic: 50 Years of Space Exploration

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15 years ago
Ready to lose 20 minutes of your day? Check out this huge infograph that displays the last 50 years of space exploration. It’s awesome although it does kind of indicate that Venus is closer to earth than the Moon.

GelaSkins now printing custom skins for iPhones, BlackBerry, and more

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15 years ago
Oh hell yes. Custom GelaSkins. This is something I've wanted since I was slapping GelaSkins on a Helio Fin two years ago.

Free Dictionary.com app now available for BlackBerry

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15 years ago
Section: Communications, Smartphones, MobileDictionary.com has now announced the availability of a free app for BlackBerry owners.  The download is currently the only free dictionary and thesaurus app available for BlackBerrys.  The app includes over 500,000 word definitions and synonyms...

$100 WikiReader Handheld Gadget

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15 years ago
Well, it’s finally here, a handheld Wikipedia device.  Please give a warm welcome to the WikiReader.

Desk Lamp / Light Box

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15 years ago
If you’ve ever tried to make your own light box, then you’ll know how not only challenging it becomes but also how it never really works out right, but this Desk Lamp / Light Box concept is going to change all of that.

Hard Drive Camera Stabilizer

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15 years ago
BobS has come up with a creative Hard Drive Camera Stabilizer. We have seen other ways to Gyro Stabilize a Camera but this one is nice because it has the possibility of making use of a hard drive that otherwise would have no purpose.

Full body scanners at airports reveal your junk

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15 years ago
Full-body scanners are being tested in a variety of airports. I didn’t get the pleasure of using one on my recent trip to Japan, unfortunately, so I can’t provide a first-hand account of what it’s like. I suspect it’s quite unremarkable to walk through one of these.

TiVo’s On Demand section down for Blockbuster On Demand update

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15 years ago
Don’t look now, but your Series 2, 3, or HD TiVo is probably getting the Blockbuster On Demand update right now. Actually, go look now because while I couldn’t get a picture to show this accurately, the screen above looks slightly different than other TiVo screens.

Dev raises price of $3 app to $40 just to spite customers

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Software, Odds and ends, Developer, Deals, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchI like the way Schiau Studios thinks -- when customers complained about the price of their $2.99US App Store game Alchemize, they raised the price up to $39.99.

Hitachi outs enterprise-grade, 15,000RPM Ultrastar drives

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Hitachi has released two new hard drives on Tuesday, both turning at the fastest-possible 15,000RPM design. Part of the Ultrastar series, this includes the company's first 2.5-inch drive with the extra speed, the C15K147, and the firm's fourth-generation 3.5-inch drive, the 600GB 15K600.

Compaq CQ61 Budget Laptop Goes for $399

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HP rlaunching its Compaq CQ61 laptop justto replace the CQ60. CQ61 offer a 15.6″ display with WXGA resolution.Compaq CQ61 runs on Windows 7 Home Premium and packs a 2GHz AMD Sempron M100 processor, 2GB of RAM, 160 GB HDD and a DVD burner.

10/GUI: One Very Slick Desktop Multi-Touch Concept (Video)

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15 years ago
Hopefully you just read Michael's post about Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans. The answer is so simple that a lot of people overlook it: No one wants to hold their hands at monitor-level all the time, you'd get tired very quickly.

Blockbuster On Demand coming to TiVo sometime today

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TiVo users! Rejoice! Soon you’ll have access to Blockbuster On Demand content as if Amazon, Netflix, Walt Disney Studios, and Jaman services weren’t enough.

More Dell Adamo XPS Shots Revealed

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15 years ago
Recently the Dell Adamo XPS ultra-thin laptop was shown at an event. At the time there were only a couple of photos captured by those in attendance and due to the very brief showing, there were no more details provided.

Dynabook MX/43 and MX/33: New netbooks from Toshiba

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15 years ago
Toshiba’s 18-4-inch laptop Qosmio G60, which the company announced today, is quite cool, but at $3,200, it may be a bit too pricey for most of us. And sometimes, a smaller laptop does the job, too.

Openmoko putting Wikipedia in your pocket, without Internet access

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15 years ago
Section: Gadgets / Other, Lifestyle There’s a good chance this scenario has happened to you before: you just hear about something or are asked about something that you’re not sure about.  You don’t have Internet access, but you know once you have it, Wikipedia will most...

Put Wikipedia in Your Pocket for $99

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15 years ago
So far as I'm concerned, Wikipedia may well be the number one reason for owning a mobile browser. I can't tell you how many arguments in my life about the south Saharan hooded vulture could have been put to an end with simple access to the world's most popular online encyclopedia.

Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player

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15 years ago
WD announced that its new WD TV Live HD Media Player is now available to consumers in the United States via Best Buy.

Fujitsu F-Series All-in-Ones and MT Tablet get multitouch plus versions for the elderly

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15 years ago
It’s not just the LOOX C CULV notebooks new from Fujitsu today; the company have also outed a number of desktops and notebooks, some supporting multitouch touchscreens.

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