ABC’s Lost is back for a new season beginning tonight with a 2-hour premiere event.
If last season is foggy at all for you, you might want to brush up a bit on some things from last season to help you enjoy the premiere as much as possible. The first hour of the 2-hour event should [...]
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The FCC auction for the 700MHz spectrum has hit round 17, and the minimum bid of $4.6 billion for the “C block” has been surpassed with a bid of $4.7 billion, triggering the open-access provision. What this means is that whoever ultimately wins this auction will be required to provide access to any compatible device.
Things [...]
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If you’ve gone into a coffee shop and tried to order a drip coffee, you might have been a bit shocked to see how much it cost you. To help out with this, Starbucks will begin selling “short” cups of brewed coffee for $1 with free refills in their test market of Seattle. If that [...]
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Amazon announced today that they will be acquiring Audible Inc., the “leading provider of premium digital spoken word audio content.”
“Audible.com offers the best customer experience, the widest content selection and the broadest device compatibility in the industry,” said Steve Kessel, Amazon.com’s senior vice president for worldwide digital media. “Working together, we can introduce more innovations [...]
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The PMA shows opens tomorrow, but the highlight for some has already come with the announcement of the new Canon EOS Rebel XSi 450D, replacing the EOS Rebel XTi 400D.
The folks at Gizmodo were able to lay hands on the XSi and found that it felt better in the hand than the XTi, with a [...]
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At Macworld 2008 Steve Jobs announced the Apple TV Take 2, essentially an Apple TV with updated software allowing it to rent movies, including some in high definition, directly from the iTunes store.
If you’re been waiting for the free update to your Apple TV, you’ll have to wait a couple weeks longer.
Today Apple announced that [...]
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Today GPS-maker Garmin introduced the nüvifone, a new device that combines the features of a GPS and mobile phone into one device.
From the press release:
“The nüvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and function in a single mobile device,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s president and COO. “This is the breakthrough product that [...]
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MarketingWeek magazine is reporting that “senior industry sources” believe Google and Dell are working on a cellphone together, with a formal announcement possibly coming as early as the Mobile World Congress show in mid-February.
If the cellphone is real, it would of almost certainly be running Google’s Linux-based Android mobile operating system.
There has been some talk [...]
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