Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 delayed until 2009? [UPDATED]

Remember that hot Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 smartphone showed off a few weeks ago at Mobile World Congress?
It was supposedly coming to “select markets” in the second half of 2008, but according to Sony Ericsson Blog the actual release date is now going to be 10/2/2009 February 2, 2009.
If that’s true, how competitive will the [...]

Create your own e-cards with Phreetings and Flickr

If you’re looking to send an electronic greeting card to someone and want one that doesn’t suck, you can try one of these sites or you can try Phreetings.
Phreetings lets you create your own e-card using any picture shared in Flickr.
Just enter a few search words for the type of picture you want and a [...]

MC Hammer’s back with DanceJam

If you’ve been wondering what ever happened to MC Hammer, wonder no more–he’s back and he’s an Internet entrepreneur.
DanceJam, Hammer’s venture, is a website designed to allow users to view and share videos of themselves and their friends dancing. It also has a ‘Battles’ section where two users are paired up to dance head-to-head and [...]

Schools give out free iPhones, MacBooks

Last week Abilene Christian University (ACU) announced a new plan to give all incoming freshman either an iPhone or iPod Touch.
In addition to using them to slack off (its inevitable) the devices will also be an integral part of the ACU’s Connected program, where they will be used for things like sending students homework alerts, [...]

Add your own photo to a magazine cover

If you’ve ever wanted to put your own photo on a magazine cover for a gift, prank, etc., but didn’t have the image editing chops (or time) to do it yourself in Photoshop, check out MagMyPic.
Upload your own photo and add it to the cover of any of these 18 magazines:

Cosmopolitan
Fortune
GQ
Life
Maxim
Modeling International
Motor Trend
National Geographics
PC Gamer
People
Pet [...]

iTunes movie rentals count falls short

When movie rentals was in the Apple iTunes Store was announced the press release said that there would be over 1,000 titles by the end of February and over 100 in high definition with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound.
Yes, there are standard and high definition movies available for rent in iTunes, but not quite as [...]