Dan’s Tech-n-Stuff Weblog

The recently leaked LG Glimmer smartphone is apparently making its way to Alltel.
Some features of the Glimmer will include:

2.8-inch touchscreen display
2-megapixel camera with autofocus
microSD card slot
Audio and video playback support
Bluetooth
Assisted GPS using Alltel’s Navigation service

The Glimmer is also a slider design with a standard cellphone keypad under the touchscreen.
Why one would want a touchscreen keypad [...]

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Last April Google announced its planned acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. In December the US Federal Trade Commission approved the deal and it was up to the The European Commission to either approve the deal or shoot it down as a monopoly.
The EC has made their decision and the deal will be allowed to [...]

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The SanDisk Sansa Fuze media player, already outted by HandStands and Amazon, has finally been aknowledged by SanDisk.
According to their press release, the Sansa Fuze will be available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB configurations and will support MP3, WAV, Audible, WMA, MPEG-4, and JPEG files.
The 2GB version will only be available in black, the 4GB [...]

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Google is working on an updated version of their player that will automatically detect a users connection speed and serve up a different video quality depending on the speed.
If you don’t want to wait for that there’s a hack you can use to get higher quality videos right now and its simple–just add a few [...]

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Ah, nostalgia. The Sega Dreamcast died almost ten years go, too early for those who loved it.
When Dreamcast fans saw that dreamcast.com was asking “Do you still own a Dreamcast?”, word quickly spread that Sega was collecting serial numbers to do something special for Dreamcast owners.
Sorry, its a scam.
Sega no longer owns dreamcast.com and the [...]

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As some of you may already know, Google has been trying to work its way into television ads with their Google TV Ads beta. Some of the cable companies, not so keen on losing out on potential revenue, have decided to try and do something about it.
Dubbed “Project Canoe”, Comcast, Bright House, Cablevision, Cox, Charter [...]

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The Apple MacBook Air is so thin and light it almost looks like a picture of a laptop printed on some heavy paper, but is it thin and light enough to be accidentally thrown away with a stack of newspapers?
That’s what Newsweek’s Steven Levy thinks might have happened to the MacBook Air review unit he [...]

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The $199 computer that Wal-Mart has been selling online and roughly 600 of their stores since this past October will now be an online-only item.
Melissa O’Brien, spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, said “this really wasn’t what our customers were looking for.”
For the price it was a decent little computer, but I’d imagine that a Linux computer might [...]

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The rumored Xbox 360 price drop in Europe is now official.
The price of the Xbox 360 Arcade is now €199.99 / £159.99, the Premium is €269.99 / £199.99, and the Elite is now €369.99 / £259.99.
If you’re keeping score, that makes the Xbox 360 Arcade close to half the price of the 40GB Playstation 3 [...]

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