Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
Well known money bleeder Palm said that while the company had the strongest single quarter in phone sales in their history, they still have a net loss of $31.5 million in 2008.
Recently Palm hired former Apple executive Jon Rubenstein to reorganize Palm’s business and try and revitalize its products.
Rubenstein (the co-creator of the Apple iPod) [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
When Amazon’s $399 Kindle e-paper first launched, opinions were mixed on how successful it would be. Including 3G for downloading on the go was a nice addition, but other e-book readers haven’t been big hits so why should the Kindle.
Its a hit.
Here we are, four months after launch, and still Amazon is unable to keep [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
Have you ever tried to delete or rename a file or folder in Windows only to be told that you can’t because something is using it, even though you have EVERYTHING closed?
Find out what it is with a little freebie called Process Explorer.
When you first open Process Explorer you might be initially confused if you’re [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
The long talked about show Caprica, a prequel to the revived Battlestar Galactica series (about to begin its fourth and final season), was officially confirmed yesterday at a Sci-Fi Channel press conference.
There will be a 2-hour Caprica pilot and if its a hit it will likely be turned into a series.
In case you’re not familiar [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
The recently releases 2.17 firmware for the Sony Playstation 3 didn’t really add a whole lot, but the next scheduled firmware release, looks to make up for it.
Firmware v2.20 will be coming soon and will include:
Support for Blu-ray Profile 2.0 (also known as BD-Live), making the PS3 the first Blu-ray player on the market to [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
Just yesterday Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen said while on a conference call while investment experts “we believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone…we have evaluated [the SDK] and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”
Flash forward one whole day…Narayen is now [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dan
Many Mac users running Leopard that also have an AirPort Extreme Base Station have been (not so) patiently waiting for Apple to allow USB hard drives plugged into the USB port on the AirPort Extreme to be accessible by Time Machine for backing up. Sharing hard drives from there (called “AirDisk” 
is officially supported, so [...]
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