Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
No official word yet on who the new announcers will be in the upcoming Madden ‘09 video game, but there’s a good chance the team won’t include John Madden himself.
EA audio director Aubrey Hodges said in an interview that “we are making a change in the Madden commentators. I can’t mention who they are. We [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
The new Dash Express GPS has begun shipping and could begin arriving as soon as tomorrow.
What makes the Express different from other GPS devices is its Internet-connectivity, allowing users to do live Yahoo searches from the devices as well as send addresses and Google Earth landmarks to the device from their home computer, as well [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
Yahoo Autos has named their top 10 hybrid vehicles in 2008. No real surprises here, all hail the Prius:
Number 1: Toyota Prius
MSRP: $21,100
EPA-estimated milage (city/highway, mpg): 48/45
Number 2: Saturn Vue Green Line
MSRP: $24,170
EPA-estimated milage (city/highway, mpg): 25/32
Number 3: Honda Civic Hybrid
MSRP: $22,600
EPA-estimated milage (city/highway, mpg): 40/45
Number 4: Toyota Camry Hybrid
MSRP: $25,200
EPA-estimated milage (city/highway, mpg): 33/34
Number [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
As the result of a fire at the LG Chem on March 3rd, the computer industry is experiencing a laptop battery shortage which is already beginning to effect the price of laptop batteries at Dell.
LG Chem is the second largest battery maker in South Korea, and one of the top three in the world along [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
Kevin Lin, vice president of sales at ASUS, annunced today that that the next generation of their Eee PC notebook computer will include an 8.9-inch touchscreen display and possibly even a GPS.
Industry sources say that the updated Eee PC’s will also receive a memory bump from 512MB to 1GB and have its SSD capacity upgraded [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
According to a story in Fortune, Microsoft is apparently considering application development for the iPhone.
Tom Gibbons, corporate VP of the Specialized Devices and Applications Group (the same group that develops MS Office for the Mac platform), “it’s really important for us to undertsand what we can bring to the iPhone.”
“To the extent that Mac Office [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
Navigation chipset manufacturer SiRF today announced that as a result of lower than expected orders for 2008 they dropped their first quarter expectation by roughly $10 million.
Bad news for SiRF employees as the company will be cutting 7 percent of their workforce and closing its offices in San Francisco and Stockholm, Sweden.
The company will also [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan
I’m still not sure why someone might want a cell phone with a keypad that feels like human skin, but LG must be pretty sure that someone does.
The new LG-SH240 slider has features that include:
3G HSDPA
Bluetooth
Keypad that feels like human skin
Its available in Korea for 400,000 won, or about $400.
[Via Engadget]
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