Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
On April 14th when news of a new Apple Mac clone being released by a company called Psystar word quickly spread across the Internet of this powerful yet reasonably priced computer that would allegedly run Mac OS 10.5 Leopard natively–no special hacked OSx86 version needed.
It all sounded a bit too good to be true and [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
Verizon has filed suit again Sprint in a federal court in Delaware, claiming that Sprint is behind on interconnection charges to the tune of $10 million.
Verizon claims that they have “made over many months ad through both written and personal communications” to attempt to get Sprint to cooperate but calls their attempts “fruitless” and [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
It seems that The Boy Genius Report has gotten their hands on info about AT&T’s upcoming mobile TV service.
According to an “anonymous source inside AT&T,” the service will be launched on May 4th and pricing and channel info will be as follows:
Mobile TV Limited – $13/month: Includes four channels; Fox Mobile, CBS Mobile, NBC, and [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
When you travel by plan somewhere, I’m reasonably confident that you like either a window or an isle seat (lucky guess). Beginning May 7th, prepare to pay at least $5 more for either one of these if you fly US Airways and want to sit near the front of the plane.
The program is being called [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
If you have one of HP’s older MediaSmart HDTVs (specifically, either the SL4278N or SL4778N models) and have been waiting for an update to allow you to connect to Windows Vista for streaming videos:
A) Wow, what are the odds of that?
B) It’s ready.
Your HDTV should prompt you to install the update (assuming it has an [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
Today, April 17th, is the day when Microsoft’s Surface will be hitting select AT&T stores.
The 30-inch multitouch supporting table will be showing up at these five stores initially and if it goes well more stores will I’m sure be added to the list:
New York City381 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10017
New York City350 Park Ave.
New York, [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan
Panasonic has announced a new Wi-Fi enabled digital camera, the Lumix DMC-TZ50.
The TZ50 is a 9.1 megapixel digital point and shoot camera with a 28mm wide-angle lens, 10x optical zoom and the ability to record HD video.
Nice but that alone isn’t what sets it apart from the pack.
What does? The built-in Wi-Fi.
Using a built-in 802.11b/g [...]
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