Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
According to a story at mocoNews, a source is telling that Virgin Mobile is in talks with small, financially challenged carrier Helio to potentially merge the two company’s.
Until late last year Helio had been co-owned by Earthlink and Korean communications giant SK Telecom until taking full ownership with a $70 million buyout.
Virgin, having recently announced [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
Online UK retailer PowerupMobile has announced that people who signup for a T-Mobile Web n Walk mobile broadband package for 24 months with them will also receive a free Asus Eee PC.
Sorry, not the new Eee PC 900 with the larger screen, just the smaller Surf 2G model, but free is free.
The cost of the [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
AMD has announced plans to add a few more cores to their server-level Opteron CPUs, specifically a 6-core chip code-named ‘Istanbul’, another 6-core chip code-named ‘Sao Paulo’, and a 12-core chip code-named ‘Magny-Cours’, each based on a new platform they’re referring to as ‘Maranello’.
The company’s previous plans for an 8-core chip (a.k.a. ‘Montreal’ ) based [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
Looks like free AT&T Wi-Fi for iPhone users is back and the feature is listed on AT&T’s website under iPhone calling plans (you can see for yourself here on the ‘PLAN’).
Look like iPhone users now officially have access to “more than 17.000 W-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S.”
Of course, the Starbucks [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
When word came out that Apple had acquired chip designer P.A. Semi it wasn’t immediately clear what their motivation was.
Details are starting to come out about the deal and it looks like the reason behind the acquisition was that Apple wants P.A. Semi to design a chip for them, but the company was basically out [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
The new Samsung Glyde cellphone is now available on Verizon.
Features of the Glyde include:
QWERTY keyboard
2 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus
GPS
Bluetooth
microSD slot
Full web browser
Something the Glyde does NOT support is Verizon’s VCAST mobile TV service so if that’s something that interests you keep that in mind.
Look for the Glyde to hit stores this week for [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
According to PC World China, Philips is working on a new cellphone called the “Xenium x800″ which apparently will have an “e2e” screen which likely means “edge to edge”.
Very little is known about this handset at the moment, assuming it’s even real.
From the pics that are floating around it should have Wi-Fi and a browser, [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
As promise, Adobe has updated their free, web-based photo editing application Photoshop Express to now include support for Flickr.
If all you need is a basic photo editor for fixing some colors, cropping, etc., Photoshop Express is definitely worth a look.
For a little more info about Photoshop Express check out this post or you can check [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dan
Microsoft has released a new version of their XNA Game Studio, version 3.0 CTP (short for Community Technology Preview)
New in this version supports creating games for the Zune which you can develop using C#.
For more info about how install and use the XNA Game Studio with a Zune check out this post at Zune Boards.
[Via [...]
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