As Apple tries to regain their composure after the MobileMe launch debacle they’ve setup a special chat support service to help the 1% of MobileMe users who had email trouble (maybe more than 1% but that’s all Apple is admitting to).
Sounds good, right? It is…if it’s done correctly.
At least one user to attempted to get [...]
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According to some owners of the new iPhone 3G, small cracks are beginning to appear around the edge of the devices, typically near the headphone jack, ringer switch, and volume control.
It would be easy to say that those getting cracks are just not caking care of the iPhones very well but that doesn’t [...]
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When Hasbro sued JR Software, developers of the popular Facebook game Scrabulous, Hasbro also asked Facebook to block access to the game.
Looks like its back, but under a new name.
The new game, now called Wordscraper, looks a little bit different from the original Scrabulous but it’s essentially the same.
I doubt this will satisfy [...]
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Most iPhone developers who grab a copy of the iPhone SDK from Apple’s iPhone developer website will get a copy of the latest SDK and pre-release 2.1 firmware without support for the upcoming Push Notification feature.
It looks like some developers, however, are a bit luckier than the rest of us and already have a copy [...]
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The updated Microsoft Xbox 360 console announced before E3 with the 60GB hard drive has been sneaking out at a few retailers and now Amazon has joined the party and also has it for sale now.
$349.99 will get you a shiny new…well, matte white, actually…Xbox 360 console with a 60GB hard drive and one wireless [...]
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With Motorola and Sony Ericsson having some financial trouble as of late, Nokia is looking to stay ahead of the and maybe even get few customers from RIM and Apple with an across the board price cut.
The biggest cuts will be on 5310 and 5610 music phones and the 8GB N8, but most other handsets [...]
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DISH Network haters out there (I hear there may be one or two) will soon have one less thing to complain about as the broadcaster will be the first to broadcast live 1080p beginning on August 1st when it offers I Am Legend in full 1080p.
Not all subscribers will be able to get 1080p broadcasts, [...]
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A while back you might remember Sony talking about PlayStation Home, a virtual online world you interact with from your PlayStation 3 console.
Sony Japan has finally opened things up for closed beta testing which is expected to start sometime in August.
No exact date on when we can expect the same sort of program in the [...]
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Sure, all modern Blu-ray players that support Blu-ray Profile 2.0 include an Ethernet port for connect to the Internet but not not all of them can do what LG’s new BD300 can: receive streamed content from Netflix.
The new BD300 lets users stream TV shows and movies from Netflix directly to itself with titles [...]
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Apple today released a new update for iTunes, bringing it up to 7.7.1.
In usual Apple style, the description says that it is to “improve stability and performance” (thanks for that).
Not much else is really known about it at this point, but if you want it you should be able to see it in Apple’s Software [...]
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