Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
When Yahoo held their shareholders meeting and votes were cast for the Jerry Yang and company, they won pretty conformably and it was taken as a sign that the shareholders were more or less rallying behind the board and believed in their vision.
Turns out that might not be completely true.
ValleyWag is reporting that Capital Research [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
Photoclub Alpha has confirmed that Sony will be holding a press conference on August 14th to announce “an exciting camera”.
While it could be the official announcement of the Sony Alpha A900 full frame 25 megapixel DSLR, most believe that announcement will take place closer to the Photokina show next month.
If that’s true, wonder what this [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
The closers we get to Photokina next month the more camera news we’ll likely hear. Next up: Nikon.
Nikon guru Thom Hogan has posted some specs for the as yet unannounced D90 DSLR that he feels pretty confident in. It will be called the D90 and be replacing the current D80 model which is already 2-years [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
According to photography site Kamera & Bild, Canon will be having a press conference on August 26th to announced a new model.
Which new new model is not known yet, but it could be the 5D Mark II which some have been anxiously awaiting.
If it IS the 5D Mark II, check out a list here of [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
Motorola has been hard at work on their next big cellphone code named “Alexander” and courtesy of BGR the first leaked shot of it is out.
Features of the Alexander will include:
Windows Mobile 6.1
5 - 8 megapixel (still up in the air somewhat, I guess)
NVIDIA chip for 3D graphics (please don’t be a G84 or G86).
aGPS
Hoping [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
Cell carrier Vodafone offers a unique service for their iPhone 3G devices–for a fee, users can pay to have their devices unlocked which sounds great, right?
Well, yes and no. Unlocked is good, but no being able to use your phone anymore sucks a bit.
Since upgrading to the new 2.0.1 firmware that Apple released yesterday, unlocked [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
In an internal email sent to Apple employees by Steve Jobs obtained by Ars Technica he admits that MobileMe was launched too early and that it was “not up to Apple’s standards.”
Jobs believes that the service needed more time and testing and should have been rolled out slowly in phases instead of all of the [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
Delta airlines has announced that they will be installing Wi-Fi onto their entire domestic fleet, or more than 300 planes, by the first half of 2009.
The airline will be using Aircell’s Gogo service and will cost $9.95 for flights under 3 hours or $12.95 for longer flights.
“Delta remains committed to providing a travel experience that [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
Yesterday Apple released firmware 2.0.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch and among the “bug fixes” is to block access to jailbroken applications. That one should be fixable by the iPhone Dev Team and their PwnageTool but another interesting change is that Apple has also updated the iPhone 3G baseband.
The baseband is hacked to unlock [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Dan
You might remember back on July 3rd NVIDIA informed investors that “significant quantities” of some of their older GPUs but as the story ages it seems to get a little be worse.
Now it seems that all NVIDIA G84 and G86 parts are bad. Laptops, desktops, mobile devices–you name it, they’re bad.
The problem seems to be [...]
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