While the iPhone was a successful product well before the App Store launched this year, having something like the App Store available sure isn’t helping the competitors much.
A one-stop-shopping for everything iPhone and iPod Touch that makes buying and installing a new application roughly as simple as buying a song from iTunes much be giving [...]
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Dell has added a few more notebooks to their list of those with the faulty NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs); the amended list now contains:
Dell Precision M2300
Dell Precision M4300
Dell Precision M65
Inspiron 1420
Latitude D620
Latitude D630
Latitude D630c
Latitude D820
Latitude D830
Vostro Notebook 1310
Vostro Notebook 1400
Vostro Notebook 1510
Vostro Notebook 1710
XPS M1330
XPS M1530
No word yet on when the “fix” will be [...]
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Now that satellite radio companies XM and Sirius have merged next up is a common radio that is able to tune stations from each.
While Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin has promised the FCC that such devices will be available within 9-months, investors have been told to expect them to available “a number of months sooner.”
Unfortunately that [...]
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According to a story at CNBC, cellular carrier Sprint is in talks to sell off it’s iDen wireless network to either NII Holdings Inc. or private equity investors.
Their iDen network, as some of you may already know, is what the carrier uses for it’s push-to-talk service. (For more info about iDen technology check out the [...]
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Another day another bit of D90 news. Is the image to the right a leaked shot of the much talked about but so far unannounced Nikon D90 DSLR camera?
Maybe, maybe not. Pretty good fake if it’s not real, though.
In case you missed the last post about the D90, here’s a rundown of the features Thom [...]
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You’ve may have already heard about the I Am Rich iPhone app available in the App Store but just in case you haven’t, here’s a summary: It’s an “application” that doesn’t do anything (no, seriously) and costs $999.99.
According to the “developer” Armin Heinrich, eight people have purchased the app but Apple has pulled the plug [...]
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In December, 2005, Google announced that it would be pay $1 billion cash for a 5% indirect equity stake in AOL and in 2006 the deal was complete. The move allowed the two companies to maintain a relationship the had started several years earlier, plus it allowed Google to keep Microsoft from becoming a search [...]
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As someone who searches the Internet a LOT I for one was pretty surprised to see this: believe it or not, only 49% of Internet users in the US use search engines daily, which is up from just one third back in 2002.
The data comes courtesy of the Pew Internet & American Life Project which [...]
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According to a lawsuit filed by a group of Apple support engineers against Apple, the company has denied them overtime pay and meal compensation, each of which are required by California law.
Further, the suit alleges that the workers are subjected to working conditions similar to indentured servitude. One specific example is from network engineer David [...]
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One of the first apps many new iPhone owners download is PhoneSaber, a simple little program that shows a Star Wars lightsaber on the screen and, using the iPhone’s accelerometer to detect motion, will make lightsaber-like sounds as you move and swing your phone around.
Unfortunately the popular app has been removed from the App Store [...]
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