Leaked image of upcoming Motorola RAZR VE20

Are you sitting down? Motorola has been working on another RAZR cellphone, this one bound for Sprint.
The RAZR VE20 will be coming on August 17th and its features will include:

Dual band CDMA voice
EVDO and 3G data support
320 x 240 LCD display
2 megapixel camera able to capture video
Bluetooth support
microSD slot (up to 8GB)
NFL Mobile Live application [...]

Age falsification for some Chinese gymnists?

While everyone on the Chinese Olympic gymnastic team has a passport that indicates that they either are or will be 16 by the end of the 2008 calendar year, a requirement for them to be eligible to compete in the Beijing Games, some information has been uncovered that seems to prove otherwise.
News outlets have reported [...]

China uses lip-syncing prettier girl to open Olympics

When the 2008 Olympics opened and 9-year old Chinese girl named Lin Miaoke took the stage to sing during the opening ceremonies she touched the hearts of millions with her pretty face and beautiful voice.
Surprise–the voice wasn’t hers.
The actual singer, Yang Peiyi, wasn’t as pretty and had crooked teeth so she was kept off stage [...]

Nikon D90 shows up in Best Buy inventory screen

After first showing up in Circuit City’s inventory screen, the not announced by pretty much guaranteed Nikon D90 DSLR has now shown up in Best Buy’s inventory system.
Looks like it will have a price of $1,299.99, the same one confirmed by Circuit City. The date in the screenshot shows September 1st but according [...]

VUDU adds movie renewals, new 99-cent SD channel

Set-top streaming video provider VUDU announced a couple of new features that set it out a bit from the competition such as Apple and their Apple TV.
Traditionally when you rent a movie online you have a fix number of days to watch it and when it expires you’ll need to rent it again for the [...]

Fire at Apple HQ damages building, MobileMe squanders opportunity to go down again

One of Apple’s buildings at their Cupertino, California headquarters last night was damaged as the results of a three-alarm fire that broke out at the building known as Valley Green 6.
The fire, which took firefighters around 30-minutes to put out, seemed to start at or near the buildings air conditioning unit.
No injuries were reported.
MobileMe, perhaps [...]

iPhone coming to Best Buy stores next month

Right now the only place to buy an iPhone 3G is either at an Apple or an AT&T store but beginning next month you’ll have another option.
Best Buy announced that beginning on September 7th the iPhone will be available at their 970 US-based stores giving consumers another choice and Apple a better chance of hitting [...]

Steve Jobs talks App Store with Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal reporter Nick Wingfield had a chance to talk with Steve Jobs a bit about the success of the App Store, Apple’s iTunes-based store for iPhone and iPod Touch applications.
Everyone knows that the App Store is a success but just how much of a success is a bit mind boggling.
In the first month [...]