Meet the new Treo Pro (formerly thought to be the Treo 850), a new smartphone coming from Palm that…looks a lot like other Palm devices, but is shiny and black.
The Treo Pro will be a Windows Mobile device that appears to have what you’d expect from a Treo–touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, stylus, built-in camera, [...]
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According to a tipster for Valleywag, on August 20th big layoffs are coming to AOL’s technology operations.
If the information is correct, AOL will be “selling their MTC & DTC data centers and will be contracting all of the services out to Emcor. There are way too many managers and a lot of them are expected [...]
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Someone has done some more snooping in the FCC database and turned up a new, third-generation Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP), this time with Wi-Fi/p>
Dubbed the PSP-3001, the next PSP will include 802.11b Wi-Fi for connecting to either the Internet or a PS3, but the other rumored new features weren’t called out (such as built-in microphone [...]
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Netflix has announced that they have suffered their most severe system outage to date, resulting in the company being unable to ship discs to roughly one third of their 8.4 million customers.
“…the site’s been up but our shipping system is down. It’s worse than it was in March. We’re really backlogged,” said company spokesperson Steve [...]
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The highly anticipated title Rock Band 2 by Harmonix is still scheduled to launch as an Xbox 360 exclusive on September 14th, but bad news if you were hoping to get your hands on the new instrument controls that same day.
The Rock Band 2 bundle that includes the game and the the controllers has been [...]
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Apple today has announced that movies are now available to rent or purchase via iTunes in Australia and New Zealand.
Eddy Cue, Apple VP of Internet Services, says “movie fans in Australia and New Zealand can choose from a great selection of over 700 films for purchase and rent on the iTunes Store…iTunes provides an incredibly [...]
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Sony’s PlayTV DVR add-on for their PlayStation 3 console is coming to the UK on September 19th for GBP 69.99 (about $130 US) and when it does it looks like recorded programs will not be transferable.
Initially it was understood that once you record a program with PlayTV you’d be able to transfer that program to [...]
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Global banking giant HSBC is currently evaluating the iPhone “from a HSBC Group perspective” and if things go well, ZDNet Australia the company may place an order for 200,000 iPhone’s.
That doesn’t mean 200,000 new hires, means that 200,000 BlackBerry’s would be replaced and that would be bad news for BlackBerry maker RIM.
Brenton Hush, CIO for [...]
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