Archive for August, 2008
Choose Your Own Ending: Steve Jobs is Dead
August 28, 2008 7:55 am
Yesterday, somebody at Bloomberg updated Steve Jobs’ 17-page obituary– and accidentally pushed it across the wire, in spite of warnings, in all caps, to “HOLD FOR RELEASE- DO NOT USE. The lede, inadvertently, is the most macabre Mad Lib you’ve ever seen: Steve Jobs has [verb]. He was [number]. “[quote here]“, said [somebody relevant]. And, […]
Original post by Laptopical.com
This morning, Logitech unveiled the Squeezebox Boom, an all-in-one networked music player that lets users listen to tunes from any room in the home. All you need to do to pump up the volume is plug the Logitech Squeezebox Boom into a power outlet, and connect to a Wi-Fi signal.
Once it’s on the network, you […]
Original post by Laptopical.com
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2:12 am Exciting things are happening over at what laptop so we’ll no longer be posting stories and news here.
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Original post by Michael Browne
To date, we’ve been shocked– shocked– that Sony hasn’t released a point-and-shoot with 720p video recording. Particularly given that its cross-product marketing campaign is called HDNA, the lack of HD in its camera lineup has been baffling. Finally, Sony’s on board: the new Cybershot DSC-T500 does just that. I saw a demo a few weeks […]
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No Mini, Yet: Dell Annouces Low-Cost Vostro Notebooks
August 27, 2008 6:38 pm Dell might not be ready to share details on its long-rumored netbook, but the company is absolutely headed down a low-cost route.
Unveiled today were two new Vostro laptops and desktops “designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses, governments and educational institutions operating on limited budgets in the world’s emerging economies.” These two new […]
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Dell might not be ready to share details on its long-rumored netbook, but the company is absolutely headed down a low-cost route.
Unveiled today were two new Vostro laptops and desktops “designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses, governments and educational institutions operating on limited budgets in the world’s emerging economies.” These two new […]
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AirCell: Shut the VoIP Up
9:22 amOur post on putting American Airline’s Gogo Wi-Fi connection (powered by AirCell’s inflight wi-fi technology) to the test has caused for quite a bit of chatter in the blogosphere. Most of the post focused on our experience in the “Cloud” and watching videos on Hulu.com and chatting over instant messaging services. However, the VoIP call […]
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OLPC Mali: Village Teachers Learn to Use the XO
August 26, 2008 3:48 pmWhen we decided to send 30 XO laptops to the village of Quessoborgo in Mali we were confident that the children would love the laptops, but the teachers were another story. While we worked with the principal of the Primary School Of Ntentou in our plan to donate the laptops, we were aware of the […]
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Hands-On With the Peek
1:02 pmWe just had a hands-on with the Peek, a new device that resembles a smart phone but is strictly dedicated to serving up your e-mail. Sound dumb? To you, it should. The device is targeted strictly at non-techies that don’t have e-mail on their phones and don’t care to figure it out, either. It even […]
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A Sneak Peek at the E-mail-Only Peek
12:43 pmWe just had a hands-on with the Peek, a new device that resembles a smart phone but is strictly dedicated to serving up your e-mail. Sound dumb? To you, it should. The device is targeted strictly at non-techies that don’t have e-mail on their phones and don’t care to figure it out, either. It even […]
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