Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
For MacWorld:
iWorks 2009. Expect way more tie-ins with MobileMe. Real-time collaborative editing anyone? It would be about time!
A Snow Leopard demo. Obviously. Expect a few (minor) surprises here. Apple needs something to be able to sell this. Unless they plan on giving it away…
iLife 2009. iPhoto is due for a major update as is iDVD.
What [...]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Google has updated their Google Toolbar Pagerank as of about 1 hour ago, marking a New Year’s Eve PageRank update which should have a whole lot of web publishers and bloggers discussing their changes in PageRank over the New Year holiday. Bloginfor’s Google PageRank got 5 from zero. This “IT Blog Information Review” launched on [...]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
On December 21, I reported “Windows 7 Public Beta Build 7004 Screenshot“. Now, the beta version of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, has been leaked to the web.
It’s been all over the Internet, and people are happy with what they’ve downloaded, the Windows 7 beta in ISO form. The ISO file for Windows 7 [...]
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Brief: The Internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national and international news for Americans, according to a new survey.Television, however, remains the preferred medium for Americans, according to the survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Recently a survey was conducted by Pew Research Center for the [...]
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Though the Nokia N96 cell phone offers an excellent feature set, you’re better off waiting for the N97, when it becomes available in the U.S.
Proving once again that smartphones aren’t only the provinces of Windows Mobile, RIM (Blackberry) or Apple (ooh, what’s it called again…?), Nokia this week unveiled the new N97 in Barcelona. For [...]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named ‘Cuill’ and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a ‘massive’ search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, an innovative interface and some nifty features.
As TechCrunch [...]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
As the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart commands a significant amount of respect. In fact, I think the company is the most important retailer to any company in any industry, let alone Apple and the tech industry.
But Friday’s announcement that the iPhone will be coming to Wal-Mart store shelves on Sunday has changed the face of [...]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Facebook taken away. This is because she had posted photographs of herself breastfeeding her child.
Kelli even started a group on Facebook called “Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding is Not Obscene.”
The group has become very popular and now has over sixty four thousand members. This is quite impressive. Her Facebook group is even going to have a virtual [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Can you feel it? Dell’s Adamo is just about here : “Adamo: Dell Ultra-Thin Laptop is coming“, and the anticipation is palpable.
Well, we have some more news about the upcoming Dell Adamo, the Macbook Air competitor I posted about the other day. Still nothing specific regarding the specs, but a few things on Dell’s website have [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
Sony will soon release it’s smallest model in the notebook line. This is called the Sony Vaio Pocket! It’s supposed to be the high end model in the the competitive net book market we have nowadays. Most probably it will have an Atom 1.33Ghz Processor and a razor-sharp 1600×768 pixel screen on an 8-inch LED [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Official Google Mobile Blog: Track Santa with Google Maps for mobile:
Santa’s making his list, the Elves are working around the clock, the sleigh is being prepped - Christmas is almost here! As they have since 1955, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) will be tracking Santa’s journey this Christmas, and Google will again enable you [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Brief: Worldwide laptop shipments topped those of desktops for the first time ever in the third quarter, according to the research group iSuppli.
Over the past quarter, PC makers shipped more notebook PCs than desktops for the first day ever, marking a major milestone in the industry, according to market research firm iSuppli. While the number [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
It’s need to be confirmed that T-Mobile USA will be launching the new next-generation BlackBerry 8900 Curve on the third Wednesday of February, the 18th.
Leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor, the new Curve features a beefy 512 MHz processor and 192MB of RAM, but is seriously hurt by its lack of 3G. Yes, this device is aimed [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
LG Electronics(www.lge.co.kr) launches its new clamshell handset ‘LG-SH490′ dubbed as ‘Make-Up Phone’ in Korea market.
With the concept to personalize a phone with the users’ own style, the Make-Up phone is available in three different case designs including Smoky Red, Deep Blue and Pearl White. Also, users can create 18 different emoticons on the front panel, [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Here’s an easier way to print photos from your iPhone or iPod Touch – the iPrint Photo.
HP announced the new application called iPrint Photo which will allow users to wirelessly print photos directly from their iPhone or iPod Touch. It can be used for photos that are taken with the iPhone’s camera or the ones [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Christmas is a great moment to share love with your family and friends. One of our favorite iPhone cases maker - XSKN.com make no mistake to launch the most talk about cool iPhone Nano cases. However, iPhone Nano still in the dark and no official news from Apple about the launch.
XSKN website has now posted [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Traditionally, an email account is created on a PC or Mac, but this time has gone, Nokia, the leading manufacturing company of mobile phones has launched Mail on Ovi that allows you to create your own email account directly on your mobile phone, offering all the features and functionality of a PC-based account, with a [...]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Nokia has announced yet another variation of its 8800 slider phone, the Gold Arte. As the name implies, the handset is plated in 18K gold with white leather covering it where the gold plating isn’t. The tri-band GSM handset has support for the WCDMA 2,100MHz band for 3G data. Users can browse the web using [...]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Garmin has issued a press release refuting the financial and Android release details of the DigiTimes article, but did confirm the development of future Android devices with no details on a timeframe. The company will update sales figures during its 4th quarter earnings conference call on February 25th, 2009.
CAYMAN ISLANDS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the [...]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Google’s relationship with Firefox-developer Mozilla has been going through some complicated changes since Google’s Chrome hit the scene, according to an interview with Mozilla’s CEO. The partnership between the companies always seemed like an obvious one: the non-Microsofts teaming up against the Redmond giant as each launched products and services competing with existing Microsoft fare. [...]
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