Archive for December, 2008

Predictions for Macworld 2009

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 [...]

Google PageRank Update on December 31, 2008, New Year’s Eve

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 [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 : What’s New?

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 [...]

Internet overtakes Newspapers

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 [...]

Nokia N97: first N-Series with Qwerty, 5 Megapixel Camera, GPS and Multimedia Player

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 [...]

Cuil Fail: Traffic Almostly Hits Rock Bottom Because of Lack of Money, Not Focus?

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 [...]

Wal-Mart Begins to Sell iPhones: 8GB iPhone for $197 and the 16GB iPhone for $297

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 [...]

Facebook Removes Breastfeeding Photos Because of Obscenity: Right or Wrong?

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 [...]

Dell Adamo: Boast DisplayPort, Blu-ray drive

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 [...]

Sony is preparing to launch its VAIO P series netbook

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 [...]

Track Santa with Google Maps on iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia S60, or G1

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 [...]

Laptops overtake desktop computers for the first time in 3rd quarter of 2008

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 [...]

Blackberry Curve 8900: It May Come to T-Mobile on Feb. 18, 2009

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 [...]

LG SH490: ladies’ cell phone

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, [...]

HP iPrint Application for the iPhone

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 [...]

iPhone Nano Cases: miniature iPhone 3G go up for sale on XSKN

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 [...]

Nokia Released Beta “Mail on Ovi” Service

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 [...]

Nokia 8800: New Nokia Gold Arte Luxury Cell Phone

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 [...]

Garmin to Release Android-based Phone in 2H 2009

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 [...]

Mozilla CEO: It’s ‘complicated’ between Mozilla and Google because of Firefox and Chrome

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.  [...]