Archive for September, 2007
iriver’s G10 WiBro gamer reborn as the Postdata G100
Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video
iriver’s G10 / Wing handheld game console has been a pretty serious flame-out for the company — while the concept of an 8GB 4-inch touchscreen handheld that rocked wireless multiplayer features over WiBro and WiFi seemed like a winner, endless del…
Verizon’s Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager get outed
Filed under: Handsets, LG, RIM, Samsung, Verizon Wireless
Apparently due to launch in a couple of weeks, Verizon is prepping a phone blitz of fairly epic proportions. The new Samsung Juke, BlackBerry Pearl, LG Venus and LG Voyager are due for simultaneous arrival on the market, and are sure to turn …
Grande Trend: Starbucks In College Libraries
I didn’t know this. Did you? Starbucks now has a total of 102 “campus units” — MINI STARBUCKS on American college and university campuses, mostly in libraries.Original post by Mike
Sprint to ditch traditional contracts with Xohm, rely on subscriptions
Filed under: Motorola, Sprint
We’ve yet to find an average joe (or jane) who just adores that two-year agreement they signed to receive a single subsidized device on day one, and while Sprint hasn’t been one to let folks off the hook early, it is trying a slightly different approach with Xohm. Repor…
New Game Like Madden Football, But Blacker
A new PC game shipping November 23 called BCFX (for Black College Football Xperience) is a lot like other 3D football games, except with HOTTER CHEERLEADERS AND COOLER MARCHING BANDS. The game tries to capture the unique experience of all-black college football games (using 40 of the 114 historicall…
Windows Home Server Coffee At Linux Cafe?
The last thing you’d expect to be served at a place called the Linux Cafe would be “Windows Home Server Coffee.” But a Mars Magazine blogger says that Microsoft recently set up a table in the cafe to serve relabeled CANS OF COFFEE with Windows Home Server branding. This isn’t the first time they’ve …
Satellite Pics Confirm Razing of Towns In Burma
I told you Wednesday and Thursday that the people of Burma finally had a shot at fighting back against the socialist military dictatorship that rules the country, thanks to blogs, e-mail, camera phones, Google and YouTube — and how the government is trying to shut down these media. (WARNING: The fo…