Archive for July, 2007

Free wireless service? Well friends, it might have arrived. Mosh Mobile is an Indiana-based MVNO (running on an undislosed parent network) that claims to provide a completely free wireless experience. Whoa! What’s the catch? You have to put up with text-based ads that are pushed to your phone at undisclosed intervals, web-based ads, and more. According to [...]

Are you one of the countless wireless customers who has to send their monthly bill to an accounting firm to make sense out of it? Do you find yourself on the phone with Customer Service every month, trying to decipher the confusing code in hope of trying to figure out why this month’s bill was [...]

While not an official release from Palm or AT&T, the ROM has been making its way around the internets. Treo 750 users on AT&T can expect the following enhancements in the new OS:

AT&T Mail, AT&T Music, Games, MS Office Mobile, Active Sync, Calculator,
Camera, Cellular Video, File Explorer, Get Telenav, GetGood, Get [...]

Yeah, you read correctly. The "axis of evil" has made a move away from the dark side, bringing a budget PC with no bloatware and…wait for it…a copy of Open Office pre-installed. The PC itself is the Everex IMPACT GC3502, and sports a 1.5 Ghz VIA processor, a full Gig of RAM, 80 GB hard [...]

In spite of the Reuters report to the contrary, the panic that ensued as a result of the "Target chooses Blu-Ray" claim has subsided, as the deal that Target has with Sony is actually for heavy promotion of Blu-Ray, which includes end cap placement in Target stores. Fear not, HD-DVD lovers…your fix can still be [...]

Hot on the heels of Google dropping its customer-data-retention timeframe to around 2 years, Ask.com has announced it’s adding a feature called AskEraser, which allows users to select a privacy setting that says "I do not want you to retain any of my data." Privacy issues such as this have been a hot topic lately, and [...]

While we’re not quite sure exactly how he did it, it sounds like a sneaky iPhone pioneer managed to combine SIM card data from an AT&T SIM and a Telstra SIM to get the iPhone working on his network. Incoming calls don’t work, either does data (you can’t manually set the data APN anyway), but [...]

 
Announced Thursday, Microsoft has decided to drop the price of their HD-DVD add-on 10 percent, making $199 turn into $179 faster than you can say "Blockbuster chose Blu-Ray." The price cut takes place on August 1, and will include your choice of five HD-DVD titles (from a selection of 15 chosen for the promotion). Originally, the free [...]

I completely destroyed my iPhone. Like, totally. Thanks to the good folks at cnn.cn, I ordered a black back cover to try and pull off the tedious task of switching it out. (By the way, does anyone think that the black battery cover might show itself in the European version? The cover looks completely OEM.) [...]

We’re certainly not the first on the block with this news, but these images are so darn pretty that we just had to share them with you. An anonymous tipster dropped some images of what is assumed to be the new slimline iMac keyboard. It is, in a word, beautiful. About 1mm thick, the keys [...]

You can’t help but feel a little sorry for Nextel. While the rest of the developed world becomes more and more aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced, the iDen world continues to languish in the cell phone equivalent of the Dark Ages. Poor saps. At the end of the day, however, their PTT network is without [...]

According to a recent survey administered by the reputable folks over at AOL, Americans are by and large addicted to their email. No way?!? The survey revealed a number of rather disturbing interesting figures:

59% of Americans check their email in bed
53% of Americans have checked their email in the bathroom
37% of Americans check their email [...]

In an ever-present attempt to monopolize synergize with, well, everyone, Google is developing a web search portal for Sprint’s new WiMax technology. Sprint said it would combine GPS technologies with more common Google apps including e-mail and chat. While a Google partnership may not sound that exciting, the attempt seems to have ground-breaking intent. "This seems to [...]