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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA
We’re hearing about a bevy of new handsets from LG that should — by should, we mean it is rumored — be landing at a store near you [...]
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: DVRs, Set-top boxes, Satellite
DirecTV’s HR20 has been available for almost a year and with DirecTV’s latest bird in the air — and getting ready to bring all those promised HD channels — many are wondering; is the it ready for primetime? It wasn’t very long ago that HD DVRs [...]
Filed under: Blu-ray
One of Steven Spielberg’s classic films will finally make its HD debut, on Blu-ray, not HD DVD, when Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition is released simultaneously with the DVD November 13th. Sony Pictures announced this release puts the original 1977 theatrical version, re-edited 1980 special edition, and a [...]
Last night I got a message on the iPhone that my Visual Voicemail was 92 percent full and that I should delete some messages. Being the daredevil that I am, I decided not to delete any messages and let the mailbox fill up and see what happened.
I would never tell my boss this, but [...]
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Sony, Toshiba
Apparently Target’s claim that they were “not proclaiming one format vs. the other as the preferred consumer technology” didn’t resonate quickly enough to slow the “Target is going Blu-ray exclusive ZOMG” shockwave around the world yesterday. The HD DVD PR team sent us a statement from Universal Studios [...]
Today I noticed something peculiar about my iPhone. Despite my presence in the massive IDG office and lawn tennis complex, the iPhone was telling me that it was using AT&T’s EDGE network for Internet access.
We’ve got an in-building network, appropriately named IDG, so that didn’t really make sense to me. When I went to my [...]
As has been established, I’m a champion of syncing your iPhone to multiple computers. But here’s a sticky situation that results from such a set-up. Let’s say you’re at work, and your iPhone is set to sync music and videos with your home Mac. What can be done?
Podcasts, my friend. iPhone can sync podcasts separate [...]
Filed under: Misc
The Consumer Product and Safety Commission has just issued a voluntary recall on two models of Sauder Woodworking television stands that have caused 43 reports of injury. Some 414,000 of the stands, sold at Wal-marts nationwide from January 2005 until May of this year, can collapse if the legs on the lower shelf [...]
While Apple boasts about the ability of the iPhone’s browser to display the real, not watered down Internet, there are things that can be done to make your site more accepting of the mobile browser. On the far-end of the spectrum, there’s designing an iPhone-specific version of your site; if you’re looking for a somewhat [...]
There’s a new web-based instant messaging client for the iPhone, and it’s kind of, sort of, from AOL. It’s TinyBuddy, written by AOL employee James Burke and hosted by the AOL Greenhouse. It’s not an official AOL project, but Burke’s used his up-close knowledge of how AIM works to make a instant-messaging client for iPhone [...]
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