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Posts on ‘August 12th, 2007’

FCC requires nationals to offer cheap roaming

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Concluding a fight that’s been waged by smaller, regional carriers for a good long while now, the FCC has ruled in favor of the regionals by requiring that voice, messaging, and push-to-talk features must [...]

Tesla demotes CEO and co-founder to President of Technology

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Tesla has demoted CEO Martin Eberhard, replacing him with interim CEO Michael Marks, with the company seeking a permanent replacement for Eberhard who will be moving to a role defined as “President of Technology.” It’s hard to pin down a precise reason for the demotion: the only negative news [...]

Motorola, China Mobile ink $394M in deals

Filed under: Motorola
When profits are in the dump, there’s nothing to boost your bottom line quite like a massive deal inside one of the world’s most fertile GSM growth markets. Motorola has scored a handful of deals with China Mobile worth a grand total of $394 million, surely music to the ears of beleaguered Moto [...]

NASA crowns winner in $250k “flying car” contest

Filed under: Transportation

Flying cars come pretty high up the average gadget geek’s wishlist, so it’s pretty encouraging to see NASA funding a $250,000 contest that could eventually produce a pioneering vehicle that can fly and drive. Although none of the winners this time around can actually achieve the two feats, they all have features [...]

AT&T launching LG CU575 “Trax” HSDPA musicphone later today

Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

With those last minute bugs now apparently eradicated, LG has officially announced plans to deliver their 3G CU575 “Trax” clamshell to AT&T. Touting 850/1900MHz HSDPA 3.6Mbps-capable downloads and quad-band GSM, this flip fancies itself a part-time media player with the inclusion of a Touch Pad bar [...]

How would you change the Apple TV?

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Wireless

Any time Apple enters a new product category it’s obviously a fairly major development — we’re still getting bombarded with iPhone news over one month post-launch — so now that you’ve had some time to play with it, it’s only fair that we give the Apple TV the same [...]

MacBook Pro Memory Install

Learn how to add memory (RAM) to a Apple MacBook Pro notebook computer. Upgrading your MacBook Pro laptop memory is easy to do and an inexpensive way to improve the performance of your MacBook.
This video will answer the question, How do I add memory to my MacBook Pro laptop computer? By showing you the [...]

New Dell XPS M1730 pics pop-up

Filed under: Laptops

Notebook Italia has turned up even more shots of Dell’s new XPS M1730 laptop, from a variety of different angles. What’s very clear from the new pictures is that this model has size “issues,” so if you don’t like chunky lappies, stay away. Still, those specifications — 17-inch screen, Core 2 Extreme X7800 [...]

Dell continues to extol Latitude XT by pulverizing rivals

Filed under: Tablet PCs

While we patiently await Dell’s highly-touted gift to the tablet PC universe, the marketing crew has apparently decided that obliterating yet another rival machine will keep the buzz alive until this thing actually launches. This go ’round, a team gathers around a blindfolded individual who takes his frustrations out on a piñata, [...]

O2 reducing Asia Pacific presence, to eventually withdraw?

Filed under: O2
Though it doesn’t even operate any networks of its own in the region, O2’s Asia Pacific outpost has been known to release (or tease us with) some of the more lustworthy Windows Mobile devices out there. They apparently aren’t lustworthy enough, though, with DigiTimes reporting that O2 is looking to reduce its footprint [...]