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Posts on ‘August 26th, 2007’

Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships draws frustrated cellphone owners from across the globe

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Although no records were broken, this year’s Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships went off successfully, with one 38 year old engineer and former potato thrower called Tommi Huotari causing a buzz for throwing a [...]

Reminder: Win an Xbox 360 and a copy of Bioshock

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Just a few hours left to take home a copy of Bioshock and an Xbox 360 Premium system to play it on! Head over and make sure your entry is in by midnight EDT tonight! Details and rules here on how to get virtually Ayn Randian.
 
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Chinese company interested in American Hard Disk Drive manufacturer

Filed under: Storage

An unnamed Chinese company has expressed interest in purchasing an American Hard Disk Drive manufacturer, which has predictably sparked the interest of the American Government ever paranoid about technology “security.” Mr. Bill “Seagate is for porn” Watkins disclosed this overture from an unnamed company, eloquently stating that “The U.S. government is freaking out” [...]

Qualcomm looking to push MediaFLO in Taiwan with joint venture

Filed under: Multimedia
DigiTimes is reporting that Qualcomm has openly expressed interest this month in setting up a joint venture in Taiwan to get the ball rolling on MediaFLO there. Having bagged two of four national carriers in the US (with the distinct possibility of bagging one or two more still in the cards), Qualcomm appears [...]

Sony’s Advanced Amateur Alpha DSLR in the wild?

Filed under: Digital Cameras

We didn’t think Sony’s Advanced Amateur Alpha was in any shape to show around town, but this pic of what’s supposedly just that camera was shot at last week’s Nikon D3 and D300 launch event. You know, if we were Sony and trying to psych out Nikon, we might also consider seeding [...]

HDTV Listings for August 26, 2007

Filed under: ABC, CBS, The CW, Discovery-HD, ESPN-HD, Fox, HBO-HD, HDNet, INHD, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Showtime-HD, Starz, TNT-HD, Universal-HD, Listings
What we’re watching: Tonight we’ll check out the season finale of Big Love on HBO.
Our traditional high-def listings continue below.Here are some other HDTV programs showing on selected networks today. All times are Eastern and reruns are [...]

SmartQ rolls out T5 portable flash player

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

SmartQ has another flash based portable media player for us from China with the release of the SmartQ T5. Coming in 2 and 4GB variations, the T5 plays a variety of file formats including 640×480, 30 fps XVID DivX, and features a 3.0-inch screen — 320×240, a shame considering its [...]

Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships draws frustrated cellphone owners from across the globe

Filed under: Misc

Although no records were broken, this year’s Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships went off successfully, with one 38 year old engineer and former potato thrower called Tommi Huotari causing a buzz for throwing a cell only meters short of the recently attained 95 meter record setting throw: “surprisingly, a potato flies further,” he [...]

Rolls-Royce Collection Goes For $14.3 Milliion

Filed under: Wheels, Auctions
A prominent Texas lawyer and car collector bought up a chunk of Rolls Royce automobiles as they sat on the auction block at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance auction in California. The seller, 82 year-old Columbus developer Richard J. Solove, put 13 Rolls Royce cars up for bid to raise money for [...]

AT&T adding Motorola V3xx color, Nokia E62 still hanging around?

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Symbian, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
AT&T may be about to add the RAZR 2 V9 to its stable, effectively halving any remaining desire we had for the original RAZR V3 line of devices — but that’s apparently not stopping the carrier from trying to milk a few final drops [...]