After an article/rant on Monster’s appearance at CES, a pretty heated comment was left by supposedly a Monster employee. Long story short we had completely different viewpoints. It’s no surprise that Monster cables are expensive. It’s also no surprise that you can find HDMI cables elsewhere for cheaper. Where you ask? Crunchgear is reporting that Merit Line has a 2-pack of 6ft. HDMI cables for $6…including shipping! Definitely beats the...
And you though Microsoft was having a bad year. Sony, who will post a massive net loss of $2.9 billion will be letting 16,000 employees go between now March of 2010. Interesting side note: Sony hasn’t had an operating loss in 14 years. The change that is coming to Sony won’t be the most fun, or fair. The changes include everything from the bleeding of employees, to shutting several plants, cutting back at others, paycuts, early retirement options, as...
The Touch Cruise part Deux is coming to you today compliments of HTC. The redesigned Cruise offers a more elegant, smaller shell with a new “Footprints” geo-tagging feature included allowing location data to be shared with pictures and notes. Other features of Cruise part Deux include: 2.8″ QVGA screen 528 MHz (Qualcomm MSM7225A platform) 512 MB ROM 256MB RAM Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz, EDGE/GPRS, UMTS/HSDPA 2100 Wi-Fi Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR 3.2...
You know that the economy is really in the dump when Microsoft, the silicon giant has to lay off employees. Not just a couple hundred but 5,000! A pretty big chunk of people will now be standing in line at the unemployment office very soon. It really is sad how many people are losing their jobs while CEO’s continue to rake in millions upon millions. (That covers a whole laundry list of companies and organizations.) Click through to read Steve’s memo to...
The newest Blackberry Storm OS 4.7.0.90 includes one feature that users have been asking for since day one: a full qwerty keyboard in portrait mode! Besides the keyboard update, a few other issues such as bumping the phone turns on the backlight has been fixed as to not kill your battery quite as fast as well as a few visual inhancements. Stability (music/video player not included) also seems to have been improved. All in all, a good update from RIM. Source:...
Throughout Obama’s campaign, he and his supporters used technology extensively in their promotions, everything from email, social networking sites such as Facebook, to SMS/text messages. They are by far the biggest user of technology ever in a presidential election. So you can understand their complete and utter shock when they realized just how low tech and outdated the White House really is. Once the team was inside, they found numerous problems ranging...
Kaspersky Labs has detected a new mobile virus that infects the symbian mobile operating system on an Indonesian mobile carrier. The virus, a trojan, is written in a script language called python and sends SMS messages to people with a short number and instructions to transfer money from one of your accounts to the criminals accounts. There are five known different types of the Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker floating around, from .ab to.af. The amounts transferred range...
Windows 7 is quickly surpassing Vista’s popularity (or lack thereof) and becoming the most talked about thing from Microsoft. It’s hard not too. On the outside, the new start bar changes an iconic navigation method that hasn’t changed in over a decade! Microsoft who has been losing market share slowly but steadily isn’t taking this lying down and everything from the look, to the way it operates, Windows 7 is proving to be what Vista...
When the founder of one of the worlds largest growing open source operating systems compliments Windows 7 and basically praises it, you know the world is soon coming to an end. Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and head MF of Ubuntu recently had many positive things to say about Redmond’s latest and greatest. Increased competition was one of the statements that was uttered from his mouth. With Windows 7 coming, Shuttleworth mentioned that Microsoft would be faced...
While Android and Mobile OS X look amazing straight from the factory, it’s always nice to be able to customize your gadgets. Themes (skins) make your gadget a little more personal and allows your to stand out from the crowd. Themes are the often overlooked part of mobile devices that can really add to the usability and appeal. Todays platform of interest is Android. While everyone else’s G1 looks the same, you can walk around and show off “Ghost...
