Archive for February, 2008

Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn’t have merged

Filed under: Cellphones
Well, it looks like the aggressively priced unlimited action really didn’t come a moment too soon. We’re no economists here, but it doesn’t take rocket science, a Ph.D., collegiate level maths, or even a fancy calculator to crunch the cold, hard numbers coming out of Sprint Nextel’s fourth quarter earnings call. For starters, […]

SanDisk does up 8GB Cruzer Fleur USB drive for the ladies

Filed under: Storage
Our feminist theory classes in college left us in the mindset that lady-tailored devices can probably do better than pink, but hey, if you’re looking for something retractable with U3 and 8GB of storage, SanDisk just added this new $80 Cruzer Fleur to their lineup. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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MacBook Air patent is mocking you

Filed under: Laptops
It’s no secret where this little bit of patented know-how ended up. Apple’s little port door for the MacBook Air is one of those design elements of legend that could one day go down next to MagSafe and the Click Wheel in the annals of Apple history — even if it’s near impossible […]

Paramount & Dreamworks HD DVD support ends March 4

Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentWe don’t know if Jeffrey Katzenberg got a text message, fax, e-mail or smoke signal indicating the format war was over, but Video Business has confirmed Paramount and Dreamworks Animation will (rather abruptly) to stop releasing HD DVDs after next week. If you were looking forward to Bee Movie on March […]

Elonex ONE toyed with on video

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
Sure enough, that 100 quid laptop we heard about early last week is already making the rounds, as the BBC caught up with the ONE at The Education Show in Birmingham, England. Granted, this thing is far from stylish (okay, so it’s downright ugly), but it’s hard to expect too much […]

Army orders 24 new sentry-bots, Judgment Day moved up two months

Filed under: Robots
Sure, you laughed yesterday when you heard professor Noel Sharkey warn against the impending, apocalyptic man vs. machine battle that was to come, but this news may have you singing a different tune. A pilot program in Nevada which employed robotic sentries to patrol Hawthorne Army Depot is getting an upgrade: 24 brand […]

Vista prices officially go down, but will consumer interest go up?

Filed under: Desktops, Laptopsdigg_url = ‘http://digg.com/microsoft/Vista_prices_officially_go_down’;What’s that? You didn’t take the risk and upgrade your PC to some crappy Intel-based machine Microsoft may or may not have known wouldn’t run Vista as promised? Well, at least now you can get in on the latest version of Windows a little cheaper than yesterday: Ultimate full looks […]

MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into fan power

Filed under: Desktops
Okay, try not to let your mind get blown by the possible time-space paradox we’re about to illustrate, but MSI’s supposedly introducing a new ECOlution motherboard at CeBIT with an “air powered cooler” that operates on the Stirling Engine Theory to transform the thermal output of its chipset into the kinetic energy necessary […]

Wii outsells the PS3 4-to-1 in Japan, Sony execs “not psyched”

Filed under: Gaming
Sony, we know you’re trying hard, which is why we think it must sting all the worse when you wake up to sales figures like this. According to a report, the Wii outsold PS3s in Japan 4-to-1 in the month of February, and its games dominated bestseller lists. What does that look like […]

Sintex’s biogas digester ingests crap, emits energy

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSintex Industries’ aptly-dubbed biogas digester is most certainly not the first of its kind, but it is somewhat commendable that its maker is making no bones about this thing’s purpose. Destined to “solve India’s energy and sanitation problems in one stroke,” this concoction can convert “human [waste], cow dung, or kitchen garbage […]

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