September 2006
Showtime for Apple – live coverage starting now
The rumors are swirling and the show has begun. CrunchGear is covering Apple’s “It’s Showtime” event in San Francisco live with real time updates.
Sprint announced today that it would be adding two new cards that will be complaint with its forthcoming EV-DO Revision A upgrade. The new cards are the Pantech PX-500 and…
Howdy. I’m just heading out for the show, trying to make it out to a Palm announcement at 10am and still give you guys some liveblogging. If you’re at the…
Sprint announced today that it would be adding two new cards that will be complaint with its forthcoming EV-DO Revision A upgrade. The new cards are the Pantech PX-500 and…
There is little more than an hour before Apple’s “It’s Showtime” event. I just wanted to let you all know that Michael Arrington is on site and will be live…
SanDisk has unveiled it 4GB miniSD High Capacity (SDHC) flash card. Before you get too excited, I should note that these things aren’t supported by any devices yet. These SDHC…
I don’t know why it took this product three years to see the light of day, but it’s brilliant. Parrot has released its its Bluetooth speakerphone MINIKIT device. It’s not…
Uniden just announced a new digital camera model, the UDC-7M. It’s got a 7.1MP CCD, 3x optical zoom, 23MB of onboard storage, “face reorganization technology” (edit: face recognition?) and no…
In preparation of this morning’s event, Apple has disabled iTunes, most likely to prepare for its $14.99 movie download service. Users have been being greeted by the “It’s Showtime” message,…
Blackmagic Design has announced the first HDMI PCI Express card. As you can see it features two ports and is said to work by bypassing the HDV compression chip to…
Details of the Nokia E62 have been circulating for some time now, but some more specifics were announced this morning. It’s being touted as a primary competitor to the highly…
Some of the interesting stories from yesterday: Go Dance Glove Ice Rocks. Sigh. Brando’s Tiny Portable Bluetooth Keyboard Gold-Cast TrekStor i.Beat MP3 Player Goes For $20,000 The 360 Case Mod…
Loopt to make mobile presence usable
Mobile presence application Loopt has launched its service tonight. Loopt uses GPS and related data to display the location of a user’s friends along with their presence status (available, away,…
Seeking Alpha nails Benchmark Funding, Yahoo Deal
New York based Seeking Alpha, a financial news site that takes content submissions from over 200 contributors to cover over 4,000 publicly traded companies, had a very good day today.…
Facebook to Allow Open Registrations
The exclusive Facebook social club, until recently reserved for U.S. college students, has been slowly opening up to other groups. High School students and employees of certain corporations are allowed…
Live.com leaving beta, replacing MSN search
Microsoft just put out a press release announcing the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide. The release also says that Live Search will…
Private BETA screening for bloggers?
Hugh McLeod, he of gapingvoid fame, is talking about inviting bloggers to a private screening of a new film called Hallam Foe. At the moment the Hallam Foe film screening…
Skype-out free in France
Skype announced today that all French-based Skype users with a broadband internet connection can make unlimited SkypeOut calls to landlines in France for free! This offer is valid in France…
Sony has dropped a slew of cameras today, but it’s saved the best for last. The DSC-T50 is a tiny point-and-shoot camera that can capture images up to 10MP. Its…
BT toss Vodafone a broadband bone
It seems the expected merger of BT and Vodafone has taken another step forward. Currently BT have an MVNO agreement with Vodafone to provide BT Mobile and today Vodafone announced…
Well this was announced a few weeks back, but we have some firm specs on it now. The HD2500 is designed to be a sort of one-stop DJing utility. It…
Social network Xuqa's in the black
Cynics take note, social networking and online game startup Xuqa has announced that their daily revenue has exceeded their operating costs and that they will take no more VC funding.…
Well, well, well, looks like the I-Mate JAQ is one sexy little phone. Mobility Today got the pics to prove it today, direct from I-Mate. Just a little rundown on…
It’s now easier than ever to be a stalker with the new SkyTRX Mini Tracker. This little ditty uses GPS to track your target with accuracy of up to 2.5-meters.…
The Go Dance Glove, by Belmer Negrillo, is a tool that lets VJs to control their video mixing wirelessly with natural gestures, allowing them to hit the dance floor with…
File this one under stupid. The Water Bank of America, Inc. will soon be offering ice trays that are hermetically sealed with spring water. There is currently no stated price,…
We’ve been hearing grunts and groans over the upcoming limited edition Sidekick 3 ever since we saw the leaked product release calendar a while back. The launch is supposedly on…
This HD-880 bluetooth headset from Helium Digital works with most Bluetooth phones and goes over your ear, hook-style. There’s also a display that shows all 11 digits of the caller…
It looks like it’s going to take both Motorola and Nokia to get us decent TV on the go. Today, Nokia released a press release stating that they will start…
People4business helps the portfolio worker
In his book The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy (1998) predicted how the world of stable, long-term employment would come to an end and how this fundamental shift in the workplace, would result in…