June 2007

Media & Entertainment

iPhone Round-up

12:21 pm PDT • June 29, 2007

I was tired of hearing about the iPhone weeks ago. Nevertheless, the march towards 6pm goes on. The folks at our sister site are working feverishly to get you every…

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/3TxsFhtGmlPvPgZrn Newsweek’s Steven Levy gets manhandled by someone who apparently wanted his mic on Fox News today. Levy, the lucky dog, actually had an iPhone and speculation was rife that…

Don’t be fooled by Apple, AT&T and their luscious iPhone. The Verizon Wireless store on Broadway in SoHo is clearly jumping. Any minute now, an old man will go in…

We’re filing this one under insane, creepy, interesting, telling, and WTF. You’ve possibly heard of the WWE murder/suicide of the week, featuring popular WWE superstar Chris Benoit and his family.…

Mere minutes until the iPhone’s launch, Apple lifted the veil on some of the iPhone accessories. They’re exactly what you’d expect: a Bluetooth headset, a dock and dock adapters, TTY…

iPhone Parody Ads

9:15 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Since all you people seem to want to hear about is the iPhone, here’s a pretty good parody ad from CollegeHumor. They say they’ll have two more up on the…

This is it. Today’s the day when every angel gets its wings. Some of us will be covering the New York madness, such as it is, but let’s not forget…

Foldera Launches Public Beta with V 3.0

7:38 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Collaborative communications tool, Foldera, is going into public beta today with the release of their 3.0 version (Note: Michael Arrington is on the board of directors of the company). Foldera…

Hardware

The AudioFile: Jacking Off the iPhone

6:43 am PDT • June 29, 2007

The iPhone drops today. If you didn’t know, you’re probably dead and aren’t reading this anyway. If you did know, hopefully you’ve been reading our roundup of early reviews. One…

Hardware

WebShell: An Ajax App for Admins

6:20 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Now this is an interesting little bugger. It’s an SSH application for the iPhone written in Ajax and available for download onto your favorite servers. Back when I used to…

DemystifyingDigital is a new feature written by Dan Havlik, editor of DemystifyingDigital.com As much as we love all the bells and whistles they’re putting on digital cameras these days (how…

Did you just get your iPhone? Want to put it in a little cozy? Wrappers has 50 of their little iPod condom thingies to give away provided you have proof…

Dave at MobileCrunch dug up an interesting comment by his Steve-ness about the iPhone being the third leg in the Apple chair, next to iPod and Mac. During the internal…

iPhone Overload at CrunchGear

4:37 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Our intrepid intern Ilya is down at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan shooting live video of people waiting in line. Watch as he watches the folks watching…

Late last night some AT&T geeks started benchmarking their network speed. Suddenly, after months of sub-standard EDGE speeds, they noticed 200+kbps during most trials, suggesting that someone out there has…

Hardware

Geeking Up the Huffington Post

4:19 am PDT • June 29, 2007

A few months ago some of the CG crew were offered a spot on the Huffington Post, which is essentially a big free-for-all that includes work by Henry Rollins and…

Hardware

Belkin Network USB Hub Review

4:17 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Today we take a look at Belkin’s new Network USB Hub which claims to be the most easily configured wireless USB hub on the market — you could probably also…

IT Ads Throughout History (OK, Just the 1980s) Sound ID SM100 Bluetooth Headset Review Parrot PARTY Portable Boom Box: Cue “Ain’t No Party” Jokes Nielsen Now Tracks Your Cellphone Habits…

Hardware

Great Outdoors: Grilling for Geeks

2:55 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Technology seems to improve rapidly as time goes by. Think back to fifteen years ago – ah yes, I can still remember my IBM PS/1. I was drawn to it…

Hardware

iPhone Camp Out Coverage

2:41 am PDT • June 29, 2007

The folks over at MY iTablet have hunkered down in front of New York City’s 5th Ave. Apple Store and are sharing their experiences. The hype and attention surrounding the…

MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe has indicated that MySpace will likely open its platform to 3rd party developers, according to a report at FT.com The move will see MySpace following in…

Watch The iQueue Live On Ustream

12:45 am PDT • June 29, 2007

For the sleepless or bored, and who can think of nothing but the iPhone: the iPhone queue Live from Palo Alto, staring Robert Scoble and friends. The broadcast is said…

As iPhone anticipation reaches a fever pitch, we are getting flooded with reports of people lining up to nab their own wonder phone. A quick trip down to the valley’s…

Media & Entertainment

Free iPhone?

12:01 am PDT • June 29, 2007

Nice piece on ArsTechnica about how all Apple employees who’ve been with the company for more than a year are getting a free iPhone in July. Well, there’s more to…

Helio users are lucky people. Besides not being nickel and dimed to death with extra charges that don’t actually cost the carriers anything, they get badass handsets like the Ocean…

Google Answers Rises From The Dead In Russia

11:02 pm PDT • June 28, 2007

Google Answers, famously shut down by Google in November 2006 after losing the Q&A war to Yahoo, has risen from the dead in Russia. Google Questions and Answers (Вопросы и…

Russel Shaw at ZDNet got ahold of an AT&T employees’ objection script. These scripts are used by salesmonkeys to overcome the objections of unconvinced customers. They’re handy and pointed, and…

Hardware

Jensen SportFones Review

7:36 pm PDT • June 28, 2007

Almost all of the music that’s piped through the audio system at my gym sucks and you’d think the music would be good for the amount of money I pay…

iTaggit: Personal Asset Management

7:04 pm PDT • June 28, 2007

iTaggit aims to change the way people collect, organize, and enjoy their personal items and collections by providing a service to catalog collections online. iTaggit provides an online environment for…

Media & Entertainment

BlackBerry Gets Juicier

6:16 pm PDT • June 28, 2007

PressDisplay.com, an online newspaper kiosk, is now available on BlackBerry devices. The service, which sports more than 500 newspapers and magazines from around the world, allows viewers to read the…