May 13, 2009

Crunch Gear Well, here you are friends. It’s the Palm Pre. It comes in a box. The box opens up. It is pretty. It comes in a box similar to the Palm Pro’s (images of the Pro’s box after the jump). The world will not end with a bang but with a whimper.Incidentally, this was shot at CES in January, which means there has been an unboxing f (Read More)

May 12, 2009

GoMo News  The announcement from Velti today that it has bought Ad Infuse top to bottom heralds the creation of a mobile advertising “super-group.” Velti has been a powerful mobile advertiser for many years now. But while it’s presence in many markets was indisputable, it had yet to make significant inroads into the US. That could ch (Read More)

May 12, 2009

SlashGear Recent news that Palm are tipped to be working with the Wall Street Journal to announce the Pre’s launch date on May 19th, and word that Best Buy are expecting stock of the distinctive Touchstone inductive charger on June 7th has again fueled speculation that the smartphone is imminent.  It already seems likely that Pre-buy (Read More)

May 11, 2009

Engadget Yep, it looks like Verizon's subsidized HP Mini 1000 will indeed launch on May 17th -- and if these leaked screenshots are any indication, launch pricing will be set at $199 after a $50 rebate two-year contract and $299 after rebate for a one-year commitment. (The prices are marked "at launch ONLY" so we're guessing they'll (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Engadget You've seen Lenovo's IdeaPad S10, right? If so, you'll surely recognize the recently revised S10-2 -- a mildly tweaked version of the netbook that sports the most minuscule of changes. That said, the new top cover and larger, more mature keyboard are certainly worth a gander, so head on down to the read link to give your ey (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Engadget The netbook formula hasn't evolved much since its inception, still offering largely the same configuration and performance as it ever has. That likely won't change until the end of the summer, with Intel announcing that it's even thinking about retiring the newer Atom N280 processor and GN40 chipset entirely, leaving the ol (Read More)

May 08, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Companies like Amazon, Asus, and Apple are having some success selling small, portable gadgets used for reading the Internet, typing notes, listening to music, playing casual games, or in some specialized cases, watching movies or reading books.Netbooks are doing an adequate job serving as cheap, cramped mini laptops. Amazo (Read More)

May 08, 2009

Wired: Gadget Lab Readers have been asking about the promised EeePC T91, an innovative convertible tablet netbook that Asus showed off in January at CES. Since then there’s been no word from Asus about the availability of what promised to be like a cool, low-cost portable with a touch-sensitive screen.Now there’s a report that the T91 will b (Read More)

May 11, 2009

Engadget In a collision of journalistic labs heretofore unseen, the folks at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab hit up The New York Times' R&D lab for a look at what those ink-stained word-slingers think about the future of newspaper delivery. Nick Bilton, "Design Integration Editor" at the NY Times, and ever calm in the face of futuri (Read More)

May 11, 2009

TechCrunch There are two interesting things about the new New York Times Reader application. First, the company has abandoned SilverLight for Adobe Air, thereby ensuring cross-platform compatibility without that nasty Microsoft aftertaste. Second, the application is great.Full disclosure: I'm a regular contributor to the NYT but I'm n (Read More)

May 11, 2009

ReadWriteWeb The New York Times launched a new version of its Times Reader desktop application today. The Times Reader allows users to read the New York Times offline on their desktops or laptops, though full access to the application is only available to those who subscribe to the printed version of the Times, or to users who subscribe (Read More)

May 08, 2009

Engadget Color e-ink displays are starting to become less of a curiosity and more of a reality, but if the rumor from DigiTimes proves true it's going to be another year or so before we start seeing them en masse. PVI, makers of displays for the Kindle and Sony Reader, has apparently indicated that its attempts at creating a color d (Read More)

May 08, 2009

Engadget Mobile Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Verizon WirelessJenJen, a forum jockey over at HowardForums, was lucky enough to coax a Verizon sales rep into selling her Samsung's new Alias 2 a few days early. Fortunately she did as any of us would and posted a video of her fresh out of box experience to YouTube. While this featurephone i (Read More)

May 06, 2009

Engadget It was hardly a secret 'round these parts, but Verizon Wireless is finally ready to confess to that MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot we've heard so much about. Like the Novatel unit it's based on, the device harbors 802.11b/g and EV-DO Rev. A radios, and can share a 3G Verizon connection with up to five different WiFi d (Read More)

May 06, 2009

Gizmodo Asked why there's no color Kindle, Amazon spokespeople said that while E-Ink has color prototypes in the labs, Amazon's just not satisfied with it, jeegollydarn it. Course, we already knew why. [Kindle Hands On] . (Read More)

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