mocoNews.net:
Several reports leaked out today that Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) will start selling the new Samsung Omnia II starting Dec. 2 for $200. But the cool part of this announcement, w (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
TomTom wants you to buy a new PND (personal navigation device) this holiday season. So much so, that they will buy your old device from you via a mail in rebate.How does it work? Well, you buy a TomTom PND, then go to this we (Read More)
Submitted by wpbasti
from Google Reader:
According to Gadget Lab, app writers have somehow just realized that the reason open source fails in customer-facing use cases (as opposed to back on the server in a locked room) is that it splits like a bead of mercury into (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and p (Read More)
Web Worker Daily:
Pogoplug, a nifty little device that enables you to easily access your files from anywhere via the Web (see my previous post about it here) has been updated, with a second generation of the device being released. As Kevin ove (Read More)
Engadget:
"We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!" And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider, after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, n (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If you were hanging out outside in Utah on Wednesday night, chances are good that you witnessed a pretty rare astronomic event: a friggin' huge meteor that lit up the entire sky. Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said (Read More)
Mashable!:
When it was released earlier this month, the retail price for the Motorola Droid was $200 for new activations on Verizon. Although Verizon is staying firm with that price point for now, it appears that some of its retailers (Read More)
The Apple Blog:
Speaking yesterday at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie explained what’s really important when it comes to the smartphone business, and it’s apparently nothing at all to d (Read More)
Mobilewhack.com:
If you’re looking to purchase the Nokia N900 but have been a bit uneasy about its $649 price tag you’ll be happy to know that the device has dropped to $479.99 on Amazon.com after a $50 mail-in rebate.For close to 5 bills you (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There are two ways for a device to access YouTube: either through the regular web interface, i.e. Flash, or for cleaner integration, through its back end APIs. As of December, Google is shutting off the tap. UPDATED The news (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
If there is one thing about the tech blogosphere it is its predictability. Just as you could predict the almost breathless press that surround Google’s announcement that yes they were working on an operating system, yes they (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Motorola Crush is the latest touchscreen-enabled mobile phone unveiled by Motorola. The new handset is expected to become available for purchase via US Cellular and it is said to arrive on the market before the end of this ye (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again (Read More)
Submitted by komakino
from blog:
This one seems to be a genuine incorrect rejection for private API use: Juicy Bits has a camera-based app that uses OS 3.1-only camera features, but still runs on OS 3.0 by disabling those features when the app runs on OS 3.0 (Read More)
PreCentral.net:
Hot off the heels of webOS Doctor v1.3.1 being released, WebOS Repair Utility has been updated. Not only were there expected bugfixes, but there was a major shift in the way it handled webOS versioning, allowing the more dev (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, (Read More)
wired-top-stories:
Photo: Joe PuglieseShedding Your Identity in the Digital AgeStories From the HuntEvan’s Daily Costume ChangeMedia, From TV to Mags to Blogs, Followed the HuntSocial Networking Sites at Center of Coast-to-Coast Coordinated Sea (Read More)
Planet XML:
There’s this flood of new Android phones hitting the market; we’re startingto see some new form factors and hardware setups. I’m hearingconcerns here and there about the market “splintering”, making theplatform less attracti (Read More)
BlackBerry Rocks!:
Click here to view the embedded video.It’s been a while since Salomondrin leaked some unreleased device information but they’re back with some pictures and a video of the unreleased 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9100, aka the Stratus/S (Read More)