Gizmodo: 50

Blackberry Storm OS 5.0 Update Coming Tomorrow

Chris Jacob — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Storm owners—head here tomorrow for the latest OS update. No OTA option, you'll have to go through the website or Desktop Manager. Expect some new features on top of the kicker: better text input. [Erictric via Unwired View]

More Than 50,000 Palm Pres Sold, More than 150,000 Apps Downloaded

Dan Nosowitz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

We don't have hard numbers yet, but according to some analysts, Palm probably sold between 50,000 and 60,000 Pres in this opening weekend, and Palm verifies over 150,000 app downloads in the first day alone.

Of course, the original iPhone sold about 146,000 units in its opening weekend, but it was the first major touchscreen smartphone and offered basic navigation like multitouch that hadn't been seen before. Plus, AT&T is just a far larger carrier than Sprint. Analysts have deemed the Pre launch successful, about as big as expected, and may have been even bigger had there not been shortages. We're really excited about that huge app downloads number: It means people are really excited about apps and should be a good encouragement for Palm to get more apps up as soon as possible. We'll update with more solid numbers when we get them. [ZDNet and The Official Palm Blog]

50 Years of Boeing Bombers in a Picture

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:40:00 EDT

The legend started with the mighty Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, and ends—for now—in the B-52 Stratofortress. 50 Years of beautiful destruction on two wings flying together in a rare picture. [FlightGlobal]

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

Kit Eaton — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:45:40 EDT

50 years ago this month NASA rocketed into existence, and to celebrate this fact NASA-TV is streaming its special retrospective show "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" in HD format today at 1pm and 8pm EDT (and again tomorrow at 10am and 2pm). Check it out: it's presented by none other than Neil Armstrong, and it'll remind you how frickin' astonishing the achievements of the Agency are, despite its recent rockety woes. [NASA-TV]

Dr. Ashen Reviews the Best Console Ever

Jason Chen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:50:32 EST

Attention Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, DS Lite, and PSP. There's a new game console in town. The Gamespower 50. That's right, it comes with FIFTY GAMES. We'd like to see your high definition console come with half that many.

What does Dr. Ashen of green lasers and piece of shite MP4 player fame have to say about this? Watch and find out. – Jason Chen

50-inch Apple Monitor In Early 2007?

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:30:26 EDT

Now that the "when are MacBook Pros going Core 2 Duo" question is solved, let's move on to an even larger rumor: a 50-inch Apple monitor.

A source tells someone's cousin who told her guitar instructor that a monitor refresh is coming in 2007, most likely being tied to Apple's iTV. Why sell just the computer, the router, and the video streamer when you can sell the TV/monitor too?

Another bit of iPhone news comes from an employee saying Apple's placed a hiring freeze, preemptively making room for the big rush of telecom managers it plans to hire for the launch.

Our rumor likelihood meter scores the hiring freeze/iPhone launch as an 8, and the 50-inch monitor as a 2. – Jason Chen

iPhone in January? And 50-inch Apple monitor [MacsimumNews]