Benny Goldman

iPhone Apps Back With A Single Click (Yes, This is the Moment We’ve Been Waiting For)

Easily installed iPhone apps are back on version 1.1.1. If you point your iPhone/Touch browser to jailbreakme.com, click “install AppSnapp”, it’ll use the TIFF exploit to jailbreak your phone and install Installer.app. Our test notes include the following: —Before you start, I’d probably switch to Wi-Fi and turn off the auto-screen lock (set it to…

D-Link’s DGL 4500 OLED-equipped gaming router that we had a hands on with last month is now selling for $240 at the D-Link store. [D-Link] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-d-links-dgl-4500-oled-screen-gaming-route-304176

S60 Gets New Features, Stepping Out of iPhone’s Shadow?

The folks at Crave UK recently got a chance to tour Nokia’s R&D facility in Finland; and while they may have seen a robot dog, the real prize here was updated information on the S60 Touch UI. We already knew that the software, accused of being an iPhone clone by some, had a couple of…

EpiSurveyor SMS 2.0 is Changing Health Care in Developing Nations

Joel Johnson has a great piece up today on EpiSurveyor and its founder, Dr. Joel Selanikio. EpiSurveyor is open source software built for PDAs and cellphones designed to monitor health trends in developing nations. In these countries, internet access is often spotty or unavailable, and traveling to remote villages to collect data on thousands of…

Toshiba HD DVD Laptop To Be Sub-$1000 Blu-ray Killer?

UPDATEDToshiba announced that one of its laptops would come standard with an HD DVD drive for under $1,000 in time for Christmas. Citing easily available DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives as the cause for mainstream adoption of DVD, Toshiba believes that affordable HD DVD/DVD-RW drives will dictate the winner of the war. Battery drain is still a high-def…

Mercedes Truck Case Mod Hauls Ass, Runs Windows

Joining a long line of modded brethren, this Mercedes truck case mod is one we’d love to take for a spin. Details are thin, but we know it has sweet features such as working headlights, integrated exterior controls and not one but two LCD screens built right into the cab. Hit the gallery below to…

Starbucks iTunes Wireless Music Store Launch Event

Starbucks and Apple just kicked off the iTunes Wireless Music Store for Starbucks in NYC. https://gizmodo.com/apple-partners-with-starbucks-for-free-wi-fi-access-to-296696 Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz was there, along with Apple iTunes VP Eddy Cue and musical guest John Legend. There were about 50 or 60 people inside the location (it’s the largest of several Starbucks shops around Astor Place, some…

First Hands-On with Starbucks iTunes Wireless Music Store (Video)

Though the service officially launches tomorrow, Starbucks and Apple gave us a chance to test out the caffeine-fueled Wi-Fi service today. Using the T-Mobile HotSpot wireless network with your AT&T iPhone (irony, anyone?), you can now access the iTunes music store. You can also access it with an iPod touch or a laptop, regardless of…

With BackpackShield, I Could Take A Bullet for Giz

Click to view I had the pleasure of trying on the BackpackShield bulletproof bookbag insert tonight at ShowStoppers, and it was amazing. Made from 13 layers of K-29 Kevlar, this thin, lightweight plate fits in most backpacks and can stop every bullet from a 9mm all the way to Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum. It doesn’t…

SpongeBob Soaks Up New Nickelodeon Npower Series

We got a chance to see Nickelodeon’s new Npower line of consumer electronics at ShowStoppers at DigitalLife. The clear winners in my mind were the Flash Micro Digital Camera, complete with de-pantsing ability, the all-eyes Digital Music Player, and the fist-friendly Clock-it alarm clock. Sorry, Dora the Explorer just wasn’t cutting it for me. Check…