John Mahoney, Author at Gizmodo

Dial Directions 411 Phone Service Automatically Beams Routes to Your Dash GPS

Call up “DIR-ECT-IONS” (clever) on your way to the car and tell the friendly robot who answers where you want to go, and you can have a route beamed to your Dash GPS over the web instantly. Dial Directions already works with a few other online and mobile services, but this Dash integration is a…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Sprint to Get HTC Touch Pro in October for $300

Sprint already confirmed some HTC goodness recently with the Touch Diamond, which drops in September, and today added the Touch Pro to their official lineup, available on October 19th for $300 with contract, deliciously un-gimped compared to the phone expected to hit Verizon. Sprint just officially announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9

Everyone who has owned a cellphone over the last 10 years should at some point pour one out in thanks to Cliff Kushler, one of the inventors of the T9 text entry system that knows you mean “DONKEY” when you type 366539 in an SMS. Now Cliff is smartly shifting his focus on touchscreens with…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Air Canada to Be First International Airline With Aircell In-Flight Wi-Fi

Aircell, the company behind American Airlines and later Delta’s in-flight Wi-Fi services, has just signed up Air Canada to be the next airline to offer its passengers the web in the air via Gogo. They’ll soon begin fitting their Airbus A319s with the necessary gear, and the service will begin on select flights that cross…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Kevin Rose Nails Today’s Apple News, All Known Associates Permanently Buried by Apple

So Digg’s Kevin Rose polished off his crystal ball prior to today’s Apple event, as he is wont to do. We posted on his rumors, with the necessary skepticism. And now as the dust settles on our live coverage, we doff our hat to everyone’s favorite iSight Carnac: just about every single detail Kevin hit,…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 9

Download iPod Touch 2.1 Software RIGHT NOW

When we plugged in our iPod touch to iTunes 8, we were hit with a software update notifcation that led to a dead link. But now, we’ve got a line on what looks to be a live download path to the iPod Touch 2.1 software image. Here’s the link-we’re grabbing and testing as we post,…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 9

New iPod Shuffle: Same Chip-Clip, Now With Nano’s Hand-Me-Down Colors

At this point, the housing can’t get much smaller without coming with a serious child-safety choking warning etched into the back-but obviously not wanting to leave any iPod untouched today, Apple spread some more saturated ROYGBIV love to the shuffles (the nano’s old digs, actually), ditching the lighter pastels. They remain $50/$70 for 1GB/2GB.

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 9

iPod Classic Gets 120GB Boost For $250, 160GB Discontinued

The iPod classic looks like it’s getting the runt’s end of the “Let’s Rock” magic wand today-with boosted storage to 120GB for $250, up from 80GB for the same price. And it’s death for the 160GB thickie, matching the Zune’s lineup to a tee. Same form factor and colors as last time. Now, the largest…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 9

Open-Source Posse Bands Together to Investigate Mysterious Russian Hacker Squads

Remember when news came out that Russia had begun their military campaign in South Ossetia with a far-reaching hack attack on Georgia’s government computer systems? Well, security experts are still having a hard time figuring out exactly what happened, who was responsible, and whether it could happen again. Now, Danger Room is reporting on a…

Privacy & Security John Mahoney Sep 9

How to Read an Apple-Free Giz

You may have heard that there’s a little shindig being thrown in San Francisco by a little company called Apple, started by two manga characters in the year 2040. We’ll be covering the news they drop starting at 10AM PST (that’s 1PM EST) at live.gizmodo.com, but if you’re the Zune guy circa a month ago…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 9

Sony to Drop New Reader Hardware in October?

If this press event invite is any indication, that’s the way things are looking. The date is set for October 2, and it all goes down at the Bookmark Lounge of the Library Hotel here in New York. Hmm, there couldn’t be any book connotation to all of that, could there? On this day of…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 9

Mars Phoenix Will Bravely and Passionately Twitter Until the Final Beat of Its Adorable Electronic Heart

The Mars Phoenix Lander has been Twittering away its mission details since landing on Mars in May. But lately, you can see a sense of impending doom starting to creep in, slowly: “It’s noon, Sol 81. I’ve spotted frost around my landing site in AM,” tweeted Phoenix a few weeks ago. “Seasons are longer here…I’ll…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Sep 8

Spore Origins For iPhone: Now Available

We showed you our hands-on of Spore Origins for iPhone last week, and despite some release-date wavering, it did in fact make it to the App Store today on schedule. It’s $10. [App Store]

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 8

Official: New Zune Lineup Packs More Storage, Wi-Fi Downloads

CNet spotted Microsoft jumping the gun today to avoid running into you know who: Microsoft has gone ahead and rolled out details onthe new Zune lineup we’ve been hearing about a day early. And it’s what we’ve known all along: a storage bump up to 120GB for hard drive models, and an 8GB/16GB choice for…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 8

Intel 80GB Solid-State Drives Get Official (and High) Price Tag, Are Blazing Fast

Intel’s slightly delayed leap into the SSD game is now official, with the company announcing a $595 pricetag for an 80GB SSD, which comes in 1.8-inch (X18-M) or 2.5-inch (X25-M) sizes for the same price, with 160GB versions coming later this year. While that’s a considerably higher price-per-gigabyte ratio than what can be found on…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 8

Giant Polaroid Flipbook Machine Holds 987 ‘Roids, Plays Your Short Film

Can it get any more adorably indie than a short film portrayed on 987 Polaroids that display flipbook-style on a giant drum inside a machine called the “Process Enacted Mutoscope”? I’m thinking no. The rig is pretty cool, though-letting you control the speed of playback frame-by-frame, as you can see in the video that follows.…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 8

BlackBerry Design Evolution: O How Far We’ve Come?

For any med students who coveted the original BlackBerry pager back in ’98 almost as much as they can’t wait for the Bold to drop on AT&T, CRN’s evolution of the BlackBerry will bring joy to your heart. Within which we realize that RIM actually hasn’t evolved their drug-metaphor-laden email device all that much. See,…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 8

JD Power Rates the Country’s Best Wireless Companies, VZW Still Champ

Survey-masters JD Power and Associates have completed their most recent review of US mobile providers, dividing the US into six regions and crowning a king of call quality for each. And for most areas, Verizon is still tops. But not everywhere. The survey of 22,000 wireless customers from around the country did not touch on…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 8

The Week In iPhone Apps: Spore Origins Hands-On Edition

I’ve been running around at CEDIA this week, so for today’s installment, on top of a rundown of our app news from the week, we had a chance to give Spore Origins for the iPhone a spin before it drops (hopefully) this Sunday. As we saw at E3 and WWDC, the iPhone version of Spore…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 5

Twelve of CEDIA’s Most Beautifully Expensive Audiophile Speakers

Put simply, CEDIA is a trade show that trains its attendees to prep a home for MTV Cribs. Simple as that. So as a result, the audiophile gear on display is a sight (and an expenditure) to behold. Especially if your Cribs client prefers speakers that cost more than some small countries’ GDPs in their…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 5

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Dial Directions 411 Phone Service Automatically Beams Routes to Your Dash GPS

Sprint to Get HTC Touch Pro in October for $300

Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9

Air Canada to Be First International Airline With Aircell In-Flight Wi-Fi

Kevin Rose Nails Today’s Apple News, All Known Associates Permanently Buried by Apple

Download iPod Touch 2.1 Software RIGHT NOW

New iPod Shuffle: Same Chip-Clip, Now With Nano’s Hand-Me-Down Colors

iPod Classic Gets 120GB Boost For $250, 160GB Discontinued

Open-Source Posse Bands Together to Investigate Mysterious Russian Hacker Squads

How to Read an Apple-Free Giz

Sony to Drop New Reader Hardware in October?

Mars Phoenix Will Bravely and Passionately Twitter Until the Final Beat of Its Adorable Electronic Heart

Spore Origins For iPhone: Now Available

Official: New Zune Lineup Packs More Storage, Wi-Fi Downloads

Intel 80GB Solid-State Drives Get Official (and High) Price Tag, Are Blazing Fast

Giant Polaroid Flipbook Machine Holds 987 ‘Roids, Plays Your Short Film

BlackBerry Design Evolution: O How Far We’ve Come?

JD Power Rates the Country’s Best Wireless Companies, VZW Still Champ

The Week In iPhone Apps: Spore Origins Hands-On Edition

Twelve of CEDIA’s Most Beautifully Expensive Audiophile Speakers

Chimpanzees Are Murdering Their Former Friends, and Researchers Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around It

Yellowstone’s Dreaded Supervolcano Has an Unexpected Power Source, Study Says

Meta Is Pulling Down Ads That Seek to Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Litigation

One of the Greatest ‘Star Wars’ Characters of All Time Is Getting the Action Figure She Deserves

Antarctic Expedition to ‘Danger Zone’ Accidentally Discovers Previously Uncharted Island

How Two Indie Darlings Are Challenging a Collapsing Industry With Their Next Game

‘The Punisher: One Last Kill’ Trailer Promises Many Kills, Actually

Forget Apple Watch, Galaxy Watch 8 (2025) Is Now Priced Lower on Amazon Than at Samsung’s Official Site

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Button, an AI Gadget From Former Apple Staff, Is Giving a Whole Lot of Nothing

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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