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Cellphone Poll: Africa

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Cellphone Poll: Australia

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Cellphone Poll: South America

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Cellphone Poll: North America

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Cellphone Poll: Asia

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Cellphone Poll: Europe

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Google Applied for “Nexus One” Trademark

In between all the exciting rumors of when Google’s Nexus One will be released and how much it will cost, there’s at least something that’s confirmed: Google submitted a trademark application for “Nexus One.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-nexus-one-may-be-coming-on-january-5th-5426554 Android.in writes that the application was filed on December 10th, a bit before all the excitement about Nexus One began,…

Apple’s SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0 Eliminates Excess Noise

If your optical disk drive has been making oddly loud sounds when you start or wake your Mac from a slumber, then the EFI firmware update released by Apple is supposedly the cure. Is anyone hearing a difference? Check Cool Geex if you need instructions on how to update, and please let us know if…

The Webcast of the Boeing Dreamliner’s First Flight Starts Now

It’s 9:40 a.m. PST/12:40 a.m. EST and the webcast of the Boeing Dreamliner’s first flight should be starting right now. Here’s hoping that this is the last time I use this particular image and that the 787’s daydreams become reality. https://gizmodo.com/boeing-dreamliners-first-flight-being-webcast-tomorrow-5426224 Weather, luck, and wishes permitting, the plane should be taking taking to the skies…

This Naughty Online Clock Has a Girl for Every Minute (NSFW)

There are 1440 minutes in the day and the AV-Tokei online clock has cute gals in various states of undress holding up a sign with the current time for every single one of those minutes. Yes, it’s a lovely time-waster. Honestly, I don’t even know why this caught my attention, but somehow curiosity had me…

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Today’s remainders have a URL shortener from good ol’ Google, the realization that people outside of the United States might want certain iPhone apps, a deal on the TomTom iPhone app, and Apple winning a bunch of awards. Yeah, it’s an Apple-dominated bunch of remainders. Maybe I’ll make tomorrow’s three-fourths Microsoft for some balance. Kindle…

Run, Jerry, Run! The Better Mouse Trap is Here

My favorite cartoon character growing up was the sly Jerry from Tom & Jerry fame, but after seeing the in-action video, I somehow have doubts that even he could survive an encounter with the Better Mousetrap. Look at that thing! It’s got solenoid valves, controllers, indicators, circuit boards, and a pneumatic actuator. And while I…

Google’s Nexus One May Be Coming on January 5th

Reuters is reporting that, according to an unnamed source, the Nexus One may be subsidized by T-Mobile. A site called Android and Me is claiming that T-Mobile will sell it for $199 with contract, starting on January 5. A January release date sounds reasonable based on what we know about the phone so far, and…

When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note

Before going in for a meeting with the President of the United States, you must put a sticky note with your name on your phone and leave the device in a basket outside. Don’t believe it? There’s a video. This video shows cabinet members leaving their phones in a basket before entering a meeting with…

Microsoft Beats Xbox to Pieces for Getting an RRoD

Nic H tells us that this is how his Xbox was returned after being sent to Nurse Microsoft. If that’s really true, then it looks like Microsoft is getting brutal on Xboxes that dare get an RRoD. Geez. What the hell is Microsoft using to punish misbehaving Xboxes? This thing looks worse than the one…

The Master Diagram of Geek Culture

Does your obsession with superheroes make you a movie-geek, a comic-geek, or both? What sort of geek are you? This master diagram will tell you what your geek culture sub-group is based on interests, obsessions, and idols. Click on the image for a closer look. I’m quite happy to see that one of my favorite…

Google’s Placeholder Page for Phone Support and Its Weird Countdown

Google has an odd placeholder page waiting. Based on the URL, it should be a page for phone support, support of a phone, support over a phone, what else? There’s also some sort of weird javascript countdown hidden in the HTML of the page so maybe some kind of mysteries are lurking there. [Google]

FASTRA II Gallery

The Most Powerful Desktop PC-Sized Supercomputer

Six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards and one GTX275 single-GPU card add up to a “massive 12TFLOPS of computing power,” and they fit into the Fastra II’s desktop computer-sized case making it smaller and more powerful than the first Fastra supercomputer. https://gizmodo.com/fastra-desktop-supercomputer-built-with-4-nvidia-9800-g-394128 Coming out of the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp, the FASTRA II…

Boeing Dreamliner’s First Flight Being Webcast Tomorrow at 10 A.M.

The Boeing 787. The Dreamliner. The plane that keeps letting my hopes down is supposedly finally taking to the skies during a live webcast tomorrow morning, sometime after 10 a.m. PST. Let’s just hope this isn’t another letdown. https://gizmodo.com/seriously-is-the-boeing-dreamliner-ever-going-to-fly-5326774 You can find updates on the flight status, and the actual webcast right here and you…