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Slashdot has some comments from Apple’s VP for hardware product marketing, Greg Joswiak, in response to allegations that they fudged recent benchmark tests comparing the new Power Mac G5 to PCs with Intel processors. Read [Thanks, David]
Just to go totally overboard with all the Pocket PC posts today, there’s also a Pocket PC Magazine article on Toshiba’s new e755 Pocket PC, which is basically an updated version of the e740. The e755 comes with built-in WiFi, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of user-accessible flash ROM (which means you can store data there…
A nice, lengthy review by Jason Dunn of Pocket PC Thoughts of the speedy new iPAQ 2215 from HP, which looks like it’s a lot faster than many older Pocket PCs. Jason gives it high marks: [E]ven with a few rough edges, the HP iPAQ 2215 is the fastest and one of the most all-around…
When ViewSonic released the V37 (its second Pocket PC and the successor to the V35) a few months ago, they completely passed over the V36. Not that anyone really noticed or cared much at the time, but ViewSonic finally let slip that there really will be a V36 Pocket PC, which will come with a…
Not that they really had much choice in the matter after losing an appeal in Federal court a few weeks ago, but Verizon says it isn’t going to fight the FCC’s mandate for cellphone number portability and that it won’t charge customers any special fees for taking their number with them when they switch to…
In another sign that they’re continuing to struggle, it looks like Sony Ericsson is bailing on CDMA (at least in North America) and will stop making handsets compatible with that network standard. While most of Sony Ericsson’s really hot phones right now work on 3G or GSM anyway and so aren’t affected by the move,…
CNET’s got an early look at Gateway’s first PDA, the 100X Pocket PC. The 100X, which is due out next month, isn’t exactly the flashiest Pocket PC we’ve ever seen. Or the lightest: it comes in at 6.52 ounces. It looks like Gateway has decided to follow Dell’s lead and come out with a functional,…
The Slashdot set is up in arms that Apple might be misleading people by claiming that the new Power Mac G5 is the “world’s fastest personal computer”. Someone actually downloaded the full test results from Veritest and examined how they really came up with their numbers, and it looks like Apple might have cooked the…
A new Swedish study concludes that when it comes to talking on the phone while driving, there’s really no difference in safety between using a hands-free device and just holding the cellphone in your hand: The drivers in both groups received about 10 phone calls each during 1.5 hours of simulated driving in different conditions.…
MobileBurn has a great gallery of photos of our current cellphone crush, the SO505i from Sony Ericsson, the new 1.3 megapixel cameraphone carried by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. Read
BusinessWeek review of the new Archos AV340 personal video player, pointing out a few of its big flaws, such as a poor user interface and the difficulty of getting videos to watch onto it in the first place. Read
We love Apple’s new ad campaign for the iPod in Japan, which features the slogan “Hello iPod, Goodbye, MD”, a reference to Sony’s Mini Disc player. Sony really dropped the ball by letting Apple get a foothold in the portable audio market, with the Walkman they had practically owned the entire notion of carrying your…
Excellent, in-depth article in the July issue of Technology Review on wireless smart sensors and how they have the potential to change just about everything, if only manufacturers could settle on a networking standard. Read [Via TechDirt]
Word that Orange is going to launch another phone running Microsoft’s Smartphone OS (or whatever they’re calling it these days) in the UK, the SPV E-100, also known as the Tanager from HTC. Read [Via MSMobiles]
Concerned about a rise in accidents by distracted drivers, the Canadian government is not only getting ready to ban the use of cellphones while driving, they’re also considering going a step further and possibly banning GPS navigation and other “vehicle information systems”. Read
They’re not exactly vintage Carreras, but check out these sunglasses from USL Group that come with built-in headphones.
Some tips on building a chess-playing “super-computer” from grandmaster John Nunn, who gives a few reasons as to why you might want to do this (besides the obvious one, that you’re really into chess): Why not just buy a computer, you might ask? There are two reasons why I preferred the do-it-yourself route. The first…
It’s the first day of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, and MacMerc has the play-by-play of the day’s events and MacMinute has a roundup of all the new product announcements. The big news of the day, of course, is the Power Mac G5 (pictured at right), the world’s first personal computer with a 64-bit processor;…
Glenn Reynolds, aka Mr. InstaPundit, really digs his new Epson Photo Stylus 900 printer, which he’s using to print labels for CDs and DVDs: [T]he results look just like commercially produced CDs and DVDs. It even comes with Mac software! With one of these, and the requisite audio/video you can be a one-man record or…
Mentioned in this Wired News story on the huge numbers of DVD players, video game consoles, and satellite televisions being put into cars these days, is the revelation that our old friend P. Diddy is going to start selling customized Lincoln Navigator SUVs that come tricked out with three DVD players, six screens, a PlaySation…