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The ZuneHD looks like a lovely catchup to the original iPod touch—you know, before apps allowed it to be so much more—except for one thing. That damn browser. It’s not just they’re basing it off hellacious and reviled IE—it’s that it’s not WebKit-based. https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-is-real-has-multitouch-web-browsing-oled-scre-5270945 There simply isn’t a better mobile browser than WebKit right now.…
Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster: “They were afraid of Napster, they were afraid of iTunes; The business resists change…Basically the record industry sat around and tried to protect an old model; Yeah, suing your customer is a bad idea.” [All Things D] The irony of a man in charge of a company who artists and…
At All Things D, my friends at Fullpower did a demo of a accelerometer-equipped headset that can pick up a call by tapping it in a different way than you tap a regular headset. https://gizmodo.com/snowmodo-install-motion-x-gps-for-the-iphone-so-we-can-5195691 That’s not so new in concept, but the trick is, they use math to filter out the background noise—in this…
The Sirius XM iPhone app hasn’t arrived as quickly as predicted, but according to CEO Mel Karmazin’s PowerPoint presentation, it’s at least in the final stages of planning. https://gizmodo.com/sirius-satellite-radio-iphone-app-could-come-within-a-w-5142096 The exact details are unclear from the slides, but it appears that a $2.99 monthly streaming fee may apply. Additionally, there’s a shopping cart in the…
If you have that many computers and you don’t mind risking them by stacking them up, don’t rub it in our faces. Here’s a list of what’s in this tower: Mac Plus Mac SE/30 Mac LC Mac IIc Performa 6200CD Mac Centris 610 Powermac G3 Powermac 7200 Performa 6400/200 Powermac 6500/250 (x2 one missing front)…
Isn’t flying a kite about skillfully utilizing the wind to keep a cloth contraption aloft? Sure, there are high tech indoor kites, but the Silverlit Kazoo completely breaks with convention by using an electric motor. https://gizmodo.com/biokite-is-flying-a-kite-indoors-weird-333841 In fact, the only justification for calling this thing a “kite” and not an R/C aircraft is the fact…
My career in model making finished with a P-51 Mustang which ended looking like Dick Dastardly’s airplane with an epoxy overdose. Fortunately, this JU87-G Stuka carpet kit by Katharina Wahl doesn’t require any glue. [Mocoloco]
Okay, if you live in New York or San Francisco, it means approximately dick, but AT&T’s still tryin’ real hard, with HSPA 7.2Mbps 3G going nationwide this year (in time for the new iPhone) and finishing up in 2011. https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-internal-plans-to-fix-their-network-5041382 There’s also more penetrate-y 850MHz wireless going around (that would be the “doubling” their wireless…
Pundits have framed President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as a judicial equivalent to her predecessor. Not quite: Justice Souter is a proud luddite who has never owned a computer. Sotomayor, on the other hand, is a nerd. She’s handed down quite a number of cyberlaw decisions during her career, some of which show…
A tipster has confirmed to PreCentral that the Pre, or at least the WebOS emulator, supports IMAP IDLE for Gmail. What does that mean? Free push email for any Gmail account, basically. Color me impressed. [PreCentral—Thanks, Chad!]
Little known fact: Jason Chen is planning his wedding reception for August. And while he and his fiancee wanted to go with a white table cloth affair, I insisted they ditch that stuff and bust out the Party Pumps. Think about it. You could be sitting around a table with a bunch of people in…
Mary Jo Foley has a twofer on the new Embedded Compact core of Windows Mobile: Cashmere, if released, would add FlashLite and better gesture support, while Alchemy is a new shell component that would bring “richer UI scenarios” through native access to Silverlight, meaning flicking, panning and zoomzooming. https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-7-may-get-gesture-controls-after-all-5256073 Besides FlashLite, Cashmere would bring a…
Do you remember when you started to play guitar in your parent’s garage, then got into that rock band in college, got signed by a big record company, and sold twenty million records? Yes, me neither. [Likecool]
This is awkward. We just got a glimpse of DJ Hero’s mixer, and now we see an entirely new peripheral for an entirely different game called Scratch: The Ultimate DJ (for Xbox 360 and PS3). https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-the-dj-hero-turntable-controller-5243951 The peripheral, dubbed the Scratch Deck, is a collaboration between real mixer manufacturer Numark and electronics manufacturer Genius. It…
UK tech force T3 commissioned a series of writers/designers to mock up future products covering everything from shoes to televisions. And of course, they couldn’t resist rendering the rumor-loved iPhone nano. Loaded with EDGE (no 3G), 16GB of flash memory, a 5MP camera (whoa T3, slow down there cowboys!), A2DP and a brushed aluminum case,…
Skyfire, the server-compressed mobile browser that promises “the full web,” i.e. Flash support, on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, has graduated from its excruciatingly long testing period. In a word, it’s great. https://gizmodo.com/skyfire-windows-mobile-browser-is-desktop-like-has-fla-349798 The release notes point to a few major changes from earlier versions of the browser, emphasizing better text rendering, faster startup, easier…
What is Nintendo up to for E3? With the new DSi out and Wii MotionPlus coming out, it looks like a year for software. And these two new trademarks may reveal their announcements early. ‘Wii Fit Plus‘ sounds obvious enough to us. A sequel or expansion for Wii Fit, we’d love a bigger balance board…
Terms of Apple’s 2009 “Back to School” deal have been announced, and contrary to rumors, don’t include a discount for the iPhone. Like last year, students are entitled to a free 8GB iPod Touch (UPDATE: Or any other iPod under $229) with the purchase of any MacBook, iMac, or Mac Pro, on top of the…
Ole’ Whitey, Apple’s last-gen, $999 stalwart, has been treated to a second round of internal upgrades, this time a bit less impressive: a 133MHz processor bump, 40GB more storage and speedier DDR2-6400 RAM. [Apple—Thanks, Richard!] https://gizmodo.com/white-macbooks-upgraded-nearly-match-unibody-specs-5135984
Tweaktown got some eyes-on time with Cooler Master‘s upcoming Storm gaming mouse, which has a built-in OLED display, adjustable DPI, and lights, lights, lots of lights. The screen’s uses are limited to adjusting the mouse resolution and displaying a logo of your choice, and sadly, the model shown here is a development version, so the…