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Apple says Hola to Mexico by opening up its own online store and giving away a MacBook a day and an iPod every hour. What I’m told is that Latin Americans forced to buy things via the US store ended up paying a lot more. This should help our Southernly. [Apple Store Mexico via TUAW]
Mid-Tex Cellular systems out of De Leon, Texas is currently running both GSM and CDMA network using a software-based radio system on nine of of their cellular towers. Because the Vanu, Inc. designed software can be upgraded easily, there is no need for costly new hardware when supporting new or incompatible networks. If this technology…
PSN’s director of operations, Eric Lempel, walks us through buying and downloading stuff to your PSP from the freshly launched PC PlayStation Store. It’s not the most elegant setup, and you’ve gotta use a loader app, but it’s not too painful either. Mac support and Wi-Fi transfer—or better still, a direct PSP store, a la…
A few weeks ago, Apple implemented a policy limiting iPhone sales to two per customer and sale by credit card only. Seemed likely that this was to stem unofficial market sales abroad, and this Wired piece by Aventurina King confirms it. The iPhone, known as the “Ai Feng” (“Crazy Love”) is growing quite a market.…
It is no secret that many of the best ideas are doodled down on a napkin in a moment of inspiration. Now you can keep the ideas flowing at all times thanks to this spiral-bound cocktail napkin notebook. It even comes with its own pen for optimum napkin doodling effectiveness. Now if they could only…
Even though there’s already been a comparative plenitude of HD DVD player deals, users are shunning the chance to pay $150 for a Blu-ray player to get a whack at a $150 HD DVD player in Amazon’s Customers Vote. Toshiba’s HD-A35 has nearly double the votes of Samsung’s BD-P1400. It’s informal, but it points to…
• Broadband gridlock caused by increased bandwith demand could force us to return to dialup by 2010. In other “news”, the sky is falling and 9/11 was an inside job. [BBC] • Palm TX for $199 ($100 off) and Tungsten E2 for $149 ($50 off) from now until 11/26. [Crave] • Insignia 26″ 720p Widescreen…
The imminent announcement about wider coverage of Verizon’s symmetrical FiOS that was teased last week has arrived, and it’s pretty nice: Everyone gets it. FL, MA, and RI get 20Mbps up and downstream like NY, NJ and CT, while the rest get 15Mbps both ways. They’ve also got an option for 30 down and 15…
There isn’t much in the way of technical specs on the Lights, Music, Beauty speaker system concept from designer Ian Murchison—but it appears that all we really need to know is that it generates one hell of a light show. Why you would need a remote controlled, 3-point light system attached to your computer is…
Word on the street is that Lab126, designers of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, shares a California zip code with Apple, as well as a few former employees. [Valleywag] https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-roundup-324554/
While both Blu-ray and HD DVD use the long–cracked AACS copy protection scheme, Blu-ray has its unique flavor of DRM underneath that, BD+, which is based on the Self-Protecting Digital Content spec. Macrovision is plunking down $45 million for SPDC and its related patents. This is despite the fact BD+ was cracked by AnyDVD’s daddy,…
Just in time for the holidays, the PlayStation Store‘s finally totally opening its virtual doors to PSP owners without PS3s—now you can directly download stuff to your PSP from your PC via USB. It’s live right now. You can set up a PSN account and then start doing all the things that were previously walled…
Sure you could use the 12,000 watt AE Techron Model 7796 DC-Coupled AC Amplifier to play music, but power like that cannot be relegated to music alone. It needs to be harnessed for something bigger—like unholy experimentation with the forces of nature. In fact, the very first customer to purchase one of these amps is…
This is kind of an astounding pixel catching setup, pulling in 360-degrees of 1080i video within a vertical plane of 50 degrees. BTW, 1080i is not that impressive, and maybe even necessary when doing a wrap-around picture. In the not-close future, expect a Gizmodo post on a version that does 4k pixel count in a…
Feature trickle—the movement of bells and whistles from high-end to low-end gear—is great. As Crave points out, image stabilization is one that’s been falling down the line pretty steadily, now landing in Nikon’s standard kit 18-55mm lens. The new, tricked out AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR lens— VR standing for vibration reduction—is only $200,…
After realizing lots of customers bring back perfectly good electronics, Target’s deciding to resell the unloved-but-working wares at (slightly) discounted rates online. Up for sale in the pre-owned aisle are TVs, iPods and game consoles that have been checked and refurbed by a third party. Only problem is that so far it looks like Black…
Zune 80 has been out of stock, for lack of supply or over-demand. If you’re interested in the big lug, nestled snuggly between the iPod Touch and the classic in capacity and screen size, Nowinstock.com will email you when they show up on shelves. [Now In Stock] https://gizmodo.com/zune-80-nowhere-to-be-found-322842
Reminder: you still have time to enter our highly topical Thanksgiving Photoshop Contest! Get your masterpieces in by tomorrow or regret it for the rest of your lives! Don’t blow it! https://gizmodo.com/photoshop-contest-bring-the-first-thanksgiving-into-th-323765
The Asus Eee is both Amazon’s best-selling notebook and No. 1 in computers and hardware overall. But it’s also temporarily out of stock. [Amazon via EeeUser]
This week at TreeHugger: One answer to the question “What can Brown do for you?” is this: deliver your small packages in 100% electric cars in California. Intel’s Penryn chip is sleek, small, and now, green (kinda). Is that good enough to make Penryn now the greenest computer chip in the world? Epson proudly announced…