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Those wildfires in Southern California are getting dangerously close (as close as 100 yards) to some of our favorite companies, as Sony, HP and Broadcom have shut down business for the day and evacuated their offices. Some employees have or will lose homes to the fires, which frankly sucks balls. Stay safe guys! [KUSI]
Click to viewThis morning we published allegations by the bromine industry claiming that Greenpeace’s report on the iPhone was inaccurate and alarmist. Tom Dowdall, Greenpeace International’s Web Editor, contacted Gizmodo to present a rebuttal against those allegations and talked about our coverage: https://gizmodo.com/electronics-industry-analyst-group-dismisses-greenpeace-313411 Greenpeace welcomes the debate that has been sparked by our report analyzing…
Despite a couple of bumpy moments this quarter that ended Sept. 29 that might’ve slightly shaken the faith of the devout, Apple’s earnings are unsurprisingly expectation busting: Apple’s reporting record September earnings, with revenues of $6.22 billion with a net quarterly profit of $904 million for earnings of $1.01 per share, handily topping the same…
Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That’s a farmhouse load of unlocked phones, which match up with the 500,000 downloads of…
It wasn’t just your box—AT&T’s U-Verse had a gigantic outage across all 33 areas where the IPTV service was available this weekend. All’s normal now, so all 100,000 subscribers can get back to watching tonight’s episode of Journeyman. [Electronista ]
Panasonic’s new PT-AX200E Home Cinema Projector is putting (wealthy) gamers in the forefront thanks to a “Game Mode” that promises a “life sized” experience. In Game Mode, signal processing is optimized to HD game content, which supposedly reduces response time from 15ms to 5ms. Panasonic also claims that the mode enhances gradation in saturated areas…
Episode 108 of the Coolness Roundup has Stephen and Charlie talking about the joys and pitfalls of Mac OS X Leopard, where Stephen is pumped but Charlie yawns. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is also on the agenda as both gurus express their fondness for breasts, and then they wonder what the heck is going on…
The Eye-Fi 2GB SD Card that can wirelessly transfer pics to your computer just got FCC approval. There’s an 802.11b/g Wi-Fi chip on board, allowing you to upload shots that you’ve taken without plugging in your camera. The feature’s been around in other cameras before—Kodak’s Easyshares come to mind. We’re not sure about the features,…
Apple’s earnings report starts in just a half hour (5 p.m. EST), and analysts and investors are expecting big bucks driven by iPhone sales, their deal with AT&T and big new product launches, despite a few rocky points this quarter. Above is a collection of estimates wrangled up by Fortune. We’ll see how on the…
CTIA official begins tonight, and we’ll have cellphone news and scoops straight from downtown San Francisco. What will be there? New Windows Mobile phones? A new LG fashion phone? A Bluetooth headset that doesn’t give you cancer? Check back at 6 p.m. PST (9 p.m. EST) to find out.
After nine years of back and forth and a small country’s GDP in fines for antitrust violations, Microsoft’s finally caving to EU antitrust regulators by giving code to competitors it’s fought to keep to itself after a 2004 European Commission directive to hand it over. A ruling last month by the EU’s second-highest court affirmed…
Bad commercial or technical customer service abounds everywhere but it seems to concentrate in the phone industry, to the point of making you wonder if they actually have entire departments dedicated to come up with ideas to a) screw, b) annoy, c) patronize or d) all of the above you. Giz reader Bruce sent us…
Microsoft just sent us these delicious (we think—we haven’t eaten them yet) chocolates in the shape of their ergonomic keyboard and mice sets. Although we couldn’t get more than 1 wpm on these (the one word was “chocolate”), they do taste a whole lot better than the previous Microsoft hardware we’ve eaten. Probably feels better…
HP and Sprint are adding built-in EV-DO Rev. A support to four of HP’s Compaq notebooks, the 2710p, the 6510b, the 6910p and the 8510 series. The press release says integrated support, and we’ve checked with HP and confirmed that it really is integrated EV-DO support inside the laptops and not just a bundled EV-DO…
This is one of those design concepts that might also require a genie in a bottle to actually come into fruition. It’s called the Canon Snap, a high-quality camera small enough to wear like a ring. Push its single button, and you’ve got digi-photos. Sure, looks neat. If they could just make that lens retract…
The Nokia N81 music phone we got our hands on in August is shipping now. Make sure to check out that music video while you’re at it. [All About Symbian] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-the-nokia-n81-verdict-really-loud-music-phon-294492
If you were planning on picking up a BlackBerry Curve on T-Mobile, here’s how you make $50 on the deal while you’re at it. Amazon has the Curve for $74.99 plus $125 rebate when you buy a new service plan and keep it in good standing for 181 days. If you’re a responsible person that…
Okay, audiophiles, the coast is clear. Now you can safely dive into the streaming network audio game with this strangely named and wildly overpriced Linn Klimax DS, billing itself as the “highest performance digital music player in the world.” It’s able to move those high-rez FLAC audio files from one place to another with excessive…
I’m curious about when everyone is going to upgrade to Mac OS 10.5, better know throughout the galaxy as Leopard. I mean, I’m excited about all the new features but if I screw up my Mac, I’m totally SOL. Do I rush in where angels fear to tread and all that? What are you going…
The fact that Comcast was caught by the AP blocking BitTorrent last week wasn’t much of a surprise (even if it was a disappointment), but more people have done self-tests and discovered they’re possibly blocking even more application traffic. The EFF found that not just Gnutella—another file sharing app—was being blocked, but Lotus Notes, an…