10 Favorite Gizmodo Posts: April 12, 2007
Sidekick ID—The latest Sidekick has broken free from the labs, check out the first pics of it in the wild. https://gizmodo.com/sidekick-id-found-in-the-wild-251864 Xbox 360 Spring Update Video—Here’s a 25-minute video diving into the 360’s spring updates new features. https://gizmodo.com/more-details-on-the-xbox-360-spring-dashboard-update-251908 OS X 10.5 Delayed—The shot heard around the Mac-obsessed world, Apple has delayed its OS upgrade until…
Giznotes: April 11, 2007
Looks like there was a little restructuring going on over at Vonage today. As their now ex-CEO, Michael Snyder, stepped down. Verizon took back the title of largest US carrier from Cingular/AT&T. Let the war continue! Nintendo & Opera let their final version of the Wii Browswer out into the wild. And it will be…
Official: Apple Delays Leopard; iPhone Is Priority #1
Because its priority is squarely on iPhone, Apple has announced it will push back its Leopard launch date from June to October. Yes, a four-month delay! The reason? “Key software engineering and QA resources” have been reallocated from the OS team to the iPhone team. Full (brief) statement, after the jump… CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12…
RIAA VP Calls Steve Jobs “Hypocrite,” Tries to Punch Him at Recess
Somehow this half-escaped us in March, but we can’t resist talking about it now: apparently, Dave Hughes thinks Steve Jobs is a “hypocrite.” https://gizmodo.com/riaa-coming-to-arizona-state-to-intimidate-in-person-247471 And yes, while we agree that His Steveness is wrong when he says that movies should be exempt of the new DRM-free spirit in the iTunes Music Store, it sure takes…
Magellan Maestro 4040 Impressions: AAA Built in, Might Not Suck
If you’ve ever owned a Magellan GPS portable navigator, you may know that they tended not to have any endurance. Okay, fine, they crapped out a lot. Two RoadMate 700s both managed to die on me, once while I was driving through a nasty part of Boston. A few weeks ago, after a two-year hiatus…