Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Just thought I would show you what CES looked like this year. Its downright impressive with over 35 football fields full of gadgetry goodness. Try to spot what you can in the pictures after the jump. If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment. If you missed some of the coverage check [...]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Paul sent in a tip earlier that Google Maps has been updated from version 2.0.1 to version 2.0.2. As you may remember version 2 of Google Maps brought us location tracking VIA cellphone towers. This new version 2.0.2 has no changelog (come on Google!) and when I installed it I really could not tell any difference between [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I just got a chance to read through some of my email during CES and came across this announcement. This is not the usual print to a fax machine that we usually see for BlackBerry devices. The Printstik PS910 uses Bluetooth to print to a handheld printer. The printer has a cartridge that will print [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The MiniMoni Traffic Monitor application that we have been mentioning over and over has finally released version 1.0. The biggest announcement is that the software will remain free but the developer is asking kindly for donations. Another big fix is that the code is now signed so the application can automatically start when you boot [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
When we mentioned VideoStreams For BlackBerry before I was under the impression that it was a new company. It turns out that the application is actually designed by QuickPlay.com which previously had an unsuccessful video player for BlackBerry. So far the application seems to only be for OS 4.3 devices but I find it interesting that [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I just got an email from The Message Center about a free upgrade for all of their current and future customers. In October The Message Center upped their storage from 500 Megabytes to 1 Gigabyte. As of today the 1 Gigabyte storage has been increased to 3 gigabytes. That translates into 3 Gigabytes of storage with [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Jason Hook of NotesBerry.org and a couple of others have spawned off a new website targeted towards BlackBerry opensource projects. They have created the website www.opencod.org to help host opensource BlackBerry software. You can read the announcement here. Jason has promised to post a free blogging application for BlackBerry on OpenCOD soon. The application is made [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Richard Blakeley is either the very calculated or just plain dumb. During CES he videotaped himself turning off LCD TV’s during certain companies presentations. He did this to Motorola, Intel, and Creative. Gizmodo made some pretty serious enemies from this stunt. On the other hand, from the last time I checked Gizmodo’s video post it [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
While at CES I got to play with Lenovo’s new consumer focused IdeaPad laptops. The new laptops are gorgeous compared to the drab Thinkpads I own. This may be a new start for Lenovo to spice up their business black lines with some sleek curves. Check out the pics below or you can look at [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
On Tuesday I met with Nicholas Reichenbach of Magmic Games at CES. Nicholas (avatar on left) is the VP of Publishing at Magmic. He gave me the lowdown on what Magmic and bPlay have planned for us in 2008. The details are skim but it seems like Magmic is posed to take over the entertainment [...]
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