Apple rumor roundup: aluminum Mac minis and supersized iPod touches
Listen, you know the drill by now: Macworld is less than a month away, and that causes a Cupertino-sized rumor mill to fill up with hints of new / refreshed hardware of all shapes and sizes. The crew at TUAW [...]
Optoma’s DLP PK101 pico projector up for pre-order at $399.99
“Coming soon,” huh? Soon, indeed. Optoma’s DLP-based pico projector, which is formally known as the EP-PK-101 (or PK101 in some circles), is now up for pre-order at Amazon. So, just how much will you pay for a 4-ounce beamer that [...]
5 predictions for 2009
Will Steve Jobs announcement his retirement in 2009? Will Windows 7 launch? Don Reisinger looks ahead to 2009. More: continued here
Oregon governor looking at GPS-based mileage tax to fund roads
Electric cars and other fuel-efficient vehicles certainly have plenty going for them, but all that reduction in fuel consumption also has the side effect of reducing the money earned from gas taxes, which has prompted folks like Oregon governor Ted [...]
Sonoro Eklipse iPod / CD sound system hits the FCC
Sonoro’s Eklipse iPod / CD sound system has been available in Europe for a few months now, but it hasn’t exactly made much of a ripple ’round these parts. That looks like it could well be changing, however, as the [...]
Users report 30GB Zunes seizing up
Many users are reporting their Microsoft music players are rebooting then seizing up. Some dub the problem “Z2K.” More: continued here
‘Curse of Silence’ exploit squelches inbound SMS/MMS to Nokia S60 devices
Here’s an odd one for you. Tobias Engel of the Chaos Communication Congress has discovered a rather nasty exploit that’ll cause any Nokia S60 devices running versions 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 or 3.1 to stop receiving SMS and MMS messages. The [...]
VuNow PoD Media Streamer Is Cheap and BitTorrent-Ready [Media Streaming]
While even Blu-ray players are getting into the media streaming business, Verismo Networks has announced the $100/$150 VuNow PoD, promising everything from YouTube to BitTorrent in a clean Apple TVesque interface. The palm-sized $100 VuNow PoD is standard def and [...]
RIM’s president calls BlackBerry Storm a small netbook
Clearly, Mike Lazaridis has the chops when it comes to running a business. What he clearly lacks, however, is a firm definition of the term “netbook.” To his credit, we still feel the exact boundaries for netbooks have yet to [...]
FIC’s 10.4-inch CW001 Mini-note splashes down in FCC database
First International Computer — which is a majority owner in Everex and the manufacturer of the first OpenMoko handset — has delivered an intriguing little machine to us courtesy of the oh-so-revealing FCC. The FIC CW001 Mini-note will arrive on [...]