Hasta La Gadget!

Logitech may have thrown caution to the wind with the designs for its recent V220 RF-based laptop mice, but it looks to have brought things back to basics for its new M555b Bluetooth mouse, which packs most of the featured you’d expect in a clean and simple package. That includes five programmable buttons, a 1,000 dpi resolution, an “ultra-fast” scroll wheel, space for a pair of AA batteries, and a sleep mode to help those last a bit longer. Sold? Then plan on spending $59.99 when this one lands later this month.

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Logitech debuts M555b Bluetooth mouse originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Badassery.

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I had a fairly good shop program in high school (what’s up, Tumwater T-Birds!). Instead of making rickety chairs for our mothers to injure themselves on, or fire-prone wooden ashtrays, our class concentrated on technology. That’s where I got to play with my first industrial …

We’re still not 100 percent clear what Apple’s next move is, but we do know they’re a little more than nonplussed about Pre’s ad hoc iTunes syncing methods. Despite Cupertino’s update to its support site last night, Palm seems unconcerned, as relayed by a spokesperson to Digital Daily. In a statement, the company said disabling the sync “will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience” and that “there are other third-party applications we could consider.” In other word, it’d be Apple’s loss. We’re not quite sure we agree there, nor would we really think “stay with the iTunes version that works to sync their music on their Pre” method is really the best suggestion, but hey, we’re not the multimillion dollar phone manufacturer here. We anxiously await to see if and when this cold war is turned up a few notches.

Filed under: Cellphones

Palm responds to iTunes / Pre statement, defiant and unfazed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So now that the iPhone 3.0 launch is in full swing, we’re wondering how it’s going out there. Team Engadget appears to have made it through without any problems, but we’re hearing sporadic reports of Apple’s iTunes activation servers being slammed and potentially some kind of IE security certificate problem on Windows, which is leaving a few people with unusable phones while things get sorted out. Everything work out okay for you?

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How’s the iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade going for you? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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