(Credit: Disney)Disney and Asus have teamed up to do something others have been doing wrong for a long time: they’ve developed an affordable and functional portable kids’ PC, according to USA Today. It comes in the form of a Netbook with an Intel Atom processor; a small, 8….
Songs from iTunes synced with a Palm Pre.
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An article that appeared on Apple’s support site Tuesday doesn’t appear to be directed at any other company in particular–unless you read between the lines.
Titled “iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players,” the article addresses …
Originally posted at News – Apple
So you’re an iPhone owner with a massive case of Pre jealousy, but you’ve got another year left on your AT&T contract. We know you’re out there, and we know you’re struggling — you’re feeling totally alone and misunderstood, like a lone voice struggling to be heard amongst the din of a thousand push notifications. A gadget nerd without a clan.
You don’t have to live this way. You don’t have to be trapped into a single touch interface aesthetic by the fear of early-termination fees and loss of Tap Tap Revenge compatibility. You have a choice — you can jailbreak your phone and install the Palm Prefection theme. You can show the world you’re not afraid to mix it up. Sure, you won’t be able to multitask for real and no amount of fevered prayer will ever bring a gesture area to your iPhone, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be taking a stand. Fly high, butterfly. Video after the break.
[Thanks, Dave]
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(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET)Ah, the good life, where your car negotiates traffic speeds for you and gives you a massage. The Mercedes-Benz S550 actually does all of the above, using its adaptive cruise control to not hit the car ahead and letting you choose from four settings on its …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
This will go great with my "Simpsons Sing the Blues" cassette.
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Homer Simpson joins the ranks of Mr. T and John Cleese as a downloadable custom voice for TomTom portable navigation devices. Fans of the longest-running American prime time entertainment series can now listen to Homer “…
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The Smart Black Box saves 15 seconds of video if it senses a collision.
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Earlier this year at CES, Eclipse showed us the DREC20000, an in-car video recorder that saves its last 20 seconds of footage if it senses a car accident. Unfortunately, the Eclipse device is …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
Donald and Jasmine discuss the new additions to the iPhone and how these will affect iPod Touch owners as well. Also on deck: budget shopping tips for MP3 players and headphones are outlined, and Donald gives an overview of two step-by-step tutorials involving fixing a broken Touch screen and getting the most out of Pandora. Finally, we give our listeners some much-deserved attention.
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Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Despite powering only a handful of handsets available on the market, Android has already had a significant impact on the competitive landscape in smartphones. Looking at its primary rivals that run on a variety of hardware from multiple manufacturers, Android has provided a free and highly customizable licensed challenge to Windows Mobile, And competition with the Google-developed mobile operating system may have also provided the final push of Symbian into the world of open source.
Just because Android has turned the tables, though, does not mean it should be used on devices that rest on them. Recently, the infatuation with Android has led to much speculation and supplication regarding the operating system as an alternative on netbooks and less proven “gaptops” that live between the smartphone and the notebook. But while blazing benchmarks may erase any speed records set by netbooks running Windows, they can’t erase what amounts to a weak case for Android on these devices.
Recent history shows that the overwhelming majority of consumers want Windows on their netbooks. This has become especially true as the market has shifted from the quasi-appliance like original Asus Eee, with its suboptimal 7″ screen, to most netbooks running 10″ and now even larger screens and vendors such as Dell and HP that are pillars of the Windows hardware world have grabbed market share. Even these manufacturers have more to gain by going with their own twist on Linux. HP, for example, has created a unique and differentiated experience with its Linux environment for netbooks. It will take some time before various Android implementations are so unique. It’s unclear why an Android-based netbook would fare much better than Linux-based netbooks have.
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At long last, cut-copy-paste comes to the iPhone Wednesday.
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Many of the iPhone’s long-awaited features will finally become reality Wednesday when Apple rolls out iPhone OS 3.0.
Current iPhone owners can download the software from iTunes for free, and iPod Touch users can get …
Originally posted at News – Apple
Marketing research company ComScore recently conducted a survey highlighting socioeconomic differences between iPhone and iPod Touch users.
First spotted by Fortune 500’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the survey discovered the following about the general iPhone and iPod Touch population:
But more interesting are the results illuminating what iPhone users and iPod Touch owners don’t have in common:
And other more general observations:
Pretty neat, and the results make plenty of sense. I’m surprised iPod Touch owners shop for gadgets more than iPhone owners, though. I always thought the iPhone was a status symbol for spend-happy tech geeks — more so than the iPod Touch. Your thoughts?
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