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Archive for June 27th, 2009

Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei (Kiyoshi Takenaka/Reuters)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc’s highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.  —  The Japanese electronics …

The Video Bay, Now In Beta (Timothy/Slashdot)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Timothy / Slashdot:
The Video Bay, Now In Beta  —  poundhard writes “Some two years ago, it was mentioned on TorrentFreak and Slashdot that The Pirate Bay team were working on a YouTube competitor.  At the oral proceedings of the Spectrial, I believe it was Peter Sunde, aka Brokep, who said to the prosecutor … […]

Palm Pre Mojo SDK Download Leaked To The Web (Links Updated!) (Colin/Pre Insiders)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Colin / Pre Insiders:
Palm Pre Mojo SDK Download Leaked To The Web (Links Updated!)  —  Just around an hour ago, @robovalzuniga sent out a tweet confirming that Palm’s Mojo SDK had in fact leaked out.  What’s better, he included a download link.  Yes, you can now download the (beta) SDK for the Pre.

Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died At Age 65 In 2007 (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died At Age 65 In 2007  —  Oops.  Bad, Google.  Occasionally the service inserts direct answers to searches at the top of its results.  It makes guesses at this, and in the case of michael jackson died, it’s making the wrong guess.

UK ‘has cyber attack capability’ (BBC)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

BBC:
UK ‘has cyber attack capability’  —  The UK has the ability to launch cyber attacks but does not use it for industrial espionage like some other countries, minister Lord West has said.  —  He refused to be drawn on whether it was used for military purposes.

Screenshots of the New TouchFLO 3D v2.5 (Brandon Miniman/pocketnow.com)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Screenshots of the New TouchFLO 3D v2.5  —  When the Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 get the Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade later this summer, it looks like they are getting a new version of TouchFLO 3D (Manila v2.5) that stretches the interface a bit deeper and makes it more customizable than seen […]

Firefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public release (Scott M. Fulton, III/BetaNews)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Firefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public release  —  A Mozilla spokesperson confirmed to Betanews early this evening that, if all pans out as planned, the organization will officially release the Firefox 3.5 Web browser to the general public as soon as Tuesday, June 30.

BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199? (The Boy Genius/Boy Genius Report)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199?  —  Well, you heard that right peoples.  It looks like Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the much-awaited BlackBerry Tour on July 12th.  The best part?  It appears it’s going to go for $199 with a […]