President Barack Obama may be getting a souped-up, super secure version of the BlackBerry called the Sectera Edge, recent speculation suggests. The NSA-certified device could allow Obama to fulfill his wish of staying connected, some suspect, while also addressing the numerous security concerns that come with the territory. [Sectera Edge: A BlackBerry Secure Enough For [...]
This week, Michael Phelps signed a deal worth more than $1 million to advertise Mazda in China. Jerry Seinfeld earned a reported $10 million to appear in Microsoft’s recent television campaign. But the person who may be the biggest celebrity pitchman in the world is not earning a penny for his work. For BlackBerry, Obama’s [...]
State of the Art - No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry? - NYTimes.com
Here’s a great example of the intelligence that drives R.I.M.: The phones all have simple, memorable, logical names instead of incomprehensible model numbers. There’s the BlackBerry Pearl (with a translucent trackball). The BlackBerry Flip (with a folding design). The BlackBerry Bold [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
“It’s the stickiest dry glue yet,” said Liming Dai of the university of Dayton, who reported on the glue in the [...]
I want a phone with no external buttons. If you have to put external buttons on it, at least recess the bloody things! Perhaps two: one to shut the alarm clock off, and one to snooze it. The same two could answer the speakerphone and reject it.
Other than that, forget [...]
She’s perfectly quiet, but once you sit or lie down, she responds to
your every move. Lie on your back, she snuggles up right next to you in
a log position. Curl up in the fetal position, she spoons. The only
hitch: She’s 2-D. “Yeah, you can’t feel the girl. That’s the thing,”
Burrows explained.
When asked how long he’d [...]
Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don’t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other “smart phone”. If ever the need arises for a [...]
Electronics obsolescence—also known as DMSMS, for
diminishing manufacturing sources and material
shortages—is a huge problem for designers who build
[...]
The company will use the name Atom in marketing a new microprocessor line that has two variants. One chip, previously known by the code name Silverthorne, is designed to be the calculating engine for pocket-sized gadgets that Intel calls MIDs, for mobile Internet devices. The other chip to carry the Atom brand, code-named Diamondville, is [...]
It’s official: Toshiba announces HD DVD surrender | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
The two-year war between HD DVD and Blu-ray officially ended Tuesday morning as Toshiba waved the white flag and declared it would stop producing HD DVD products.
Taps for HD DVD as Wal-Mart Backs Blu-ray - New York Times
“SAN FRANCISCO — HD DVD, the beloved format of Toshiba and three Hollywood studios, died Friday after a brief illness.
“The cause of death was determined to be the decision by Wal-Mart to stock only high-definition DVDs and players using the Blu-ray format.There [...]
Here’s one for the early adopters to drool over…
“The X1’s specs include, basically, everything. Quad-band EDGE plus quad-band HSDPA 7.2 with HSUPA? Check. Wi-Fi and GPS? Check. A 3.2-megapixel camera with DVD quality video playback and capture? Check. FM radio, Bluetooth stereo, and GPS? You bet. It’s all powered by a 520-MHz ARM11 processor running [...]
“… At least two major global corporations, one American and one Dutch, have told their executives not to carry confidential business material on laptops on overseas trips, Gurley said. In Canada, one law firm has instructed its lawyers to travel to the United States with “blank laptops” whose hard drives contain no data. “We just [...]
PC World - More Options With Tomorrow’s Cell Phones
If you don’t like the way the e-mail program on your PC works, you can replace it with one you like better. And when you need to add a new capability to Firefox, you can simply install an extension. But such flexibility doesn’t apply to [...]
Redeye VC: Why Kindle is a hit…
When Amazon announced their Kindle last year, I bought one. I wasn’t too optimistic, as I had read a lot of bad reviews.However, to my surprise, I’ve really enjoyed my Kindle experience.
From EcoStreet:
2008’s most desirable eco-gadgets at EcoStreet - Raising Green Consciousness since 2002
Neil McAllister, at InfoWorld, gives us his take on the biggest flops in CyberHistory:
For all the amazing advances that the computing industry has brought us over the years, some of its most pivotal moments are memorable for all the wrong reasons. Not every idea can be a winner, and not even Microsoft can avoid every [...]
Fred Vogelstein at Wired brings us the inside poop on the iPhone’s development, and explains — succinctly — how it has managed to change the wireless industry.
“This 4.8-ounce sliver of glass and aluminum is an explosive device that
has forever changed the mobile-phone business, wresting power from
carriers and giving it to manufacturers, developers, and consumers.
The Untold [...]
Effective January 1, 2008, spare lithium batteries - extra batteries not installed on devices - will no longer be allowed in checked baggage.
Digital Photography: Spare Lithium Batteries Banned in Checked Baggage: National Geographic Magazine
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