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Hey, $249 seem a little steep for that iPod you’ve been eyeing for some time? Just got a twenty in your pocket and that’s it? Dude, no problem, Jonathan Baldino has got the perfect solution for that: swap bar codes! That’s exactly what the 19 year-old college student from California did at [...]

Word, podcast is the word of the year. I was so nervous it wouldn’t win since it was up against such words as ICE (In Case of Emergency, for your cell phone,) IED (improvised explosive device, made famous by insurgents in Iraq,) or IDP (internally displaced person.) Ya, I know, they’re not even [...]

Big corporate law suits are always messy and when they end, it usually isn’t pretty. Point in case, today’s ruling on the NTP vs RIM has Research In Motion possibly having to pay out over a billion dollars. Yes, that’s billion. NTP feels that RIM’s super popular service is in violation of [...]

First it was chicks putting on their make up in the car. Then it was talking on their cell phones. Now they SMS

One thing I love about the iPod popularity is that I can pretty much buy any accessory for it and not worry about the connector

Apple wants to make darn sure they stay king of the DAP market

Boy, talk about stupid. After Cingular spent who knows how many millions on the “Raising the Bar” campaign after acquiring AT&T Wireless, SBC’s CEO and Chairman Ed Whitacre says they’re going back to the AT&T name!

In it’s effort to expand their reach, TiVo is going to announce the ability to copy your recorded shows onto fifth-generation iPod’s and Sony PlayStation Portable’s

Just when you thought smaller couldn’t get bigger, Taiwan-based memory module maker Transcend Information releases an 80x 1GB miniSD card. Ya, that means if the ROKR could hold that much music, you could load it. That means you’ll be able to max out your credit card for your Cingular bill to download every [...]

Popular Palm OS synchronization software manufacturer Intellisync will now be taking Norwegian cruises as Nokia has plopped down $430 million for them.

Dude, know a Palm OS application that you think just kicks bookoo butt? Or maybe you’re a developer that thinks your app is the cream of the crop. Well then head over to

Apple’s trying to slow down the scratch complaints with its new inclusion of a sleeve on all new nanos. But will this really slow it down since it’s not the greatest one out there and most will pass on using it?
Ina Fried of CNET News writes:

Do you have a Google or Yahoo! account? If yes, you potentially are in luck. Both Yahoo! and Google announced that they will be rolling out some new features for mobile phone users. It seems as if they are basically trying to close the gap between a desktop computer and a cell phone. Google is/will [...]

Quick, do you know where your mobile phone is? If you answered yes, then you are a whole lot better off than the unfortunate folks detailed in the story below…

Eh, if it was good enough for TV, then I suppose rating cell phone content is not all that bad. After all, with today’s phones one cannot be too careful!

Say what you will about viruses, they are an effective method for distribution - even distribution of anti-virus software!

And sometimes, you just have to give points for being different! In the case of Ithaca University and this festival they are throwing, I’d say that they are the right track!

Perhaps in the business world, a hundred thousand plus is not a huge deal to take as a loss. However I imagine that $189,000 loss that audible took has to hurt a little I would imagine. After all, I thought that mobile audio was the way to go?

So many poor things have been said about BMW’s iDrive that many shudder to think of adding more stuff to it due to iDrive’s complexity. So with Samsung teaming up with BMW to integrate the SGH-i300 makes you wonder

Looks like prices will really be falling come this Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) when Wal-mart drops the bomb on the competition and sells an HP laptop for an unbelievable $398!