Posted by Tech Guy on April - 12 - 2010
Bloomberg just reported that Palm has put itself up for sale and that offers will potentially come in this week. That’s quite wild news, considering CEO Jon Rubinstein was adamant just a few days ago that Palm had a plan to get profitable — even while his company’s stock price went on a buyout-rumor fueled [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on January - 21 - 2010
Last official word we had on the launch of Sony’s PS3 Motion Controller was Spring 2010. However, we just received a press release from Sony Japan with a revised availability of “Fall 2010.” The calendar push affects Japan, Asia, North America, and Europe. In the statement, Kaz Hirai avoids using the “d” word saying only: [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on January - 16 - 2010
This next item’s for any rogue states out there that might be planning a comprehensive wave of cyber-attacks: It looks like Microsoft has admitted that indeed it was a security flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers based in China exploited in the recent attacks on Google. As is often the case, the flaw is neatly [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on January - 16 - 2010
Yesterday we heard some rumblings about Verizon making alterations to its calling plans, and wouldn’t you know it, here’s the official PR setting the record straight. Firstly, there’s an Unlimited Talk plan for $69.99 per month, which can be augmented with free text, picture, and video messaging by moving up to the Unlimited Talk & [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on January - 4 - 2010
It appears that the Vaio T’s return is only the tip of a giant iceberg of refreshes coming out from Sony HQ this month. Greek e-tailer Compuland has a trio of new models listed — seemingly prematurely — for sale: the Vaio Y11 (pictured) is a relatively standard 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo SU7300 machine with [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on December - 11 - 2009
The marriage of a high-priced smartphone to a value-minded department store was always going to be interesting and Tesco has not disappointed. Having just announced that availability of the latest and greatest iPhone is coming on December 14, the company has also detailed some unique — for the UK at least — price plans to [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on December - 8 - 2009
The “coming weeks” timeframe that Verizon had promised for 2.0.1 to start pushing to Droids has been mercifully condensed down to just a few days, because a number of folks are starting to report that they’re receiving the update on their retail units today — and we’ve been able to confirm with the company that [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on December - 5 - 2009
Turns out Mini 3i is only the beginning. Dell has announced plans to create a new Communications Group with a focus on mobile phones and similar portable devices. Current consumer division head and former Motorola exec Ron Garriques will take the helm. Not much else to say at this point, but make no mistake, Dell [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on December - 4 - 2009
It’s been a long, long journey, but Nokia’s E72 — the hotly-anticipated successor to the wildly popular E71 — is finally available as an unlocked phone directly from Nokia USA following a November release elsewhere. The privilege of upgrading to what could very well be the finest S60 3.2 handset ever made won’t be cheap, [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on December - 4 - 2009
No sooner do we get brief corner glimpses of the supposed Motorola Sholes tablet do we get tipped off to this writeup from Androidin.net which has a number of pictures of an eerily similar keyboard-less handset with a 3.7-inch screen, Android 2.1, FM radio, and interestingly enough, only a 5 megapixel camera — last we [ Read More ]