Archive for October 8th, 2008
Filed under: Laptops Oh Apple — release some new laptops so this madness can end. The forums at MacRumors are abuzz over a Taiwanese site that’s showing off pictures of what appears to be a very close cousin of that MacBook Pro-esque casing we saw earlier .

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More pics of Apple’s supposed new laptops surface
Brian X. Chen / Wired Science : Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image — This bird’s-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.

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Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image (Brian X. Chen/Wired Science)
Filed under: Gaming Been wondering when you were finally going to get your eyes on that fancy new Xbox 360 experience ? Well the secret is out — come November 19th, your dashboard will never be the same. The good folks at Joystiq have delivered this wonderful news live-and-direct from the Tokyo Game Show, where they’re blogging the Microsoft press briefing while undoubtedly enjoying the finest cowboy rolls known to man and hob-nobbing with other glorious gamers.

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New Xbox 360 dashboard coming November 19th
Filed under: HDTV , Home Entertainment It’s been over a year and half since Sling first announced the SlingCatcher , but the mythical streamer is finally, finally here — it’s now officially for sale on Sling’s site and at other major retailers. You already know most of the details about the $299 box — Slingbox playback, SlingProjector computer streaming, extensive codec support including XviD, eventual Sling.com content delivery — so we’ll just let you hit the order page, but rest assured we’ll be tearing this thing apart when our test unit arrives

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SlingCatcher now officially for sale
Filed under: Digital Cameras With a zoom this long, it has to be good, right?

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Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD gets reviewed, all 15x of it
Jitendra Kavathekar / Yodel Anecdotal : Introducing Yahoo! Web Analytics — Have you ever bailed on an online checkout because something in the user experience bugged you? Or were pleasantly surprised that the sponsored listings were more relevant than the regular results of your web search? This week, we are rolling …

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Introducing Yahoo! Web Analytics (Jitendra Kavathekar/Yodel Anecdotal)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch : Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown — Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors (and he was also an early investor in Google), wrote an email yesterday to the CEOs of his portfolio companies.

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Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs A fellow named Stuart Lowe installed Leopard on his Gigabyte M912X netbook / tablet hybrid, and we like the results.

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Gigabyte M912X hack makes a smarter, cheaper Modbook
Filed under: Cellphones No need to defog your spectacles, what you just read there in the headline is the truth. Astoundingly enough, Motorola’s nearly archaic (in cellphone years, anyway) RAZR V3 is still the top-selling handset in the United States.

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Latest NPD data shows RAZR V3 still top-selling handset in America
I guess the upside is that a stock can’t fall below zero, so there’s an end in sight to the ongoing destruction of jobs and shareholder wealth at Yahoo. The stock closed at $13.76 today, down another 5.6%. And this isn’t just part of the market’s overall meltdown – the Nasdaq fell just 0.8% today, and Google, Yahoo’s main direct competitor, was down just 2.3%.

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Yahoo Closes At $13.76. What A Train Wreck.
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