Archive for October, 2009 - Page 24

20 House of Representatives lawmakers have decided to press the FCC to investigate Google’s Google Voice application. The reason behind has been revealed by AT&T a little while ago and it’s very simple. Google Voice blocks certain calls to certain services in order to save you money. That, however, is [...]

What with e-Book readers being hot news right now, LG Display’s announcement that they have developed a solar powered e-Book reader that, thanks to the integration of a solar cell measuring in at a mere 0.7 millimetres in thickness (less than a credit card) and weighing just 20 grams, can [...]

On Friday we offered our US based readers insight as to Amazon listing both the 32GB and 160GB Android powered Archos 5 as available to purchase whilst advising that user feedback is, at best, varied (and, at worse, pretty damning) and now, interestingly, it would appear that Amazon have ceased [...]

Just three days ago Chris offered an initial tantalising insight into the up and coming Windows Mobile 6.5 powered Giorgio Armani Samsung smartphone and now we can follow up with Samsung’s official announcement concerning their Armani designed QWERTY phone though, at this juncture, Samsung are remaining tight lipped concerning a [...]

We start this week’s posting with a brief heads up to confirm that, as per our previous posting (see Sprint HTC Hero Release Date and Price Confirmed) the Sprint HTC Hero has now been released and is available for just shy of $180 following a $100 mail-in rebate and subject [...]

It seems that T-Mobile are steadily building up to the launch of the BlackBerry 9700 (for additional info see: BlackBerry Phones Spotted on Camera and T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700 (BlackBerry Onyx) Details Leaked) in November what with special invites – seen below –  having already been dispatched to corporate customers [...]

Having only earlier today offered you a heads up concerning Twitter and Facebook coming to Xbox Live we continue with the Twitter related news as, whilst specific details are, as yet, in particularly short supply its being reported today that Twitter’s founders are looking at rolling out the integration of [...]

On November 19th of last year Xbox Live subscribers got to feel the “New Xbox Experience” and this November – specifically 19th November, again – Xbox Live subscribers will see another update that’ll bring both Facebook and Twitter to the Xbox Live experience – though at this juncture the release [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to venture into space but have nerves of steel you may be interested in an ad that’s appeared on Craigslist seeking ‘someone unique’ who’s interested in taking a trip to Titan for a cool $25,000 – but there’s slight a catch (isn’t there always).

By way of a brief heads up, Acer has just issued a ‘voluntarily instituting a safety recall’ of  a number of specific Acer Aspire notebooks due to what Acer term as ‘overheating issues’ with specific reference to Aspire AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG notebooks manufactured prior to September 15 [...]