Archive for October, 2009 - Page 24

House Representatives Want Google Voice Investigation [FCC Looks for Reasons behind Google Voice Blocked Calls]

By on Monday, 12. October 2009

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 [...]

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LG Display Solar e-Book Reader Unveiled [New LG Eco-Friendly e-Book with Solar Cell Offers A Day’s Reading Based on 4-5 Hours in Sunlight]

By on Monday, 12. October 2009

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 [...]

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Archos 5 Internet Tablet 160GB Model Pulled by Amazon [A Problem with the Archos 5’s Listing, or an Issue with the Archos 5 Itself?]

By on Monday, 12. October 2009

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) [...]

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Giorgio Armani Samsung Smartphone Gets Official [Armani Samsung WinMo 6.5 AMOLED QWERTY Smartphone Gets Detailed, Still No Release Date]

By on Monday, 12. October 2009

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, [...]

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Sprint HTC Hero Release Confirmed [Sprint HTC Hero Now Available For $180*]

By on Monday, 12. October 2009

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 [...]

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T-Mobile BlackBerry 9700 Launch Parties Set For November? [Corporate Customers Get Invite to “Witness Unveiling of the Latest BlackBerry Line-up for T-Mobile”]

By on Sunday, 11. October 2009

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 – [...]

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Twitter Real-Time Video Tweets In the Pipeline [Video Tweeting Seen as Means of Boosting Twitters Social Networking Prominence]

By on Sunday, 11. October 2009

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 [...]

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Xbox Live Twitter & Facebook Service Release Date Confirmed [Xbox Facebook & Twitter Service Due in UK in November]

By on Sunday, 11. October 2009

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 [...]

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Earn $25,000 Completing A Space Mission to Titan [Craigslist Ad Offers $25,000 For Astronaut, But There’s A (Fairly Big) Catch]

By on Sunday, 11. October 2009

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 – [...]

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Acer Issue Aspire Aspire Safety Recall Due to Overheating Issues [Aspire Aspire AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ & AS3810TZG]

By on Sunday, 11. October 2009

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, [...]

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