Archive for July, 2010 - Page 8

Amazon Predicts eBook Sales Will Surpass Book Sales Outright

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Sees eBook Sales Surpassing Paper Back Sales Within 9 - 12 Months, Hardcover Sales Soon To Follow
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

If you want to gain knowledge, one of the most highly respected ways of doing so is to pick up a book and begin reading. However what happens when you want to learn so much that books begin piling up to the point where it’s impractical to keep them all? Well, [...]

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HTC EVO 4G Android 2.2 OTA Expected To Arrive August 1st

Leaked Documents Suggest Sprint Is Readying The EVO 4G Android 2.2 Update, Official Announcement Coming July 30th & Update Roll-Out To Begin On August 1st
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

HTC EVO 4G users may be in for a surprise in the form of Froyo. Assuming the timeline sticks, Sprint is expected to officially announced the Android 2.2 roll-out plans on July 30th (tomorrow) and then have the OTA to begin rolling out two days later on August 1st. In [...]

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Hori PS3 Slim Dock Hits and Mystifies

The Hori PS3 Slim Dock Gives You A Tiny LCD Screen To Play Your PS3 Anywhere
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Sometimes you look at a gadget and your mind just boggles for a few minutes. Seriously, it took me about a minute to recover from seeing this–the implications were awe-inspiring but the whole thing seemed a bit off-kilter. Maybe that’s the astonishment talking. But either way, today we’ve got Hori’s [...]

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AT&T Repsonds to Privacy Concerns Regarding Unwanted iPhone Uploads

AT&T Says Nighttime iPhone Uploads Were Notifying Carriers Of Cellular Usage, Not Snooping Through Sensitive Data
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Apple has long been known as a company that pays an immensely close attention to detail with their products running into few, if any, problems over their life cycle. However, now a days, it seems that Apple has been running into problem after problem. The most infamous problem that they have run into as [...]

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Verizon Wireless LTE USB Modem Revealed In Images

LG Made & Verizon Wireless Branded LTE / 4G Modem Leaked
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Verizon has been chatting up LTE for a while and we are all expecting the service to go live towards the end of 2010 with additional coverage to follow in 2011. And while we can imagine that the initial rollout will be limited to larger areas — I suspect many [...]

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Super Talent Brings Dual Interface Portable Hard Drive

The UltraDrive MX SSD Boasts SATA and USB Connectivity
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

It was all the way back in October you last heard anything about Super Talent from us, and the crew’s got something new and exciting slated for you: a big new portable solid state drive with a whole lot of connectivity options, both USB and SATA.

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Sony Does Well In Q2 2010

Sony Posts Better Than Expected Financial Results, Mainly Led By HDTVs and Video Games
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

It’s that quarterly earnings time of year folks. Japanese titan Sony has gotten their earnings report out of the way, and it’s actually pretty good this time around. Sony posted an impressive profit of $766 million.

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Black Monoliths In AT&T Stores Cause Intrigue

Covered Displays in AT&T Retail Stores Lead To Speculation, Everybody Wondering What It Could Be
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

These black monolithic pillars have started showing up all over AT&T retail stores across the country. Right out of the 2001: A Space Odyssey, and they’re causing quite a bit of speculation and intrigue as to what could be under them. According to internal AT&T sources to some websites, AT&T [...]

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Aircord Labs' N-3D System Takes iPad Into 3rd Dimension

Aircord Labs' N-3D System Gives an iPad a 3D Display
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

You’ve got to love the sheer rush to get 3D displays into the marketplace, comprised of most anything on hand. And the folks out at Aircord Labs have developed an interesting idea, the N-3D system, that will actually look a bit familiar.

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Apple iPhone 4 Launches In Canada Tomorrow, Rogers Offers Some Pre-Launch Details

Rogers Brings Back The 6GB $30 Per Month Data Plan, Will Also Allow Tethering With The iPad For An Extra $20
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

As many likely remember, the iPhone 4 is going to come available in Canada as of tomorrow, which is July 30th. Of course, in addition to Canada there are also sixteen other countries, but for the sake of this post we are going to focus on Canada. And more specifically, [...]

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