Archive for January, 2011

Flickr Not For Sale–Yahoo Confirms It [Popular Photo Site Flickr Not For Sale, Says Yahoo]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

Well, that’s pretty much it for the rumors that Yahoo was looking to divest the Flickr site that it paid $35 million for not so long ago–Yahoo’s gone on record that they’re not putting Flickr up for bids after all.

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Panasonic Set To Launch The CF-B10 Laptop [Panasonic's CF-B10 Is Being Called The Lightest 15.6 Inch Mobile PC Ever Made]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

It’s hard to look away from words like “biggest”, “lightest” or “most”, and that’s why it was downright exciting to hear about Panasonic’s move toward the lightest 15.6 inch laptop yet, the CF-B10.

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HTC Thunderbolt to Feature Mobile Hotspot Says New Verizon Leaked Document [Verizon Changes Its Mind on HTC Thunderbolt Mobile Hotspot Feature at Launch; Confirms Simultaneous Voice & Data Over 3G Too]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

Just earlier today we were following up on a story published on Sunday on the HTC Thunderbolt’s Mobile Hotspot feature at launch. At the time (earlier) we were looking at some pretty official-looking documents from Verizon that compared the 4G [...]

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Notion Ink Delays Some Adam Shipments To Valentine’s Day [Damaged Shipment of Touchscreens Delays Some Shipments]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

Bad news for some of you out there: if you recently ordered an Adam from the folks out at Notion Ink, you may well have already gotten a nasty surprise in your email inbox from them detailing how your shipment [...]

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Untethered iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak Coming After Verizon iPhone 4 Launch via Geohot? [Rumors Say Geohot Will Launch iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak After February 10; Redsn0w 0.9.7 Release Date Still Not Available]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

We keep talking about the iPhone Dev Team launching Redsn0w 0.9.7 (Monte), the untethered jailbreak solution you’ve been waiting for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad but it looks like Geohot, the famous hacker, might also have something to say [...]

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Samsung Puts Lovefilm Streaming On UK Blu-ray Players [Buy A Blu-ray Player in Great Britain, Get Lovefilm Streaming Capability]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

Call this one for the “probably should have thought of it sooner” files, but apparently, the folks out at Samsung have seen the value of adding Lovefilm streaming capability to their Blu-ray players sold in Great Britain.

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Motorola Xoom Superbowl XLV Takes On Apple: “2011 Looks a Lot Like 1984” [Motorola Urges You to Defy the System, Zoom on a Motorola Xoom Instead of an Apple iPad 2; That’s the Message We Got]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

We’re just about a week away from Superbowl XLV but we’re going to talk today not about the upcoming Pittsburgh Steelers vs Green Bay Packers game, but about some commercials that are going to be during it. Motorola’s Xoom is [...]

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Sony May Re-release UMD Games On NGP Flash Memory [Want All Your UMD Games On The NGP? Looks Like You Get To Rebuy Them On NGP's Flash-based Game Card System, Sony Japan Interview Reveals]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

Sony is planning to rerelease games that were already released for the PSP 1 on UMD for the NPG in the new flash-based memory card format that the NGP will use. The NGP will not ship with a UMD drive, [...]

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Bloggie Touch Software Now Works On Macs [Mac Bloggie Touch Users Can Now Get The Full Range Of Use Out Of Their Camera On Their Mac]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

It’s always been something of a bad situation for folks who own both a Bloggie Touch camera from Sony and a Mac computer–while the Bloggie Touch was always compatible with the Mac, the software that runs the Bloggie Touch was [...]

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Flaw Emerges In Sandy Bridge Chipset–Recalls Reportedly Begin [Intel Halts Shipments, Begins Recall On Flawed Sandy Bridge Chips That Have SATA Troubles]

By on Monday, 31. January 2011

Admittedly, when this first came to light, it was looking like a full-on disaster for the folks out at Intel, who discovered and announced a flaw in the Sandy Bridge chipset, followed by reports of a recall effort. But quick [...]

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