Archive for September 4th, 2007
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
AP - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications named Hideki Komiyama as its new top executive Tuesday as it announced that Miles Flint will step down for personal reasons.Source: [Link]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
AP - It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads — all at a parent's fingertips.Source: [Link]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Reuters - MetroPCS Communications Inc made an
unsolicited offer on Tuesday to buy smaller rival Leap Wireless
International Inc for more than $5 billion in stock, seeking to
create a national U.S. wireless service provider.Source: [Link]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Desktops
NEC's dabbled in water-cooling before, but it now looks to be making the technology a bit more commonplace, with it helping to keep its new Valustar W line of all-in-one PCs both cool and quiet. Available in both 22 and 19-inch models, the PCs top out with a ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: HDTV, Media PCs
If you'll recall, Fujitsu's unsightly TEO HTPC was first seen way back in January, and while the newest iteration most certainly steps it up in the hardware department, the aesthetics are still sorely lacking. Nevertheless, the TEO90X/D sports a 1.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 processor, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We're not just having a week of giveaways here at Engadget -- we're also promising a new Dell scoop every day through Saturday. Some will be less impressive than others, but you can check back for the first -- and our personal fave -- a little bit ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
Is it just us, or does this thing look... well, not that great? This here is allegedly a shot of the upcoming Shuriken / Sidekick LX / Sidekick 4 -- Sharp's next-gen Hiptop alongside Motorola's Sidekick Slide -- doing its thing in the wild. Sadly, the case looks ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
Honestly, we're getting a bit tired of all these so-called iPhone rival handsets, but Samsung's elusive Croix doesn't do a whole lot to shake the stereotype. The mobile, which happens to boast a very similar layout to Apple's darling (and Samsung's own F700), just won an iF Communication ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Laptops
It looks like NEC is keeping all its bases covered today, backing up those water-cooled desktops with a range of new laptops boasting some less-than-common specs of their own. Likely to attract the most attention in that regard is the laptops' "face pass" feature, which makes use of ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: GamingIf the DS hasn't managed to catch you in its deathly, irresistible, touch-sensitive grasp by now, Jam Sessions just might be the title that pulls it off. The "game" is basically a guitar simulator, and while you can play along with built-in songs if you so choose, the ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Household
You know, it'd be quite nice for toaster manufacturers to actually grab hold of one of the numerous concepts floating around out there and give the tried and true machine a facelift, but until then, conceptualizers are keepin' the ideas a-coming. On deck is the Transparent Toaster, which ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Displays
First up in our week o' Dell scoops: the fresh, well specced, webcam equipped SP2008WFP. Oh, and we should do the kind thing and dash your hopes right now instead of playing it -- the rest of our dell scoops are for systems, no phone, portable, or anything ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Household
Good news parents, Labor Day doesn't mean you just get work off anymore, now you can leave your young children in the care of the BT Baby Monitor 150 and really get that rest you deserve. The device can record your voice for playback to little Timmy in ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: CellphonesWhile Nokia and Matsushita were busying settling the disputes that arose when the phone maker had to recall some 46 million handset batteries, a lady in India has been injured by a Nokia-branded cell that's not on that list. Located in eastern India, the woman noted that the ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Filed under: Features, GPS
Before we tell you about the TomTom GO 720, let us impart one piece of advice which we're pretty sure most GPS enthusiasts know already: if you're going through the Lincoln Tunnel into Midtown Manhattan late at night with your GPS fired up and ready for action, ...
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