Archive for January 18th, 2008

Michelin’s ViaMichelin to exit the PND market

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Filed under: GPS French paper La Tribune is reporting that Michelin subsidiary ViaMichelin will stop producing personal navigation devices, after capturing only 14% of its domestic market in the face of stiff competition from Dutch rival TomTom and others. Sixty of the firm's 170 employees will reportedly be laid off as ...

Dell Latitude XT tablet unboxing

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs Since some of you have apparently been waiting on Dell to make a tablet PC for well over three years now, we imagine that the first unboxing of the company's Latitude XT convertible will be welcome eye-candy to the true believers. With dual input methods (finger ...

Wii used to hone surgeons’ fine motor skills

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Filed under: GamingProving that children and the elderly are not the only groups seeing benefits from Nintendo's Wii, a study on a small group of surgeons who had practiced gaming with a modified controller showed them to achieve significantly more improvement on a standard simulator procedure than did a corresponding ...

DirecTV rolls out remote recording

Friday, January 18th, 2008

We can't count the number of times we've gotten to work and remembered we forgot to schedule that night's American Idol football game to record on DirecTV, and wished we could do it using just our cell phone. Well, the satellite provider is adding the capability to do just that: ...

Sprint announces massive layoffs, store closings amid subscriber defection

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessNew Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse appears to have inherited a company bleeding subscribers by the thousands, and will now officially be dropping the ax on 4,000 employees and 125 retail locations. Amid the loss of 639,000 postpaid customers in the fourth quarter, Sprint will be cutting ...

iPhone speaker too quiet? Stab it with needles

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones If you're like us, you feel more than a little annoyed with iPhone's speaker volume. Yes, whether you're waiting for a call, trying to have a speakerphone conversation, or just listening for sweet DTMF tones -- the thing kind of stinks. Perhaps it's time to take extreme measures, ...

GeForce 8800 GT upgrade causes headaches for some Mac Pro users

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops It looks like Mac Pro users wanting to get in on some of the latest and greatest action without ditching their old system altogether are still out of luck, despite a recently released "upgrade kit" from Apple that got some of their hopes up, and caused some consternation ...