CNN Money wrote an interested news about iPhone 3G for the 8GB model that will sell from July 11th, 2008. Even Steve Jobs announced the maximum price is $199 for the 8G model, three cellular carriers - AT&T, T-Mobile Germany and O2 UK - offer a different price to get the customers. Here is the price list.
All three carriers are subsidizing the phone, of course, planning to take back in monthly fees more than they give away at point of purchase. In T-Mobile’s case, it turns out, a good deal more.
Read the complete story in CNN Money: iPhone 3G pricing: U.S. $199, Germany 1 euro, U.K. free.
3 CommentsJune 25th, 2008 in Mobile & Gadget
After waiting around a month since the Release Candidate version has been announced, now you could download Firefox 3 the Final version last Tuesday June 17th.
The big issues of the Firefox 3 are fixed memory leaks and bugs that slowed down Firefox 2, which means the Firefox 3 is more faster.
Information Week wrote interesting review about Firefox 3:
But the news isn’t all good. Firefox 3’s developers, Mozilla.org, brag about new security features designed to protect users against phishing and sites that attempt to download malware. But the new features are unreliable, and will likely lull naive users into a false sense of security. The potential damage is limited there — even moderately expert users shouldn’t have a problem because they don’t need the warnings. But from a security standpoint, Firefox 3 is a step backward.
I suggest you to read the review done by Information Week in 3 pages before download Firefox 3.
The other thing you should consider is the compatibility of Firefox 3’s add-ons.
No CommentsJune 20th, 2008 in Internet, Software
Steve Jobs introduced the 2nd generation of iPhone on Monday June 9th, 2008 during Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Fransisco. Now it comes with 3G, means, a faster connection to surf the web and faster video streaming too.
Not only faster, it is also cheaper than the older one. Now you can get the 3G iPhone for only $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB).
The new features include are GPS availability, push e-mail capability (such offers by Blackberry) and more of games.
The Apple Inc. plans to sell iPhone in 70 countries starting from July 11th, 2008 and aims to sell 10 million handsets this year.
4 CommentsJune 13th, 2008 in Mobile & Gadget
Space Adventures, the Vienna, Va.-based private space exploration company, on Wednesday announced that Brin has become a founding member of its Orbital Mission Explorers Circle, a program that provides preferential access to space mission seats or the opportunity to sell one’s place on a mission.
Brins states:
I am a big believer in the exploration and commercial development of the space frontier, and am looking forward to the possibility of going into space. Space Adventures helped open the space frontier to private citizens and thus pave the way for the personal spaceflight industry. The Orbital Mission Explorers Circle enables me to make an immediate investment while preserving the option to participate in a future spaceflight
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1 CommentJune 12th, 2008 in Internet
Just like the Asus Eee and the HP 2133, Dell is going to release their first mini laptop called Mini Inspiron. Brian Liam from Gizmodo was shown this small form factor notebook by Michael Dell.
As Brian reported, it is still not clear what OS runs, but he is sure the screen is small. Michael also did not tell Brian anything about the price, but that it’s a low-cost notebook.
Read the complete story in Gizmodo.
2 CommentsJune 9th, 2008 in Mobile & Gadget
Online backup could be interested services to backup data as posted earlier. But now I suggest you to find out more information about this in blogs, forums or other sources, before you decided to use this service. Here is the reason.
It was Robyn Peterson, Chief Technology Officer for Ziff Davis Media, who was looking to store some 250 GB of his personal data online and opted for a web hosting company that offered server space.
The backup process was long but smooth (Robyn is a geek). And then one fine morning, he discovered that all his files have been deleted from the web server without any notification. The tech-support team responded saying that they “have been cracking down on people using our services for backing up files.” The data was never recovered.
Read the complete story in PC Mag and Digital Inspiration
1 CommentMay 28th, 2008 in Internet, Web Service
A new Defra website (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK) has launched a new feature on website giving information about noise levels in 23 urban areas.
This website shows level of environmental noise from major industries, road and rail networks in important urban areas in England and covers 80,000 km of roads within urban areas, 28,000 km of major road networks and almost 5,000 km of railways.
The information will be used to draw up action plans to reduce unreasonable levels of noise. This information will also help to protect designated quiet areas.
Users will be able to search by postcode to access maps at show noise levels over an average 24 hour period, as well as during night time hours only. The site will also update users regarding people exposed to these levels of noise.
“These maps provide the most comprehensive snapshot yet of noise in our country, all at the click of a mouse. They will provide a spring board to go forward and tackle unnecessary and unreasonable noise pollution,” said Jonathan Shaw, Environment Minister, UK.
Read the complete story in Tech Shout and BBC.
No CommentsMay 25th, 2008 in Internet, Web Service
Google has just announced to add 10 new languages to Google Translate. Now there are 23 different languages available including 10 additional languages. Those 10 new languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
With Google Translate users are able to translate any word of text and even web pages in between any available two languages.
Google Product Manager Jeff Chin writes in the Google Blog:
We now support Chinese translation to/from any of our languages (e.g., Chinese to French). So for those of you who will be following or attending the Olympics in Beijing this fall, you’ll be able to more easily find and access content from local sources.
Another impressive addition called “Detect Language” allows users to automatically identify the language of the text to be translated. By adding the Google Translate My Page gadget, users will see the updates automatically appearing on the page.
1 CommentMay 22nd, 2008 in Internet, Web Service
Lenovo releases professional laptop PC called X300, the latest ultralight laptop. Even followed the IBM ThinkPads footsteps, the X300 is completely designed by Lenovo.
The X300 is a complete laptop that has just about all a portable computer user could ask for. And what’s more, it’s still light and easy to carry, with its 13.3” display and 3.4-lb. (1.5 kg) weight.
Compared to many ultraportables that leave off options like optical drives and large displays, the X300 offers more.
Even if the X300 is not really a competitor of the MacBook Air, the two machines, understandably, are often compared – they share the same display size and executive-class price. But whereas the Apple machine has limited connectivity (Apple argues that what it has is enough) to limit the size, the X300 is extremely well outfitted, at the price of being a tad larger (but not to the point where it really makes a difference).
The processor is a Core 2 Duo L7100. For the majority of you out there who aren’t fluent in Intel’s nomenclature, that means a processor with two cores, clocked at 1.2 GHz (800 MHz bus). That’s slower than average, but it’s a way of reducing the X300’s energy consumption. It has 2 GB of RAM (two DDR2 SIMMs), and it’s possible to install 4 GB. Finally, the graphics processing unit is a GMA X3100 from Intel, but in a slowed-down version: 166 MHz instead of 250 MHz on battery power (and 500 MHz instead of 667 MHz on AC power).
Is the X300 better than the MacBook Air?
Read the complete story in Toms Hardware
2 CommentsMay 22nd, 2008 in Mobile & Gadget
As reported by Michael Liedtke and Jessica Mintz from The Huffington Post.
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven’t escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker disclosed the revived discussions Sunday without providing any specifics about the nature of the deal being explored except to say it involved bolstering the companies’ position in the online search and advertising markets.
“Microsoft is considering and has raised with Yahoo an alternative that would involve a transaction with Yahoo but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo,”
the statement said.
Microsoft emphasized that it hasn’t resurrected a $47.5 billion takeover bid that its chief executive, Steve Ballmer, withdrew after Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang _ acting on behalf of Yahoo’s board _ demanded an additional $5.5 billion.
But Microsoft left open the possibility that it might dangle another buyout offer of Yahoo, depending on how the discussions progress between the two companies and their respective shareholders.
Read the complete story in The Huffington Post
No CommentsMay 19th, 2008 in Internet
