Palm's Treo Pro gets official (4)
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Filed under: CellphonesWell you can't say you didn't see this one coming -- between the leaked shots, more leaked shots, and those -- yes -- leaked press materials, this was only a matter of time. That's right: Palm has gone and gotten all official with its latest and greatest smartphone, the now-familiar Treo Pro. The new Windows Mobile device is being sold unlocked (!), and features an HSDPA cell radio (tri-band UMTS, quad-band GSM), GPS, ...
Galactica's Final Season Won't All Be On TV [Battlestar Galactica] (10)
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When Battlestar Galactica makes its long-awaited comeback next year, it won't just be our television screens that it's returning to. In a recent interview, executive producer David Eick revealed that fans can expect more The Resistance-style minisodes, as well. Talking to Newsarama, Eick admitted that webisodes are definitely part of the plan for Battlestar's final season: Yes, we are doing webisodes but when they are premiering I am not positive. Like the webisodes we have ...
Canadian chain renting out movie theaters for gaming (6)
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Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business CBC News reports that Canadian theater chain Cineplex has begun renting out auditoriums at its locations during "downtime" for the sole purpose of very-big-screen gaming. The company will offer two-hour, up to 12-person rentals for CAN$179 (US$169), which includes use of a supplied Xbox 360 and games from an on-site library (although the gamer or gamers ponying up the cash can bring their own games to play on ...
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Review (Verdict: The First Star Wars Movie You Will Truly Hate) [Star Wars: The Clone Wars Review] (11)
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a lot of firsts. It's the first new Star Wars film since Emperor George Lucas wrapped up the canonical series three years ago. It's the opening salvo of a wave of Expanded Universe TV series—the film launches The Clone Wars animated series, and meanwhile a live-action one set between the prequels and the original trilogy is deep in development. It's the first animated Star Wars feature film. And most ...
New York Times: T-Mobile to sell HTC Android phone as early as October (9)
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Here we go folks. The New York Times is reporting that T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer Android. According to "people briefed on the company's plans," the HTC phone will go on sale in the US "before Christmas, perhaps as early as October." The NYT's sources also say that the 5-row QWERTY slider from that Dream video (embedded after the break) matches the HTC device that T-Mobile will sell. The device is still ...
Dell's Latitude-On instant OS detailed, screenshooted (10)
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Filed under: Laptops Seems the act of waking a sleeping laptop to a full-blown OS is no longer in vogue. We're not sure when this happened though we're pretty sure that ASUS' decision to embed SplashTop into its P5E3 mobo had something to do with it. The benefit, of course, is an extension of battery life to days instead of hours assuming that you're not regularly booting into Vista or XP (which you probably are). ...
First Android Phone Coming September 17, Sources [Htc G1] (9)
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September 17. That's the date when the first Android phone will reach the market at an initial $150. According to the NYT and the the unofficial T-Mobile blog, HTC and T-Mobile will release what they hope will be the bringer of the iPhonecalypse, and they are calling it G1, as in Galactus One or G-Spot One or Google One, all of them sound good to me. Looking at the alleged specs and leaked video, it ...
An Early GPhone Review: Android Is Powerful, But No iPhone (GOOG, AAPL) (8)
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So now we know that the first GPhone is indeed coming this fall. Will it be a hit? It's hard to tell much from the supposed spy photos we've seen floating around on the Web, like the one to the right. But someone who's actually seen the gadget -- similar, if not identical to the one in the photo -- tells us that both the hardware (from handset-maker HTC) and Google's Android software suffer from ...
Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion (2)
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DeviceGuru writes "With Debian Lenny (aka 'testing') poised to displace Etch as the popular Linux distribution's 'stable' branch possibly as soon as next month, blogger Rick Lehrbaum loaded the latest preview (beta 2) of Lenny's KDE CD image onto an available Thinkpad, and took it for a spin. How's it coming along? After detailing a handful of issues — and offering solutions for each (except Bluetooth support) — he concludes: 'Other than the need for ...
TuneWiki Audio For Google Android Looks Very Impressive (3)
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This is TuneWiki, the music playback app that shows Karaoke-like lyrics and album art on almost all the music on your phone. It's been officially ported to Android and looks very, very impressive. They've added features like searching YouTube for videos of your tracks, plus searching their database for certain song lyrics if you only remember part of a song. There's also the built-in Google Maps API for looking at other people using TuneWiki and ...
Sony wrangles Cell chip into ZEGO BCU-100 video rendering system (3)
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Filed under: Desktops, HDTV Not that most of us are on the hunt for 1U server blades to build a rendering farm out of, but it's always fun to see Sony's PS3 hardware put to a use that actually earns Sony money. The Cell-based ZEGO BCU-100 includes the PS3's RSX graphics processor and is designed for processing HD video. Sony plans to work with software developers to take advantage of the unique architecture, and will ...
