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ECS G10IL is officially a go – on sale sometime in April

James Allan Brady, Mar 19th 2008 Discuss [0]

This Eee competitor is more inline with ASUS’ newest offerings, but this notebook will be available a bit sooner than the new Eee. It has 3G, choice of SSD or HDD, and choice of 8.9 or 10.2 inch displays. The 3G comes in the form of a tri-band HSPA modem that works in the US, Asia, and Europe. You also get a 1.3MB webcam and your choice of 4 of 6 cell batteries. Read The Full Story

Hands On with iPhone 2.0 – new changes abound like Spring cleaning

James Allan Brady, Mar 19th 2008 Discuss [0]

Engadget has gotten their hands on iPhone firmware version 2.0. Some of the new features include a scientific calculator when you turn your iPhone sideways with the calculator open and the previously announced Exchange support is as smooth as it should be. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 – big, beasty, shiny, and pricey

James Allan Brady, Mar 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

This is the perfect card for playing your HD video content and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD movies on, and that’s it. Those 256 stream processors, dual GPU’s, and 1GB framebuffer just isn’t good enough for doing anything more than watching movies. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA 790i SLI Ultra – has more radiator fins that my truck

James Allan Brady, Mar 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

I know heat dispersion is a hard thing to control, furthermore, I know that the more power we give these chips, capacitors, and all that jazz, the hotter they get, but look at the picture below, at some point you just need to start bundling liquid cooling and give up on the conventional cooling methods. However, the features are strong with this one and it’s a badass motherboard. Read The Full Story

Apple patents suggest possible flip phone model coming to iPhone lineup

James Allan Brady, Mar 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

This patent is more for a new type of screen than for any one actual device. The patent describes a touch-screen type of interface that is transparent and can work from both sides of the screen. Read The Full Story

USB Engagement Rings – so you can implement your own geeky proposition

James Allan Brady, Mar 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

Swarovski have partnered with someone to offer up this USB engagement ring. There even appears to be two different models, but this ring would allow you to carry around a certain amount of data in your engagement ring. Read The Full Story

Frontier FRNL – the hardcore version of the MacBook Air

James Allan Brady, Mar 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

This laptop weighs less than the MacBook Air at 1.249kg compared to the MBA’s 1.36kg, and it’s only marginally larger than the MBA at 296x30.8x209mm with the thinnest point being 12.5mm. The only place where this notebook lacks is in the performance department, but it makes up for it. Read The Full Story

WiebeTech RTX200H-QR – the drives go in two by two

James Allan Brady, Mar 11th 2008 Discuss [1]

WiebeTech has a RAID array that features a grand total of 2 drives. That’s only enough drives for JBOD, RAID 0, and RAID 1. But, it has several different interfaces for connecting to your computer and its and external enclosure. Read The Full Story

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Best place to find a Wii? At the midnight launch for SSBB

Chris Scott Barr, Mar 10th 2008 Discuss [1]

A while back I told you guys that Sam’s Club was going to take pre-orders for Super Smash Bros. What was interesting is that they also decided to do a midnight launch for the game with at least 20 Wiis in stock at each location. I’ve been itching to get myself a Wii for a while now, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

Wii with SSBB

Let me start off by telling you that I’m sick and tired of Winter. I live in the Midwest, and 17-degree weather just sucks. Some of the crazier people started lining up at 8pm in such temperatures. I knew they had 33 consoles in stock, and given the lack of advertising Sam’s Club has done for this event I figured I could wait until 10:30 or so. Thankfully I was correct in my assumption and managed to get there and secure a good spot in line.

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ECS G10L – the next one up on the Asus Eee competitor

James Allan Brady, Mar 7th 2008 Discuss [0]

I like that everyone seems to have already universally recognized that the Eee has won and hasn’t started calling every computer like it that comes out an “Eee Killer”, they’ve settled on competitor, and more precise term. This UMPC puts up some serious competition too offering up integrated HSDPA at 7.2Mbps and probably Bluetooth. Read The Full Story

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iPhone Enterprise – now with more Microsoft

James Allan Brady, Mar 6th 2008 Discuss [0]

Apple has been listening to your requests for Push Email, Push calendar, Global Address Lists, IPsec VPN, WPA2/802.1x, certificates and identities, and remote wipe. Well, they are all coming true.

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PHONE Mag Live-Blogging Apple’s iPhone SDK announcement today!

Chris Davies, Mar 6th 2008 Discuss [3]

Apple iPhone SDK event today It’s been a rumor-packed week since Apple announced they’d be holding a special event today, March 6th, to officially announce the iPhone SDK Roadmap as well as “some exciting new enterprise features”, and we wanted to remind you that over at our cellularly-obsessed sister site PHONE Magazine we’ll be live-blogging the whole event. The show kicks off at 10am PST – that’s 1pm EST or 6pm GMT – and the place you’ll want to be is http://live.phonemag.com/

Will Steve announce an SDK beta as has been rumored, and leave the full release for later in the year? Just how draconian are Apple going to be about third-party software, and is iTunes really going to be the only place users can get new apps for their iPhone? And please, can we have Microsoft Exchange support yet? We’re hoping to find out the answers to all these questions – and maybe the odd surprise, because we’re greedy like that – when Jobs takes to the stage, so join us later today!