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Iron Man gets first ride on Dell’s Content Preload Service

Daniel Lim, Sep 30th 2008 Discuss [1]

Last time I ordered a Dell PC, I have to go through 10 plus pages of endless configuration steps (exaggerates) . There were too many and countless of optional antivirus, accessories, application and bunch of unnecessary junks for a simple task- order a pc online. As if that’s not enough, Dell has launched a movie preload service on new PC. A new twist that allowing online customers to customize select desktops and laptops with exclusive pre-installed movie bundles. Read The Full Story

DVDplay’s promotion, rent Blu-Ray at a dollar

Daniel Lim, Sep 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

Honestly, I never heard of DVDplay before. A quick search at their web site reveals there are handfuls of DVDplay Kiosks at my local grocery stores. So the DVDplay is basically a movie rental Kiosk service and they have over 1400 stores nationwide. You can rent DVD by simply browse the titles at the screen and return it back within 24 hours for a small fee of $1 per rental. Nice! Now with Blu-Ray for a dollar is even better! The $1 per rental is limited time promotion according to Home media Magazine. It starts tomorrow but no further information has disclosed when it would end. Read The Full Story

MobileMe – Why It Makes Me Angry and Hopeful

Brenda Stokes, Jul 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

Apple's MobileMe is an innovative synchronization service that allows you to keep your bookmarks, emails, calendar, contacts and photos all up to date on all of your devices including your laptop, desktop and iPhone. This is a fantastic idea because I have wasted more hours than I can count getting all of my devices to sync up and "talk" to each other. I e-mail myself things instead of plugging in my phone to my laptop, because it takes too long. You get the picture. So with MobileMe, I was pretty excited. It offered a convenient way to connect all of my junk (as I call it) and since I already had a .mac account, this was a no brainer. Of course when .mac switched to Mobile Me, all the images on my website disappeared, but that's an entirely different story... Read The Full Story

AT&T WiFi is now available for iPhone users [update: No, it's not]

Satsuki Then, Jul 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

[Updated after the cut] AT&T has started offering free WiFi to its iPhone customers, again! The WiFi service was previously available for iPhone users in on and off fashion. AT&T provides more than 17,000 WiFi hotspots in the country and many of them are in StarBucks locations. While it's great news, it might not be all that to iPhone 3G users that have fast wireless data connectivity already. Read The Full Story

Wal-Mart and Dell partnered up for on-call tech support

Daniel Lim, Jul 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

I’m pretty sure most of you know Geek Squad, the on-call computer technician that behave as they are some sort of government secret agent. Wal-Mart wants to have its own man in white too – partnering up with Dell, Wal-Mart will be testing the Solution Station in 15 Dallas stores. The new service unit will be doing work such as PC repairs, setting up home theatre, wireless networking, and electronics that were sold by Wal-Mart. We will have to see how this odd partnership between Wal-Mart and Dell works out. [via giz]

Rhapsody joins DRM-Free music download bandwagon

Ewdison Then, Jun 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

If you can’t fight them, join them! Rhapsody finally decided streaming model might not be making as much money as they think and were unable to compete with iPod, so they decided to adopt the download model. Rhapsody seems to understand that consumer hates DRM and made their service DRM-Free in MP3 format. Read The Full Story

.Mac users can now receive emails on Me.com domain

Satsuki Then, Jun 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

Apparently Apple has enabled the ME.COM domain name for most .Mac subscribers. Email sent to username@me.com should be arriving to username@mac.com inbox by now. Apple plans to migrate the email services from mac.com to me.com domain soon, but will also keep the mac.com as an alias domain. MobileMe will be replacing .Mac as Apple’s web-based services that provide address book, email, and calendar services. Apple has set MobileMe to launch in early July.

Rumor : Virgin Mobile to absorb Helio into their brand name

Abby McVay, Jun 25th 2008 Discuss [0]

There have been a few rumors pertaining to the future of Helio, one of which being that they will be shutting down some of their stores to cut down on costs. Another has been that Helio might be merging with Virgin Mobile. Read The Full Story

AT&T Suspended its Free WiFi Access for the iPhone

Satsuki Then, May 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

So the free ride is over, AT&T has suspended free WiFI hotspot access for the iPhone. I had personally use it several days ago just by connecting to AT&T WiFi and punching in my phone number and today I’m connected to the same hotspot in Starbucks but it does not take me to the same login screen anymore. Read The Full Story

We7 launched, offers 500,000 DRM-free MP3s at no cost

Ewdison Then, Apr 28th 2008 Discuss [0]

The free download service We7 is finally here, and claimed to offers 500,000 tracks of music from Sony BMG label and independent artists. These tracks are available to users for free and not protected by any kind of DRM, however it comes with pre-roll advertising that starts before the music track begins and lasts only several seconds. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster offers to buy Circuit City for $1 billion

James Allan Brady, Apr 14th 2008 Discuss [1]

The actual price would be somewhere between 1 and 1.3 billion dollars, but that’s still a lot of coin. Both companies are suffering, and both companies could probably use the boost that this would offer to each of them so it’s a wonder why Circuit City has been sitting on its hands with this offer since February 17th. Read The Full Story

DIY instant messenger online contact signalizer picture frame thingy – says the creator

James Allan Brady, Apr 9th 2008 Discuss [0]

This nifty little gadget was created in an effort to make it possible to see who was online from across the room, or just in passing. So he took some pictures of the few people who he truly cared when they were online, put some LED lights behind them, and then did a lot of more technical stuff to make the lights light up when that person was online. Read The Full Story