Archive for February, 2008

Now shipping: Time Capsule

Time Capsule, the wireless hard drive you can use to back up multiple Mac computers using Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, has begun shipping. “Notifications of the shipments began reaching customers that pre-ordered the device early this morning,” according to Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com).
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Dell brings Precision M2300, M4300 laptops into the Penryn fold

Filed under: Laptops

It’s already extended Penryn updates to its Precision M6300 laptop and a couple of Inspirons, but Dell’s unsurprisingly not done yet, and it’s now doled out similar upgrades to its Precision M2300 and M4300 models. Those are each now available with Penryn processors ranging from 2.1GHz to 2.6GHz, and for the same price […]

O2 to Launch iPhone in Ireland

Underscoring comments by Apple COO, Tim Cook, that they are working to expand the iPhone into new geographic areas, wireless carrier O2 announced that they would be introducing the iPhone in Ireland on March 14th, 2008.
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Sparkle [(universal) Demo]

No one travels without worries in Crowberry Woods anymore. Vast blackness has blanketed the once beautiful forest. Use your orb slinger to shatter the orbs before their power is used to release the eternal night. Can you bring the light back, from a sparkle to full bloom? Explore three different game modes, multitude of greater […]

GPS-equipped walkers promise to keep elderly patients on track

Filed under: GPS

We’ve already seen GPS used to trackelderly patients, but some student researchers now look to be taking the idea one step further, with them outfitting some nursing center patients’ walkers with a GPS system that helps guide them around. While the exact technical details are a bit unclear, the system apparently uses GPS […]

Border virtual fence project delayed again until at least 2011

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Remember Project 28? That Boeing / DHS system to put a 28 mile stretch of sensor-tower laden virtual fencing along the US / Mexico border in Arizona? Well, the government swiped the contract back from Boeing last week for lack of, well, working, and is apparently going at it alone with plans […]

SanDisk does up 8GB Cruzer Fleur USB drive for the ladies

Filed under: Storage

Our feminist theory classes in college left us in the mindset that lady-tailored devices can probably do better than pink, but hey, if you’re looking for something retractable with U3 and 8GB of storage, SanDisk just added this new $80 Cruzer Fleur to their lineup.
 
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Deskjet turns 20: HP celebrates two decades of robbing you blind

Filed under: Peripherals

Turns out HP has been selling its Deskjet series of printers for 20 years now, with 240 million customers around the world and untold billions spent on overpriced ink cartridges. The HP Deskjet continues to outsell all other inkjet printers on the market, and HP shows no sign of slowing down — or […]

Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software

spikedLemur writes “Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, “undocumented” means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to […]

Microsoft lowered Vista requirements to help Intel sell incompatible chipsets

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
digg_url = \’http://digg.com/microsoft/M_lowered_Vista_reqs_to_help_Intel_sell_incompatible_chips\’;So now that the “Vista Capable” lawsuit is a full-blown class action, the judge has unsealed all 158 pages of emails between Microsoft execs trying to sort out what went wrong with the sticker program. While bits and pieces have been blacked out, what remains is still fairly incredible — […]