29Jul Parody: Apple Gets Pulled from Google Search Results
Apple is taking it on the chin when it comes to parody today. First was this wonderfully funny satire from The Onion of the entire Apple fan boy culture featuring an invisible iPhone called the 3GI. I understand that 3GI was actually ranking high in search results after this came out.
And speaking of search results, [...]
29Jul Meet:Mobility Podcast Meets the Apple Tablet Rumors Head On
Steve “Chippy” Paine gathered a bunch of geeks together (virtually speaking of course) to talk about the latest round of Apple Tablet rumors and what they may or may not mean.
Both Xavier and I enjoyed the privilege and the online international company of jkkmobile, Ben Lang of UMPCPortal, Brad Linder of Liliputing, Sascha Pallenberg of [...]
29Jul Verizon Stores Starting to Use Tablets on Sales Floor
OK, Matt Faulkner, I think you need to make a field trip.
Verizon stores in 3 Indiana towns (Jefferson Point, Kokomo, and Castleton) are piloting the use of Tablet PCs for their sales personnel. Verizon is planning on having Tablet PCs in 120 stores by the end of the year. The picture looks like a Motion [...]
28Jul No New Netbooks from Asus and Acer in 2nd Half of 2009
Looks like Asus and Acer are going to shift some focus a bit in the latter half of this year according to DigiTimes. The report indicates that this is due to Intel pushing the rollout of its Pine Trail-M platform until 2010.
There will still be plenty of mobile device action, as Asus will move forward [...]
27Jul 1TB Mobile Hard Drives Now Available from Western Digital
If you need to carry around lots of data on your laptop then Western Digital has just expanded your horizons a bit. Western Digital now has 75GB and 1 terabyte models available under the Scorpio Blue moniker for you to install in your laptop. The 2.5 inch drives sell for $190 for the 750GB size [...]
27Jul Apple’s Tablet Mixes a Cocktail of Liner Notes and Interactive Music Experience
It may be 2010, or it may be this fall, in any event, it looks like things are moving away from rumor and into speculation about what an Apple Tablet will actually be. According to the Financial Times, there is a content component that goes hand in hand with the Apple Tablet. Apple and the [...]
27Jul Rumor: Apple Tablet in September
The dueling rumor mill churns out another one. Contrary to reports of a release early next year, which contradicted the previous reports of a release later this year, The Financial Times is resetting the launch back to this year in September.
The talks come as Apple is separately racing to offer a portable, full-featured, tablet-sized computer [...]
27Jul Rumor: Apple Tablet in September
The dueling rumor mill churns out another one. Contrary to reports of a release early next year, which contradicted the previous reports of a release later this year, The Financial Times is resetting the launch back to this year in September.
The talks come as Apple is separately racing to offer a portable, full-featured, tablet-sized computer [...]
26Jul Best Buy Drops Palm Pre Price to $99?
From the looks of it this might be real. Folks are spotting info that Best Buy has dropped the price of the Palm Pre to $99 with a two year contract. Competition. Isn’t it a wonderful thing.
Via Pre Central.net
UPDATE: Turns out this was, er, um, er… a mistake by Best Buy. Apparently some folks did [...]
25Jul GBM Shortcut: Testing the Webcam in the Samsung N310
In this GBM Shortcut, I have some fun with testing out the quality of the webcam in Samsung’s N310 Netbook. I used a built-in application called Cyberlink YouCam. It does a pretty darn good if I say so myself. I never knew I looked so good wrapped in roses.
I tested it earlier in different light [...]

