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If you can’t beat them, smear them, right? At least that’s what Mr. McCain is using against Senator Obama. But it seems Verizon is also learning its lesson from the Senator by adopting the same strategy against the new iPhone. Electronista is reporting that Verizon has prepared a cheat sheet for its salesmen so they could point out the deficiencies of the new iPhone and explain how great the Verizon phone are to potential iPhone buyers. I wonder if Mr. McCain will be paid by showing companies how to attack celebrities (an iPhone is certainly one in the phone industry) [Of course Verizon will have a hard time sending the Senator a check for obvious reasons].
It is tough to be in Nokia’s position right now with Apple getting clean shots on Nokia’s babies such as N95 with its iPhone product line. N85 and N79 which will be replacing N81 and N78 are both improved in a few areas as Cam quality and GPS. They are also rumored to be more affordable for people who are trying to get their first smart-phones. Now I wonder how many people will get the N85 instead of the new iPhone.
Story Via {Electronista]
It was just a matter of time. With all the social aspects behind communities such as Flickr, it was inevitable that someone would come up with a social hardware. That’s exactly what Picwing is. How it works is that you create Picwing email on Picwing.com. Then you can connect that to your social digital photo frame and bam! You have a social photo frame ready to go. If someone sends an email to your Picwing email, it will immediately show up on the frame. Now you want to keep your e-mail to yourself and your circle for obvious reasons, but this is a very cool feature nevertheless. Who says technology is boring.
Well, we didn’t know till last week that you could actually enforce Open source rights. After all, when you label yourself open, you expose yourself to unnecessary risk. But a U.S. circuit court of appeal has set the precedent where you can now enforce open source rights if people do not respect it. I think that’s fantastic for the future of open source as you would want to have your copyrights respected. Now, if you change an Open Source code, you have to make it available to the public, but I am pretty sure that if you use an open source technology to develop a completely different solution, then you may not have to disclose your source code. Obviously there are different licenses out there and not many laws available but you can be sure that precedents will be set for these issues in the near future.
For this week at least, X-Box is simply dominating the Japanese market. The good folks at Joystiq are reporting that X-Box 360 sold closeto 25,000 unit for the past week, whereas PS3 and PS2 combined for about 18K units sold. Somewhere in the carribean Steve Ballmer is dancing hard (maybe even naked who knows!).
Are Gadgets becoming too complicated? That’s what Metro claims to have happened according to latest research. As the competition gets more intense among the gadget makers around the world, it is absolutely normal to expect devices that have so many features that even the makers don’t know all of them. If you have bought a top of the line camcorder recently, you probably have seen the 2000 manuals that they provide you with. In truth, gadgets should be intuitive and convenient to use. Geeks will always figure out hwo gadgets work, but I doubt everyday guys and gals will invest too much time in a gadget that is too complicated. Would you?
So what is the most complicated gadget that you have worked with?
So there are rumors going around the web about the reason why Phil Harrison has left Sony. It seems the talks of PS4 has burned the poor guy out. Now the expectations for the Sony PS4 are huge. Obviously there are rumors around that PS4 will try to take the concept of social gaming to the whole new level (sort of like the transition of Web 1.0 to Web 2.0). You can also expect more interaction between the console and the players (but details are not yet released). I can tell you what PS4 won’t be – a big black box with huge fans. But that’s all we can tell at this point.
Picture via Engadget
Fujitsu has announced that they are releasing Fujitsu LifeBook U2010 in 5 color in the U.S. The Fujitsu Laptop is awesome if you are constantly on the go, and Fujitsu points that out exactly in their press release:
The wonders of the LifeBook U2010 extend to busy professionals who need to be constantly on the go, making the long battery life of 8 hours(2) an absolute bonus. With wireless connectivity features and Bluetooth® v2.1 to minimise work downtime for business travelers on the go, it’s simply the perfect mobile companion. Moreover, this tablet-convertible UMPC’s generous storage space (up to 60GB or option of 64GB SSD) means that having big business files on hand for reference is not a problem at all.
I do like the solid state hard drive option and with the improved battery life and all the new features added, this should at least partially satisfy the Fujitsu fans.
You have probably seen the infomercial that has been going on TV for a while now. A guy dressed up in suit keeps claiming that MagicJack is the best invention of the 21st century. OK! That’s overselling and it probably shouldn’t work. But apparently a bunch of people decided to part ways with their money to get free phone service forever.
Now if you are selling MagicJack or you are affiliated with them in anyway, you can claim all these things and more such as MagicJack being the first real cure to cancer or MagicJack being the only way to reverse the Alzheimer’s disease. But the truth of the matter is, many have complained online about the non-responsive customer service of MagicJack.
Here are my thoughts on it. I think Magic Jack is a great gadget but the quality is not exactly as stellar as some sources want you to believe. The customer service also is not going to give you your money back with no questions asked. Worst of all, BBB gives these guys a terrible rating, which means… you should stick with your Vonage for now.
Laptop magazine has a bunch of leaked pictures up on the new Eee PC products from Asus. I was never a fan of the Eee PC product line, but they were nevertheless very popular and always among top selling items on Amazon and other retail stores. The new models have slightly improved but we will have to wait and see how they fare as far as performance is concerned.
