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Dell Streak is a 5-inch Android 2.0 MID, packs 3G and WiFi (video)

2009-10-23T02:36:00.001+08:00

Dell Streak is a 5-inch Android 2.0 MID, packs 3G and WiFi (video): "

Well, hello there! Those Dell MID rumors we've been hearing have finally received vindication in the form of a nice, picture-heavy leak courtesy of some industrious folks in Vietnam. What we know as of now is that there's an 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display (with multitouch zooming), WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G WWAN connectivity, all riding atop an Android 2.0 (aka, ~~Donut~~ Eclair) install. A dual-LED flash 5 megapixel camera adorns the back, and there's a 1,300mAh battery to power all that goodness. See pics below and a video awaits after the break, where an old friend of ours plays with the jumbo smartphone.

[Via SlashGear; Thanks, Nicky N.]

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Sqweel Ten-Tongued Sex Toy To Drive Women Crazy [Sex Toy]

2009-10-13T22:47:00.001+08:00

Sqweel Ten-Tongued Sex Toy To Drive Women Crazy [Sex Toy]: "

Ten tongues. Ten tongues. Thats how many silicon tingletings Sqweel—the new sex toy by LoveHoney—has. Three variable speeds running on three AAA batteries which, according to the hands-on by our own Dr. Debby Herbenick, is absolutely amazing. [Updated]

Gallery updated with posts from Debby showing the scale of the Sqweel.

Dr. Herbenick says that the Sqweel couldn't be any better unless they pushed it up to 11 tongues, Spinal Tap-style. Girls, time for a new toy in your arsenal for just $55 plus shipping from distant Albion. [LoveHoney]

(Via Gizmodo.)

Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL [Broadband]

2009-09-11T01:17:00.001+08:00

Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL [Broadband]: "

South Africa's broadband has got to be feeling pretty ill-equipped today considering a real, wing-flapping pigeon beat its transfer speeds. No really, a company found out that sending a bird with a 4GB USB drive was faster than uploading.

That has got to hurt for Telkom, one of South Africa's main ADSL providers, but damn is Winston the pigeon feeling like the man today. He is telling all the other pigeons, how it took him two hours to carry the strapped-to-his-back flash drive 60 miles to the company's second office in Durban. In the same time the broadband service had only sent 4 percent of the data. You do the math but that is pretty damn slow upload speeds. No wonder the guys at Unlimited IT first joked that a bird could send files faster.

This is just the kind of story I want to read to children at night (I'm thinking the picture book is called 'Winston and the Broadband'). Let's hope South Africa gets those fiber optic lines installed soon or else a crap load of bird seed. [BBC]

(Via Gizmodo.)

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy ENGLISH for PSP

2009-09-05T23:17:00.001+08:00

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy ENGLISH for PSP: ""

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising for Mac OS X

2009-09-05T23:16:00.003+08:00

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising for Mac OS X: ""

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: MONOPOLY™ Build-a-lot™ Edition for Mac

2009-09-05T23:16:00.001+08:00

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: MONOPOLY™ Build-a-lot™ Edition for Mac: ""

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Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: Xslimmer v1.7 UB CRACKED with PATCHER - Mac OS X

2009-09-05T23:13:00.001+08:00

Mac Club Malaysia: Hasanuddin Abu Bakar's blog: Xslimmer v1.7 UB CRACKED with PATCHER - Mac OS X: ""

Watch movies with subtitles on the iPhone

2009-08-27T23:04:00.001+08:00

Watch movies with subtitles on the iPhone: "A little-known feature of the iPhone is its ability to display subtitles on movides. To do this, you just need the free programs MKVtools, SubCleaner, and Subler, and aconversion program -- I recommend FilmRedux. Once those are installed on your Mac, do this:

Convert the file to a raw, unsubtitled .MP4 with FilmRedux
Extract the UTF8 subtitle file (.srt) from the original file with MKVtools
Clean up the .srt with subcleaner
Merge the .mp4 and the .srt together in subler

Then sync the movie over to your iPhone. Next to the rewind button, a new subtitle button will appear.

(Via MacOSXHints.com.)

Kelate Kito wants to keep up with you on Twitter

2009-08-27T09:08:00.004+08:00

Kelate Kito wants to keep up with you on Twitter

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Retail Build Confirmed [Snow Leopard]

2009-08-27T03:15:00.001+08:00

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Retail Build Confirmed [Snow Leopard]: "

If—like us—you were wondering if the Mac OS X Snow Leopard you got from Torrent is the same as the retail one, wonder no more: The build number of the retail bloody cat is 10A432. [MacRumors—Thanks Bigdave]

(Via Gizmodo.)

Send Growl notifications to Macs from Linux boxes

2009-08-26T09:52:00.002+08:00

Send Growl notifications to Macs from Linux boxes: "There is a way of sending messages to Growl running on a Mac OS X machine from any Unix machine with the standard X11 tools. You do not need to install anything on the Unix machine, just use the xkbbell command.

In short, you need to first install growlnotify on the Mac. You then need a configuration file, xkbevd.cf, with the following content:

Bell()  shell '/usr/local/bin/growlnotify --message \'$(name)\' --appIcon X11; true '

Start the X11 server, then start the xkbevd daemon (again on the Mac) pointing to the configuration file you just created (xkbevd -cfg xkbevd.cf -bg). You can then call the command xkbbell on the Unix machine to generate a Growl notification on the Mac. For example, xkbbell 'lasers offline'. There are detailed in...

(Via MacOSXHints.com.)

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server (Build 10A433)

2009-08-24T19:56:00.001+08:00

http://www.mac.com.my/pg/blog/bizkut/read/1179/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard-server-build-10a433

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Build 10A432 Gold Master FINAL!)

2009-08-24T19:54:00.002+08:00

http://www.mac.com.my/pg/blog/bizkut/read/1178/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard-build-10a432-gold-master-final

Fixing Forklift 1.7 for running on Snow Leopard

2009-08-19T23:31:00.004+08:00

I recently discovered Forklift and was so delighted with the software, I bought it after using the trial for only 15 minutes! Thank you for such a wonderful product!

I have two Macs. One is running Leopard 10.5.4. This runs Forklift fine. The other is running the latest developer build of 10.6 (build 10A432). Unfortunately, Forklift won't run at all; it crashes on launch.

I know Snow Leopard hasn't been released. But with the recent freeze of the 10.6 APIs, I'm hoping that a Snow Leopard compatible build can be released soon. While I really like Forklift, unfortunately I am not in a position to revert back to 10.5 on my development machine.

Here is a workaround to fix it

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClient.framework
 sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClientCore /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClient
 sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/QuickLookUI.framework 
 sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLook /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLookUI 
 sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLook /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLookUI

Have fun!

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2009-06-08T18:04:00.002+08:00

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Elastic Server | Assemble virtual servers and deploy to the cloud

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 12:55 AM PDT

High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 12:57 PM PDT

PHP Example AJAX and MySQL

2009-05-28T15:36:00.001+08:00

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2009-05-26T18:11:00.002+08:00

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Communecation.net » Howto: Streaming audio server on Debian

Posted: 25 May 2009 06:21 PM PDT

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2009-05-25T18:04:00.002+08:00

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PHP Example AJAX and MySQL

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New iPhone said getting 'next-gen' CPU

2009-05-24T06:08:00.000+08:00

The next revision of the iPhone should be characterized by a dramatic increase in processing power, an alleged scoop by veterain technology writer John Gruber says. He refers to "informed" sources who say the iPhone will jump from its existing 412MHz clock speed to 600MHz but adds that a change in architecture should lead to a disproportionately larger increase in performance. Similar to the leap from Intel's 80486 design to the Pentium, the change is large enough that the difference should be more than the 50 percent gain implied by the clock rate increase.

Which processor isn't clear, though the most likely candidate is a Samsung ARM chip based on the newer Cortex architecture, which adds vector extensions and is much more modern than the 2007-era chip currently used.

It will also likely double the amount of system RAM to 256MB and further speed up the device, Gruber says. Other rumors are now claimed accurate and include a 32GB model, a magnetometer as compass and a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocusing and video editing. The latter is expected to play a major part in the marketing campaign for the phone.

Accelerating the phone's performance is believed to not only have an impact on obviously CPU-dependent chores such as 3D but also on the perceived speed of Internet access. While faster 3G is increasingly thought a staple of the new iPhone, some of the perceived slowness comes from the processor's inability to cope with rendering HTML once it's downloaded.

Gruber anticipates Apple keeping its prices intact and selling a 16GB iPhone for $199 and a 32GB model for $299.

Besides the key rumors, the writer also claims to have heard less certain prospects of a notebook refresh that splits the line back into plastic MacBook and aluminum MacBook Pro lines as well as a smaller iPhone that would have 75 percent the size of the current model but isn't likely to show at next month's WWDC.

onOne iPhone app controls Canon DSLRs

2009-05-24T05:57:00.000+08:00

onOne has submitted a unique new application to the App Store called DSLR Remote. The application will enable the iPhone and iPod Touch to remotely control a variety of Canon's digital SLR cameras. The application works by remotely connecting to a computer running onOne's DSLR Remote Server software that in turn is plugged in through USB.

DSLR Remote will be released in two versions. A Lite version that only controls the shutter; the full Professional version will let photographers control the aperture, shutter speed and white balance. It will also stream the camera's viewfinder to the remote.

Following its approval, DSLR Remote Professional will be available from the App Store for $20, while the Lite version will cost $2. The DSLR Remote Server Software will be available for free from the onOne website.

CrushFTP 4.9.6 adds speed gains, bugfixes

2009-05-24T05:37:00.001+08:00

CrushFTP has updated its webserver technology, releasing CrushFTP 4.9.6, improving the overall speed of the software's server and fixing a bug in the software's WebDAV client that crashed Mac OS X 10.5's Finder. SFTP (Secure FTP) connections are faster in version 4.9.6 and directory deletions can be done all at once, instead of line-by-line. In addition to the WedDAV bugfix, there are numerous other fixes in 4.9.6, including a bug with folders that had a double space in them with a FTP proxy, a fix for GUI sizing in the preference window and a repair for problems with Active Directory style domains and usernames.

CrushFTP focuses on ease-of-use in setting up an FTP server, handling numerous security protocols like SFTP, SSH FTP, FTP over SSL and WebDAV/WebDAV SSL. The software offers on-the-fly compression as it transfers files, hence the name "Crush"FTP, and the WebDAV abilities allow for the server to appear as a unique volume on a Mac, allowing for read/write and rename opportunities that would not work in standard FTP within the Finder. CrushFTP includes other conveniences like e-mail notifications, built-in reporting, an OS X widget for quick monitoring and easy-configuration routines for a quick server set-up.

CrushFTP 4.9.6 works with Mac OS X 10.2 or later. It costs $30 for up to 10 concurrent users, $60 for up to 50 users and $100 for limitless users.

Steve Jobs' Amazon account hacked?

2009-05-24T05:32:00.001+08:00

Steve Jobs' Amazon account has supposedly been hacked, claims an individual identifying himself as "orin0co," according to Cult of Mac. The hacker asserts he was able to gain access to the account by sending Jobs a forged, official-looking e-mail to Jobs, tricking the Apple CEO to log into a fake Amazon account, and subsequently providing the hacker with the personal login information.

orin0co believes the incident is humiliating for Apple, which recently advertised Macs as less susceptible to "viruses, crashes, and headaches" in its Elimination ad.

orin0co insinuated greater susceptibility in an e-mail sent using a secure Hushmail account. "Imagine how safe Mac is if you can trick the mighty Steve Jobs," he said.

The hacker maintains that he has not misused the account, otherwise Jobs and Amazon might have realized the intrusion. Apple has declined to comment about whether or not orin0co's claims are true, while Amazon has stated it has no knowledge of any disturbance to Steve Jobs' account.

If the rumor is true, Jobs would be the latest victim in a string of "whaling" attacks aimed at corporate executives, legal firms, government agencies and other high-value targets. iDefence has reported over 15,000 victims in the past 15 months, saying the hackers would target bank account information to net "millions of dollars."

There are some inconsistencies in orin0co's story, namely that there is no substantial proof -- Apple has not made a statement, and some people believe it is unlikely that Jobs would be tricked by such a basic scam. It is also unlikely that Jobs would be such an avid online shopper, purchasing 20,000 items since 1999 according to orin0co's screenshots. The discrepancy is even more apparent given the images indicate Jobs suddenly stopped purchasing items in October of last year.

Leaked Windows 7 box images real?

2009-05-23T17:31:00.002+08:00

CentrumXP has released supposed leaked images of the Windows 7 retail boxes, according to ars technica. The boxes appear to be a combination of XP and Vista boxes, an indication of Microsoft's aim to make Windows 7 a culmination of the best parts of its predecessors....

Phishers harvest Facebook passwords for profit

2009-05-23T17:29:00.003+08:00

The recent round of Facebook phishing attacks are most likely efforts aimed at harvesting passwords for profit, a security researcher tells Computerworld.

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2009-05-23T13:22:00.006+08:00

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The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed
May 23, 2009 at 12:59 am


	Google Chrome celebrates version 2 release with autofill, fast-paced video We know you've been avoiding Chrome because it puts your most visited sites on a display the size of the JumboTron in Times Square, and we don't blame you.		Microsoft dropping three app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition Now the only thing holding you back from simultaneous Skype, AIM, browsing, DVD playback, and Plants vs. Zombies will be the space on your screen and the specs in your portable.
	Entelligence: Time for Microsoft to tell a better Zune tale A lot's been made of the new Zune commercial that Microsoft aired recently. Now don't get me wrong.I think there's a lot that Microsoft can do with Zune, but this ad doesn't quite do it for me.	Other news of import Windows 7 branding leaks out Palm Pre available at a single store in NYC on launch day? Unlikely. Japanese college giving away free iPhones, using them to track students' attendance
	Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server? With all the bad news around Windows Media Center this week, many enthusiasts are wondering about the future of Media Center.		32GB iPhone placeholder appears at T-Mobile Austria We hate to remind you that loads of smoke generally leads to fire, but hey, June 8th ain't too far off anyway.
Sharp's 20-inch AQUOS DX LCD HDTV has a built-in Blu-ray player, no 1080p panel Nielsen stats find 33% of U.S. households with at least one HDTV		Rogers to sell HTC Dream, Magic for $199.99 on contract Virgin Mobile getting contract-free data card next month

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Dell dumps Della, just wants to be friends
May 22, 2009 at 11:29 pm

Looks like someone's gonna have to explain why there's a "no longer in a relationship" status update on her Facebook profile. Just ten or so days after Dell officially hooked up with its female counterpart Della, helping real womenfolk find computers that meet their recipe-finding, calorie-counting ways, she's now been thrown the wayside and all mentions of her have been replaced with (or redirected to) the similar, yet decidedly more androgynous "Lifestyle." Last we heard, Della was sitting on the couch watching Notting Hill with a pint of Ben and Jerry's, crying softly to herself and wondering what other female stereotypes she can best beat with a dead horse.

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PureDepth ramps up production of "Multi-Layer" 3D displays
May 22, 2009 at 10:07 pm

PureDepth has been talking up its "Multi-Layer" 3D display technology for quite some time now, but it looks like the displays should finally be rolling out en masse, with the company announcing that volume production of its new 12.1-inch displays was slated to begin this week, which follows those first few 20.1-inch displays that wound up in slot machines. For those not up to speed, the displays themselves make use of two LCD screens placed a few inches a part, which lets them display three dimensional images without the need for special glasses and, according to the company, without the headaches often associated with 3D setups. It also looks PureDepth is getting increasingly confident in the technology and its future, and it's now even gone so far as to establish a Japanese arm of the company that it hopes will help it garner a bigger foothold in the country.

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Microsoft publishes maximum Windows 7 netbooks specs
May 22, 2009 at 8:42 pm

One step forward, one step back: just as we were getting ready to celebrate Microsoft's decision to remove the three-app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition, we're hearing that Redmond is still planning to impose strict limits on what types of machines get to run the stripped-down build. Just like today's max XP specs, things are pretty weak all around: Window 7 Starter machines will max out at 10.2-inch screens, 1GB of RAM, 250GB hard drives or 64GB SSDs, and single-core processors under 2GHz. Of course, Microsoft's told us all along that it thinks lots of OEMs will ignore the max specs and just ship Windows 7 Home Premium since it runs way better on netbooks than Vista, but we'll see how this plays out at Computex -- we're expecting a wave of 10.2-inch netbooks with 2GHz procs and 1GB of RAM in the near future.

[Via ZDNet]

Filed under: Laptops

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Palm Pre tasks, memos, browser on display, automatic backup confirmed
May 22, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Just in time for your weekend perusal, Palm Goon (which we half suspect might be a viral site from Palm itself) has uploaded three tours and a FAQ chock-full of new Pre / webOS screens and details, chief among them being confirmation that the Pre does daily automatic backup. We've also got some pretty thorough glimpses of the web browser, Tasks, and Memo applications. Visually, it's quite a beaut -- a very elegant and classy UI that rivals anything we've seen from a certain Cupertino-based company. Of course, functionality remains to be seen, but if Palm and Sprint deliver half as good of a game as they talk, looks like we're in for a real treat.

Update: Looks like the site's experiencing intermittent server errors. Hang tight, we'll keep you updated.

Read - Meet the Web Browser
Read - Meet the "Memos" app
Read - Meet the "Tasks" app
Read - Things You Might Not Know...

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Trimble Nomad handheld gets Android 1.5 upgrade
May 22, 2009 at 7:32 pm

It's not exactly one of the first places you'd expect to see Cupcake popping up, but SDG Systems has announced that the Android update (or a developer build of it, specifically) is now available on its Trimble Nomad rugged handheld. That device, in case you missed it, has primarily relied on Windows Mobile for an OS to date, and packs an 806 MHz Marvell PXA320 XScale processor, 128MB of RAM, up to 2GB of storage, CompactFlash and SD card slots for expansion, built-in GPS, and a hot swappable lithium-ion battery that supposedly lasts a whole day on a charge. Anyone looking for an alternative to the G1 will likely want to look elsewhere though, as the Nomad isn't actually a phone, and this particular $1,200+ Android-equipped device is apparently intended specifically for developers looking to test out Android apps on a rugged device.

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The real Human Interface
May 22, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Deep down, don't we all think they work like this?

[Via Aza Raskin]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

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Schwinn Tailwind electric bike review
May 22, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Schwinn's Tailwind electric bike -- which has been available for just a few months -- has been sitting in our apartment since post CES, waiting for the New York weather to shape up enough for us to give it a fair spin. Well, it's been beautiful recently, so the pedal-assist bike has been taken for several spins on our backyard BMX trail to see what kind of dust we could raise together. The bike is a retro, hulking, 58 pound package, with a Toshiba SCiB Quick Charge Plug n' Drive (SCiB) battery saddled onto the back for about 30 miles of assistance. It's an expensive (about $3,200) piece of eco-friendly transportation, to be sure. So the questions are thus: what do we think about Schwinn's latest foray into commuter cycles? Just who is this bike for? Will we ever get used to carrying it up and down our apartment stairs? Join us on the road after the break.

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Engadget Podcast 147 - 05.22.2009
May 22, 2009 at 5:41 pm

It's the podcast you've been waiting for, maybe! Join Josh, Paul, and Nilay as they rock through their greatest hits, including: Palm Pre Launch Details, Storm 2 (The End of SurePress), Moblin Two-Point-Oh, and everyone's favorite, a little ditty called Slim PS3 Cease and Desist. Available now for just four easy payments of clicking below!

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Fly Like an Eagle

03:13 - Palm Pre on June 6th for $200: It's official!
23:10 - BlackBerry Storm 2: the official unofficial hands-on
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Microsoft dropping three app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition
May 22, 2009 at 5:17 pm

In some really encouraging news, Paul Thurrott at SuperSite for Windows is reporting that Microsoft isn't gonna put the arbitrary limit on its netbook-bound Windows 7 Starter Edition where users could only run three applications at a time. Now the only thing holding you back from simultaneous Skype, AIM, browsing, DVD playback, and Plants vs. Zombies will be the space on your screen and the specs in your portable. So how will they tempt users to upgrade to Home or Premium now? We'll just have to wait and see on that one.

[Thanks, Stephen]

Filed under: Laptops

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SlingPlayer coming to Pre "at or near launch"?
May 22, 2009 at 4:56 pm

webOS' web technology-based app architecture seems to become less and less of an issue by the day; most of our fears were allayed the moment we saw Classic break cover, and this is another strong sign that the Pre's going to be able to handle just about any multimedia-rich stuff we throw at it. A Sprint-sourced page out of a Pre slide deck entitled "The Pre Application Story" lists a series of "showcase apps" that the carrier thinks (or, at the very least, optimistically hopes) will be available around the time of the phone's launch, and the most interesting thing on here has to be a listing for Sling Media -- you know, those cats making Slingboxes and SlingPlayer builds. Beyond that, we don't have anything -- it could be 3G or WiFi-only (though the fact that this is on a Sprint slide gives us hope that they'll leave EV-DO enabled), it could launch next month or next year, and for all we know, it only works with boxes that aren't even out yet. It'll be kind of cool to see this app running as a card on the Pre's interface, won't it?

[Thanks, sdafdsfasdf]

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Windows 7 branding leaks out
May 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm

You didn't think Microsoft was going to ship Windows 7 with that same tired Vista-esque branding it's been using on the betas and RCs, did you? No way, man -- and if those crazy-cool wallpapers didn't prove it to you, the eager monkeys at MS China have thoughtfully posted up the new branding for your perusal right now. We rather like it -- it conveys a welcoming sense of lightness that contrasts well with the battleship-heavy aesthetic of Vista, and that's pretty much exactly how Microsoft needs to position 7. A few more shots of the branding being used at the Chinese PCBETA event at the read link.

[Thanks, Nicola]

Read - Microsoft China Windows 7 site
Read - Branding at PCBETA

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Entelligence: Time for Microsoft to tell a better Zune tale
May 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.

A lot's been made of the new Zune commercial that Microsoft aired recently. If you have haven't seen it, take a look. Now don't get me wrong. I think there's a lot that Microsoft can do with Zune, but this ad doesn't quite do it for me. What's wrong? First, it took a shot at Apple that felt silly -- after all, most consumers don't spend $30,000 to fill up their iPod (how much did it cost to fill yours?). Even if that's the case, buying a Zune Pass won't fill up an iPod either. Second, it started to make a value play that's real, but stopped short of actually making it.

The ad was interesting as it begins the discussion of the value of the Zune Pass. That's important. The power of the Zune Pass lies at the core of the differentiation of their whole business model, subscription services vs. single song downloads. Microsoft needs to go further and explain how these two models can co-exist with each other. Up until now there were only two models for music, the free and ad supported stuff on radio, or music you bought or owned (or perhaps acquired elsewhere). Zune Pass and other similar services change all that. While consumers "rent" video content all the time from theaters, cable companies, Netflix etc, there's also a lot of other stuff sold on DVD. There's no reason for this to be binary -- rent or buy -- it's just never been applied to music and when it has, it's not been explained or marketed well at all.

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GM touts new crash severity-predicting OnStar technology
May 22, 2009 at 3:31 pm

OnStar has been working with the CDC for a few years now in an effort to deliver real-time crash information to first responders, and it looks like it has now finally come up with something that's ready to be put to use. That comes in the form of OnStar's new Injury Severity Prediction technology, which apparently takes some recent CDC findings into account, and uses a whole range of sensors in the vehicle (along with other crash data) to predict whether a crash is likely to have caused severe injury to the people in the vehicle. That information can then be relayed to first responders with a simple severity prediction of "normal" or "high," which OnStar says should be especially helpful in cases where crash victims cannot speak for themselves. While there's no exact date for a rollout just yet, OnStar says it should be available to OnStar advisors "early next year," and that it'll be available on all vehicles equipped with OnStar's Automatic Crash Response system.

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Sluggish iPhone sales could lead to stiff fines for Russian operators
May 22, 2009 at 3:01 pm

See folks, this is the kind of mess you end up with after you gleefully do a deal with the devil. According to a roundup of reports over at Unwired View, three of Russia's major mobile operators could be looking at massive (we're talking hundreds of millions of bucks) fines if they can't sell through their iPhone allotments, and unless a significant market shift happens within the next few months, that situation seems remarkably unlikely. We're told that Vimpelcom pledged to sell 1.5 million iPhones within two years, while Megafon committed to 1 million and MTS the same. Today, just 900,000 iPhones have been imported to Russia, with over half entering the country via grey market channels; we'll let you figure out the math there, but it ain't pretty for Russia's carriers. Of course, we're not shocked in the least -- after getting burnt by a bootable-but-not-usable iPhone over there, are you seriously going to give Apple another chance to win you over?

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Video: MSI Wind U115 for sale in Japan, UK
May 22, 2009 at 2:31 pm

MSI's Wind U115, the huggable, lovable, notable, and ultraportable hybrid SSD/HDD is now available to faithful readers in the UK and Japan. It's been spotted making the rounds on the Interwebz in the £450 - £500 (approx. $675-$750) range. A bit pricey for a 10-inch netbook, sure, but perhaps the Atom Z530 processor, 6-cell battery, and 720p video playback will make it worth your while. You have been making some irrational decisions lately -- but we'll talk about that later. Hands on video after the break.

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