The good people over at jkontherun have “totally unconfirmed” news about Microsoft’s plans for a Zune Phone. Yep, that’s right, although the Zune hasn’t made much of a splash, Microsoft seems to think that making it a phone will help it compete against the hugely popular iPhone… jkontherun’s anonymous source stated that there was […]
 The good people over at jkontherun have “totally unconfirmed” news about Microsoft’s plans for a Zune Phone. Yep, that’s right, although the Zune hasn’t made much of a splash, Microsoft seems to think that making it a phone will help it compete against the hugely popular iPhone…
jkontherun’s anonymous source stated that there was a meeting in Redmond this week about the Zune phone and that it will be based on a specialized variant of Windows Mobile 7, with functionality centered around Windows Live Services and a touch-screen based design.
We’re keeping the Zune phone still at the rumored stage, but it seems those rumors just keep popping up. Keep your ears open.
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We’re not saying it can’t be done, but you should have some considerable trouble managing to run out of room for your expertly-shot, highly-narrative vacation antics with Hitachi’s new DZ-BD10H camcorder, which records 1080p HD video to Blu-ray discs or to its built-in 30GB hard drive. There’s even an SD slot, which we aren’t positive you can record video to, but it’s a fair guess. Other specs include a 2.7-inch LCD and a 10x optical zoom. Price should be around $1,500 when it hits Japan on August 9, but no solid word on a US berth just yet.
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Charismatic San Franciso Mayor Gavin Newsom, did it again, this time convincing rogue network administrator Terry Childs to hand over passwords to the city’s captive network. Childs was jailed July 13 after hijacking the city’s multimillion network and refusing to hand over passwords to the system. Though city officials stated the network had been […]
Charismatic San Franciso Mayor Gavin Newsom, did it again, this time convincing rogue network administrator Terry Childs to hand over passwords to the city’s captive network. Childs was jailed July 13 after hijacking the city’s multimillion network and refusing to hand over passwords to the system. Though city officials stated the network had been functioning without error, administrators couldn’t gain access or control of the system.
According to reports Childs said the Major was the only person he could trust. Mayor Newsom secured the passwords without telling the cities Department of Telecommunications and Information Services.
Child’s lawyer reportedly stated that none of the people, other than the mayor, who requested the cities password information “were qualified to have it,” and that in his defense Child’s hopes to “expose the utter mismanagement, negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left unchecked, will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger.”
Childs is being charged with four counts of personal tampering.
Photo credit: the Associated Press.
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Designer Joost van Bleiswijk makes everything flat. He designs components on a computer and then essentially laser cuts them out and folds them together into full-sized candelabras, clocks, and even this insane fireplace thing. Everything is made of stainless steel. It kind of reminds me of Ponoko but clearly this guy has taken it to a […]
Designer Joost van Bleiswijk makes everything flat. He designs components on a computer and then essentially laser cuts them out and folds them together into full-sized candelabras, clocks, and even this insane fireplace thing. Everything is made of stainless steel.
It kind of reminds me of Ponoko but clearly this guy has taken it to a whole other level. There’s an altar in that fireplace thing, for Prometheus’ sake.
[via Treehugger]
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Nobody knows exactly when, how many will be available, their price, charge time, range, or pretty much anything about the electric cars BMW is planning on selling. But we do know that they plan on selling them, probably in about a year. Not really big news unless you were one of those people planning on […]
Nobody knows exactly when, how many will be available, their price, charge time, range, or pretty much anything about the electric cars BMW is planning on selling. But we do know that they plan on selling them, probably in about a year. Not really big news unless you were one of those people planning on investing in an electric vehicle sometime in the middle of 2009. Oh wait, that’s me!
Let’s hope (for my sake) that they’re inexpensive. They might beat the rest of the auto makers, who are by and big planning to make their huge electric push in 2010. [via Gas 2.0]
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What do former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore and Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens have in common? Both believe the U.S. should cut back on its dependence on foreign oil and that the government needs to cease pussyfooting around on issues of greener energy, particularly wind power. Forbes website, recentlyreported that GE […]
What do former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore and Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens have in common? Both believe the U.S. should cut back on its dependence on foreign oil and that the government needs to cease pussyfooting around on issues of greener energy, particularly wind power.
Forbes website, recentlyreported that GE Energy is the leading wind turbine manufacturer in North America and that it is sold clean out of turbines until 2010, thanks in part to Pickens current order of 667 turbines for his huge wind farm in the Texas panhandle. Pickens, with his privately funded project, has publicly called for the U.S. to generate 20% of its electricity from wind power within 10 years. While Gore set a more audacious goal that the country should eliminate its use of carbon-based fuel within the same timeline. According to Forbes, wind currently accounts for less than 1% of the U.S. electric power.
Still GE states its possible to meet Pickens goal and points to places like the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where scientists have improved blade design, increased efficiency in the transfer of energy into electricity and improved gearboxes that attach the turbines to the shaft.
Still experts in the green energy field state no matter how good the technology is, without a “national push” nothing major can change.
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 We got a gander at Samsung’s fancy new tellervisions and other stuff, and while the basic design language hasn’t changed a whole ton in current years, there’s always something new going on. We’re particularly enthusiastic about the new Series 8 LCDs, which manage a standard complement of ports in 2-inch thick form factors — none of that ports-in-the-base nonsense. The cute tiny InfoLink RSS widgets (pictured) are also quite the welcome addition to Samsung’s lineup, since these days we really can’t be bothered to lift our phone up to eye level and check the weather on there. We bet you think we’re kidding. Samsung is always droning on about the “Touch of Color” design, which is present in all its new TVs, along with its new computer monitor / TV hybrid displays. The flavor of the month is a new honeycomb pattern worked in with the color, but we really couldn’t care less — we’d rather watch TV. Elsewhere in the event we got to handle Samsung’s new cameras and camcorders. The new TL34HD is a particular stunner, though we do like the older black / blue color scheme. Nothing could have prepared us, however, for the SC-MX20. While in press pics it appears to be just another cheap-ass YouTube camcorder (which it is), in person the build quality and astounding color choices really blew us away — and trust us, no one is more surprised than we are by this fact. Most everything on display will be available next month.
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AT&T is looking to create tiered access to the World wide web for subscribers. Currently, the company offers World wide web speeds “up to” their subscribed amount. At a recent FCC hearing AT&T Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn said, “When AT&T provides broadband service by speed, it will do so in discrete, non-overlapping tiers.” Of course, the knee […]
AT&T is looking to create tiered access to the Internet for subscribers. Currently, the company offers Internet speeds “up to” their subscribed amount. At a current FCC hearing AT&T Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn stated, “When AT&T provides broadband service by speed, it will do so in discrete, non-overlapping tiers.”
Of course, the knee jerk reaction is that the company is looking for ways to charge more for what it already provides, but it may be even more devious than that.
Could this be a plan to meter access to the World wide web in a way similar to how gas and electricity is delivered? Possibly. The big companies would surely like to see it become a reality. Time Warner Cable is selling their triple-play services in Texas with some small print stipulating the customer paying for overages. Buyer beware.
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