Archive for October, 2009

Microsoft Temporarily Suspends Sky Player For Xbox 360

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Very fast,” “a dream,” “fantastic.” It looks like you can add “on hiatus” to the list of superlatives — at least for the time being. That boffo Sky Player that Microsoft debuted for the Xbox 360? “Suspended.” Why, you ask? “Due to an unforeseen technical issue.” Luckily for Britons and ex-pats, the £15 monthly service [...]

Windows 7 Receives 7,000 Domino Salute (video)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

If 7,000 dominoes fall in a forest of cheering Microsoft employees, do they make enough noise for us to care? We don’t usually tell Microsoft how to run its promotions, but a domino installation that takes a full three minutes to topple is pretty much an open invitation for “slow boot-up” jokes, and a climactic [...]

Virgin Mobile Looks Ready To Euthanize Helio Brand, Ocean 2 Vanishes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Back in our day, the kiddies all ran around with Helios, VK Mobile looked like it could be the next Pantech, and “Kickflip” was a phone, not a skateboarding move. Okay, fine — we knew like one or two people that used Helio, VK Mobile never even made a dent in the US market, and [...]

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 Finally on Sale With Windows 7, NVIDIA Ion

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Lenovo made us a promise back in August that the Ion-powered version of its IdeaPad S12 would finally be loosed after the introduction of Windows 7, and lo and behold, that very machine is now available to order directly from the outfit itself. The lone Ion configuration starts at $599, and as predicted, it packs [...]

Droid Eris Turns Up in Verizon Training Course

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Again, we have no idea why Verizon is burying the launch of the HTC Droid Eris alongside the Motorola Droid tomorrow (well, apart from the slow CPU and older Android build) but if you had any doubts that Big Red was going to launch this riff on the Hero, well, these screenshots of the employee [...]

Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris To Run Android 1.5 on A 528MHz CPU

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

We can certainly understand why Verizon wants to brand all of its Android devices under the “Droid” label, but at this point we can’t say we understand why it’s launching the HTC Droid Eris alongside the Motorola Droid at all — BGR says it’s going to run Android 1.5 on a 528MHz Qualcomm CPU, which [...]

Google Developing Free Navigation App?

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

We already know plenty of people who’ve eschewed traditional turn-by-turn GPS systems in favor of plotting it out for free on Google Maps, and now there’s whispers that Mountain View is coming after the rest of the market with a free nav app. That’s at least what nav services providers are saying to Forbes, who [...]

iPhone 3GS Bested By Android Archos 5 Tablet in Browsing Benchmarks

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Dell’s Latitude XT2 XFR Rugged Tablet Gets Official

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

As is often the case, the FCC spoiled the surprise on this one, but Dell’s keeping its PR machine chugging along with its new Latitude XT2 XFR rugged tablet nonetheless, and it’s fleshed out a few details in the precess. As expected, this one is more or less just a rugged version of the company’s [...]

DJ Hero Now Rolling Out Around The World, Around The World

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

It’s been a long haul since it was first announced way back in May, but Activision’s DJ Hero is now finally available in North America, and will be making the trip across the pond on October 30th. That includes both the standard $120 version, and the “premium” Renegade Edition, which runs a full $200 and [...]