Archive for April, 2009

Apple to possibly cut prices and design a netbook

With our current economic plight, computers are certainly not immune to the economic slide as even Apple’s mighty Mac has taken a recent hit. Even though the hit was pretty small, and Mac is still a dominant force in the computer world, netbooks have recently seen many profits and continue to surge. And [...]

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AT&T to launch new Palm Eos?

Even though Palm is busy at work on the Pre, rumor has it that they are developing yet another smartphone, but this time for a different carrier. Sprint is not the most popular service out there so it makes sense for Palm wanting to pursuit another, more popular service. If the Centro replacement [...]

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Hulu Welcomes Disney to Their Massive Video Library

Hulu is one of my favorite websites to use. It has many, many TV shows and movies from the most popular shows and popular movies. If there is nothing to watch on TV, I can guarantee to find a new or old episode of a classic television show. One of the downfalls [...]

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Comcast Town / Dream Big Ads Insult Depressed People

And now a message from the CentralGadget.com People Helping People team.
We’re pausing the news to talk about a series of incredibly bad ads… from none other than bandwidth capping (and throttling) Comcast.
Depression is a serious problem in America today. And Comcast does no one any help by running ads that feature clinically depressed people singing [...]

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Rumor: Pre to limit amount of phones to build up hype?

In an attempt at strategy, Palm, the creators of the highly anticipated Pre, may limit their launch to under 400,000 devices, initially. A strategy such as this was once used with the iPhone 3G. Apple had reported to sell out fast, which led to the public and press saying the iPhone 3G was a great [...]

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New 3G Eee to launch in Japan soon

If you are looking for smaller netbooks and faster data providing networks, Japan and Asus have the solution. Asus plans to launch its 10-inch netbook that is compatible with Japans wireless data provider NTT DoCoMo that uses 3G access to download data up to 7.2Mbps.
This means no wireless connection or hotspot is necessary. Aside from [...]

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Microsoft to Integrate TellMe Search on Windows Mobile 6.5 This Fall

TellMe Networks has announced that it plans to integrate its eponymous voice activated search service within Windows Mobile 6.5 as a replacement for Microsoft’s venerable yet primitive voice control in use since Windows Mobile 5.0.

TellMe will offer the “One-Button TellMe Search” capability to carriers and hardware manufacturers at no cost, with the decision to implement [...]

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Creative adds ZEN-MX to current ZEN lineup

Today, Creative added to their lineup of MP3 players by adding a basic, entry-level MP3 player, the ZEN-MX. While it doesn’t come with features that would blow you away, it comes with some nice, basic features at an affordable price.
The ZEN-MX will be available in two different models, one being an 8GB model, and the [...]

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Check out interesting unemployment statistics with Google

In today’s economy, it is very helpful to know where areas are mostly affected by the economy. If it’s not helpful, it is at least interesting to know what the trends are, and in years to come, what could potentially happen. For the past years, all this information has been pretty much scattered [...]

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Sony’s new Bluetooth headphones

Sony, with their new noise canceling headphones, attempts to capitalize on the ever growing new bluetooth technologies that can now be found in devices that range from cars to mp3 players. Their latest headphones and in-ear headbuds feature Bluetooth 2.1 technology. This means more clarity and less interference. Today, they announced two new models [...]

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