Archive for October, 2009

The recently leaked inPulse Smartwatch accessory for the BlackBerry will in fact be released next February, according to the official portal for the device.

The inPulse Smartwatch for BlackBerry is being manufactured by Allerta and will rely on Bluetooth in order to send incoming emails, text messages and other alerts from the handset to the watch [...]

Many upgrading to Windows 7 have encountered a problem: Windows 7 fails to Activate, claiming that you don’t have a previous version installed.
For some, this is a shocker, since their systems came pre-installed with Windows. It’s true, Microsoft has changed the upgrade protocol in Windows 7 slightly. And, that unconvered some bugs along the way, [...]

Sony’s Playstation Blog has announced that the highly praised Netflix Watch Instantly video streaming service offered by the mail-order DVD rental company will be available for the console next month, following months of cryptic speculation and even triggering competitive bluster by Microsoft who initially claimed an exclusive on the offering.
Netflix has setup a dedicated portal [...]

Apple has updated their online store with the TomTom Car Kit for iPhone 3G/3GS.

The car kit consists of a dock with a built-in GPS transceiver designed in tandem with the companion TomTom for iPhone GPS application, although the application is sold separately for $99.99 and is not bundled with the $119.99 dock as first expected [...]

Apple has replaced the ZFS integration project landing page with a notice stating that the project has been discontinued, with the mailing list and source repository being slowly shut down in the coming days.
Apple originally touted ZFS filesystem support as a feature that would be available in Snow Leopard Server and in a future Snow [...]

Mobile chipset developer and solution provider Broadcom has announced the newest series of Bluetooth chipsets for headsets in the BCM2074x series, which feature improved SmartAudio® wind and noise reduction algorithms, support for multiple language voice prompts and the ability to charge five times faster than previous Bluetooth chipsets (4 hours of talk time after a [...]

Following up on the Clearwire announcement, Comcast has updated its dedicated portal for the forthcoming High-Speed2Go service expansion which will mirror Clearwire’s current rollout schedule starting in November.

Embattled Mac clone manufacturer Psystar Corporation has announced the public release of the RebelEFI software used in its lineup of Intel PCs running Mac OS X. RebelEFI enables the use of the Mac OS X operating system on common Intel hardware and is currently unavailable as the time of this posting.
The company also [...]

Verizon’s Policy Blog has been updated with a joint statement from Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam and Google CEO Eric Schmidt regarding the FCC’s push for national net neutrality policy which begins tomorrow with preliminary policy development.
The following points were agreed upon by both executives:

“we both think it’s essential that the Internet remains an unrestricted [...]

HTC has just posted the source code for the HTC Hero Android build on its dedicated developer portal. This follows weeks of demands from open source developers regarding the availability of the source code from the manufacturer, as HTC originally stated that it was waiting on its own developers to provide the source before making [...]