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A collection of news

Google adds support for push Gmail via Exchange ActiveSync

admin | September 22, 2009

Google Sync’s pretty awesome as it is, but it’s had one glaring flaw in its implementation: no support for Gmail, just Calendar and Contacts, which means you aren’t able to get true push email delivered. Well, they’ve gone ahead and completed the holy Google trinity today with the introduction of Gmail support into the Exchange [...]

Mac Portable gets a 20th anniversary vivisection

admin | September 22, 2009

In September 1989, Apple made its first stab at a portable Macintosh computer. The name? “Macintosh Portable.” Kind of has a ring to it, huh? This 16 pound behemoth packs a 10-inch (640 x 400) monochrome display, 16 MHZ Motorola CPU, 1MB RAM, 40MB HDD, 3.5-inch floppy drive, and a 2400 baud modem into a [...]

Video: doctors implant tooth into eye, restore sight, creep everyone out

admin | September 22, 2009

Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis. It’s a real procedure that really does revive people’s ability to see, yet we get the feeling that people will be more, um, excited about how it’s done than why it’s done. The seemingly Mary Shelley-inspired doctors extract a tooth from a blind person and drill a hole through it, where a prosthetic lens [...]

Tesla Motors confirms it settled lawsuit with former CEO

admin | September 21, 2009

We had some indication Tesla and its former CEO Martin Eberhard had settled their lawsuit after it just quietly went away last month, but the electric automaker has now finally come out and confirmed as much, although it’s not surprisingly still staying mum on any actual details. As you may recall, Eberhard had sued Tesla [...]

Video: VIA EPIA-P720 Pico-ITX motherboard plays 1080p, doesn’t sweat much

admin | September 19, 2009

While NVIDIA’s Ion has been getting all of the attention of late, VIA’s been doing this 1080p thing for quite some time. We actually heard earlier this year that the company’s EPIA-P710 Pico-ITXe board was capable of playing back glorious 1080p video clips, but now we’ve got video proof that the unit’s successor truly can. [...]

Windows Mobile 7 joins the ranks of iPhone and Android with its own app kill switch

admin | September 18, 2009

Earliest this week the internet alarms rang loud with word that Microsoft had added an app “kill switch” to its upcoming Windows Mobile 7 platform. Of course, such a kill switch is not unprecedented, as both the Android and iPhone platforms have their own variant. A Microsoft rep recently relayed a message of peace [...]

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 to launch in France within two months?

admin | September 18, 2009

According to the French (who we’d like to take this opportunity to thank for Histoire de Melody Nelson), the WinMo 6.5-packin’ Xperia X2 (which we got our hot little hands on about two weeks ago) will be hitting store shelves in France “within two months” from now. The cited price, some €600 (about $880) doesn’t [...]

LG introduces XPION X30 Ion-based nettop

admin | September 17, 2009

Apparently not content to let ASUS have all the fun, LG’s just announced the XPION X30, its first Ion-based nettop. This little fella features an Atom N230 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 250GB HDD, and ships with Windows Vista (for the time being, at least). Aside from sporting six (count ‘em!) USB ports, it weighs in [...]

ITG’s Windows XP-loving xpPhone now accepting pre-orders worldwide

admin | September 17, 2009

It’s been awhile since we last saw the xpPhone, a quick, quiet demonstration at Computex that left us doubting whether the thing would ever see the light of day outside a packed showroom floor. It seems our doubts are about to be put to rest as ITG, creator of the thing, has thrown up a [...]

Case-Mate offers $0.99 iPhone recession case… a day after recession ends

admin | September 16, 2009

In life, you’ll quickly learn that everything is about timing. And thankfully for us Earthlings, Case-Mate seems just 24 hours off with this one. A day after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that this so-called recessions was “very likely over,” the aforesaid accessory maker has popped out an iPhone case for those of us [...]