We’ve featured lots of universal remote controls before, but this is the first one that’s jacked straight into ESPN. Apart from being able to control all of your AV devices (up to 18), the 2.2″ color QVGA screen displays up to date sports info from ESPN.com, as well as letting you browse the Web via WiFi.

The LCD screen is backlit and automatically adjusts the intensity depending on the ambient light in the room. There are already a bunch of presets to get you straight to scores, weather, news and more, and of course you can program it however you’d like. You can even shop online with the ESPN Ultimate Remote.

All of that, and it’s styling too.

Gimme!

Price: $245.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

In what is good news for citizens of foreign countries with debatable human rights, Internet bigshots Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed to a common set of principles guiding how and how much they share users’ information they share with such governments.

In addition to limiting info sharing, they’ve also agreed to look into a country’s human rights status before engaging in or furthering business in that country.

This is the result of work not only amongst themselves, but with human rights organizations over the past 2 years.

Amazon is hooking you up with a Dash Express today for only $200. This puppy originally was slated for a $600 price tag, but eventually went on sale for $400. Now you can get it for half that price, but today only.

The Dash Express is the first two-way Internet-connected GPS navigation system delivering traffic and destination information in wicked new ways. The Dash Express is the next generation of GPS technology and it’s available today.

Pick one up today only.

Interesting. Cox Communications is getting into the cell phone business starting somewhere in the middle of 2009. They’ve spent half a billion big ones on buying up wireless bandwidth, and is hoping that bundling all of their cable TV, Internet and traditional phone services with wireless will be a hit.

We’ll see.

via USA Today

Gmail 2.0 for mobile phones, particularly Blackberry and phones with Java (J2ME), is here.

What’s new? Better performance, multiple account support, keyboard shortcuts and best of all, offline support. Good intro video. Download from m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser.

We recently featured the brand new immense Dubai Airport Terminal, and just ran across this nice pictorial with before and after photos of Dubai spanning just 18 years, as well as some artist renderings of what things may look like within the next 10 years.

One cool stat – Dubai is estimated to have 15 to 25% of the world’s construction cranes. Wow.

Sweet. Here’s the new Linux-based Palm OS from Access (they swallowed up Palm Source). It supports Linux apps (cool) and yes, it also supports classic Palm apps too (excellent).

Screenshot makes it look nice and bright compared to the current version, but I’ll bet that looks different on a Treo/Palm.

All kinds of PDFs on framework, security and development on the Access website.

I have been feeling quite green recently – and not in a ‘cannot get out bed with man flu kind of way’. No, instead I have been thinking about how I can be that little bit more energy efficient so that has been my focus over the last week. Switching off devices if there are not actually needed, not printing out everything and anything that catches my eye, and safely recycling unused equipment instead of throwing it in the trash.

For the gadget lovers out there I recently wrote about the USB Ecobutton. And if you are wondering what can be done to help with being a little more energy efficient try the new Green IT Poster.

At 16 million square ft, this is now not only the largest airport terminal in the world, but quite probably also the glitziest. Get this: 82 moving walkways, 97 escalators, eight skytrains, 82 moving, & 157 lifts. I so want to go to Dubai now.

Take a look at more amazing photos in this gallery.

Here’s the other new Apple laptop refresh, the pricey, but oh so light MacBook Air. The new Airs feature beefier graphics cards like their larger MacBook brethren, in the form of nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics cards with 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM. They have larger hard drivers (120GB SATA or 128GB solid state), faster CPUs and faster memory.

The new MacBook Air also features Mini DisplayPort instead of the DVI on the previous version. CPU: 1.6 or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn, 1066MHz front-side bus and 2GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM. All of this and it still weighs in at a featherweight 3lbs. Sweet.

Gimme!
More info from the manufacturer

Price: $1799/$2598 depending on configuration
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)