October 2008

ESPN’s “Ultimate Remote” Universal Remote Control

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 [...]

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Google, Yahoo & Microsoft agree on common principles for dealing with privacy issues in other countries

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 [...]

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Dash Express – On Sale for $200. 1 Day Only!

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 [...]

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Cox Cable getting into wireless business

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

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Gmail 2.0 for mobile is here

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.

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Amazing Before and After Pics of Dubai

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 [...]

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New Palm OS on its way

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 [...]

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Are we green yet?

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 [...]

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Dubai Airport’s Terminal 3 is immense and awesome

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.

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New Apple 13-inch MacBook Air

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 [...]

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