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AT&T’s spring lineup leaked?

Monday
Mar 3,2008
Sony Ericsson Z750

The Sony Ericsson Z750 was announced last year, but has not yet been released

(Credit: Sony Ericsson)

Ah spring time; when romance, flowers, and new cell phone rumors bloom. A leaked “confirmation” to Engadget reveals a slew of upcoming phones to AT&T’s lineup, and the lineup is a

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  • Bigger Eee PC comes into focus

    Monday
    Mar 3,2008
    (Credit: DailyTech)

    Asus isn’t officially revealing its 9-inch Eee PC until a press conference reportedly scheduled for tomorrow, but Engadget has photo proof that a larger Eee PC does, in fact, exist. Engadget chatted up Asus at its booth at CeBit, and while Asus wouldn’t allow the machine …

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  • Time Machine offers a no-click backup solution

    • Filed under: News
    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    Long an advocate for backing up the data on your Mac, Glenn Fleishman (seattletimes.com) believes he’s finally found the “no-fuss backup system.” It arrived with Time Machine. Part of Mac OS X Leopard, Time Machine “lets you back up your Macintosh with the least fuss combined with [the] greatest access of any archiving system I’ve ever used.”

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  • NIN nails it

    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    Nine Inch Nails’ surprise release of Ghosts I-IV today in five differently priced formats is the perfect example of how recorded music can, should, and inevitably will be sold in a world where free has become the norm.

    Would you pay $300 for this? Depends on how big a fan …

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  • Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    Picture this: an HD DVD fan’s ultimate nightmare.

    (Credit: CNET Networks)

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interview with Toshiba Corp. Chief Executive Atsutoshi Nishida that’s kind of interesting for what it doesn’t say. The article’s headline is “Toshiba’s Plan for Life After HD DVD

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  • Home gadget to study your sleep patterns

    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    DUBLIN, Ireland–It knows when you are sleeping. It knows when you’re awake.

    “It” is neither Santa Claus nor a monster in the closet. Rather, it’s technology from Dublin-based BiancaMed that can track and analyze a person’s sleep and night-breathing patterns without disturbing the sleeper, said CTO Philip …

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  • First Look: Zumobi

    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    If you missed the hands-on review of the release version of Zumobi’s quick-apps for Windows Mobile phones, here’s your chance to see it in action in this First Look video. You’ll see the app’s rich graphics and interesting design. If you can overlook the slight rendering …

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  • Acer buys smartphone maker E-Ten

    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    Continuing its spending spree, Acer announced Monday it plans to acquire E-Ten for $290 million.

    Based in Taiwan, E-Ten has been around for more than two decades, and part of its business includes manufacturing Pocket PC phones and PDAs for other companies. But it’s probably known best to consumers …

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  • MP3 Mailbag Monday

    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    Welcome to MP3 Mailbag Monday, a new feature where I answer a selection of questions about MP3 players and accessories, such as headphones, speakers, and music services and software. Each week, my in-box is flooded with questions from around the world, and while a handful of them are very particular

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  • Quick Tip of the Week: Open all my PDFs in Preview

    • Filed under: News
    Monday
    Mar 3,2008

    You may already know that your Mac can open some documents — PDFs, RAW photos, Excel spreadsheets, text files — in a variety of applications. But did you know that you can tell Mac OS X that you’d prefer to open all Excel documents in Numbers, all text files in Pages, or all PDF documents in Preview? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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    1. Ars Investigates: Does Google Mobile use Private APIs? - Tonight, our peeps pointed us to this Daring Fireball post that suggests that Google Mobile got an application by Apple that uses private iPhone APIs. Said peeps asked me whether Google is getting a better deal than most devs, or whether Google just pulled something over on Apple. The answer is, to say the least, complicated.
    2. BlackBerry Storm Is Not Quite a Perfect Storm - It's hard to overstate how important the BlackBerry Storm is to RIM and Verizon. It's RIM's bold effort to fend off the iPhone and Verizon's best hope for a star handset that draws people in, or at least keeps them from bailing.
    3. BlackBerry's Storm: Awkward and Disappointing - Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm looks handsome enough, but it will disappoint prospective buyers hoping for a credible touch-based iPhone alternative.
    4. Engadget reviews the BlackBerry Storm! - The Storm, a widescreen, touchscreen device boasts many of the same features as the iPhone, but adds innovations like a clickable display, and comes packed with RIM's legendary email and messaging services. Mainlined into the biggest and best network in the States, the Storm is an almost deafening blast to the competition at first glance.
    5. SuperPig saves the world - SuperPig combines a classic video arcade game feel with the fun console controls of the iPhone and iPod touch to offer players a pleasurable gaming experience.
    6. The Worlds First iPhone LoJack Theft Recovery App - Looking for the ultimate theft recovery tool? Look no further.
    7. Unlocking the iPhone 3G With Proxy SIMs - In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G’s for use on different carriers andtested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work. While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can’t wait.
    8. Verizon Wireless bets on Storm for holiday season - Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc.
    9. iPhone Your Life - Apple Helps Organize the App Store - Apple has unveiled a new section of their website called “iPhone Your life.” With the new page, Apple is attempting to help organize the sea of applications that have flooded the App Store. This is a welcome addition, especially since it’s directly from Apple. Nobody has a better directory as to what applications are in the [...]