Oregon seems to be in the news quite a bit lately. You have careless or inept hunters shooting down Google’s aerial fiber links forcing repairmen to cross country ski for three days to repair the damage done in the Dalles. And now there’s video of a TriMet bus driver reading his Kindle while driving on I-5!
40-year-old Lahcen …
Here’s the official word from DC.
(September 21, 2010 – New York) DC Entertainment, as part of its ongoing strategy to integrate the DC Comics business, brand and characters into Warner Bros. Entertainment’s content and distribution operations, will relocate its business functions related to and supporting multi-media and
…
The amount of work fans will put into a project such as this is astounding. If only this trailer for a live action Pokémon movie were real. I would actually pay to see this. Props to the folks behind this fan made trailer.
[via TR]
Following up on last week’s K-r announcement, Pentax has announced its Big Daddy DSLR, the K-5.
The K-5’s weather resistant body is similar – if not the same – as the K-7 except for a dial mode that sits a smidge higher for easier controls. Using Sony’s 16.3-megapixel CMOS sensor, the K-5 rattles off 7fps with an ISO …
Who doesn’t love lists? Certainly not this guy!
If you have an iPhone and have been itching for something new to play on your next cab ride, road trip, or bicycle ride, do we have a list for you! After hours and hours of focus group testing, we’ve compiled a list of 18 games that are worth the bandwidth and/or your hard earned …
PSA for iPhone/iPad Owners –
Sean Kovacs’ Google Voice app for the iPhone has been approved and looks to have been added yesterday. Looks as though the app is fully functional letting you send and receive SMS messages, playback voicemails, and toggle which calls are made through Google Voice.
Grab it now for $2.99 (iTunes) if …
Remember how awesome you thought it would be to use Google Docs on the iPad only to find out minutes after unboxing that fancy slab of metal and glass that Docs didn’t quite work out the way you thought it would? Yeah…me too. Well, Google has heard our plight and they’ve announced that in the coming weeks, we’ll all be able to …
No hard feelings.
After last night’s report that Verizon would not be offering Windows Phone 7 devices this year, Microsoft has stated that their new mobile OS will only launch on GSM carriers in 2010.
Greg Sullivan, senior product manager at Microsoft, spoke to the CNET and said the company is focused on the wireless standard …
Update: all four major US carriers will carry the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Samsung’s Android-powered Galaxy Tab will soon be available on the “No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S.”. That’s right, the 7-inch tablet with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor will be sold by AT&T “in time for the holiday season.”
The Galaxy Tab will launch …
Wha?!
I don’t know who this hurts more but Verizon Wireless will not be carrying Windows Phone 7 devices at launch or anytime in 2010. Verizon’s Brenda Raney said the carrier “will probably release a phone in 2011” reports Bloomberg.
It’s unclear if Verizon’s heavy investment and dealings with Google were a determining factor …
J.W. Rinzler’s upcoming The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back book that’s due out on October 12 now has a book trailer chock full of tidbits and goodies about the most beloved film in Lucas’ epic space saga.
[via io9]
In an age of oversharing thanks to services like Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, etc., do we really need to see what you’re actually seeing and doing, too? Looxcie thinks so.
The douchey Bluetooth looking earpiece is actually a camera that’s constantly recording (up to four hours at 320×480 at 15fps) whatever it is that you’re …
