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Apple Breaking News (again...)

Posted by dmoynihan Wednesday, October 19, 2005 0 comments
Today, Apple announced a slew of new and upgraded products:New/Uprgaded PowerBooks15" & 17" - Bumped up screen resolutions 1440x960 / 1660 x 105022% greater battery lifeSuperDrives for everyoneNew PowerMacsDual-core PowerPC processors in addition to a new system architecture that supports 16GB of 533MHz DDR2 RAM1 terabyte (TB) of internal Serial ATA (SATA) storagePCI Express (PCIe) expansion slotsFour new graphics options for the refreshed...

Print is dead.

Posted by dmoynihan 0 comments
The statement "Print is Dead" sounds as if I am trying to be sensational, but let me clarify, print as we know it today, is changing, the traditional media we hold between our hands and sullies our fingers will disappear.  Developments in e-ink or digital paper from the likes of Sony, Plastic Logic, E Ink Corp, and Phillips, are changing the way we read and ultimately interact with traditional print media.  Soon, you will be able...

Mobile news from around the web...

Posted by dmoynihan Monday, October 17, 2005 0 comments
Samsung Super Slim Slider Phone (via Mobile Burm)Blackberry connect for Palm Treo's (via Mobile Tracker)New Sony WalkMan Phone the W900i (via Sony Press Release)iTunes Phone, Motorola ROKR Reviewed (via Mobile Track...
Hidden internal documents found on Cingular's web site confirms that the company plans to launch a nationwide 3G network on November 1st. The markets in the initial launch include: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco / San Jose / Oakland, Seattle / Tacoma and Washington / Baltimore / NoVa. Some of these markets are large overlapping metro areas.According...

The Cingular Siemens SX66

Posted by dmoynihan Friday, October 7, 2005 1 comments
This week I purchased the Siemens SX66 Pocket PC to be used on Cingulars network. Many of you outside the United States know this device as the as the HTC PDA2K or iMate PDA 2K. The basic feature set is rich, and includes the standard organization fair: calendaring, address book, tasks, email, SMS, and MMS. The specs themselves are also impressive, a high performance 32-bit, 400 MHZ, XScale processor is shoehorned into a rather small...

Quick Tip: Email to SMS

Posted by dmoynihan Thursday, October 6, 2005 0 comments
You can email to any cell phone using the following addresses as a template (as long as the cell recipient has SMS/text messaging).T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com I use this feature to email reminders, as well as using email 'rules' to email specifically addressed users email to my cell phone automatically (no more deer in the headlight...