Author Archives: Alex Byrnes

iPhone 3G S hardware specs leaked

While Apple’s specs page for the new iPhone 3G S reveals a lot of information, they remain tight-lipped about the processor and memory. Enter T-Mobile Netherlands.

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Hackers try to sell T-Mobile data

Only serious offers will be considered, it says. “Don’t waste our time.”
An apparent group of hackers posted an alert on Insecure.org on Saturday claiming responsibility for what would be a massive security breach at T-Mobile. The threat states that the group contacted T-Mobile’s competitors, but the companies didn’t show interest in buying the data, [...]

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Palm Pre review roundup

You don’t see the words “better than iPhone” knocking around mobile reviews very often. (The phrase “but it’s not as good as the iPhone’s” is practically punctuation at this point.) But you will see these words sprinkled, if not peppered throughout reviews of the Palm Pre.

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Could the Pre have had crocodile keys?

If you’re preemptively disappointed in your Pre’s keyboard, imagine how David Baker feels. The British inventor tells The Register that his Crocodile Keyboard was headed for Palm Pilots, but the project was scrapped due to “manufacturing costs.”

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Google to enter the e-book market

Google put another piece in the puzzle that is its content selling initiative over the weekend, by announcing that it is getting into the e-book business. As the company starts to sell information instead of just pointing to it, it has come under fire from groups such as the Text and Academic Authors Association and [...]

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The cell phone star system going strong

Hollywood movies used to be promoted based on the studio that produced them. But that was before they had something called stars. And, in many ways, it’s a better system. The stars tell you a lot more about what’s in the movie than the studio does.
As the big wireless players [...]

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Jitterbug recall notice hard to find

The Jitterbug, a simplified cell phone for seniors with oversized buttons (whose name conjures the good old days of yesteryear) has been recalled because, wait for it, it can’t always call 911.  The bug, which Samsung blames on a version of the phone’s firmware which was distributed after March 1, 2008, prevents subscribers from connecting [...]

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