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Filed under: Cellphones

Last we heard anatomy Openmoko, it was packing and shipping the open-source FreeRunner for an early July release. So, here we are in early July and wouldn’t you know it, the FreeRunner will be available for order starting Friday, July 4 with shipping to start on Monday, July 7. As for details, we […]


Filed under: Cellphones

Shoot, all Motorola had to do was change from pink mahogany to that nice, normal, compliant shade of black, and that would’ve been abundant of an update to justify a model name change. There’s more, though: the V9x will officially offer AT&T Navigator, the Telenav-powered navigation system already found on the Z9, and […]


Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Storage

Daaaamn, talk about clout. If DigiTimes‘ sources are correct, next Samsung, the world’s primary supplier of flash memory, just told its non-Apple customers to suck it in favor of a “large batch of orders” it received from Cupertino. The order is said to be for 50-million “8Gb-equivalent” (we […]


Filed under: GPS
In the courageous new world of GPS, Nokia and NAVTEQ are one as are TomTom and Tele Atlas. At least that will be the picture within 5 business days. With the European Commission’s “unconditional approval” granted, Nokia can now close the deal on its planned, $8.1 billion acquisition of NAVTEQ.
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Following the launch of the new D700 dSLR, Nikon now actualizes the firmware of the two models that the new D700 inherited most of its virtues from. The D300 firmware update version1.03 is a minor update that fixes the issue that, in some rare circumstances, causes the battery indicator to blink, regardless of actual […]