The rest of the Pearl 8110’s features are pretty much in line with the latest models. There’s Bluetooth 2.0, a 2-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD/SDHC expansion slot. The smartphone is also compatible with AT&T’s push-to-talk service and AT&T Mobile Music. If this sounds like your cup of [...]

Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Lenovo, and Acer are all expected to unveil new PCs based around AMD’s Business Class technology, the articles said. HP will make its HP Compaq dc5850 Business PC available Monday, and Dell will use AMD’s business class chips in its Optiplex 740 systems, Dignan said.

AMD’s Web site also says the new [...]

Pentax has announced the release of the Pentax SMC DA 17-70mm f4 AL SDM lens for Pentax digital SLR cameras. First shown at PMA 2008, the 17-70mm lens has a constant aperture of f4 through the entire zoom range, with a working focal length of 26-107mm. It has Pentax’s SDM system with built-in supersonic motor [...]

The online Apple Store really should have a spiffy
iPhone interface like Facebook and Amazon.
Much love,
The Macalope

But obviously bandwidth isn’t free. Comcast’s network wasn’t a gift from God. Comcast spent a certain amount of money building it, and it continues spending money to maintain it. Nor does Comcast’s network have infinite capacity. Like any other digital-cable network, Comcast’s system has intrinsic capacity limits on multiple levels from neighborhoods up to [...]

“The 2008 elections saw the role of the Internet in politics increase, and it witnessed the emergence of a unique group of online political activists,” said Aaron Smith, the Pew research specialist who authored the new report. The research for the report was conducted between November 20 and December 4, 2008.

Social media Web sites also [...]

AUDIO
When I was a kid, my mother would complain that I’d tune her out whenever it came to taking out the garbage or mowing the lawn. In other words, when it came to all the stuff I didn’t want to do.

(Credit:
Albert S. Feng, University of Illinois.)
Odorrana tormota lives in a noisy environment on the [...]

The RegistryCleanerXP software supposedly finds 43 critical errors, even on machines that have no problems, officials say.
Microsoft filed five new lawsuits and amended two previous complaints against SMP Soft and Registry Update, all relating to programs that allegedly falsely alert consumers to problems on their computers and offer to sell software fixes. The programs [...]

You decide which category Gore falls into.

This isn’t the first time that Gore has insisted on a $100,000-or-so speaking contract that prohibited press from attending. He did it at a speech at Augustana College (billed as “free and open to the public”). He did it at a speech last year to the American Institute of [...]

QDP apps will be presented in Flex, which has the big advantage of running everywhere (and making it easy to create very pretty applications). However, since QDP apps are targeted primarily at QuickBooks users, and nearly all of them are on Windows, the cross-platform angle isn’t that important. The fact that there are a [...]