Posts from ‘August, 2008’

With so many submitting and rating sites out there, including the mighty Digg, Yahoo Buzz has a few advantages up its sleeve. Besides using the links submitted by contributors, Buzz’s algorithms take into account search engine popularity, feeding the most popular stories to Yahoo’s home page.

Lenovo gives MacBook Air a run for its money with a skinny new laptop, the ThinkPad X301. This latest Lenovo offering features both a built-in DVD drive and ethernet jack and a fast low-voltage Intel Core 2 Duo ULV 1.2GHz processor that make it a strong contender in the ultra-portable space. This sub-3-pound notebook is [...]

Palm leaked a new handset, the Treo Pro, part of the company’s line-up for 2009. Deemed as “the best looking Palm ever,” the Treo Pro will still use Windows Mobile instead of Palm’s long-awaited Nova operating system.
Blackberry Bold, you’re not alone.

U.K. Twitter users woke up this morning to an e-mail message from Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, saying that they will no longer be able to receive outbound SMS over a U.K. phone number. The latest changes do not affect users in the United States, Canada, or India, where Twitter says it can still “provide full [...]

T-Mobile USA is said to be offering the first Android based handset for presale on Sept. 17, according to TmoNews. The new development contradicts that the mobile platform could be delayed until 2009.

Yesterday a very large number of Gmail users were locked out of their accounts as Google scrambled to fix a problem with the service some trace back to an upgrade to the Contact feature in Gmail. For Google customers this was the latest outage in a string of many that are becoming all to routine [...]