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Consumer Reports Posts First Look at Volt
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on June 27, 2010
Consumer Reports Cars Blog has posted a video first look at the first (preproduction) Volt off of the assembly line. Except for the center console, it sounds like they are generally impressed with the vehicle.
AT&T to Follow Comcast in Rebranding Effort
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on April 11, 2010
Apparently if your product or services aren’t any good just change the name of it.
See this post on DSLReports for more information.
I believe this video from The Colbert Report summarizes AT&T’s history of this nicely.
iPad Doesn’t Sell out
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on April 5, 2010
Despite predictions that it would sell out within hours, according to this Computerworld article the iPad didn’t sell out on its first day.
Granted the sales numbers were still quite impressive, and for some people the device is a great synergy of Apple’s ease of use and a media centered tablet device. However with its locked down approach limiting its usefulness in several areas including productivity applications, it probably won’t fully replace any of the devices most technophiles already have. It looks like several other manufacturers will be putting out similar devices this year. It will be interesting to see what they do now that Apple has broken the ice.
Playstation Tries to Get in Motion with Move
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on March 12, 2010
Sony’s showed off their motion controls at GDC. This video at GameSpot does a good job of showing it off. Looks like Sony will be ready to go this holiday season with a full lineup. With Natal coming as well, will Nintendo be able to continue its dominance of this generation of console’s with only its 1st party titles being the real difference between itself and its competitors?
AnandTech Posts SSD Update
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on February 21, 2010
According to AnandTech, OCZ’s Vertex 2 Pro using the SandForce SF-1500 controller is dead as a retail product and will instead be sold instead in limited quantities as the Vertex Limited Edition. There also a number of other interesting updates in the article including updated Crucial C300 benchmarks.
RockYou Password Breach Analysis
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on February 13, 2010
I’ve seen quite a few articles about the approximately32 million passwords that were exposed during the breach of RockYou, but this is the first article I’ve seen using Google’s Gmail password strength meter to do some further analysis.
Read the article here.
myTouch 3G System Update (Not Android 2)
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on February 12, 2010
Looks like a system update is going out to all the original myTouch 3G units. Based on the description it sounds like a backport of a fix already included in newer versions of Android and isn’t the update to v2 that most people are looking for. The wait for the magic number 2 continues.
Apple iPad Announced
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on January 28, 2010
Apple announced its tablet-like device yesterday. With pricing as follows:
WiFi 16GB = $499
WiFi 32GB = $599
WiFi 64GB = $699
WiFi + 3G 16GB = $629
WiFi + 3G 32GB = $729
WiFi + 3G 64GB = $829
AT&T Unlimited plan = $29.99/month
AT&T 250MB limit plan = $14.99/month
I personally don’t see much value in the device. There are a few cases where something like a netbook wouldn’t be a better choice, but the screen is the wrong type for an eReader and it is pretty expensive for a large iPod Touch. Still no real multitasking either. Hopefully this will help motivate competitors to enter the market. There is definitely a hole in the computing market for a device like this to fill.
Nvidia GF100 / Fermi Preview
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on January 19, 2010
The NDA has been lifted and AnandTech has posted a lot of details about the upcoming GF100. On paper, it looks very impressive. Should be a very good CUDA processing platform and a good card for games to boot.
GM Volt for Under $40k?
Posted by Tim in Uncategorized on January 9, 2010
DailyTech posted an article quoting GM saying the cost of the Volt could end up being significantly less than $40,000. If GM can pulls that off and if the final version reviews as well as all the prototypes generally have, the Volt might live up to the hype after all. More details here.