Archive for March 10th, 2008

Sprint Mogul getting the EV-DO Rev. A treatment, as promised

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Here's a treat from HTC and Sprint to lighten those Monday blues: the Sprint Mogul, built by HTC, is getting a software update to bump the phone's data connection up to EV-DO Rev. A, roughly doubling current download speeds, and really boosting uploads. This makes the Mogul ...

Sony confirms Giga Juke SC55PKE and E35HD for the UK

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment Sorry Sony, but we saw these coming back in January. Sony just got around to confirming its new line of Giga Juke home audio players -- at least in the UK -- after letting them float around on the internet for a good couple of months. The ...

Buffalo announces 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB external HDD

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Filed under: Storage Although Buffalo managed to squeeze one whole terabyte of storage into its new LinkStation Mini, the firm is looking to give the bytes within its latest external drive a bit more breathing room. The 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB is a touch more capacious than the previous 320GB king, and ...

European Xbox 360 price cuts officially official

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming Yeah, we had plenty of advance notice, but it looks like those European Xbox 360 price cuts are now the real deal. The 360 Arcade is now just €199.99 / £159.99, while the Premium drops €80 / £50 to €269.99 / £199.99 and the Elite comes down €80 ...

Silverlit VBeat Air Guitar and Air Drums are better than the real thing

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Face it, nobody has time these days to learn a real instrument with "strings" and "sevenths" and these "quarternotes" we hear tell of. That's why all music recorded from 2002 on has been 100% sampled: it's just better that way. The next step in this natural evolution, ...

Ericsson exec sees WiFi hotspots becoming the new telephone booths

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Filed under: WirelessWhile it hardly comes as much of a surprise, Ericsson Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl is now predicting nothing short of the demise of WiFi hotspots, and he's saying that that they'll be replaced by -- you guessed it -- mobile broadband. Speaking at a conference in Stockholm, ...