Yahoo! Gives Microsoft a big NO!
Yahoo officially turned down Microsofts $44.6 billion offer as inadequate Monday. Jerry Yang and crew believe they can get a higher offer from another suiter, stating this offer “substantially undervalues” Yahoo. Google?
Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks thanks to AT&T
AT&T and Starbucks have to come to an agreement which ultimately boots T-Mobile and offers free Wi-Fi. The only catch is that you have to have a prepaid Starbucks card and can only browse for two hours per day. No offense… but you shouldn’t really be hanging out at Starbucks for more than two hours […]
Microsoft buys Danger, Inc. maker of the Sidekick
Microsoft is on the spending warpath… lobbing bids left and right. Not sure how much money was involved in it’s latest purchase, however Microsoft just bought Danger. Not sure how this is a good fit for Microsoft, but we will be watching from the sidelines. Press release below.
Telephone Line Interrupter prank
A simple and fun telephone prank for anyone with about $130 to spend. All you have to do is connect the device to the phone switch or directly into any phone line at the location you want to prank. The device causes the phones at the location to work for outgoing calls. However, when an […]
Sony Ericsson launches their First Windows Mobile Handset, XPERIA X1
Sony Ericsson has mainly been known for creating phones based on the Symbian operating system, that changed today with the launch of their first Windows Mobile phone, the Xperian X1 QWERTY smartphone. The X1 is the first product in the new Xperian line of higher-end smartphones. The X1 was announced just before the Mobile World […]
Shake it like a Polaroid picture… no longer
Polaroid announces the end of the Polaroid (shake em up) pictures to the dismay of OutKast. The end of the Polaroid film format means the cutting of 450 jobs, and the closing of plants in Mexico, the Netherlands, and Massachusetts. The photograph quality was never great… but this one hurts a bit. Who doesn’t remember […]
Casio launches $4,600 25th Anniversary G-Shock watch
Casio just released their 25th Anniversary “Limited Edition” G-Shock watch – the MRG-8000G. They plan to make only 200 units for sale for all of Japan, USA, Germany, and England. It will have an 18K Gold Ring, titanium bezel, and some additional gold bits.
Google phone prototype to be shown at Mobile World Congress
ARM will be showing their Android prototype “Google Phone” in Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress next week. As you may know, ARM manufactures the processors in many of todays phones. No doubt they are showing this off to show what their chip can do. {Source – Reuters, citing a “source” of their own}
Put your nuggets in your soda
Folks, yet another WTF moment… maybe we should make a WTF category. Inventions for the sake of inventions. Here goes… BBQ Chicken, a South Korea based fried chicken chain has come out with the Col-Pop. The Col-Pop allows the lucky user to have their chicken nuggets (or other items we suppose) on the top of […]
New 16GB iPhone and 32GB iTouch available now
Apple posted the 16GB iPhone and the 32GB iTouch today on their website. Both are listed at $499 and are available immediately.