Monthly Archives: January 2010

How many Gigs of data do geeks consume in a day?

Apparently, the average American consumes about 34 gigs of data in a day, or 3.6 zettabytes for the entire U.S.  Here’s the breakdown from DownloadSquad.com: But I second the question that they pose at the end of their article: how many gigs of data do geeks consume?  Maybe somebody can figure this data out by [...]
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Google’s growing pains with the Nexus One

It appears that even monolithic companies fail when they start dipping their hands into unknown territory.  According to PCWorld, Google’s new phone, the Nexus One, is falling subject to bad reviews for Customer Service – and the fact that it basically doesn’t exist.  Users having problems with the phone are either being tossed back and [...]
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CES announces HP Slate

HPs new Slate advertisement: There are a few more images over at Engadget. There seem to be a lot of tablet announcements coming out this year at CES 2010, hopefully this doesn’t steal any thunder from the announcement Apple is bound to make at the end of this month.
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Microsoft at CES… I knew something was missing…

If you’re like me, you’re excited about CES but don’t have the bank to buy a ticket.  Instead, you’re watching the Engadget Live blog feed and getting the updates every 15 seconds – in picture and text form. While watching this, I also noticed this hilarious post by kyleve on Twitter: “I knew something was [...]
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Very possibly the coolest thing you can do with your iPhone

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of cool flatulence apps out there (yes, that was sarcasm….), but none of them could ever be as cool as this: It’s not released yet, but the date on their website shows 2010 as the release date, so hopefully sometime this year.  They also have pictures of [...]
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Android Fail

Can’t even view an html email?  I’m sure there must be something wrong with the html format, but still… this is pretty bad.  Take a look at the video. Posted over at stevenf.com:
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Save the date! Apple Tablet announcement + more

January 27th is the day you’ve all been waiting for!  Apple should then be announcing their Apple Tablet and possibly the iPhone 4.0 SDK and/or Tablet SDK (I’m guessing that the tablet and iPhone SDKs won’t be that much different, but I could be wrong).  I would assume that a tablet would be able to [...]
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