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Entries for July, 2010

Cellphone and Wi-Fi Coverage Coming to New York City Subway [Cellphones]

Wireless access, including cellphone and Wi-Fi coverage, is coming to New York City subways, according to news site Bloomberg. More » Original post by Adam Pash

Mexico getting unlocked iPhone 4 too

If you live in the States and are dying to get an unlocked iPhone 4, prepare to be taunted by two bordering nations. It looks as though Apple will offer the iPhone 4, carrier unlocked, to Mexico via the Online Apple Store; Canada already has this option. The pricing on the unit has not yet been [...]

Ceramic Speakers from Joey Roth

Joey Roth’s Ceramic Speakers work with your iPod, a television or computer, or even a turntable with a phono pre-amp.  The cone-shaped speakers are made of ceramic with Baltic birch plywood stands.  They output 15W per channel, with 70 – 20,000 Hz frequency range.  Their amplifier, the item in the middle, is based on the [...]

How Advanced Marathon Training Works

So you’ve run a few marathons. Big deal. Now, it’s time to race. How can you improve your long-distance running and pass that 26.2 mile marker with a better time? Original post by timothy

Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems

angry tapir writes “Oracle has announced that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers. The announcement ‘demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to openness,’ company co-president Charles Phillips said in a statement.” Read more of this story at [...]

The Science of Caddyshack

astroengine writes “Thirty years after the release of the cult classic comedy Caddyshack, Discovery News has geeked out and gone on the hunt for any trace amount of science they can find in the movie (video). From gopher territoriality to seismic deformation, from pool poop bacteria to the color of lightning, it turns out there’s [...]

Samsung to introduce its Android tablet in Q3 2010

Add Samsung to the long list of hardware manufacturers that are confirmed to be jumping on the Android tablet bandwagon in 2010. Samsung was not forthcoming with details but did confirm on Friday that its upcoming Android-powered tablet will sport a 7-inch display, placing it squarely in the middle of the 5-inch Dell Streak and [...]

Copyright Troll USCG Violates Copyright

omarlittle writes “The US Copyright Group — a company owned by intellectual property lawyers, which has been in the news for threatening downloaders of the movie Hurt Locker — has apparently stolen their site from a competitor. At one point, even the competitor’s phone number and copyright statement were copied word for word on USCG’s [...]

digiZoid zo “Personal Subwoofer” Review

“Blow Your Mind.  Not Your Ears” was the tagline that caught my attention. In the 1980s, I was always seen walking between high school classes wearing my skinny ties and jeans with a portable cassette player.  At one point, in an effort to improve my listening experience, I even had a battery-operated portable 5-band graphic [...]

China’s Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused

eldavojohn writes “Massive confusion occurred last night for Google’s Chinese search engine and ad services when Google’s automated reporting system claimed that everything was blocked in China. The problem was that most users experienced no outage despite Google’s reports and Google has backpedaled on those reports. Google explained that their tool for detecting blockage is [...]