Tag: US
Big-screened HTC "G1" could be first Android phone, exclusively on T-Mobile in the US
Building on speculation a couple of weeks ago, it seems that an Android mobile phone could be on sale in the States as soon as October, if rumours based on people with inside knowledge of Google and HTC are to be believed.
In a flurry of naming creativity, HTC is expected to launch its G1 mobile phone, sporting a decent five-by-three inch touchscreen, real slide-out QWERTY keyboard, three megapixel camera, 3G, and of course the Android operating system…
Special Feature: iPhone 3G Launch Day Fun Part Two: London and West
Check out part one of this special feature for iPhone launch day fun east of London.
Queues are building up outside Apple’s flagship store in Regent Street, London. Well, OK, there was one person in a bright yellow cocoon in this photo, but apparently they’re arriving in droves now, with as many as TEN people sighted.
You do know you have to pay for this iPhone, right?
Liveblog (via Macworld UK)
Exposé! eBay UK not as Blu-ray friendly as other eBay sites
It’s come to my attention, through a recent attempt at flogging my copy of Casino Royale (every Blu-ray player owner has at least six copies), that eBay UK is not anywhere near as Blu-ray friendly as the US, or even Australia, Canada, or France. I’d test more sites, but that’s about the limit to my bilingualism.
Ever tried selling a Blu-ray on eBay UK? Ever other country’s site seems to have Blu-ray listed in the categories field, however not us in Blighty, who’re forced to lump it into the ‘DVD, Film & TV > DVDs’ or ‘DVD, Film & TV > Other Film Formats’ fields.
The winning HD format is not mentioned anywhere, and neither is HD DVD, which is also mentioned on all the aforementioned sites. Although dead formats such as MiniDisc have their very own boxes for you to tick, along with SACD, DAT, audio cassettes, floppy discs and VHS.
So can we cut to the chase already and label eBay UK as being a non-embracing technological Luddite?..
iTunes could get flexible pricing thanks to rumoured HBO deal
According to sources, HBO could begin selling TV shows on the US iTunes Store at variable prices.
Until now, TV shows and music has been sold at fixed prices, and that was, in part, the reason why NBC pulled some of its shows from iTunes last year. Apple’s current thinking is that a single price for this content, regardless of whether it’s a new release or archive, makes it simpler for the consumer…
TorrentSpy tortured even after death – US court fines closed bittorrent site $110m
Closing their Bittorrent portal TorrentSpy was not enough to save founders Justin Bunnell and Wes Park from getting hammered by the US courts to the tune of $110m.
Justin and Wes’s company Valence Media has been ordered to pay the enormous fine to the Motion Picture Association of America for enabling mass copyright infringement…
US iTunes Store offers movie downloads on same day as DVD release
Apple has announced that users of the US iTunes Store can now purchase selected movies for download on the same day as the DVD is released.
New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios…
Motorola "stuck, in quicksand" and "not going to get out" as mobile sales slump again
BUSINESS NEWS!
Sales in Motorola’s mobile division have continued to plummet, with its share of the US mobile market falling to 9.5% over the last financial quarter – compared to 23.3% at the end of 2006 when people still thought the Razr range was any good.
Motorola itself blamed the fall on a “weak line up…
Is the USB Parrot the most annoying add-on ever made?
That staple of the 70s sitcom, the talking bird, is now available for your PC.
Xbox 360's HD DVD drive has over a third of the US HD DVD player market
Uh-oh! Time for another update on the relative successes and/or failures of the new HD movie formats – this time as seen through the eyes of impartial American stat-compiler NPD.
According to NPD, 750,000 HD DVD players have been sold in America – and the cheap old Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on has been responsible for 269,000…
Uh-oh: Zune 2 software load encounters comedy 'Zune Failed' message alert
Speaking of the new Zunes, check out this comedy-message Boing Boing Gadgets editor, Joel Johnson, encountered…
