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If you’re one of the many, many BlackBerry Storm buyers who cleaned out inventories at Verizon stores on Friday, all that time spent waiting in the cold just became a bit more worthwhile. Online orders are being subject to shipping delays and, while you might think this is just another case of holiday supply versus [...]

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If you’re a BlackBerry user or a prospective user, and also happen to be a Gmail enthusiast, you’re going to be a lot happier than you were yesterday, because Google’s just added over-the-air contact syncing to its Google Sync application. Previously, the app was only able to sync up calendars between the cloud and RIM [...]

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If you’ve been in a cave the last three months you’ve been safe from the endless barrage of Blackberry Storm ads. If not, we feel your pain and are happy to tell you the wait is over (or at least that particular ad campaign is).
On November 21, the first touchscreen Blackberry will launch stateside. [...]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Just how badly do you want a Storm? Badly enough to pull up your long-established roots, fly for half a day, and take residence in a foreign land thousands of miles from home? For Americans who absolutely cannot wait another week for RIM’s first touchscreen device to launch on domestic soil, that’s [...]

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Planet Metrics on Tuesday joined the ranks of carbon-software specialists with the launch of its emissions modeling software and the announcement of .3 million in funding.

The San Francisco-based start-up said that it completed its series A round with participation from venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and angel investors.
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The Intel Core i7 processor is being bid up at online retailers–about a week before its official launch.

Though Intel isn’t slated to launch the Core i7 processor until November 17, processors are ready for order at online retailers. The Core i7 represents the vanguard of Intel’s new …
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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

After last year’s CES fiasco and the non-launch of a Snapdragon device in June, this is what it’s come to: the no really, manufacturers love our platform press release. According to Qualcomm, HTC, LG, ASUS, Samsung and other leading device manufacturers have created more than 30 device designs based on Snapdragon chipsets. [...]

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

We love those two magic words: “Hello World!” It’s not even been a week since the DSi’s Japanese launch and someone has hacked the handheld, stirring up all our homebrew dreams in the process. The coder in question has yet to release any specifics, but the touchscreen seems to be blank (you [...]

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Finally, the promise of the 0 Eee PC is, uh, promised again. Jerry Shen, apparently in a meeting with analysts, said that ASUS will launch an Eee PC priced at US0 in 2009. He also said that 7- and 8.9-inch Eee PCs will be phased out of the market to be replaced by 10-inch models. [...]

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The private space race is go for launch. SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first privately designed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth’s orbit when it finally hit the stratosphere on Sunday.

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