A billboard for McDonald’s recently spotted on the New Jersey Turnpike advertises the restaurant’s new Wi-Fi (802.11b) Hot Spot service available in some locations:
Bites or Bytes. We do both.
www.mcdwireless.com
No word on pricing…
What’s next, an iBook Happy Meal?

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Sony Ericsson disappointed the heck out of me with the T68i. Now I’m giving them one more chance to make good. The phone? The T610.

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The satire-heavy pseudo-newspaper The Onion recently posted an article titled “I Have An iPod–In My Mind.” Most of us who haven’t quite been able to put together enough scratch to buy one of our own will be able to relate…

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Veta Universal is a US$8 Bluetooth universal remote controller for your Nokia 3650 that runs on Mac OS X. Now you can remotely operate all of your favorite Mac applications – including iTunes, DVD Player and even the mouse. Veta Universal is a Series 60 application for your phone. It is designed to work seamlessly with Romeo 0.9.1.

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Romeo, a popular program to control your Mac via Bluetooth, has now added with version 0.9.1 support for the Nokia 3650. Read More…

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PowerPage sources come through again with reliable data on the new PowerBook 15-inch announcement. Read more…

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MacRumors is reporting that the long-awaited Aluminum PowerBook 15-inch and updates to the PowerBook 12 and 17-inch could arrive as soon as tomorrow.

This common thread between them appears to predict across the board PowerBook updates as early as next week — with 12″, 15″ and 17″ Powerbook models finally seeing updates. The rumors all seem to point towards a thinner 12″ PowerBook and a high end PowerBook with speeds up to 1.33GHz. Reports include backlit keyboards and FW800 throughout. Next week is the earliest date provided, otherwise timeframes are described on the order of weeks.

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I went over to the Sony Building in Ginza after our iChat about the new Sony Clie PEG-UX50. They had two units of the CLIE PEG-UX50 on display and there were people waiting in line to try them out as it was lunch time.
The units went on sale here last Saturday, August 9th for ¥69,800 (roughly US$580). The UX50 was very light and this is due to the abundance of magnesium and plastic used in these units. Gone is the cool metallic “weight” of the NR/NX series. Even with the power cradle (PEGA-JC40K) attached to the bottom it felt quite light. Read More…

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There are many Bluetooth headsets on the market these days, and people often ask which is the best they should pick up?

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In an article on their homepage, CNN interviews a New Yorker dependant on his Bluetooth Internet connection while capitalizing on the Blaster worm–he’s an Apple salesman.

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