Readers of this site are already familiar with Apple’s Quarterly Promotion (or Q Promo for short) which is a PDF of reduced price Apple product that is available for purchase by Apple employees, friends and family. Usually Apple has products on the Q Promo that are either being discontinued, updated, or in oversupply. Today’s Q […]
Month: November 2004
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Wireless Froogle, SMS Google
Did you know that you price compare products from your cell phone? It’s called Wireless Froogle (Froogle is Google’s product search service) and it allows you to search the Web for products with your wml-enabled cell phone. To use Froogle on your cell phone, just point your phone’s browser to http://wml.froogle.com/. Key Features: If your […]
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Laptops With Entertainment Mode
In Walt Mossberg’s Personal Tech column for the Wall Street Journal (“Laptops Get More Entertaining“) he points out a cool new feature available is some new PC laptops: laptops that can play DVDs and CDs, or even act as a television, without booting up into your Windows operating system. These new machines have a separate […]
I braved a chilly London night to check out the line for the new Apple store in London. The line started at around 5pm on Friday (the day before). By sunrise those that were waiting for goodie bags were out of luck as only the first 300 knew they would get one. 10 minutes before […]
Philadelphia, PA — Remember our previous story about Philadelphia’s plans to roll out the world’s largest free Wi-Fi (802.11b) mesh network? Well, Governor Ed Rendell’s (D) House Bill 30 “could limit, if not crush, Philadelphia’s ambition of rolling out free or reduced-cost wireless Internet access citywide” according to an article (“ City ‘Wi-Fi’ plan hinges […]