Tag: MORNING XTRA

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Impatient Apple fan-boys may finally be getting new MacBook Pros. Four new model numbers have shown up in the inventory systems for retailer Microcenter. Prices don't appear to have changed, but expect them to come packing those fancy new Core i5 and Core i7 processors. [From: Engadget] Microsoft apparently can't be bothered to ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Farewell, Shark Week. You terrified us for seven days straight. But cheer up, everybody, in honor of the fin-and-fun of the week, we bring you alloy-based shark repellent, which is almost cooler than Batman's 'Shark Repellent Batspray.' [From: Discovery.com] The recession makes home-buying a scary process. So try the new (and ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Those of us who are just now finally digesting 'Twitter' need to get ready for a new social-networking site (and verb) to hit the mainstream. Tumblr, a simple photo-blogging site, had over 255 million page-views in July alone. Next big thing, anyone? [From: Mashable] Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., announced yesterday that his ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... You may have heard somewhere that the King of Pop died. You might also have heard that his funeral, while a massively watched event, didn't have the virtual attendance of Obama's inauguration, or the news of MJ's death, itself. So it's the third largest Web event of the year, and of all time -- the Prez's swearing in being number ...

Maine Students Get MacBooks CNet reports that the state of Maine is continuing its plan to provide laptops to kids by purchasing MacBooks for all public school students in the seventh through 12th grades. Talk about lucky; it's got to be easier learning to type on those sleek MacBooks than on the ancient IBMs we had. [CNet] Flickr Opens to Twitter Flickr, star of the early Web 2.0 days, has ...

Old Computers Sing Queen Old hardware never dies; it just finds new use with modders. For proof, check out this version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" played by a junkpile of archaic computer hardware. YouTube user bd594 synced up the nostalgic bleats, whirrs, blips, and rings from a number of devices. Listen to an old HP ScanJet printer "singing" vocals to an Atari 800Xl pulling organ duty. ...

Busted Blu-ray From Netflix Our buddies over at Engadget have heard reports of Blu-ray discs from Neflix arriving with small cracks around their edges, which makes them unplayable. No word as to what is causing the damage. Netflix is claiming that the problem is "infinitesimally small," but we'd like to see the company make the switch from its paper packaging to some sturdier, like the ...

NASA Honors Comedian With Space Treadmill NASA won't be naming a module of International Space Station after Stephen Colbert, even though the television comedian won the online naming contest with 230,000 votes after urging his viewers to put his name on the ballot. The space agency reserved the right to choose the final name, instead opting to call the module 'Tranquility.' As a consolation to ...

Famous Korean Blogger Faces Prison Time Democracy takes a low blow as South Korean financial blogger Park Dae-sung (known online as "Minerva") faces 18 months in prison after being falsely critical about the Korean government. Famous for predicting the fall of Lehman Brothers and the resulting global economic crisis, the blogger was arrested after publishing an incorrect story that prosecutors ...

Amazon Blames Removes Gay and Lesbian Titles from Rankings, Blames 'Glitch' Thousands of gay-and-lesbian-themed titles were removed from the online bookseller's influential sales rankings over the past few days. Amazon blamed the accidental classification of these books (everything from classic mainstream novels to self-help books) as 'adult' on a glitch. Regardless, thousands of online ...

'Sims' Creator Will Wright to Leave EA Citing creative differences, legendary game developer Will Wright ('Sim City,' 'The Sims,' 'Spore') announced yesterday that he is leaving Electronic Arts (EA), where he has spent the past 12 years. Wright will focus full time on Stupid Fun Club, a company he founded back in 2001, where he will help create titles for devices beyond the video game console ...

Howard Stern Picks BlackBerry Bold Over Palm Pre Stern stated he was finally ready to update his Treo phone, so Palm brought him a Pre in order to see if the Sirius shock jock would bite and then talk about the device on his satellite radio show. Unfortunately, according to ZDNet, it looks as though Stern picked the BlackBerry Bold over the Pre, saying it's because the former works with Lotus ...

Okay, so it's not quite morning on the East Coast anymore, but we're on West Coast time in Las Vegas, so we'll still call this the 'Morning Xtra.' As we mentioned yesterday, this week we're at CTIA, a bi-annual wireless convention where many of the latest cell phones and mobile apps are unveiled and shown. Keep checking Switched for the skinny on what your new phone (or the services on your old ...

This week, we're at CTIA, a bi-annual wireless convention where many of the latest cell phones and mobile apps are unveiled and shown. Keep checking Switched for the skinny on what your new phone (or the services on your old phone) may look like. Also, check Engadget Mobile for up-to-date hands-on reviews and news from the show. Here are some of the latest stories in wireless this week, with ...

Because we can't always cover all the great news in depth, we here at Switched are starting a new AM feature, which recaps other important stories we may not have hit earlier in morning. Welcome to our sixth edition of the Switched Morning Extra. Free College Education at YouTube! Well, sort of. YouTube today launched YouTube Edu, an online hub for the various free videos offered by more than ...