SideKick II! - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Motorola A630 review - Intro - Cell Phones - CNET Reviews

Ok. So obviously I am OCD on what my next phone will be. It's gonna happen this year and I am trying to leave the hiptop for one of thos motorolas (preferably the mpx). I was blogging about it here, but I think that blog is going to retire now. So now you, poor reader, will decide along with me at Wudan.

Motorola A630 - Windows Mobile 2003 and a wide display!

Even more Motorola MPx rumors, hearsay, and gossip - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Motorola makes an honest handset out of the MPx - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Motorola Finally Shows Off the A630 - Engadget - www.engadget.com

MobileTracker: Motorola A630 announced Motorola today introduced the Motorola A630 at an exclusive party in New York City on the rooftop of Hotel Gansevoort (pictures from the party). It’s a camera phone that the company hopes will help boost the Motorola brand image, analyst are upbeat . The main feature of the A630 is a fold-out keyboard (the phone folds out in half, see photos). Other known features are:

Integrated VGA digital camera

Bluetooth

MP3 ringtones

Speakerphone

176 x 220 65,000 color display

Weighs just 3.5 ounces



The Motorola A630 is a Cingular Wireless exclusive at launch—expect to pay $200 to $300. We should see it this summer.

Is This The Next iPod?

How-To use AOL Instant Messenger to send a Text Message to a phone - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Next iPod in August? - Engadget - www.engadget.com We’d heard September, but now the word on the street is that the next generation iPods are going to be released in August. According to sources, it sounds like they’re going to be a crossbreed of the regular old iPod and the iPod mini, taking some features from each. Some of the rumored upgrades: a smaller form factor, similar to themMini in design (which probably means the new scroll wheel), a bigger hard drive and a bunch of color options, such as purple, orange and yellow (why do you taunt us Apple?).

The ultimate iPod mini - Engadget - www.engadget.com We’re not sure whether he was just trying to shut up all the haters on some Japanese message board complaining about all the features the iPod mini doesn’t have, or just trying to show off his Photoshop chops, but some dude in Japan designed the ultimate iPod mini with every single thing they were asking for, including:

Is Mac OS X 'Tiger' Rolling Over on Windows Support?: "If Apple has a cross-platform client strategy for Mac OS X, it is playing it close to its vest.

However, Derick Naef, chief operating officer of networking developer Group Logic Inc., of Arlington, Va., said that WWDC attendees received some useful information about the Tiger client later in the week.

"There wasn't anything groundbreaking, but there were incremental improvements," he said. "They are moving in right direction."

Wired News: Macworld Boston Opens Loudly: "But not everyone was pleased. "I'm disappointed it's not in New York," said William Castro, a product designer who flew up to attend a couple of Photoshop classes. "The show last year (in New York) had a lot more vendors and more people involved in Mac media. I know a lot of designers who wanted to come but wouldn't because it was in Boston."

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jordan's female boxers go for glory

$800 Stokke Xplory Stroller Hits NYC: "I'm honored that Greg Allen of DaddyTypes.com wrote me an even longer, more explanatory description in email of the new $800 Stokke Xplory fashion stroller than he wrote on his own blog. And yes, I said $800 stroller. You know, for kids. To puke in. Anyway, I'll just quote his dandy email after the jump and we can all marvel at the apparently burgeoning market for big ballin' baby buggies."

Tanning Improves Mood The promise of darker skin lures people to tanning beds. But the relaxing effects of ultraviolet (UV) light keep them coming back, a new study shows.

BBC NEWS | Health | White bread could spoil your diet People who ate whole grain foods, such as brown bread, did not have the same gain in waist size, the scientists at Tufts University in Boston found.

How-To use AOL Instant Messenger to send a Text Message to a phone - Features - Engadget - features.engadget.com

Yahoo!, Hotmail and Excite Respond to Gmail

Yahoo! Mail has recently enhanced its standard and premium services in response to Google's upcoming Gmail launch. On June 15, Yahoo! Mail increased its storage space to 100 MB for standard users and 2 GB for Yahoo! Mail Plus users. The 2 GB for Plus users is double the storage of Gmail. Yahoo increased the maximum size message that users can send and receive, now up to 10 MB per message.

Yahoo! Mail improved its email search capability and will put more than 50 million email addresses back into distribution. They have also redesigned the web-based email user interface to increase usability.

Hotmail has announced July 2004 plans to upgrade its free email offering in a similar manner to Yahoo! by upgrading services and mail storage capacities. They plan to offer free subscribers 250 MB of storage, up from the current 2 MB limit. Hotmail also plans to offer its anti-virus service for free: it will clean any viruses identified in a subscriber's email. Until now, Hotmail has alerted subscribers of a virus, but not cleaned it or removed it from access.

Excite will soon be increasing storage space from 3 MB to 125 MB for its free email users. They will also increase the maximum size message that users can send and receive, similar to Yahoo! Mail, to 10 MB.

The inside scoop on the MPx, MPx220, and MPx100 :: Mobile Gadget News - (MPx200.org) :: News, Reviews, and Help for the MPX200, SCH-i600, and SmartPhone Community

Paid family leave takes effect in California - Blogging Baby - www.bloggingbaby.com File this one under “It’s about freaking time!”: On Thursday, paid family leave took effect in the state of California. While such family leave has long been a fact of life in such countries as Germany and France, California is the first state in the US to require employers to offer 6 weeks of paid leave each year for parents to either care for their newborn or ill child or adopt a child.

Blogging Baby - www.bloggingbaby.com Blogging Baby is a blog — an online magazine — about pregnancy, baby care and parenting. We aren't paid to mention specific products. We cover what we think is interesting as parents ourselves.

Phone Shopping Friday - Unlocked GSM Phones - Engadget - www.engadget.com Good advice on some of the nicer new phones.

Exclusive Sony U50 review - Engadget - www.engadget.com We reviewed the Sony U50 and we’re happy to report it just might be one of the best portables, while a lot of companies are showing prototypes, Sony actually brought an amazing device to market…The U50/70 is the smallest and lightest full-power PC on the market. The hardware really speaks for itself, we took a lot of photos and video make sure to check’em all out.

BMW Motorrad The new 4-cylinder engine in the K 1200 S is full of Formula 1 details – from the cam followers in the cylinder head to the dry sump lubrication system. Even the shape of the combustion chambers is inspired by the critical motor racing discipline.

Economist.com | Business in the Americas: "LONG accustomed to being just a hub for Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami recently awarded itself an upgrade. It now advertises itself as the “Gateway of the Americas”. But why should an ambitious Florida city stop there, when “Capital of the Americas” beckons? Or even “Centre of the New World”, as one of its glossy brochures has it? For that is what Miami is now pitching for: already it has launched a big campaign to host the headquarters of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)."

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Poor Moldovans lured into sex trade "Moldova is Europe's poorest country. In the capital city, Chisinau, the average wage is about $2 a day. In the countryside, it is half that"...
Tight writing from the BBC.

"I was amused to see Yahoo and Hotmail scramble to revise their e-mail services so that they didn't look quite so pathetic in comparison. Yahoo upped the storage limit for a free account from 4 megabytes to 100; in July, Hotmail will raise its own limit from 2 megs to 250. (Paid accounts get even bigger storage upgrades.)"

BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy's teen scooter riders grounded Thousands of Italian teenagers have been banned from driving motor scooters by a new law that took effect on Thursday.

New iPod external battery pack - Engadget - www.engadget.com A new external battery pack out for the iPod that runs on AA batteries and will even charge up your iPod while it’s connected.

Motorola makes an honest handset out of the MPx - Engadget - www.engadget.com The specs are exactly as expected: a 2.8-inch LCD touchscreen, a 1.2 megapixel digital camera, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and quad-band GSM, but there’s no official word on when it’ll be out. A Motorola rep we spoke to told us off the record that they were aiming for September, but that it could be a little later than that.

Wired News: Speedy, Tiny and Troublesome Popular in European racing circles for years, pocket bikes have recently exploded on the scene in California. From Wal-Mart and Kragen Auto Parts stores to eBay and bulletin board mecca craigslist, gas-powered and electric versions of the tiny bikes are being bought, sold and ridden all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Though the top pocket bikes can cost up to about $3,000 and are made by Italian companies like Polini and Pasini, low-end Chinese bikes start at under $200 -- affordable for many teens, like Walstra, who want a cheap feel of what it's like to ride a motorcycle.

BBC NEWS | Europe | EU criticises Vatican's condom 'bigotry' He condemned the Vatican's "lack of love for human beings" and "unwillingness to take their situation seriously".
Mr Nielsen said it forced people into "a terrible choice of abstinence or lose the blessing of the Church".

MSN Autos - Top Stolen Cars in America Lists

BBC NEWS | Europe | Pigeons find hidden Spain fresco The fresco angels are seen again after more than 300 years


A Renaissance fresco hidden for 300 years has been rediscovered in Spain - thanks to nesting pigeons.

Art restorers working in Valencia's cathedral spotted the birds flying through a hole in what turned out to be a false ceiling and were intrigued.

They stuck a digital camera in the gap and shot pictures that showed a well-preserved 15th century Italian fresco.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Hotmail counters Google e-mail Hotmail is boosting the amount of storage space for users of both its free and paid e-mail service.

From July the basic Hotmail allowance will be boosted to 250MB and paying customers will get two gigabytes.

The move is widely seen as a response to Google's GMail service which gives all users a gigabyte of storage to keep all their messages.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net pioneer predicts web future

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Vietnam man hopes for hair record: "A Vietnamese man who has not had a hair cut in 31 years hopes to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest hair in the world."

Float Bed: "Suspended by four stainless steel cords, the Float bed by German mathematician Max Longin tries not to 'inhibit or obstruct the movements of lying or loving'"

BBC NEWS | Americas | Castro asked US president for $10

Wired News: Virtual City of Smut Now Online Taking a page from multiplayer gaming, a porn site has created an interactive virtual world based on Amsterdam's famed red light district. Subscribers can check out local clubs or trade pick up lines with fellow members.

The Peddie School - Alumni News Perez Picked by Tampa Bay in Draft

Fernando Perez ’01, former standout soccer and baseball player at Peddie, was selected by Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the seventh round of the Major League Baseball draft, the 195th pick overall. He becomes the highest-ever draft pick in Columbia history.

NPR : Dog Prodigy Gives New Meaning to Language If you think your dog understands you, scientists say you may be right. New research shows that some dogs have a remarkable capacity to comprehend human speech.

American Constitution Society Download the U.S. Constitution to Your iPod.

Hands on with HP’s new h6310 Pocket PC Phone

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Reagan: Simplicity was his strength Communism would have collapsed even without Ronald Reagan but he will be remembered because he put into words what very few dared to say - that something was rotten in the system.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Reagonomics or 'voodoo economics'?

HOW TO Tuesday: Make digital movies the easy way - Engadget - www.engadget.com According to some estimates there are about 60 million (if not more) of you out there with Digital Video Camcorders, just about all DV cameras have Firewire (IEEE 1394) output/input and there are hundreds of millions of DV tapes being shipped per year. The bad news is, we know exactly what happens — you record a lot of stuff to DV tape and never do anything with it. It’s a bit of a hassle to sit and edit for hours when all you want is a 2 minute clip from that birthday party or event. And the truth is, most of the stuff we all shoot is crap since we just aim and record everything. So in this week’s HOW TO Tuesday we show you how to make use of that footage to quickly and easily make movies and automatically add a soundtrack.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Eco glass cleans itself with Sun A revolutionary kind of glass that needs little cleaning could mean soap and chamois are binned for good.
The Pilkington Activ glass has a special nano-scale - extremely thin - coating of microcrystalline titanium oxide which reacts to daylight.
This reaction breaks down filth on the glass, with no need for detergent. When water hits it, a hydrophilic effect is created, so water and dirt slides off.

AirPort Express with AirTunes Apple just unveiled the Airport Express with AirTunes, a plug-mounted mini version of their popular Airport Extreme 802.11g base station that ups the digital hub ante with the simple addition of an eighth-inch stereo out that turns the Airport Express into a streaming music outlet that interfaces seamlessly with iTunes.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Venus set to dive in front of Sun: "The planet Venus is the focus of major interest on Tuesday as it passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth."

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Moore's 9/11 trailer goes online "I want to make sure if I do nothing else for the rest of this year that those who died in Iraq have not died in vain."

Fahrenheit 9/11 Trailer Buck Fush

BBC NEWS | Health | Genes may to blame for infidelity: "Some people may be genetically programmed to be unfaithful to their partner, a scientist has claimed."

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fossils hint at early complexity The animals are less than a fifth of a millimetre long and have a two-sided body plan previously thought to have existed much later in Earth's history.

POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 Fighting Styles of Rumsfeld?

MSN Money - Last chance to lock in dirt-cheap student loans - Cut college costs

BBC NEWS | In Depth | Shooting D-Day through a lens: "As a man who has spent a lifetime - and then some - as a press photographer, American Marty Lederhandler is in no doubt as to which event has had the most profound effect on his long and colourful life."

Wired 12.06: How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business? Hot gossip! Cool gadgets! Gawker & Gizmodo, Fleshbot & Wonkette! Inside Nick Denton's plan to become the nanopublishing media mogul.

Build your own gaming PC for under a $1,000 - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Pentax quitting the film camera business? - Engadget - www.engadget.com Imaging Resource reports on some news items which appeared on the website of Pentax’s Russian distributor that indicate that Pentax is quitting the film camera business (well, apart from medium format cameras) to focus entirely on digital cameras. It could be that the move is limited only to the Russian market, which is why it hasn’t been announced anywhere else, but c’mon, with sales of regular film cameras flat or falling, you know it’s only a matter of time until all of the big five (which besides Pentax also includes Canon, Konica Minolta, Nikon, and Olympus) kill their consumer film camera lines in favor of digital, leaving film the domain of the professional.

Hacking Canon’s Digital Rebel to make it into an EOS 10D Apart from few small differences in the software and body, the Digital Rebel, Canon’s entry-level digital SLR, and the EOS 10D, their professional digital SLR, are basically the same camera. It’s just that the EOS 10D costs five hundred bucks more. So are hacking the firmware on their Digital Rebels so that they can get access to all of the special features that are disabled on the camera that aren’t on the EOS 10D. Which has got to annoy Canon.

iPod = Good, Auto-Sync = Bad. - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com Bill Palmer makes the best case against auto-sync yet and explains why he, and everyone else should turn the feature off the moment they buy an iPod.

Gmail to support mobile devices? Looking good! - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Masuimi Max - modeling Trashy.com: "Masuimi Max"

Umodela Natural shots of "supermodels".

The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com

The Unofficial Google Weblog - google.weblogsinc.com

Speed reading CeBIT America - Engadget - www.engadget.com "Some snaps of Motorola’s MPx, which is more or less this year’s Treo 600 — aka the smartphone that’s supposed to make all your dreams come true. Dual-hinge thing works as well as we hoped it would, and we were pleased to see that they’ve improved the keyboard. They haven’t said anything official yet, but the Motorola rep said that they’re aiming to have this out by September."

gmail swap "Gmail Swap tells the people with Gmail about the people without."

eHomeUpgrade | Apple Video iPod Demystified - May 22, 2004: "Rumors have been circulating around for months now about a secret Video iPod that Apple has in the works."

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column: "In order to pay for new business adventures, parts of the company that are viewed as likely to die are starved of funds and milked of cash. Look for this to happen eventually for the Mac."

Welcome to Trashy Lingerie.

Impressive lady.

mozilla.org - home of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, and camino Ok, I think Firefox with the google toolbar extension is the best browser available right now. Trying to figure out what the deal with Camino on Mac is. It's not that great right now...

Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator: "Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines.

Unlike other aggregators which require you to download and install software, Bloglines runs on our servers and requires no installation. Because your Bloglines account is accessible through a web browser, you can access your account from any Internet-connected machine."

BBC NEWS | Europe | Italian police to have supercar: "Italian police to have supercar
Traffic police patrolling a motorway in southern Italy have a tough decision to take: who will get to drive the force's first Lamborghini Gallardo?"

E-Commerce News: Head-to-Head: Yahoo Answers Gmail Challenge with E-Mail Upgrade Users of Yahoo's updated e-mail service will get 100 megabytes of space for free. While the company did not specify how much storage paying users will receive, it hinted the amount will be on par with the gigabyte Google has promised to provide with Gmail, which is currently in beta.

Pic Patrol: "What is this site about? Basically, this site is a weblog of photographs taken in and around the New York City area by native Brooklynite Jack Szwergold. My motto is pretty simple: I"

Zaadz Knowledge - Philosophy - Buddha: "Buddha. Gotta love him. Here's a really quick look at one of my favorite teachers and some of his most powerful thoughts."

Wired News: Hybrid Mileage Comes Up Short: "Hybrid cars are hot, but not as hot as their owners, who complain that their gas mileage hasn't come close to well-advertised estimates."

Wired News: Gamers Spurning TV, Movies: "LOS ANGELES -- About half of the Americans who play video games say they are choosing to watch less television and go to fewer movies so they can spend more time enjoying games, accor"

Ornate Golden VW Beetle: "So would have thought there was another ornate VW Beetle out there, let alone one gilt with 24kt gold? The Vrbanus is ready to drive, detailed with the product of 2500 hours of handiwork, and is ready for weddings, promotions, collections, and coronation ceremonies for the world's most frugal monarchs."

BBC NEWS | Health | Newlyweds advised to lower hopes: "The secret of a long and happy marriage appears to be not to expect too much from it. US researchers say that, unless you have superior relationship skills, your hopes of cosy couple"

Wrought-Iron Lace VW Bug

New Windows Mobile SE Handhelds Expected Soon :: Mobile Gadget News - (MPx200.org) :: News, Reviews, and Help for the MPX200, SCH-i600, and SmartPhone Community I am dying to replace my SideKick and I am geeky about gettig a new do-it-all phone.

colette : paris I don't know why I am posting this. Probably because my girlfriend would like it.

Wired News: Apple Wants to Open Song Vaults: "The programming director of the store is a former radio deejay who's constantly looking for places to find old and out-of-print music. His team of music programmers are experts in world music, hip-hop, rock and classical, to name a few genres. In addition to their own expertise, the iTunes staff regularly collects suggestions from Apple Computer employees, customers and anyone who's looking to fill a hole in his or her music collection."

Welcome to Shareaza.com (English) As solid a file sharing app for windows as I could find in a recent search. No spyware (avoid Kazaa).

Google's man behind the curtain The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick - An anonymous reader writes "Like his friends Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Craig Silverstein abandoned his PhD studies at Stanford to become employee No.1 and technology director at Google. While building the search engine in a garage, never in his wildest dreams did he think Google would become what it is today. Not only is it the envy of software giant Microsoft, Google continues to redefine the technology market with its creativity and tenacity. In this in-depth interview, Silverstein discusses a wide range of issues including the backlash against Gmail among privacy advocates, the company's cultural changes and its shifting reliance on PageRank."

Preview: Google's Gmail Beta Gmail does rock. It's so good it makes me wonder if I need Outlook.

We finally had a chance to try Google's new e-mail service and we're happy to say that, for the most part, we love it! In this article, we'll give you an overview of what you can expect from Gmail, as well as what we liked and didn't like about it. We'll also tell you what we think needs to be added to make it even better.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China couple split over dead dog: "A Chinese woman who hired four hit men to kill her husband's beloved pet wolfhound now faces divorce. "

New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion

PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of Japanese Vending Machines PhotoMann recently decided to 'collect' images of unique vending machines found in Japan. They are everywhere. Estimates suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines which works out to be one for every 20 people in Japan. Sales from vending machines in 2000 totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines followed by machines with pornography. All of the images in this section are taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5000. Below is a sampling of the machines to be found.

The MPx on the radio - Engadget - www.engadget.com

BBC NEWS | Europe | Fine for Spain stag night vandal: "The man, named as Rodrigo JL, broke the hand of the statue of classical goddess Cibeles during stag night celebrations in September 2002, a court was told. "

iTunes Improves as Russians Sell By The Pound

MSN Money - Panama is paradise for retirees - Retire in style Panama is one of the best places in the world for retirees today, combining a low cost of living, near-perfect weather and one of the world’s best discount programs for retirees, with up to 50% off everything from public transport to movies, mortgage rates, doctor’s visits, electricity, restaurants and airfares.