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Today is a very very upsetting day for the guys over at TechCrunch, and geeks everywhere. They were so excited, pumped and ready to release the CrunchPad, to the public, after 1.5 years. They were going to release it -- a week ago. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. They could even let people play with the device themselves.

Month after month of collaboration, sweat and hard work, the entire project destroyed itself because of nothing more than greed, jealousy and backstabbing -- On November 17 the CEO of TechCrunch's partner on the project, Chandra Rathakrishnan, sent Arrington an email with the subject “no good news.” And it only gets worse from here.

Nov 30, 2009

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Nov292009

New "iPhone3,1" Picture Spotted!

Nov 29, 2009

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Photo taken on the iPhone 3,1

Reports of a photo taken by the "iPhone3,1" mysteriously popped up in the usage record of a Bay Area App Store developer. The "iPhone2,1" turned out to be the 3GS, so we may be looking at the next iteration of the iPhone.

3,1 was first discovered in November by the iPhone app iBart, however, this isn't the first time the "iPhone3,1" name has shown up in data form. Back in August, the "iPhone3,1" was discovered hiding in iPhone firmware files, but MacRumors is reporting that this seems to be the first case of it out in the wild.

Also noteworthy is the timing of the discovery; In October 2008 Apple started testing the 3GS in and around the San Francisco area, so perhaps this gives us a bit of a time frame for when we'll see the next iPhone release?

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[MacRumors via Gizmodo]

Nov 29, 2009

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Nov292009

App of the Week: Words Free

Nov 29, 2009

This week a friend on mine led me on to a very cool app called Words. This app is basically a free version of Scrabble that you can play with anyone who has an iPhone at any time. The real win of the app is that you can chat and play at you own pase. The game could last an hour or how ever many weeks you want it to go.

Words free lets you make a move, close the app, and wait until your opponent gets a notification of his/her turn, makes a move, and get notified yourself of when you turn is up. The app is completely free and worth checking out for anyone who likes to play Scrabble with friends or unknown even if you don’t have the time to do so in one sitting. You can either search for users to play with using your contact list, or search by user name. If you don’t know anyone with the game yet, you can play a random opponent. Finally, Words With Friends also has a mode for local play if you want to play against a friend using a single device.

Either way, both games are free and supported via in-game advertising and Words With Friends has a premium version for $2.99 that you can buy if you want to support the developer and/or don’t like looking at ads. I haven’t had any problems with mine except crashing once but i get that many times even on my Facebook app. It’s a great free game and i guess it helps with you vocabulary too.

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Nov 29, 2009

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Magellan's iPhone/iPod Touch Car Kit Next Month

Nov 29, 2009

Earlier this month Magellan announced they were trying to one-up TomTom by creating an iPhone and iPod Touch GPS car kit of their very own. No price or release date was set though. Thanks to Amazon's new product listings, we have a clue to when it will be shipped and for how much. This is on compatible with the 2nd and 3rd generation iPod Touch as well as the iPhone 3G & 3GS.

The car kit comes with a built-in speaker, charging capabilities, a noise-canceling handsfree speakerphone, and it also works with any navigation or location-based app--not just Magellan's own $79.99 RoadMate program. The unfortunate part here is that Magellan has somehow managed to produce a cradle that's actually more expensive that the ludicrously overpriced TomTom variant, but those willing to part with $129.99 can place their order now and look for a December 11th ship date. I'm guessing it has it's own GPS in the cradle since the device works with iPod Touches which is really cool. No reports on how well it works but the device looks very sleek.

This also won Editor's Pick in Best GPS & Navigation for 2009 at Amazon.com. For more information click the link Amazon.com.

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Nov 29, 2009

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New iPhone prototype on the loose - according to User Data

Nov 28, 2009

Which one of these is not like the other ones? -- and yes there is a prototype iPhone in the wild. The crazy part is it was discovered by an iPhone development company called Pandav, which makes the iBart app. They spotted the prototype this month in stats provided by their analytics firm Pinch Media. The usage logs for the first time showed a phone identified as “iPhone3,1″, even though the last iPhone, the 3GS, identifies itself as “iPhone2,1″.

When will we see it? Don't get your hopes up. MacRumors reminds us that the iPhone 3GS first showed up in usage records 8 months before launch. We should expect this new iPhone sometime in the middle of 2010.

[via - Mashable]

Nov 28, 2009

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Nov272009

Macbook Air gets crushed by a bus

Nov 27, 2009

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This will pull some heart strings in any Apple Fanboys iHeart. This is something that we should be happy about, that is the fact that this is not our laptop. Amazingly, the Air does apparently still work (apart from a little issue with the screen), although it's pretty clear that the bus came out ahead in this match-up. There are some more sad pics after the link.

Check out -- the gallery of "Mac vs Bus"

Nov 27, 2009

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Nov272009

Dell Adamo XPS Hands On - Video Demo

Nov 27, 2009

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You probably have seen all the neat stuff on the Adamo XPS, but this is one of the first video demos by those crafty guys at Engadget. It sports a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4Gigs of DDR3 RAM, a 128GB thin-micro SSD, and an LED 13.4-inch display. It is also (as you already know) it is very slim, in fact it is thinner than your iPhone, Ohmigosh! The final verdict? It's a well-made machine with a significant issue of a price to performance imbalance. Do we need one, absolutely no. Do we want one, hell yes!

Read -- Engadget Hands on

Enjoy -- Hands on Picture gallery

Nov 27, 2009

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