Smartphone and Gadget News by ElectroGeek

With its distinctive candy-bar design and carefully crafted thumb keyboard, Palm’s Treo has become an iconic PDA phone–but new models generally debut at prices only serious mobile professionals can easily stomach. The Treo 680 arrives with a lower price tag (especially if you buy the first carrier-subsidized model, from Cingular), a sportier and slightly svelter [...]

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Sony launched its hotly anticipated PlayStation 3 game machine early Friday morning at retailers around the country. Supply was constricted, but a whole truckful of units went to the PlayStation Store in Metreon, the upscale retail complex in downtown San Francisco, formerly owned by Sony.
Full Story Via Wired News

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Microsoft signed a deal with Novell Inc., one of the providers of Linux, in which Novell paid a lump sum in return for a guarantee that Microsoft would not sue Novell’s clients for what it calls a violation of its own patents in the Linux program.
Full Story Via Yahoo News

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The long-rumored arrival of a hybrid mobile phone and iPod music player from Apple Computer Inc. has morphed from a question of “If” to “When” among fans and analysts.
Since Apple’s introduction of the iPod five years ago, the company has sold more than 67 million of the devices and more than 1.5 billion songs from [...]

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Craig Ferguson of the Late, Late Show on CBS proceeds to tear Microsoft and it’s new “Zune” portable media player a new one in this video. He makes fun of the Zune’s name and then continues on to tell how the Zune has all the features of the iPod only not as good. I [...]

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A Microsoft executive is denying reports that they have encoded a “Kill Switch” function into their Office 2007 product which would enable them to disable the Office suite after activation.
Office 2007 includes an activation program which requires users to activate the office software and authenticate their product key either by phone or online. Previous versions [...]

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Have you had your coffee yet? What’s the weather going to be today? This company has an answer to both of those questions. Melitta of Clearwater, Florida is marketing a Microsoft powered coffeemaker that displays the weather on a blue LCD display right on the front of the coffeemaker. This may be just the gadget [...]

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Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. cellular operator, said on Wednesday it is talking with banks about letting its customers manage their money by cell phone as part of a push to expand phone use beyond talking.
The wireless venture of AT&T Inc and BellSouth Corp. said a wireless banking application it is testing would let [...]

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Nintendo Co. Ltd. said on Wednesday it will ship almost 400,000 units of its new Wii game console for its Japan launch on December 2, offering four times as many machines as Sony Corp did for its PlayStation 3 debut last week.
The Japanese video game maker also said it plans to ship 1.5 million units [...]

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