Section: Audio , Video , Communications , Computers , Features , Originals , Columns , Who’s On Crack What’s the most common phrase heard around the Gadgetell newsroom?? Is it “I love Apple?”, “that’s cool!” or “sweet!”?? Answer: none of them, it’s “they are on crack”.? This week we take a look back at the things that made us chuckle in the tech world.? This week, it seems there was more folks on dope than not.? Lets get to this weeks accused: Skype 10-way Facebook plays with subscriptions Our Shawn Ingram promises to change to Palm’s webOS Apple decides buttons aren’t evil? Skype plans for your 10-way I love Skype as much as the next techie, but 10 way calling?? Oy.? Getting just one of my friends in front of the computer with me at the same time is sheer serendipity.? But 10?? Is this mandatory? Our Editor Robert Nelson has the scoop : “A new posting over at the Skype Blog has formally introduced the latest in terms of Skype for Windows—Skype 5.0, which is still in beta (currently beta 2) but will allow for group video calling with up to 10 people.” Just leaked from the DEA investigation over at Skype HQ: Marketing “Well how many users can we do at once?” Engineering “how many do you want?” Marketing “Well, the anniversary of that crazy night in Fiji is coming upon us, can you do 10?” Engineering “Ewww” What’s better is currently, all ten of your friends need to running the same Beta.? Awesome.? You’ve got a better chance of herding cats – I can’t get my machines to run the same version of anything.? Potential for business customers?? Sure.? For the rest of us?? Nope. Facebook try’s subscribing to users Our Turun Kunwar as the story , “Facebook is working on a new “stalker button” that will allow you to see all of the updates of a given user
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Section: Computers , Mobile Computers , Gadgets / Other , ebooks So Samsung has finally announced the Galaxy Tab, the 7-inch Android tablet we’ve been hearing so much about.? Like most Android devices, Samsung didn’t stop at just putting a new UI over Android and adding some apps readily available in the Market, it built a custom app for some of the features we’d expect a tablet to have. One of the most popular uses we’ve seen of tablets so far (namely on the iPad), is reading eBooks.? Rather than relying on users to get their own apps, Samsung built it’s own launcher for reading eBooks, newspapers and magazines.? Together they bring 2.2 million books, 2,500 magazines and 1,600 magazines.? For eBooks, rather than building it’s own store like Apple, or relying on Google, Samsung brought in Kobo for reading books.? Kobo offers many more books than iBooks for the iPad, including popular authors that Apple lacks such as Steig Larsson, author of the Millennium Trilogy.? Kobo specifically designed the included app for the Galaxy Tab, so it should use the screen size and pixel density fully. The other apps included in the Readers Hub as PressDisplay for newspapers and Zinio for magazines.? Of course, users are free to download their own reading apps from the Android Market, and they should scale well, especially is they use Google’s UI guidelines.? So, the Amazon and Nook apps might scale well, but it’s nice to know that at least one of the proven stores will definitely work well and look good on the 7-inch screen. Read [ Korea Newswire Kobo Release ] and [ Samsung ] Full Story ? | Written by Shawn Ingram for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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Kobo built into Galaxy Tab for eBook reading
Section: Computers , Software / Applications When Microsoft first launched Windows 7, it sold a limited number of Family Packs for the OS.? The Family Packs have since been long sold-out, but now Microsoft is bringing them back, but again only for a limited run. The Windows 7 Family Pack gives you three licenses to put on as many computers.? The one catch is that the package only gives your three upgrades to WIndows 7 Home Premium, meaning you have to have XP or Vista installed on a computer to upgrade them.? You can’t use the Family Pack on a completely fresh computer, which is a shame, but can be easily worked around by just installing an older OS on the box first. The Family Pack will be available again on October 3 at retailers and online at the Microsoft Store.? Again, like last time, this is a limited time thing, it would seem.? Once their sold out, we don’t know when Microsoft will bring the bundle out again.? It would seem to make sense that Microsoft would keep the package around for those who want it, it is the best deal on the OS it would seem, and there would be a lot of people who want it.? Although, by only offering it for a limited time, and not saying how long that time period is, it is possible it could drive up sales and adoption of Windows 7.? Despite the fact that more people are using 7 over Vista, Microsoft still needs to get people off of XP and onto 7, and offering a good deal for a short period of time is a good way to drive up that demand
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Microsoft bringing back Windows 7 Family Pack for $149.99
Section: Business News , Apple , Computers Apple announced today the opening of their 300th retail store at Clove Garden in London. They are also reporting that within these stores approximately 1 million visitors are passing through – pretty staggering. Inside these stores there are 80k One to One classes, 50% of users are buying their first Mac. The proof is in the pudding that customers like their product sampling hands on
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Apple Fall Event – Retail Expansion
Section: Apple , Audio , Computers , Software / Applications Love it or hate it iTunes is huge and probably part of your existence in some capacity. By the numbers – 11.7 billion songs, over 450 million TV episodes, 100 million movies, 35 million books, and over 160 million accounts in 23 countries. Today Apple announced their latest and greatest version of iTunes as iTunes 10. Brand new logo, a face-lifted UI and also introduced Ping
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Section: Communications , Mobile , Computers , Mobile Computers With all of the Galaxy Tab information that has hit the web up until this point, this latest appearance seems only more than fitting—the Galaxy Tab has turned up with FCC. Which as a side note leads us to believe we could be seeing an official announcement when Samsung has their latest event on September 16th . Otherwise, the listing shows the Galaxy Tab with the model number of SHW-M108S and offers specs to include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and 1900 GPRS support.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet makes the required FCC appearance
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Internet The French company, Archos has expanded its new internet tablet namely the Archos 101 . The Archos 101 tablet is sports a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, 8GB/16GB of internal memory, a slot for microSD card, Mini HDMI port, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, 0.3 megapixel front camera, accelerometer, speaker and microphone. Archos 101 is works with AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPG, PS, TS, VOB, FLV, RM, RMVB, ASF, 3GP (video), and MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, AAC, FLAC (audio)
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FiT Premier League 10-11 1.1.1 Category: Sports Price: $2.99, Version: 1.1 -> 1.1.1 ( iTunes ) Description: ** WIN – Gadgets, Kitbag vouchers, and Premiership Match Tickets ** “As far as mobile fantasy football games go, this one is definitely in the upper echelons… The standard for mobile Fantasy Football has been set here…” Andy, Fantasy Football Scout, 2nd August 2010 “Fantasy iTeam English Premier League 10-11 (FiT EPL 10-11), the follow-up application to Fantasy iTeam’s FiT WC 2010, utilizes the ease of today’s mobile world, enabling fantasy football fans to simply sign in and activate while away from their computers, allowing them to play and stay up-to-date with all that is going on in the real and fantasy worlds of soccer without ever needing to access the web.” www.theiphoneappreview.com/ *** Follow up application to the massively popular FiT WC 2010 *** FiT EPL 10/11 is offered at a special introductory price of £1.79 (this includes your first iTeam for free), so get it now before the price goes up! Be Truly Mobile Playing fantasy football can be difficult when you’re away from your Mac or PC – Fantasy iTeam (FiT) EPL 10/11 changes this by allowing you to make those important managerial decisions while on the move with your iPhone or iPod Touch. Simply sign-up within the app, pick an iTeam, activate and go! Be An Expert Be a fantasy football expert by selecting the best 11 players from the 20 Premier League clubs and within your iTeam’s initial budget of £75m, then enter a name and choose a badge from a selection of 64 carefully crafted identities. Be Included Join a friend’s Mini League or create your own, challenge iTeams to Head-to-Head matches to win in-game money, then watch everyone’s progress throughout the season by viewing their standings in the Mini League and FiT World Championship tables. Be Smart Monitor the PlayerDAQ™ index and make profits to boost your budget by reviewing player prices (which fluctuate depending on their performance and popularity), then making shrewd transfers at the right moment. Aside from increasing your iTeam’s total score, using this method could see you reach the top of the FiT Rich List! Be Updated View LIVE Scores and Results & Fixtures (both updated in real-time) to keep track of what’s happening on and off the pitch when you’re away from a TV, radio or newspaper.
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Section: Communications , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Mobile , Computers , Mobile Computers Yesterday we showed you some pictures of the Samsung Galaxy Tab that had a CDMA marking on them, which meant it could be coming to either Sprint or Verizon here in the US. Well, as a nice follow up to that post—it looks like the Samsung Tab will be coming to Verizon. The news comes by way of a picture of an internal Verizon Wireless system showing the “Sam Galaxy Tab Demos.” In other words, the Samsung Galaxy Tab. With this tablet, and hopefully the 10” Android 3.0 running device that is expected later this year from Motorola it looks like Verizon users are going to have a few good tablet devices to choose from when making a purchase. Read [ BGR ] ? ? Full Story ? | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell
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Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet shows up in Verizon’s internal systems
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Computers , Mobile Computers The Really Mobile Project is reporting that O2 will start rolling out the much improved Android 2.1 to all Streak users in the UK.? One of the main complaints of the Streak is that it ships with an outdated OS (Android 1.6), and in the United States it is no different.? Starting Wednesday, O2 should begin rolling out the OTA Software update, a process which could take a week or so for all users to receive the update.? Android 2.1 brings to the Dell Streak many new features and performance improvements.? Many applications in the Market run on devices running Android 2.x, so the Streak should be able to access them, 720p video recording, multi-touch, live wallpaper, edit documents using QuickOffice, dialer interface, speed and performance, and support for multiple accounts.? Needless to say, Android 2.1 will be quite an improvement over Android 1.6, but we’ll have to wait for Wednesday or for O2 to officially validate this information. Via [ The Really Mobile Project ] Full Story ? | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell
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O2 to begin rolling out Android 2.1 to the Dell Streak on September 1
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