Did you think that is was impossible that there could be someone as dimwitted as the guy who sued Apple for the iPhone battery life? We did too, but we have a new participant in the Gizmodo’s Stoopeedest Lawsuit Ever Contest: Sydney Leung, says AppleInsider. Could this be the same Sydney Leung sole proprietor of Sydney S. Leung Law Offices in the Bay Area? Oh the convenience. [AppleInsider]
Following an internal probe (heh, heh) Dell has announced that it will restate its earnings from fiscal 2003 to Q1 2007, reducing them by up to $150 million. The probe concluded that Dell “misled its auditors and manipulated results to meet performance goals,” with the most flagrant fictions apparently taking place in Q1 of fiscal 2003 and Q2 of fiscal 2004—profits for those periods will be dropped by between 10 and 13 percent. Not a good week for Dell, all in all. [Yahoo!, Image via Flickr]
While you could accomplish the same feat by strapping on a shoe—or better yet, bracing your forehead—where’s the fun in that? It supports up to 90kg (though charging Frogger leaps probably aren’t a great idea) and runs a little under $23. [Product Page via Plastic Bamboo]
Even though DivX only started certifying devices in 2003, they’ve already hit the 100 million sold mark—of course, partnering with the likes of Sony, Samsung, LG and Philips helps. [
Sprint is clearly not f’ng around when it comes to WiMax—sorry, Xohm—deployment, planning on spending up to $5 billion over the next three years to build the network’s infrastructure. While $5 billion is a huge wad, if their efforts to get Intel and PC makers to embed WiMax support into new notebooks succeed, they’ll have a massive built-in audience, making their target of $2-2.5 billion in revenue in 2010 definitely doable.
There’ll be a “soft launch” by year’s end in Chicago and Baltimore/Washington, D.C., with coverage of 100 million people (Sprint 70, Clearwire 30) by the end of 2008. Even though Sprint’s putting a lot of eggs into one basket with a dumb name, it’s one that promises a huge payoff if everything goes according to plan—and well, if we bite. [WSJ (login req'd) and Reuters]
Its apparent indestructibility must be responsible for the “around .02 percent” failure rate SCE Europe founder Chris Deering claims for the PS3. [PC World]
With such handy contraptions as this, this and these, it’s no wonder that all the junk hanging off my mobile outweighs the handset itself. So you can imagine my eyes lighting up at the prospect of an embellishment designed to serve a purpose.
This cute attachment literally swallows your SD card to protect it from the elements and misplacement. When you need your memory back, simply mutilate little man and he’ll spew it back out again. Too easy. -Anna King
[Fun Shop via TFTS]
The new Samsung YP-P2 will be at IFA 2007 as expected, in all its slim sleeky glory, wide 480 Ñ… 234 pixel touch-screen, new DSNe sound system, calendar, radio and Bluetooth connectivity. We will be in Berlin to lick it in September. You can drool over it again in the video after the jump now. galleryPost('samsungypp2', 4, 'Samsung Yepp P2 Player');
galleryPost('samsungubicell', 4, 'Samsung Ubicell'); Samsung’s Ubicell, first seen at CTIA, is finally finding a home on Sprint. It’s a box that you plug into the wall and WiFi, at which point the box blossoms into a cell tower good for 5000 sq feet of fresh reception. The repeater can support 3 phones or 1XRTT data sessions at once, routing calls over WiFi to Sprint’s infrastructure over the internet. And you can filter phone access to 50 handsets/data cards of your choosing. Apparently rates would be unlimited, like Tmobile’s @ Home WiFi UMA service. But bad for TMobile — any Sprint cellphones will work on this hotspot, as it still uses a local CDMA channel to link to phones before sending that signal over the net. [Gearlog]
