A New York court has dismissed Amazon’s lawsuit over a law that required the online retailer to collect taxes from New Yorkers even though it didn’t have a physical presence in the state.
Remember Vodafone’s Dell Mini 9 Deal? The one where you got a free Mini 9 for $0 upfront on a 24-month contract? Well, Voda have just made the deal sweeter (though still not sweeter than buying the Mini 9 upfront and adding a 3G data plan) by dropping the monthly repayments to $60 a month. On top of that, they’re also offering “three months free access) where new customers will be credited for the 5th, 6th and 7th month of their 24-month contract. UPDATE: Voda’s PR has informed me, with some mathematic evidence, that it is actually cheaper to buy the Mini 9 this way rather than buy the notebook outright and add Voda’s 3G data plan, even without the three months free access, by about $100. That makes this even more appealing!
A 13-year-old girl in California racked up 14,528 text messages in just a month, which calculates out to 484 a day and 20 an hour. Dear Lord, it’s that damn Cingular commercial come to life.
The current economic climate sucks for just about everyone, but it’s about to get even worse. Panasonic Australia has announced that due to the financiapocalypse, plus a poor performing Aussie dollar, the company has had to increase prices on its consumer electronics goods, starting February 1. On average, the increase will be about 10%.
Judging from his uber-dark, mech’d-out artwork, Kris Kuski probably had a disturbing childhood (or dropped acid in graveyards). But it doesn’t make his pieces any less awesome. galleryPost('apocmechart', 4, '');
According to Suzanne Tindal over at ZDNet AU Optus tech support have been issued with training manuals for the Android-based HTC Dream, otherwise known as the T-Mobile G1. Which obviously indicates that the Telco is prepping to launch the Android handset in Australia sooner rather than later. Naturally, Optus are pulling a Cancer Man and denying everything (what? I’ve been rewatching the X-Files), and Google Australia claim they haven’t seen the documents in question.
In what may seem like a late start to the iPod race, Haier America is updating their Rhapsody Ibiza line with 2 new MP3 players: the Mini and the Touch. Sound familiar?
This Baguni washing machine concept saves one step, the one where you empty your clothes basket into the washing machine, from your laundry cycle. Is this a huge problem for people?
While the tech-world’s focus on Microsoft over the past week has largely surrounded their massive Windows 7 beta, the Redmond giant isn’t just sitting back and hoping that the new OS saves the company. Their other cash cow, Microsoft Office, is also undergoing some code renovation and according to some slides spotted at CES, is looking at a release next year.
I usually don’t repeat the obvious competitive mudslinging, but there’s some truth to Palm’s statements that Palm Pre’s web OS is a generation younger and specifically designed for phones. Here’s what Newsweek heard:
