Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Cars

Trexa Electric Car Platform Will Cost Upwards Of $US15,999

11:06PM February 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

No longer do you need to fantasise about buying a Tesla, now that Trexa has released pricing details of its “scalable lithium-drive platform” (aka the base for building your own electric car). More »


Online

Apple Store Down – Time For Twitter To Crash With Speculation

10:45PM February 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Gasp! Whatever could it be? I’m hoping for new MacBook Pros, what about you? More »


Mobile

Samsung Monte S5620 Phone Gets Early Reveal Prior To MWC

10:44PM February 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

A few leaks here and there, and voila – Samsung’s Monte S5620 is revealed ahead of MWC. Running the TouchWiz 2.0 Plus OS, it has full HTML browsing and the usual array of social networking tricks. More »


Computing

Notion Ink Adam Tablet: Flash, 1080p, 2x iPad Battery Life

9:23PM February 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Flash, a longer battery life, outputting video at 1080p, a $US1 million app competition – these are just some of the ways Notion Ink is hoping its Android-powered Adam tablet will be able to win customers over. More »


Mobile

LG Mini GD880 Phone Has 16:9 Ratio, Looks Hot To Trot

8:36PM February 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

This LG Mini GD880 is so good-looking it makes my brain hurt at the injustice of it (presumably) running LG’s S-Class OS, and not Android. Still, there’s some nice spec to back up this slim 16:9 phone. More »


Cars

Bug Causes Toyota Recall Of Almost Half A Million New Hybrid Cars

7:16PM February 9, 2010 | Brian Lam

Toyota just announced a massive recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. The reason was a change in brake feeling caused by faulty antilock braking system software. There is no fix for cars on the road yet. More »


Software

Some Good News, And Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1

7:00PM February 9, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

The good news first: Adobe’s promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones – Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile – and desktops in the “first half” of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it’ll come over the air. The bad part? More »


Publishers Tell Google And Their Ebook Plans To Get Bent

6:13PM February 9, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

The vision of ebooks Google has presented to publishers: allowing people to print copies, cut and paste portions, and paying publishers 63 pe rcent of the revenue. The vision the publishers presented in return: Go eff yourself. More »


Online

Today Is “Safer Internet Day”, So Make Sure You Use Protection…

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3:43PM February 9, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Today is safer internet day. I dunno, they seem to just make up days for anything these days… In any case – don’t post pictures of your gonads to the internet today – save it for tomorrow. Or follow the suggestions in this Telstra press release… More »


Online

Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad

3:00PM February 9, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Sure, Google’s Superbowl ad was cute and left us giggling, but how would a French romance powered by Google really go? More »