The blogosphere is abuzz once again with privacy concerns. This morning the New York Times published an article entitled “You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?” highlighting a number of businesses that utilize anonymous customer data in order to make more effective decisions. And while it’s made clear that the data is indeed anonymous [...]
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Head on over to AppShopper.com and you’ll find a plethora of iPhone applications with special Black Friday price cuts–right down to free!
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The other night my wife, a certified Facebook junkie, noticed that there were some new Facebook virtual gifts being passed around. From Dell, eBay, and Sephora, I wondered what the significance of these gifts were and starting digging for more information.
Turns out, according to AdAge, the gifts are part of a holiday promotion. This weekend, [...]
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Search Engine Land has a great interview with MapQuest’s Mark Law, Vice President of Product Development and Christian Dwyer, Senior Vice President & General Manager. The company seems to be slowly rising from the grave this year, bringing Yelp reviews to its dot-com platform, partnering with Garmin to get MapQuest on the company’s portable navigation [...]
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We definitely won’t be seeing the Kohjinsha SC3 and SX3 ultramobile portable computers (UMPC) in North America anytime, but you can order them online.
The SC3 Series, available at the beginning of December, has optional GPS, a 7-inch LED-backlit LCD touchscreen and runs on either Windows XP or Vista. Inside you’ll find a 1.33 GHz Intel [...]
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I’m not sure when the Navman F15 is supposed to be available from Radio Shack. Apparently the $100 cheapy PND is sold exclusively from the retailer in the US, online and off, but I couldn’t find it on their website. But when it is available, $100 will net you a 3.5-inch touchscreen, SiRFInstantFixII chipset, TeleAtlas [...]
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Small-time PND vendor Medion has just launched the Medion GoPal E3230 in the United States and will be releasing the GoPal P5430 in the United Kingdom November 30.
The Medion GoPal E3230 has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and is powered by a SiRFStarIII chipset with InstantFixII in tandem with Medion’s GoPal Navigator ME v4.5A. Featuring pre-loaded NAVTEQ [...]
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Update: With the recent Clearwire merger with Sprint’s Xohm network, it looks like the new name will be Clear. So change my prediction to: Garmin’s nuviphone will be carried on the Clear network.
The last time we heard about Garmin’s nuviphone was during the company’s 3rd quarter earnings call. At the time the company confirmed a [...]
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Pharos’ Traveler 117 and 127 GPS-equipped smartphones are set for availability on December 1, but with Black Friday tomorrow I know you might not be able to wait. If that’s the case, the Pharos Traveler 619 smartphone is available at Dell.com now for $199.95. Not only is the Traveler 619 roughly $300 cheaper [...]
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The folks at Digital Review have performed a thorough review of Nikon’s GP-1 GPS geotagging device and were suitably impressed. If it’s not available now, it should be in the next few days for a little less than $300. Compatible with Nikon’s D90, D200, D300, D700, and D3 digital SLR camera models, the GP-1 uses [...]
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30. November 2008
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