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- Verizon launching Storm2 on October 28 for $179.99?
- Windows 7 student upgrade installer not working for many
- Mobiado 350 Pioneer: Gold, sapphire crystals, all sorts of excessive stuff like that
- Mobiado 350 Pioneer: Gold, sapphire crystals, all sorts of excessive stuff like that
- Mobiado 350 Pioneer: Gold, sapphire crystals, all sorts of excessive stuff like that
- Nintendo’s Miyamoto: next-gen Wii hardware could be "more compact, cost-efficient"
- CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More!
- CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More!
- CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More!
- Yikes: Hulu flirts with, yes, having you pay to watch it.
| Verizon launching Storm2 on October 28 for $179.99? Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:41 PM PDT
 Say you’re North America’s largest wireless carrier — how do you go about burying a product you’re about to carry that you secretly wish didn’t exist? One creative option would be to opt out of announcing it when its manufacturer does, then quietly launch it on the same day as the phone you’re calling the “must-have device of the year.” Tricky, eh? Yeah, sure enough, by all appearances it seems that Verizon doesn’t plan on celebrating the arrival of the Storm2 with the same fanfare it gave the Storm, despite the fact that the new device directly addresses the biggest complaints dogging the original model. It’s a “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” sort of situation, we suppose. Anyhow, it looks like pricing should come in at $179.99 on contract, though $100 of that comes in the form of a mail-in rebate that you’ll get on a prepaid debit card, so you’ll actually be laying out close to $300 before taxes when you march into the store on October 28. Hey, look at it this way: at least you can keep refreshing Engadget on your old Storm to learn about the Droid while you’re waiting in line for the Storm2, right? [Thanks, anonymous tipster] Filed under: Cellphones Verizon launching Storm2 on October 28 for $179.99? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Windows 7 student upgrade installer not working for many Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:37 PM PDT
 The Windows 7 launch seems to have gone off mostly roses and sunbeams, but we’re hearing today that quite a few people have had issues installing the downloadable $29 student upgrade edition on 32-bit Vista — apparently the file doesn’t unpack to an ISO, but instead to an executable and two bundles that don’t function properly, and eventually the process errors out with a 64-bit app trying to launch on 32-bit systems. It’s possible to create an ISO using some hackery, but the install process seems to be 50/50 after that — we’ve heard of both success and further crashes. For it’s part, Microsoft says it’s looking into things, so hopefully a newly repackaged download will be forthcoming — every party has its ups and downs, right? Update: Our friends at DownloadSquad have a handy guide to making the ISO, in case you’re interested — and they say the installer does work in the end. Update 2: We just got a tip that Microsoft is offering refunds to users who are having issues. [Thanks, Christopher] [Thanks, Tom] Read – Original thread Filed under: Software Windows 7 student upgrade installer not working for many originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Mobiado 350 Pioneer: Gold, sapphire crystals, all sorts of excessive stuff like that Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:30 PM PDT
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| Nintendo’s Miyamoto: next-gen Wii hardware could be "more compact, cost-efficient" Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:19 PM PDT
 There ain’t much to glean from Shigeru Miyamoto’s recent sit-down with Popular Mechanics, but in the never-ending quest to learn more about Nintendo’s next-generation Wii, a few tidbits of interest have been highlighted. Miyamoto, who is responsible for creating the likes of Mario and Zelda (amongst others), spoke at length about current titles, the future of video games as a whole and on his view of the not-yet-named Wii 2. In answering a question about the future of motion-sensing in the Big N’s consoles, he ran off topic a bit and noted that “it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient” when speaking about future hardware (which honestly may have been talking strictly about accelerometers). Of course, this is about as predictable as it gets — hardware tends to always shrink and get cheaper as technology improves — but hey, there it is! Now, let your imaginations do what they were born to do. [Via TechRadar] Filed under: Gaming Nintendo’s Miyamoto: next-gen Wii hardware could be “more compact, cost-efficient” originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More! Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:00 PM PDT
Also, don’t forget that we’re looking for an Account Executive and CrunchBase interns here at TechCrunch! For job hunters in Europe, check out our Europe CrunchBoard. Click here to see all the jobs on CrunchBoard. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. Excerpt from:
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| CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More! Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:00 PM PDT
Also, don’t forget that we’re looking for an Account Executive and CrunchBase interns here at TechCrunch! For job hunters in Europe, check out our Europe CrunchBoard. Click here to see all the jobs on CrunchBoard. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. View original here:
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| CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More! Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:00 PM PDT
Also, don’t forget that we’re looking for an Account Executive and CrunchBase interns here at TechCrunch! For job hunters in Europe, check out our Europe CrunchBoard. Click here to see all the jobs on CrunchBoard. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. Read more:
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| Yikes: Hulu flirts with, yes, having you pay to watch it. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:00 PM PDT
Hey, remember Hulu.com? It was a Web site that sort of came out of nowhere, and offered streaming TV shows from NBC and other networks. It was ad-supported, and free. People liked it. And then, one day, in October, 2009, a completely bonkers TV executive all but killed it with one sentence: "It's time to start getting paid for broadcast content online." Those are the words of News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey, uttered at some sort of broadcasters pow wow. The idea that News Corp. (and the other broadcast execs) expects to be paid for something that travels through the air 100 percent freely, and has for decades is, that’s right, ludicrous. And I’m referring only to broadcast content here. Shows like The Office and The Simpsons, and not Curb Your Enthusiasm or Weeds. Ads pay for the broadcast shows, and that anyone expects us to pay for those shows again! Ha! It’s like this: Hulu already runs ads. I’m not gonna pay for access to the site when there’s already ads on there. Never mind the fact that people only put up with the ads because the site is a convenience. "Sure, I’ll put up with a few ads so long as I can watch 30 Rock in between CrunchGear posts." Otherwise, yeah, I’ll head right back to alt.binaries.multimedia and start downloading away. No ads there, and in 720p! I mean, was I stealing all those Seinfeld reruns or 24 (aka the Jack Bauer Power Hour) when I had an HDTV antenna hooked up to my TV? I don’t recall paying to watch those shows; that’s what the ads were for! In essence, charging for Hulu is a one-way to Irrelevant Town. I don’t care either way, seeing as thought I really haven’t watched TV for several years now (outside of live sports). See the original post here:
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Oh man, yet another "élite" phone for us to look over and never be able to afford. It’s the Mobiado 350 Pioneer. It looks sort of like an Indiana Jones relic (note: I’ve never seen an Indiana Jones movie), and is part of Mobiado’s Grand Line.
Oh man, yet another "élite" phone for us to look over and never be able to afford. It’s the Mobiado 350 Pioneer. It looks sort of like an Indiana Jones relic (note: I’ve never seen an Indiana Jones movie), and is part of Mobiado’s Grand Line.
Oh man, yet another "élite" phone for us to look over and never be able to afford. It’s the Mobiado 350 Pioneer. It looks sort of like an Indiana Jones relic (note: I’ve never seen an Indiana Jones movie), and is part of Mobiado’s Grand Line.
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