Posts about Gizmodo as of August 13, 2009

08/13/2009
Videos: Probably Fake Apple Tablet In Action. But Awesome.August 13th, 2009 Posted in General, Hot Stuff, Tech News, TechnologySimply by the laws of averages, the likelihood that the following two videos are real, is very small. If someone was able to sneak out one video of the Apple Tablet in action, it’d be a miracle, but two? Now you’re just tempting fate. Still, that isn’t stopping Brian Lam of Gizmodo from wondering if there could be something to these (even though his colleague disagrees).
08/13/2009
Simply by the laws of averages, the likelihood that the following two videos are real, is very small. If someone was able to sneak out one video of the Apple Tablet in action, it’d be a miracle, but two? Now you’re just tempting fate. Still, that isn’t stopping Brian Lam of Gizmodo from wondering if there could be something to these (even though his colleague disagrees ). And you know what, even if they aren’t real, Apple should consider hiring whoever made them, because this seems like the right idea.
08/13/2009
After months of leaks, rumors, and heavy anticipation, Microsoft is officially unveiling the last pieces of the Zune HD puzzle…which were already leaked. Release date is September 15th, but the… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
iPhone Playing Cards Coulda Fooled Me…A Topographical Map for Your Beloved…300 GI Joes To Take Kansas City By Parachute…Ms. Pac-Man Becomes Ms. Mac-Man… Since we all spend our days looking… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
PreThinking compared brand-new Palm Pres with Pres from the original launch, and found a few nice hardware improvements. The tweaks address some of the Pre’s minor problems, including a tendency to… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
Some overzealous but lovely tech writers don’t believe the first video of this rumored Apple Tablet OS variant is real but here’s a second video, more clear and with strange hardware in the… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
A 29 year old from Kasai City, Japan, who doused himself with kerosene, torched his house—yet escaped without injuries—told police he wanted to kill himself because his mother tossed “his… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
This whole Apple rumor game has reached a new low point: In addition to the usual morons doing it for kicks, an iPhone software developer has “leaked” a video of Apple’s new tablet running their… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
The 10A432 build of Snow Leopard is now being seeded, and like we said before, it’s probably the final version of Snow Leopard that’s going to be shipping. The change from this version is that you… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License
08/13/2009
Sony, which we’ve blasted in the past for an insistence on proprietary formats, will support the open standard ePub format for its ebook readers. Open, of course, doesn’t mean “free of DRM”: This is… Source: Gizmodo Creative Commons License