whispernet Archive
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Amazon to charge per megabyte to send personal documents OTA to your Kindle
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsSo far, sending files to your Kindle cost a flat fee -- one dime per document for conversion and download over Whispernet. Looks like that honeymoon is over, as Amazon's announced that as of May 4th, the Personal Document Service will be a variable fee of $0.15 per megabyte, rounding up. It's still free of charge if you transfer the documents over via USB, and sending them to "name"@free.kindle.com will return converted files to your email address gratis -
Android 1.5 already hitting T-Mobile G1s?
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsWe'd kinda gotten used to the cold, hard reality of being teased with the promise of a Cupcake build on our retail G1s out in some distant, nondeterministic future that we may or may not be a part of -- but all of a sudden, it looks like we might've vaulted right past Cupcake. -
Electrofluidic display tech improves color e-ink, makes you sound smarter
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe race to develop a mass-market color e-ink display is at fever pitch, and there's a new challenger on the scene: electrofluidic display, or EFD. Developed at the University of Cincinnati in partnership with a handful of private companies, the new tech apparently blows everything else out of the water -- according to professor Jason Heikenfeld, EFD has superior brightness, color saturation, and video speed, all in a 15-micron thick panel that can eventually be used in rollable displays -
LEGO iMac G4 Junior is iMac G4′s smaller, friendlier sibling
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsWe tend to go a little weak in the knees for anything in miniature , so this iMac G4 "Junior" made with a 7-inch digital photo frame and a bunch of LEGO s sent us into hysterics. DIY-er Bjarne Tveskov says the creation is inspired by the film Luxo Jr -
Flip Video Ultra HD video review
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsWhat better way to give you a look at Flip Video's new Ultra HD camcorder than by reviewing it on video... -
The Daily Roundup: here’s what you might’ve missed
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsSony unveiling UMD-less PSP with slide-out buttons at E3? Whispers of a new or revised PSP have been growing decidedly louder as of late, and now 1UP 's gotten a ton of new details from what it claims are "sources directly involved with the new system" -- our favorite kind of people, actually. iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4, iTunes 8.2 pre-release now live Just two weeks after the last revision went up, Apple's released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 to the developer community alongside an iTunes 8.2 pre-release -
Palm launching smaller Pre-like device later this year says rumor-mill
Posted on April 29, 2009 | No CommentsAs if we didn't have enough Pre rumors to sort through, along comes TechCrunch and Mikey A. with some hard hitting stuff. According to the TC honcho, one of his "better sources" claims that Palm is "very far along" on a second webOS device which is smaller and slimmer than the Pre and may or may not have a physical keyboard.
