Robert Hernreich - 120GB Zune shows up on Amazon

Posted by admin on September 7th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

120GB Zune shows up on Amazon

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the voluminous 120GB Zune, the wait appears to be coming to a close. According to an Amazon page that just went up, the player is in stock and available for your ordering pleasure right this second. And hey, check out those savings!

[Via Pocketables]

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Ike ebbs to Category 3 hurricane nearing Cuba (AP)
AP - National Hurricane Center says Ike weakens to Category 3 hurricane with winds near 120 mph approaching eastern Cuba.

China to launch space mission in late September (AP)
AP - China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.

Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Really people, enough is enough. Death threats? Seriously? According to a fresh report from the Telegraph, gurus working on the mysterious Large Hadron Collider are receiving all sorts of strange messages, e-mails and faxes as the go-live date (this Wednesday, supposedly) draws ever closer. For those curious about why some folks are up in arms over this thing, we’ll simply point you to this very informational rap video; for those opposed to nerdy hip-hop, let’s just say its primary goal is to “seek out new particles including the long-awaited Higgs boson responsible for making things weigh what they do and the possible source of gravity called dark matter.” Somehow or another, the paranoid among us think that carrying out those tasks will rip the world wide open or leave you stuck in 1990 with nothing in your CD player but Ice Ice Baby. Okay, so maybe that last scenario is worth getting worked up about.

[Via TGDaily]

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High-resolution satellite launched in California (AP)

AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond’s home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.

Fujitsu Asia Pacific intros the L1010

Filed under: Laptops

Like your laptops available in soft, colorful tones? Looking for something a bit entry level? Fujitsu may have just the thing for you. The company has just introduced its L1010 mid-priced laptop (in Asia, at least), and it looks like just the right thing if you’re not trying to break the bank or win friends and influence others. The L1010 packs a Core 2 Duo CPU atop the PM45/GM45 Express Chipset, a 1280 x 800, 14.1-inch LCD display, an NVIDIA 9300M GS graphics card with 256MB of RAM, WiFi, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and HDMI outs. The laptops come in white and pink gold, black, turquoise blue, pink and purple color configurations, though the press release somehow fails to make mention of RAM or hard drive options. Fujitsu is mum on price and release date, but we’d say not too expensive, and fairly soon.

[Via iTech News Net]

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Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal (CNET)
CNET - Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the attorney general from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multistate antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal.