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Today was a relatively busy day at blargKABOOM, but you might not have noticed it. The overall changes were internal and as of now, all of our changes have been made. The changes won’t affect you directly, but overtime more new features will be added due to today’s switch. Periodically through the day, some users [...]

AT&T announces iPhone 3G plans; buy it at 8:00 am

With iPhone 3G launch date getting closer, AT&T decided to give us even more information to chew on. Not only have they given us the plan information (detailed after the break, but we now know that AT&T’s doors will swing open at 8:00 am on July 11th for iPhone 3G customers. Besides that nice tidbit [...]

Rock Band Track Pack being released for Wii and PS2

GameStop and Amazon added Rock Band track Pack Vol 1 to their product lists recently, giving a release date of July 15. The disc contains 20 of the most “popular tracks in Rock Band history.” You would think that it just is extra tracks for the game, but the expanded information reads: “A fully functional [...]

@me.com emails working for some

Apple has flipped the switch and activated Me.com email addresses for some .Mac customers. In other words, if a current .Mac customer has username@mac.com, email sent to username@me.com would be forwarded to their .Mac account. @me.com emails are part of MobileMe, Apple’s upcoming replacement to .Mac. For more information on MobileMe – check out me.com [...]

iPhone news: Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 8 and iTunes 7.7 beta to developers, iPhone 2.0 firmware out on July 11, and more

Today was a relatively big day for iPhone news. Let’s wrap-up today’s news:

Apple released the eighth iPhone SDK beta today, providing a new, more stable release of iPhone 2.0 beta firmware. Alongside the release, Apple seeded iTunes 7.7 to developers in the iPhone Developer Program. According to developers, iTunes 7.7 shows Applications and related options [...]

Sprint offers $20 for YouTube videos featuring new Instinct

This is one marketing campaign that’s never been done before, and it could just be one of the most brilliant yet. Sprint is offering the first 1000 people that create a video with it’s new flagship device, the Samsung Instinct, $20. The rules are pretty simple: create a video with the new Samsung Instinct, upload [...]

BlackBerry Bold demo video is fake and iPhone copy-cat

Cell phone guided tours didn’t really exist before the iPhone’s way back in June of 2007. Even now, most companies don’t have guided tour videos. RIM thought to itself, “hey, let’s try and show the customers how to use our new BlackBerry Bold.” This idea may have been a good one, but after watching RIM’s [...]

TIME Magazine’s iPhone G3

Have you heard of iPhone G3? No? Me neither. But apparently, someone at TIME Magazine has. In a photo essay of the history of cell phones, TIME has this for 2008: “The iPhone G3 Steve Jobs unvels the latest generation of his revolutionary product. The G3 is faster and less expensive than its predecessor.” Making [...]

IGN gets a look at Guitar Hero World Tour

Incase you didn’t know by now, Guitar Hero 4 is officially Guitar Hero World Tour and will have drum and microphone support. We’ve seen pictures of the drum set before, but IGN got a preview of the whole set. Besides the drums and a microphone, the guitar got some big changes. The overall guitar is [...]

TestFreaks.com – a new review site

It may not be technology ‘news’, but it does relate to technology and gadgets. After doing some searches on the ‘net, I recently came upon Test Freaks. The interesting fact about this site is that it doesn’t have one review, but it grabs tons of reviews from all over the web. It lets users see [...]

Firefox 3 out now, ‘Download Day’ is here

Firefox 3, the latest version of Firefox, was released today after the final beta was released last week. The latest version adds features like easier bookmarking, a new smarter address bar, and performance improvements. Mozilla is really pushing this launch with what they call ‘Download Day.’ Mozilla is trying to make a Guinness World Record [...]

LG Decoy lands on Verizon, includes removable Bluetooth headset

LG released a new slider phone, the LG Decoy, onto Verizon Wireless today, bringing a new feature that no other handset has: a built-in, detachable Bluetooth headset on the back. Perfect timing to announce a phone with a Bluetooth headset built-in, considering California will start enforcing a hands-free only law while driving starting July 1. [...]

BMW concept car can change shape

Some concept cars are out there, but the GINA Light Visionary Model concept from BMW is way out there. GINA stands for “Geometry and Function in “N” number of Adaptations.” According to Chris Bangle, Director of Design BMW Group, this means “that there’s a lot of change possible.” The groundbreaking change in this concept is the [...]

iPhone SDK limits GPS applications

After looking over the iPhone SDK license agreement, one clause looked a little odd. “Applications may not be designed or marketed for real time route guidance…” Is Apple trying to stop GPS makers from getting navigation software on iPhone? It looks like it. According to a TomTom spokesperson, this is just Apple “trying to protect [...]

iPhone Apps to have price and size limitations

After some images were leaked to MacNN, we have now learned about the price and size limits for the App Store. Apps can range from $.99 to $999.99 and have a 2GB size limit. Most of the more expensive applications will probably be higher-end enterprise applications, but games with lots of features might get pretty [...]