How Can You Make Free Calls To Any US Phone? It’s Magic, Jack.

If you’re like me, then you don’t sleep at night. And you might find yourself mindlessly watching hours of infomercials while wondering who buys this crap? I have a hard time believing any claim made on an infomercial. Especially when the word FREE is repeated ad nauseum. As a rule of thumb, the more times I hear “FREE” the more the item actually costs—the same goes for the happiness of the people in the commercial and my satisfaction with the product. But every once in a while, you see something that has potential, and you might just find use in it.

Enter: The magicJack.

In theory it appears to be the cheapest way to make phone calls to land-lines in the US, and on-par with Skype’s free internet-to-internet phone calls. The units are cheaper than Skype’s phones, $59.99 gets you the unit and a 1 year use contract. The jack itself plugs into any USB port and then you plug any normal land-phone into the jack. Then you start making phone calls. Two Magic Jack users can call eachother for free across the world as well.

As a raging skeptic, I tried to find proof that this is a scam. So far I have found none. And I’m kicking myself for not grabbing that great headset on the last Woot Off.

Motorola Internal Memo Tells Designers To Hold Hands

Motorola is making a last grasp at holding its Mobile Devices unit together. This past week an internal memo was passed around regarding the reassigning of hardware designers and software designers to work side-by-side. The perpetually optimistic, but declining technology giant hopes to relive the RAZR glory days by catering to the increasing demand for efficient and effective mobile software. And in a moment of morose honesty, Motorola’s CEO, Greg Brown admits “software is a major weakpoint for the company’s mobile handsets.”

This year has been an emotional rollercoaster for Motorola, who in January was consdering dropping its mobile devices altogether. After the immense popularity of the RAZR, every major release from Motorola has failed to live up to expectations. The market has become software and third-party support oriented, and lack of internal communication within the company has apparently left it far behind the consumer demand curve. In March, Motorola announced it was splitting the Mobile Devices unit from other technology, and this month brings new gusto for revamping the units.

With the push for open source software support technologies from companies like Google, and Facebook, is Motorola’s push for hope even reasonable? It appears they have nowhere to go but up, however, they seem to be staring at a glass ceiling into an entire market that has passed them by.

source: Intomobile

Good news for brits, iPhone UK price slashed

Good news for brits, the apple iPhone had a £100 decrease in price starting from April the 16th. There are currently no plans to cut the price of the 16GB version. O2 - The UK mobile network provider and Carphone Warehouse a major cellphone high street retailer announced there £100 price cut in the cost of the 8GB iPhone and it seems to be going very well. The reduction comesamidst the price cuts by T-Mobile in Germany.

The 3G-enabled iPhone is launching in June and it seems that T-Mobile and O2 are clearing the stock of the first iPhone model released to clear some space on the shelves for the 3G-enabled iPhone. The really bad thing recent for UK buyers of the iPhone is that O2 are not giving refunds on recently bought iPhones e.g the last month, due to the price slash.

Many users of the iPhone usually jailbreak there device as they disagree with O2’s exclusive deal with apple. When the 16GB iPod launches in the UK in June it will cost a staggering £330.

Although, when you buy an 8GB iPhone realise it will only have 7.3GB data storage for songs, videos and images available and a 16GB iPhone have 14.4GB available when both are empty as, the devices have additional software which takes up some of the memory.

Xbox sales double thanks to price cut

Sony’s Playstation3 console may be picking up a little bit of momentum in the gaming console charts right now, and the Nintendo Wii still galloping way ahead of everyone else due in part to a high amount of Asian sales. Software giants Microsoft has said their Xbox 360 sales in Europe have doubled in the last month.This is great news for Microsoft who reduced there prices in Europe at the start of March.

“Xbox 360 is truly the next-generation console of choice among consumers, and today’s numbers are proof that we are delivering on our commitment to achieve critical mass in Europe,” said Microsoft Europe VP Chris Lewis.

“The highly competitive ERP, coupled with entertainment content that’s appealing to everyone in the home, makes Xbox 360 the ultimate high-definition entertainment choice, and it’s clear that we’re already seeing this resonate with consumers.”

Microsoft have said that the Xbox 360 is the number one console in EMEA. The Microsoft 360 right now has a 42% market share based on life-to-date revenue.

Sales of the console in the UK. France and Germany are doing great right now although Sony’s PS3 and Nintento’s Wii is dominating sales in Spain and Italy.

HP MediaSmart HDTV’s get Windows vista update compatible with Internet TV

HP’s MediaSmart HDTVs, has released its long-awaited Vista Media Center Extender update. The SL4278N and SL4778N model TVs should get the automatic update as long as they’re connected to the Internet. They’ll update with a fully patched version of Vista Home Premium or Ultimate edition machine and you will be able to access your Media Center library including DivX, Xvid, h.264, MPEG-2 and WMV media content as well as live TV, recorded TV and other media files you may have directly through the TV.

When it comes to keeping your Windows media center remote control there is a walk though available on HP’s support page to guide you though the process so you will be able to keep your Windows Media Center remote so that its compatible with the new update. The HP MediaSmart HDTV is compatible with the Internet TV which is designed for both TV and PC screens and is accessible via these Media Center Extenders including the Xbox 360 extenders. Internet TV is designed to deliver high-quality video and media content streamed over the internet to the Windows Media Center. Users are able to watch full episodes of TV shows, concerts from music artists, high-quality movie trailers and clips from media sources such as MSNBC.

These HDTV’s made by HP allow you to experience full high-definition 1080p clarity media via the latest LCD HDTV technology. Apart from just being able to access thousands of movies, videos and music from online media sources you are also able to browse the web and use any software available on the Windows vista operating system platform.

Media Xporter hard drive for gamers

Its not the first time the technology industry has seen a product repacked and aimed at gamers, this time its a iomega product, featuring their new media xporter hard drive.

The 2.5-inch USB hard disk device, aimed at gamers to connect upto their game consoles.  According to Iomega it works perfectly with  Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Compatible with the MP3, MPEG-4 and JPEG file formats.

Rumour has it that hopefully along with the device, software will be included which will convert video to work with gaming consoles and thankfully the hard disk doesn’t need any extra power adapters its just simple USB plug and play and the 160GB model is available now for only $120.

This device enables you to play your stored music, photos, and videos on our chosen console and offers a high capacity of storage, 160GB specifically just for your multi-media collections and is very convenient for transferring an viewing the content through your Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 video game consoles.

Its portable so you can take it around with you when travelling, and is great for saving content from your computer and transferring for viewing on your video game consoles.

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iPhone ‘Style’ Media Player Showcased

Ramos Digital recently showcased their new V8 PMP in China. Though, still in development stages the company have released the designs for their new PMP (Portable Media player) which looks to have a extremely stylish GUI (Graphical user interface).

The new portable media player will support Mp4, Avi, DivX, RMVB, and also MP3, WMA, and FLAC file formats and includes TV output and a text viewer. Just like the Apple iPhone, the portable media player automatically detects rotation of the device and changes the on-screen imagery in accordance to which way round
the device is held.

Similar to switching from portrait to landscape mode. which is great for viewing windscreen movies, images and media. There is still no information on screen resolution, but would appear to have a 4.3” display and touch screen technology.

Although the price is still a mystery, I’d make a bet this will be a must have gadget for 2008 with its ultra stylish interface and array of supported file formats.

Military robots go crazy in Iraq

Recent reports of armed military robots deployed in Iraq have claimed that some have robots have been malfunctioning on duty. The most recent report claims that the ‘SWORDS’ robot made by Foster-Miller has been pulled off- duty due to ‘control issues’, when the robot began moving its gun randomly without direction from its human operator.

Reports claimed that the robots gun was swinging around like crazy at random. According to an army manager who talked to popular mechanic, this is not the case “SWORD is still deployed,” he added “we continue to learn from it and will continue to expand the use of armed robots.”

A spokesman for the developer Foster-Miller said “the whole thing is an urban legend,” and that the only times that the robot had any type of control issues was prior to its safety checks in 2006.

The army do seem to be very precarious about the issue of robots malfunctioning while on duty, which could lead to serious injury and a potential fatality saying “once you’ve done something that’s really bad, it can take 10 or 20 years to try it again.”

source: engadget

Landmann 3 burner gas BBQ

Landmann 3 burner gas BBQ only £99.99

We have been having some great weather over the past couple of days and it has got me thinking about barbeque’s and garden parties.  I am glad to announce that the days of praying the charcoal will light are over.  As it seems that the only way to BBQ these days is by ‘cooking on gas’. Read more

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