Sure, the SV-2400 announced this day by Stealth Personal is “built to withstand the demanding effects of harsh environments typically came across in industrial plant floor and Human Machine Interface applications,” but wouldn’t it also stand up to your bratty kids’ peanut butter and jelly-covered hands and the generally rambunctious nature of the rumpus room in […]
Sure, the SV-2400 announced this day by Stealth Computer is “built to withstand the demanding effects of harsh environments typically encountered in industrial plant floor and Human Machine Interface applications,” but wouldn’t it also stand up to your bratty kids’ peanut butter and jelly-covered hands and the generally rambunctious nature of the rumpus room in your finished basement?
Finally! Dad can watch the big game while his three-year-old twin toddlers Tommy and Timmy stumble around like drunken acrobats, slamming into decorative crystal ducks, glass-encased championship Wheaties boxes, and, of course, your new 24-inch rugged widescreen LCD computer monitor with touchscreen interface.
Such a bulletproof display must be wrought with technological trade-offs, right? Lies! The SV-2400 features a 1920×1200 resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 160 degree viewing angle, DVI and VGA inputs, and 250 nits of brightness. Tradeoffs, my ass.
Pricing begins at just under two grand and sales appear to be restricted to commercial customers, so sorry to get you all hot and bothered with the above text.
Skyfire Labs Inc., makers of the “game-changing” Skyfire mobile browser, announced this day that they’ve raised $13 million in Series B funding. This round of funding is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and includes previous investors Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures.
This brings the total funding up to $17.8 million, following a $4.8 million Series A round in June of last year. As part of the deal, Jake Seid, Lightspeed’s Managing Director, will be joining Skyfire’s Board of Directors.
Skyfire is a mobile browser which offsets a good amount of the page rendering workload to a server, freeing up the handset’s CPU and RAM to crunch things most mobile browsers leave out — namely, Flash and AJAX. Check out the demo video here.
This additional funding places further pressure on Skyfire’s main browsing rival, Opera Mobile. While Skyfire is (tentatively) free, Opera Mobile goes for 24 bucks. With Opera Mobile 9.5 facing delays, a free substitute with rich media support is beginning to look mighty tempting.
QChat is a CDMA upgrade to Nextel’s iDEN Push-to-talk network, which increases connection performance while allowing interoperability with the legacy iDEN network. The service was originally rumored to be set to roll out nationally back in April, but hit a few delays with unknown causes.
It looks like whatever issues were causing the delays have been worked out - Sprint’s QChat PTT replacement is finally set to go live nationally next month. According above Brightpoint distribution chart, the Sanyo PRO-200 ($249.99), PRO-700 ($269.99), Samsung Z400 ($299.99), and LG LX400 ($279.99) — all QChat launch devices — should hit the shelves on June 15th. As always, early adopters are going to have to eat the higher costs.
Nobody likes to be sued - including T-Mobile. Getting sued by lots of people who are all mad for the same reason is even worse. To avoid this, T-mobile plugged arbitration clauses into their service agreements to keep customers from filing class action lawsuits, instead requiring that legal matters are settled out of court. It’s a common thing; most contracts having something along those lines tucked away inside. It doesn’t seem to be working too well for T-Mobile, though.
This morning, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from T-Mobile to nullify 3 class action lawsuits aimed in their direction. While federal law lends to the enforcement of arbitration clauses, a number of states (including those where the suits were filed) have their own laws that allow courts to refuse class action suit related clauses. T-Mobile’s lawyers claimed that the federal laws preempt the say laws — but, in this case, the Supreme Court states otherwise, allowing the cases to proceed.
I heart Futurama. I dig the series and, even though I made the typical fanboy mistake of assuming a movie would suck something terrible, I really enjoyed Bender’s Big Score. With the release of the trailer for the second flick, The Beast with a Billion Backs, I’m starting to get all giddy again. It apparently […]
I heart Futurama. I dig the series and, even though I made the typical fanboy mistake of assuming a motion picture would suck something terrible, I really enjoyed Bender’s Massive Score.
With the release of the trailer for the second flick, The Beast with a Billion Backs, I’m starting to get all giddy again. It apparently follows up on the events of the first, so if you didn’t hate the first one, you probably won’t hate this one come June 24th.
As it’s yet another Moto clamshell, there’s nothing too exciting about it. Touch sensitive external buttons for controlling music, V Cast, and support for a handful of music formats (AAC, AMR NB, MIDI, MP3 and WMA V9) — all of which are made useless by the dongle-necessitating 2.5 mm headset jack. It comes in two flavors: “black slate” or purple — because nothing says royalty like a lower-mid-range Motorola.
The W755 should have hit the shelves this morning, and runs $69.99 after contract and rebate.
