Month: September 2010

Apple has made a small but important change to Ping that improves it considerably. Read the original post by All Things Digital

Gladys Kight has worked to help New Orleans recover post-Katrina, and now she’s bringing the love to her show at Foxwoods Time heals all wounds. Read the original post by NY Daily News

Today only for its “M” Club members only, mwave.com offers the Transcend 4GB SDHC Class 10 Secure Digital Card, model no. TS4GSDHC10, for $10.99. (“M” Club membership is free; click here to join.) Apply coupon code “4GSDHC10″ to drop it to $7.99. With free shipping, that’s $2/GB and the lowest total price we could find…

A set of new iPad designs from China latched onto by Patently Apple show some interestingly possibilities, including a landscape dock connector and a smart bezel. Read the original post by WNOL-TV New Orleans

For in-store pickup only, MicroCenter offers the Panasonic VIERA 50″ 600Hz 1080p Widescreen Plasma HD Television, model no. TC-P50U2, for $649.99. That’s $199 under our mention last month, which was available for shipping, and the lowest price we’ve seen for any 50″ 1080p plasma HDTV. Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include a 1920×1080…

Blockbuster’s misfortune is Netflix’s gain. On the heels of the brick and mortar video rental service filing for bankruptcy, the Los Gatos-based company announced a partnership that will further stake its claim as the powerhouse of media rentals. Read the original post by KNBC-TV

For its “M” club members only, mwave.com offers the refurbished Western Digital Passport 250GB Portable USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, model no. WDXMS2500TN, for $39.99. (“M” club membership is free; click here to join.) With free shipping, that’s $0.16/GB and among the cheapest Western Digital 250GB portable hard drives we’ve seen this year. Features include…

Toshiba is releasing a selection of laptops with built-in 4G WiMAX technology at select retailers starting Sept. Read the original post by Digital Tech News

Today only, Cowboom.com offers the refurbished Apple TV 160GB, model no. MB189LL/A, to $129.99 with free shipping. (It’s on the far right under the “Explosive Deals” banner.) That’s $49 less than the lowest total price we could find for a new one. (However, we saw it for a buck less from Apple direct earlier this…

The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Reeder for iPhone / iPod touch for 99 cents. That’s $2 off and the best deal we’ve seen for this Google Reader client. Read the original post by dealmac.com

If you saw the fire-breathing Ford Focus RS on Top Gear last week and thought that youa d look pretty good in one of those then you better get down to your nearest Ford Dealer and get your order in because theya re coming to Australia a all 315 of them and thata s all…

Patently Apple reports on some new patent applications that appeared in China’s patent database this week. One diagram (above) clearly shows an Apple iPad with dual 30pin dock connectors allowing both landscape and portrait docking orientat… Read the original post by MarketWatch

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook central Alaska early Saturday morning. It was the strongest of dozens of quakes that have hit throughout the state in the last several days. – (AHN) Read the original post by WNOL-TV New Orleans

” American Idol ” runner-up Crystal Bowersox has another thing to look forward to this year other than recording her debut album. Read the original post by NBC New York

The gold lame varsity jackets still fit. Four decades after performing as the penultimate act at Woodstock and three decades after a hosting a long-running TV variety show and appearing in the movie classic, “Grease,” several former members of the doo-wop singing group Sha Na Na are reuniting this weekend for a special one-time-only performance….