October 7th, 2008 by
Filed under: Cellphones
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Blackberry_Storm_Runs_iPhone_OS’; We can’t put our finger on it, but there’s something vaguely familiar about this new Storm 9500.
In case you’re reading this after these images get taken down — which they inevitably will be — this was the official marketing material posted tonight by RIM’s Storm launch partner, Vodafone.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Continue reading Vodafone’s BlackBerry Storm art department all soon to be fired
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August 28th, 2008 by
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
You have to figure that major news outlets keep obituaries on hand for all kinds of public figures and celebrities — still, you can’t help feeling a bit of a chill upon learning that notice of Steve Jobs’ death mistakingly hit the wires yesterday afternoon. A slip-up at news outlet Bloomberg caused the lengthy obituary to roll across a number of screens before being pulled — but not before a Gawker tipster was able to send off a copy to the gossip site. Under normal circumstances, this would probably come off as a random gaffe with minimal impact, but given recent reactions / over reactions concerning Jobs’ health (thanks in no small part to his appearance at WWDC, pictured above), this comes off as a rotten-timed moment in journalistic and technical butterfingerism. We can only hope this didn’t send too many investors into a tailspin — we’d hate to see any War of the Worlds moments caused by something so silly.
[Via CNET]
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