U.S. T-Mobile Android Customers — Pay for Apps With No Credit Card [jkOnTheRun]

Purchasing apps in the Android Market has always required a credit card — that is, until now. T-Mobile customers in the U.S. are getting an update to the Android Market app that enables charging apps to the customer’s phone account. The update is being rolled out in phases as is typical for T-Mobile.

The update is invisible to the user, but customers can check the Android Market app in the “Manage Applications” setting. Any version over 1660 and you can now charge apps to yourSource: GigaOM Network RSS Feed

Google Voice calls help to improve ‘voicemail transcription quality’

Google Voice automatically transcribes voicemail messages, for you to get a sense of what messages are about without needing to listen to them. Automated process sometimes works great, sometimes not so well. There’re many variables that influence transcripts quality, from background noise, caller accent, connection quality, and more. Having a pool of messages that can be used to gauge accuracy is very useful. “And this’s where you can help by "donating" some of yourSource: D' Technology Weblog RSS Feed

Final Fight: Double Impact arrives April 2010

Capcom has announced that the Final Fight / Magic Sword combo pack known as Final Fight: Double Impact will hit Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network in April 2010. In addition to the previously announced graphical filters, viewing modes and drop-in / drop-out co-op, Capcom has also revealed that both games will feature a selectable soundtrack from the people responsible for the excellent Bionic Commando: Rearmed soundtrack. Furthermore, the games will utilize GGPO, a networkingSource: PS3 Fanboy RSS Feed

Acer aims to be first to market with Google Chrome OS netbook

Acer, no stranger to netbooks with Google-backed operating systems, is hoping to have the first Chrome OS netbook on the market by the second half of next year, according to DigiTimes.

The company has apparently been developing the machine since the middle of this year. Acer’s JT Wang “expressed his confidence that the company will be the first vendor to launch [a] Chrome-based netbook in the market during a recent interview with Digitimes.”

The second half of 2010 is light years away as far as technology development is concerned but, hey, now you have something to talk about at your next dinner party. I’d bring it up right away, like before you even take your coat off.

Acer to launch Chrome OS netbook in 2H10 [DigiTimes]

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PSA: Futureshop slashing prices on Dragon Age, Left 4 Dead 2, NFS: Shift

Hey Canadians! Yeah, you guys and gals huddled together attempting to maintain sustainable body heat. Just a friendly reminder that big-box retailer Futureshop is currently slashing prices on a slew of new video game titles. Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Brutal Legend and Need for Speed: Shift are all on sale for $39.99. Wait, what's this? NHL 10? Oh, Canada. You're so adorably predictable!
The online and in-store sale ends on December 3, so make sure to defrost your car, dustSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed

USB Inserts bring ads into the print age and back again... or something

Be honest: you really want to crack open a magazine and find one of these paper-thin USB key ads, right? No? Well... here's the thing. We really think this is a cool concept -- made to order, super slim, die cut USB drives that can be tucked in the pages of a newspaper or magazine (if you know what those are) -- with whatever content a company wants to throw on there. However, we're also not really sure the inserts would be compelling enough for us to ever consider loading up whatever content was on it. Regardless, that phone on the right sure seems to be familiar...

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Weekend Diversion: Doing Something Thankful [Starts With A Bang]

Saying thanks is one of the best things we can do to appreciate the good things in our lives. This goes for our partners, friends, families, coworkers, acquaintances, and for some of us, our dear readers. (Thank you all!) There are many musicians who've said thanks over the years, too, and so here's Led Zeppelin's version of Thank You from the BBC sessions.

This past Thursday was Thanksgiving in the United States, and I had a great time with some wonderful people and some outstanding Source: Thoughts from Kansas RSS Feed

Netbooks: The Disruptive Dual-OS Future [GigaOM]

In the computer operating system game, you don’t have to dominate to succeed — just ask Apple. With that in mind, emerging open source-based netbook software platforms could have surprisingly bright futures as secondary OSes, including Google’s. Here are several reasons why they’ll bring changes.

The idea that you don’t have to use just one operating system on a single computer is, of course, hardly new. Many people use virtualization software to run multipleSource: GigaOM Network RSS Feed

Black Friday Online Shopping Guide for Bookish Science Geeks [bioephemera]

A few of my favorite holiday shopping suggestions from the past year of blogging. . .

#1. Pandemic, the Board Game. Turn H1N1 into holiday fun for everyone! (Already have Pandemic? Z-Man games has an upgrade pack.)

#2. Blue Barnhouse letterpress. Yeah, they're artistic and individually pressed, but these are not your parents' greeting cards. In addition to their Happy Colonoscopy cards, they have many more offensive yet hilarious greetings - these invites were perfect for aSource: Thoughts from Kansas RSS Feed

Apple will never allow this: Android has a Porn Store

Here’s something that won’t be coming to the iPhone any time soon – an app store for Porn.

Apple keeps ‘adult-only’ content off the iPhone. On Android there are no such restrictions and one company has taken that to its natural conclusion by launching the world’s first mobile store for porn.

Although you won’t find MiKandi in the official Android Market you can download it from MiKandi.com. Once installed, the app gives you access to all sorts of over-18s-onlySource: The Next Web RSS Feed

Sony joins 1,000-hour recording club with IDC-UX300

You really don't know how many voice recorders there are out there until you actually look. Sony's UX line of dictation takers / mp3 players has just undergone a gentle revamp with a freshened up control scheme and a bump in integrated storage. The new base model, UX200, will come with 2GB of flash memory, while the 4GB UX300 and 300F (both capable of more than 1,000 hours of recording) are differentiated only by the FM radio availalble in the latter. All models record in stereo mp3 format with added noise cancellation built in, while playback can be done at 21 different speed steps, allowing you to keep track of all the Scatman John wannabes out there. Battery life is rated at up to 15 hours for continuous recording, or north of 80 for continuous playback. Expect to see these showing up, in all their classy color options, in Europe early next month, and check past the break for the full PR.

Gallery: Sony ICD-UX200, ICD-UX300, and ICD-UX300F

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7 Easy Steps to Get You Started with Goal Setting

It’s not uncommon to be intimidated by the entire process of goal setting. You may feel overwhelmed by all of the areas where you can set goals, unsure how to get started, unable to identify what’s realistic, and even scared to make a commitment to a specific goal.

Many times, this fear around goal setting comes from the fact that many people think about their goals only once a year, like New Year’s resolutions. But goal setting is most effective when revisited on an ongoingSource: SitePoint Blogs RSS Feed

Valve selling Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead-themed greeting cards

We know how boring most holly jolly holiday cards can be, so we were glad to see that a handful of Valve-ified greeting cards are now available for purchase at the game maker's online store. Featuring characters from Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2 in compromising holiday situations, there's no doubt that we'll actually - finally - send out greeting cards this year to everyone in our little black book. We're quite partial to the handful of TF2-themed images you see aboveSource: Houstonist RSS Feed

three-iphone ocarina: wtf?

This weird iPhone musical instrument was spotted at a meet-up of MAKE Japan. Of course.

There are three iPhones in that plastic (acetate?)… thing, running what seems to be an Ocarina-like app. I’m guessing the contraption sends the air blown through the mouthpiece to all three phones at once. I wonder what it sounds like.

[via MAKE]

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matias tactile pro 3 keyboard: the mac gets a real keyboard again

While many of you might like the industrial design of the keyboards that Apple has been churning out for the last several years, I still long for keys that FEEL like keys. Thankfully, the guys over at Matias have the same sentiment and are getting ready to release a new Mac keyboard with REAL keys, not those wimpy “chiclet” buttons.

These new Tactile Pro 3 keyboards are built from the same technology used in the original Apple Extended and Extended II keyboards, complete withSource: technabob RSS Feed

NVIDIA and Futuremark inside Audi 2010 cars

Bright Side of News reports the majority of Audi's 2010 models will use the Futuremark MMI 3G interface to provide climate control, radio, multimedia player, games, advanced 3D GPS navigation, telemetry data, speed and other measurements. With the new system available of majority of 2010 models, Audi is using a combination between Tegra SoC and "rugged automotive-grade GeForce" processor. Back at NVISION, we were explained that "rugged automotive-grade" processor is actually a special versionSource: DV Hardware RSS Feed

The Eagle has Landed, for $2,700! [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]

Grandmas always make the best cookies and give the best hugs. And as Nice Price or Crack Pipe has discovered, they also have the best AMC Eagles.

Yesterday we took a turn to the dark side, but the mystery of the turd-like Rot Rod Miata was easily unraveled - you all deduced the owner to be a freak, and feted his freakdom with a 85% Crack Pipe vote. Good work people, get yourselves a Scooby snack.

Today we're going over the river and through the woods to grandma's house, andSource: Jalopnik RSS Feed

AT&T Awarded Hug and a Box of Tissues in Verizon Ad Case [Digital Daily]

“AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s ‘There’s A Map For That advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts.”

– Excerpt from Verizon’s response to AT&T’s complaints about its new ad campaign

Verizon was right. The truth does hurt. And it is especially painful when it’s meted out by a court of law. A U.S. District judge on Wednesday denied AT&T’s request to force Verizon to pull its “There’s A Map ForSource: All Things Digital RSS Feed

Shields Up!: EU Cracks Down on Ringtone Scams

Section: Communications, Accessories, Cellphones, Computers, Security

The European Union Consumer Commission has announced a crack down on sites pushing free ringtone scams and that often target kids and teens. The crackdown covered all 27 EU countries plus Iceland and Norway and resulted 9 Italian companies being slammed with nearly $3 million in fines. Of the 301 websites targeted, 54 were put out of business and more than 150 were made to change their advertising. The commissionSource: Gadgetell RSS Feed

Krome Studios lays off 'undisclosed number' of staff

It's always sad when our layoffs tag claims another victim and, today, Australia-based Krome Studios is the latest. The developer responsible for the PS2, PSP, Wii and DS ports of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and who recently wrapped up development on Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes, has been forced to release an "undisclosed number" of its staff, Industry Gamers reports.
Krome CEO Robert Walsh attributes the action to declining game sales industry-wide and says theSource: Houstonist RSS Feed

ZiiLABS promise Zii Android smartphone demo in December

ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 chipset was certainly enough to get us interested last week – the promise of a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, Blu-ray quality video playback and parent company Creative’s X-Fi audio tech will do that to a geek – and now they’ve gone and got us hot under the collar with the promise of an Android smartphone.  Set to be demonstrated at the Zii Summit 2009, to be held in China on December 1st, the device is described as a Zii Optimized Android Phone platform, albeitSource: SlashGear RSS Feed

Pocket Radar Measures Speed, Fits in Pocket

The Pocket Radar is a cellphone-sized doppler radar which promises to revolutionize the measuring of speeds. If by “revolutionize” you mean “make smaller”.

The obvious use case for a tiny, battery powered “radar-gun” is for cops to catch speeding motorists, only without the bulky handset. But the Pocket Radar publicity pitch also suggests taking it to the car races, or bike races, or, well, anything races. You can even use it to measure the speed of a baseball pitch. A pairSource: Gadget Lab RSS Feed

Aerial7 Sound Disk Beanie Keeps Your Head Warm and Connected to the iPod in Winter

It’s cold outside and that means new and creative ways for you to wear your headphones over your hat…or you can try out the Aerial7 Sound Disk Beanie and save yourself a lot of hassle of tugging and pulling. The Sound Disk Beanie features a built-in mic for your iPhone, 35mm driver diameter, and input jack to plug in just about any MP3 player.  The beanie incorporates a built-in speaker system so there is no need for any external headphones and earphones. Just plug your device into yourSource: Chip Chick RSS Feed

Dream Theater adding even more metal to God of War III soundtrack

Dream Theater, a heavy metal band best known for creating songs that are impossible to play in Rock Band -- and, based on the image above, for serving as the artistic inspiration for Metalocalypse's Dethklok -- has chosen to lend its potent rock powers to the soundtrack of God of War III. This announcement was made by Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, who mentioned on the band's blog, "we will then enter the studio right after New Year's to write and record a brand new instrumental track forSource: PS3 Fanboy RSS Feed

Make: Projects - Pneumatic trough, part I

Although it sounds like some kind of euphemism from Brave New World, a "pneumatic trough" is actually a very handy piece of classic chemistry lab kit. Besides providing a convenient means to collect samples of pure gases for various experiments, a pneumatic trough with a graduated container allows the easy volumetric measurement of reaction yields for gas-producing reactions.

If that all sounds too complicated, don't sweat. What I'm going to show in this tutorial is simply how to buildSource: MAKE: Blog RSS Feed

The 2009 Equality NC Conference is jumping

Despite waking up late (the dogs didn't wake us up!), Kate and I are here at the Equality NC Conference, held at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. Attendance is robust today, with a lot of young people here. This year there is a great deal of good news to report about progress towards equality in the state:

Gains in 2009
* For the sixth year in a row, a proposed state constitutional marriage amendment was killed in committee. North Carolina is the last stateSource: Pam's House Blend RSS Feed

Video WH 'held for review': Obama official Melody Barnes' support for marriage equality

This story is so weird; it exemplifies the paranoia over at the White House over anything G-A-Y, particularly regarding the President's current illogical-but-politically safe position on marriage equality. We have to roll the story out before getting to the meat of it.

Melody Barnes, Obama's senior domestic policy aide, recently gave a talk at Boston College; she indicated not only her personal opinion on marriage equality (she's for it), and provided insight on WH policy. Apparently Source: Pam's House Blend RSS Feed

Oct. NPD: Brutal Legend sold 216k; DJ Hero sold 123k

A pair of Activision-published titles, Bral Legend and DJ Hero, was conspicuously absent from October's NPD top ten. According to data given to GameSpot by NPD, DJ Hero, which was released at the end of the month, on October 27, managed 123,000 units in sales across four platforms, with the Xbox 360 version accounting for the highest number of sales (62,000 units) and, predictably, the PS2 version, the lowest (3,300 units).
Double Fine's rocking, semi-strategy game, Bral Legend, which Source: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed

TreePad Lite is a Powerful Personal Organizer

TreePad Lite is a powerful personal organizer that allows you to store all your notes, emails, hyperlinks, text in a tree like structure. The program stores all this information in one or more databases. It has got the look and feel of Windows Explorer thereby making the process of creating, searching and editing information easier.

All the information can be saved and retrieved in a tree like structure just like the way that you browse files and directories in Windows.Source: Madhur Kapoor's Blog RSS Feed

Best of the Rest: Death of Mixtapes, Roomba Vacuum Bots Play 'Pac-Man'

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.

• The onward march of technology is making once common things, like blind dates, getting lost, and mix tapes, increasingly obsolete. [From: Kottke]
• The Web has made it easier than ever to become a pro at something... like disarming aSource: Switched RSS Feed

BMW M Tie: For The Overlooked Man In Your Life [Holiday Gift Guide]

Barely know anything about your father/husband/brother except that they drive a BMW with fruity stripes on the back? Then this tie could be the perfect Christmas present.

Here's the complete and completely frightening press release:

Munich. Used every day but rarely on the shopping list. That is the fate of the tie. Although it is often a must-have business accessory, men don't like buying ties. According to a survey, 54% of the 4,622 men questioned have never or only verySource: Jalopnik RSS Feed

Target Black Friday ad

Well, well, well. If it isn’t Target’s Black Friday ad? Let’s see what’s inside, shall we? Oh my, hello there 32-inch HDTV for $246. How do you do?

Stores open at 5AM on Black Friday. Doorbusters are marked with an asterisk and are good “while supplies last,” according to the circular.

Digital Cameras

Kodak ZD15 Digital Camera – $129.00

Nikon CoolPix S203 Digital Camera – $88.00

Polaroid V130 2″ Color LCD Camcorder – $39.00

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mic & mac prove that love knows no operating system

Staunch loyalists of either Apple or Windows will not approve of the romance between Mic & Mac, two machines who fall in love with each other despite their differences. The Pixar-like video, created by a certain gverstraeten, is quite old but it’s still dawwwwwww-inducing.

While Apple zealots will no doubt deem the classic gray PC as too ugly even for the old iMac, it’s actually Windows & PC fans who will be more insulted in the video. Watch it and look at Mic’s (that’s the PC)Source: technabob RSS Feed

Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s Old Boy is No More

Could it be? Have our prayer’s been answered? Latino Review is reporting that Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy starring Will Smith is dead in the water. Apparently Dreamworks and original Korean production studio Mandate were working together to get the rights to the manga, but the two couldn’t reach an agreement, and Dreamworks simply walked away. Spielberg’s film was to be an adaptation of the original manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, and not a direct remake of ParkSource: SlashFilm RSS Feed

First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The "ikee" worm, as it's being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of "alpine," and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then Source: Engadget RSS Feed

The Daily Engadget: Nokia Recalls 14M Chargers, First iPhone Worm

Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.
Nokia Recalling 14 Million Defective Chargers
It was just a few weeks ago that Sony wowed us with a recall of 69,000 chargers. Not to be outdone, Nokia has now gone several orders of magnitudeSource: Switched RSS Feed

Stump Furniture Made From Reclaimed Wood

The Stump series of furniture are all made of reclaimed wood that might otherwise be tossed out. The object was to create a sustainable business and create designs that were engaging while hiding their recycled nature. The price point is excellent too at just under $200 for most pieces. Normal carpentry facilities would cost too much to mass produce the series. Instead, work programs for rehabs and disabled people made production possible while providing employment for a large group ofSource: Yanko Design RSS Feed

Active Media unveils SaberTooth S4 SSD upgrades

Many of the most popular netbooks that Asus and other companies make use SSDs rather than traditional hard drives. The SSD helps the little systems get more run time out of their battery packs and helps them perform better. If you are looking for more performance from a netbook that came with an SSD from the factory, Active Media has a new line of upgrade SSDs called the SaberTooth S4 series.

The new line of upgrade SSDs are mini PCIe cards that use the 3Gbps SATA-II interface.Source: SlashGear RSS Feed

VOTD: Firelight - SNL Digital Short Parodies Twilight

On this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, the digital short was a Twilight spin-off parody titled Firelight. What happens when a high school girl falls in love with a reanimated green jock and two worlds collide? This is probably one of the funniest Twilight parodies I’ve seen. Watch it now after the jump.

• VOTD: Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals
• Jonah Hill’s SNL Digital Short “Andy’s Dad”! Johah Went For It!!!
• Andy Samberg’s SNL DigitalSource: SlashFilm RSS Feed

10 million viewers tune in to U2 on YouTube

The rock band U2 play at Pasadena, California

YouTube generally shows short video clips, and the U2 concert was one of handful of live broadcasts the website has undertaken, and it showed that it could generate audiences to rival broadcast television, as ten million viewers clicked on to YouTube to watch U2 perform live at Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calfornia at end of last month, a record for simultaneous viewing on video website. Malcom Gerrie, chief executive ofSource: D' Technology Weblog RSS Feed

UDK: Make the next Gears of War

Ever sat down from a long day of hacking and thought to yourself  “I wish there was a cool video game out there made just for me. Better yet, made by me!” Today is your lucky day with the release of UDK – Unreal Development Kit.

In days of old, the only solution to satisfying your game creation desires was a cheap game making kit, or adding to the millions of Source mods. Epic has changed tables by now allowing anyone to use their engine (non-commercially ofSource: Hack A Day RSS Feed

TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – A Realtime Holiday

It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch! Yes folks it’s our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we’re taking a different tack – basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We’ve seen the emergence of Twitter, Facebook, Friendfieed and Google Wave but it’s clear that this is only just the beginning of the world going realtime. TechCrunch is running the Source: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed

Quicken Online to Shut Down Next Year, Users Moved to Mint [Personal Finance]

No more than two months after Quicken maker Intuit acquired Mint.com, CEO Aaron Patzer of the latter personal finance site tells TechCrunch that Quicken Online will be discontinued in six to nine months. Users of Quicken Online will have their data transitioned to Mint, although numbers show only 100,000 of the 1.5 million registered are active users. The really good news? Patzer says he might incorporate one key feature of Quicken Online into Mint: manual cash transaction and unclearedSource: TechBlogger RSS Feed

Won't someone please think of the coelacanths, and other lamentations [Tetrapod Zoology]

Goddammit, no time for more reports from Libya, or for more in the toads series, or for articles on hairless Spectacled bears or tiny heterodontosaurids or neovenatorids, or anything really. Here's how things are progressing in view of Saturday's event...

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Google offers search tools for the Amazon.coms of the world

Google is taking the next step in offering its search technology to businesses with a new product called Google Commerce Search. It’s basically Google search for web retailers.

In the same way that Google is taking on traditional enterprise search companies with the Google Search Appliance (for searching within your company’s files) and Google Site Search (for searching your website),  it now wants to replace the older solutions used by web retailers, said Nitin Mangtani, theSource: Venture Beat RSS Feed

Auto Execs Say Raising Gas Tax Will Boost Fuel Efficiency

Auto industry executives aren’t terribly popular these days, and they’ll become less so now that some of them say the best way to boost fuel efficiency is to increase the gas tax.

They stepped on that third rail today during the Reuters Auto Summit in Detroit when they said $4 gasoline would do more to cut fuel consumption than the $25 billion federal program aimed at spurring the development of fuel-effieient automobiles. They noted that sales of the Toyota Prius spiked last year Source: Autopia RSS Feed

stained glass mario mushroom powers up ordinary windows

Who here among us doesn’t like super mushrooms? After all, they’re red, delicious and give you plenty of extra strength. This handmade stained glass power-up mushroom is sure too remind give you a jolt of happy whenever you look at the light of day through it each morning.

Created by stained glass artist Radiant Art, this stained glass super ’shroom was created as an homage to the classic 8-bit Super Mario Bros. series. Instead of being made from pixels, it’s made from colorfulSource: technabob RSS Feed

Sony VAIO L touchscreen humiliates presenter on live TV (video)

You know what they say in show biz: never work with children, animals, or gadgets. And if you must, make sure that you test drive your consumer electronics before going live. As you can see in the video (after the break), the kids on one overseas morning show failed to heed the last bit, to humorous results. For our part, we're inclined to believe that the unresponsiveness of the Vaio L All-In-One touchscreen herein is pilot error of some stripe, but either way the man on screen handled itSource: Engadget RSS Feed

Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z all-in-one: dull specs, speedy start-up

Remember Lenovo’s mysterious all-in-one that showed up in the company’s Flickr stream last week?  The desktop has been named and detailed today, as the Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z, and while it’s targeted at small and medium businesses there’s still plenty of appeal if you like your desktops functional rather than showy.  The ThinkCentre A70z has a choice of Intel Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors, 19-inch display and – while the specifications are really nothing to get excited aboutSource: SlashGear RSS Feed

ASUS Eee PC T91MT multitouch up for US preorder

Having gone up for preorder in Europe midway through October, the upcoming multitouch-capable ASUS Eee PC T91MT has now shown up for preorder in the US.  Amazon are listing the convertible touchscreen netbook – the T91MT-PU17-WT, to give it its full, catchy title – for $549, though they don’t have any specific release date.

Your $549 gets you a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 processor, paired with 1GB of RAM (2GB supported), a 32GB SSD and a non-removeable battery good – ASUS say –Source: SlashGear RSS Feed