Sprint introduces the UpStage music phone, aka the Samsung SPH-M620. The phone takes a novel design approach - 1 side is for phone functions and the flip side has music controls.
The UpStage is thin at 0.37″ or 9.4mm & relatively cheap at $149. Music pricing now matches Apple at 99 cents per track.
CNet liked the thing [...]

The world just can’t seem to get enough memory capacity, especially the non-rotating kind, so Samsung obliges by announcing its newer faster 64 Gigabyte NAND flash solid state drive. Good read speed at up to 64 MB/sec.
SAMSUNG Introduces 1.8” - Type 64GB Flash-based Solid State Drive - Samsung press release, March 27 2007

That staple of the recording industry, the record album, is in trouble largely because nobody’s buying them anymore. The New York Times documents the decline of the genre, and blames the advent of the MP3 player & the online music store. They also hint at a nationwide decline in attention span, as evidenced by the growing popularity [...]

That tease, Apple Inc, gave us another peek at the iPhone, this time at CTIA 2007 in Orlando FL.
The Apple iPhone was introduced at Macworld on Jan 9 2007, will be available in June 2007 and this brief glimpse at CTIA is only its second public appearance.
With approx 42700000 references to “Apple iPhone” in some search [...]

Forbes lists the 10 most expensive hotel rooms in the world. At a daily rate of $37,200, the costliest is the 7th floor Suite Panoramique Vue Mer in the Hotel Martinez Cannes.
…while the views are outstanding & the two-star La Palme d’Or provides ”excellent cooking“, the Ikea-esque furnishings & plank flooring seem less than opulent. And so, we declasse might [...]

ExtremeTech reviews the GentleMouse software that is supposed to reduce the risk of Repetitive Strain Injury - they like it & gave it an 8/10, but advise that it’s not for gamers.
Users of the $40 software package avoid clicking by instead hovering over links. This delay, of course, results in a productivity hit, but going click-less [...]

The Tech section in today’s Wall Street Journal describes the enduring myth of the all-in-one converged device that does everything, and the current contender for that title, the Apple iPhone.
The author notes the various unsatisfactory devices that he’s used over the last while and expresses hope the the iPhone will be ”the one”…the Swiss Army knife of the [...]

Sony has just announced the availability of firmware release 1.60 which allows users of their PlayStation3 game console to download and use Stanford University’s Folding@home program.
The stated goal of Folding@Home is to understand protein folding, misfolding and related diseases such as BSE, CJD, ALS, many cancers & Alzheimer’s = some added justification for buying a PS3.
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Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio who is CEO of Luvaglio Plc seems to have created a new niche for notebook computers, namely the hyper-luxury laptop. He’s bypassed the $100,000 price point completely, and gone straight to the million dollar mark.
The computer itself is nicely spec’d. The thing comes with a 17 inch LED backlit display, an anti-glare screen, 128GB [...]

Oceanic-Creations AB sees a bright future for carbon fiber reinforced plastic. They’re planning to use CFRP to build floating offices, factories, casinos, student dorms & hotels, and tow them to wherever the demand is. The Maya Hotel, depicted above, is expected to cost $209 million and be ready by 2010 to be anchored off Cancun MX. M-H will have 466 rooms [...]