Long distance key duplication

http://tinyurl.com/5ahuvx

It's not preposterous - it's posterous

www.posterous.com is the place to post everything. Just send email.

According to their home page, it's as simple as one, two, three.

Step 1. No setup or signup.

Step 2. Email anything to post@posterous.com. Attach photos, video, MP3, and files.

Step 3. See the site you made. They will reply instantly with your new posterous at http://yourname.posterous.com

Apple under $1000

Apple announce new machines earlier in the week. Unfortunately they did not release one at $800 as rumored, however they did come in under the $1,000 price point.

Google G1

The Google G1 will be released on Wednesday at T-Mobile stores. Advertised as an iPhone challenger, the phone will be available for $179 with a 2-year calling plan.

The G1 uses a touch screen that can view images with a finger swipe. There is a full keyboard. The phone can download music, display online maps, play games, store photos, show videos, e-mail, instant message, access GPS and communicate at 3G and Wi-Fi speeds.

Read more about in a Los Angeles Times article at http://tinyurl.com/4wkfa4

Size of a storm

The Storm is a large one - it's 0.55-inches thick. People who felt that Apple was pushing weight boundaries won't like this "chubby" phone. In addition to being somewhat oversized, the traditional BlackBerry weight advantage is gone.

The price of a storm

We're speaking of the new Blackberry Storm. According to items on the Internet, including this one, http://tinyurl.com/4skfke, the Blackberry Storm will be retailed at $699.99

Another article at http://tinyurl.com/3zqpp4 says that "so far, neither Verizon nor RIM have released details on the retail cost for the Storm, but it will likely have to be in the $200 range if it really aims to be the "iPhone killer" that its makers hope it will be"

Apple laptop for $800

According to http://www.inquisitr.com/, Apple will be selling a laptop for $800. This is the first time that Apple has offered a laptop for under $1000. They may be shifting to target price sensitive customers.

You can read that full article here.

Here comes the storm

The BlackBerry Storm is arriving on Verizon and Vodafone in November.

The Storm is RIM's first touchscreen phone. It uses a 3.26-inch 480 x 360 glass display with a clickable surface. There is a full HTML finger-navigable browser with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities.

Storm includes Bluetooth 2.0, 1GB of onboard storage, an 8GB microSD card, 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera with dedicated flash.

It advertises 15 days of standby or 5.5 hours of talk time on either GSM or CDMA networks. There is no information on pricing at this time.

Facebook set to overtake MySpace

We have found recent information from Pingdom saying that Facebook could overtake MySpace in number of users in as soon as two months.