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Walkman from Sony celebrates 30 years
Published on 2009-07-05 04:47:00
Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player thirty years ago this week, kicking off a revolution in the consumer electronics industry by changing the way people enjoy music. Until its introduction, the only way people could enjoy their own choice of music while on the go was to lug around a larger, heavier cassette player, but the Walkman brought music to the belt-clip, purse or pocket.The first Walkman, the TPS-L2, cost ¥33,000 in Japan and US$200 in the U.S., but despite the relative
Roaming fees drop under new EU law
Published on 2009-07-05 03:27:00
European mobile phone users can now cross national borders in Europe and know they won’t be slammed with a huge cell phone bill when they return home. Roaming charges for cell phone and texting messages are dropping. A new single tariff, in the works since 2007, covers all European Union countries and the charges for many consumers for some messages will plunge. Roamed text charges will drop from 28 European cents to 11 cents and roamed mobile calls will also drop, but not as much as text mess
Firefox 3.5 already tops 4 million downloads
Published on 2009-07-05 03:10:00
While still not as ubiquitous as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s new Firefox 3.5 browser was just released yesterday and is off to a great start. The browser was met with mostly positive reviews. Reuters stated, “There’s no doubt that version 3.5 of Firefox is significantly faster than version 3…All in all, this is a major improvement over Firefox 3. Even if you’re not currently a Firefox user, you’ll want to give it a try.”CNET was slightly more measured commenting,
