Register to Vote on Xbox Live Starting Monday

Microsoft will offer VOTER REGISTRATION VIA XBOX LIVE called “Rock the Vote” starting Monday in conjunction with looming Democratic and Republican national conventions.

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Solar Briefcase Charges (and Carries) Your Laptop

A company called Voltaic is apparently now selling a new, improved version of its SOLAR-POWERED BRIEFCASE called the Generator Bag. The $600 potential plant ships August 30 and will be available on, of all places, the Museum of contemporary Art’s online store web site. (props to Talk2myShirt)

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‘Green’ Gadgets? Or Greenwashing?

The consumer electronics industry is finally discovering what other industries have known for a distant date: “Green” products sell. Recently, there has been a sudden surge in “GREEN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS.” But are they all actually good for the environment? (Hint: No.)

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Apple Store Wrecks New York City Neighborhood

A New York City residents’ group has filed a formal, public complaint against Apple, saying that it’s lower-Manhattan Apple store is the “WORST NEIGHBOR in SoHo.” The group is vexed by not only the noise and lights of the building, but by the riff-raff Apple attracts, including:

* “young teenage girls who screamed incessantly” (during a promotional concert)
* litterbugs who line up in the hundreds, camping overnight for product releases
* Apple employees who eat, smoke and litter on neighbors’ stoops

(props to Cult of Mac)

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Mobile Broadband to Hit 100 Mbps by 2010 - Report

The GSM organization predicts the rollout of LTE mobile broadband that delivers ACTUAL — NOT THEORETICAL — SPEEDS OF UP TO 100 Mbps in Japan and South Korea by 2010, Europe by 2012 and the U.S. by… well, he didn’t say.

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More Proof Microsoft Is Stuck In 90s: Seinfeld Ads

In case there are any doubts that the company is still stuck in the 1990s, MICROSOFT HIRED JERRY SEINFELD as the face of its $300 million advertising campaign to hawk Windows Vista. Here’s the incomprehensible part: The 54-year-old has-been (who always had a Mac in his TV apartment) was chosen considering Microsoft is “weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.’s advertising,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Microsoft will pay Seinfeld $10 million.

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iPhone Ships With Photos of Factory Girl

I told you in July about how a make new iPhone came with pictures snapped in the Chinese factory where it was made — a factory closed to the public. Now, another iPhone with another series of factory photos has emerged. that one with a cute factory girl POSING for the shots. (props to Gizmodo)

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