Reports we’re getting in the mail say that some Gmail users have seen their storage bumped to over 9GB today - 9030MB, to be exact. If not a glitch (and why would it be?), it means Google is playing catch-up with Yahoo, which now provides unlimited storage. With no other info, we can only assume the accounts are currently being selected at random.
Google one-ups Apple: 250GB storage per user
Google has finally started to offer Gmail and Picasa Web Album users the ability to upgrade their storage. It’s about time.
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BioShock golden, due August 21
Irrational’s Ken Levine tells Newsweek that the long-awaited PC and Xbox 360 shooter is factory-bound.
Apple quietly handling iPhone touchscreen issues?
It doesn’t appear to be particularly widespread, but according to a couple threads on Apple’s support forums and elsewhere, a small number of iPhones are suddenly getting “dead spots” on their touchscreens — mostly along the bottom, but occasionally affecting the entire surface. Apple is apparently being extremely proactive in dealing with the issue, calling customers who’ve posted in their forums and arranging replacements — the company can’t let anything tarnish the image of The Most Important Device Ever, after all. All of our iPhones are still working great (even after some casual hacking) — anyone else have this problem?
“Can I have your badge number and the source code to your breathalyzer?”
The Minnesota Supreme Court says that a defendant is entitled to see the source code for the Intoxilyzer breath tester.
It could be good in the future, but for now…
Something SP1 this way comes… in the form of two significant updates to Windows Vista. New performance and compatibility updates scratch a few long-standing Vista itches (including file transfer speed).
Electronic Arts’ singing and dancing game for Wii turns out to be fun for approximately 20 minutes.
Apple has posted a 30 day trial to iWork ‘08 which features the all new spreadsheet application called “Numbers.”
A new widget library for GNOME includes an experimental new radial menu rendered with Cairo.
Hey, check it out, my favorite text editor for Windows is coming out of beta!
And it seems that we’ll be seeing a Linux version as well in the near future, how awesome is that?!?!
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