Gizmodo confirms new iPhone 3G coming next month

There have been several rumors floating around over the past couple of months over the next generation iPhone, and recently a lot of attention has been placed on the upcoming WWDC Keynote on June 9th.

Well, according to Gizmodo, they have a source that is “very, very close” to the iPhone launch, and they have been informed that the new iPhone 3G will indeed get introduced on June 9, and then be available worldwide immediately following the launch. I hope they are right, as I am planning on moving back to America at the start of June, it will turn out to be perfect timing as I look to buy a new cell phone once I am home.

For more information on just what you can expect from the new iPhones, be sure to check out Engadget, which ran a nice article that laid out what their sources have told them about the second-gen iPhone.

*not intended to portray the 3G phone, just an illustration 

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Getting rid of Nofollow from your wordpress blog

Yesterday I was discussing with a friend of mine how frustrating it can be to post a comment on someone’s blog only to find out that the blog is defaulting to show links as rel=”nofollow”. If you are using wordpress, then this function is automatic by default, and it really penalizes your users that post great content on your sites.

This is basically something that wordpress set up as a default in order to prevent comment spamming. The reason behind this is that the links don’t get the “link juice” from nofollow links, and the sites page ranks are not effected. Of course spammers could care less about their page ranks, but most serious webmasters do (although the benefits of page rank are highly debatable).

Anyway, my friend sent me a great link today on douglaskarr’s marketing technology blog about how you can hack your wordpress code to get rid of the rel=”nofollow” default and start to give your readers the benefit that they deserve for commenting on your site.

Read the full explanation here

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Hewlett-Packard 2133 Mini-Note PC

Hewlett-Packard announced the release of its smallest ever laptop computer, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC.

This is the first time that the company has tried to make a move into the low priced market of ultra small computer laptops. If you are interested in this new ultra small laptop, you can expect to pay anywhere between $500 and $900, depending on your configuration.

The laptop has an 8.9″ screen, and weighs in at slightly higher than 2.5 pounds. According to the company website, it is geared towards the educational market. One of the biggest concerns consumers have with mini notebook computers is the keyboard size. This computer has an almost full size keyboard, at 92% the size of a typical keyboard layout.

Here are a few of the features:

• Anodized aluminum shell that is sleek, sturdy, and lightweight;
• An 8.9-inch diagonal WXGA display with a resolution of 1,280 pixels by 768 pixels
• Two battery options: Either the three-cell for lightest-weight configurations, or the choice of the six-cell for longer battery life;
• Wireless technologies. These include integrated Wi-Fi Certified WLAN and optional Bluetooth™

The computers move away from using an Intel chip, and instead have a C7-M microprocessor from Taiwan’s Via Technologies.

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Release Your Rockstar Competition from Activision

Would you consider yourself a Guitar Hero addict? I must admit, I probably would be if I had the video game, but since I don’t own a gaming console right now I am immune to the addiction, but over the holidays when I was at my brother-in-laws I definitely spent a few hours jamming out on his X-Box 360 to Guitar Hero.

Well, for all you Guitar Hero addicts, you can now win a chance to get your own playable character and many other prizes. Head over to www.releaseyourrockstar.com and enter.

The welcome video is pretty damn funny… can you do better than these wanna be rockstars?

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Google remains the search engine King

For me personally, there really is no choice when it comes to online searches. I just love Google and I pretty much use it exclusively, but Yahoo! is still hanging in there with a pretty sizable chunk of the search engine market.

According to ComScore, Google captured 59.2% of the overall search engine market in February. This was a slight rise from January as Google extended its control from a previous 58.5% in January.

Since the beginning of Google I have been a fan, but I really started to appreciate it a couple years ago after I started work with AOL on BloggingStocks, and most recently my own stock page, Stock Investing. I really fell in love with the Google News page and I use that website more than almost any other site online. It is definitely the best resource I know of for finding breaking news on just about any company I am looking at.

Here are how the other major search engines ranked:

Google : 59.2%
Yahoo! : 21.6%
Microsoft: 9.6%
AOL : 4.9%

It is a bit disappointing for me to see AOL so low, but then again I don’t ever use AOL for searching so I am not helping the matter either. Having said that, when it comes to finding stock prices, and market news I always head to AOL Money & Finance, which I honestly think is the best performing money page out there.

For Google… congratulations… it’s good to be king!

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