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Meet the Micropod SE from Scandyna, a Danish speaker company (the country, not the pastry).  Scandyna has been at making speakers for 40 years and does so with a certain flair.  Kinda makes you want to crawl inside one of these things and make some honey.

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Sprint-Nextel’s stock dropped more than 9% after the company announced a $29.45 billion 4th quarter loss.The loss is being blamed on a huge write down related to the company’s merger with Nextel. The company also announced the suspension of dividend payouts and the borrowing of $2.5 billion from a revolving credit facility. Sprint-Nextel CEO Dan Hesse said the loan would allow them to focus on fixing the business and avoid the financial risk of outstanding loans.

Read [New York Times]

The much hyped merger of Satellite radio providers XM and Sirius has stalled, and the deadline is looming. The original deal was struck on February 19, 2007 and the termination date is Saturday. Sirius is desperate for the merger but regulators have still not approved the plan. Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin said he expects the boards of both companies to meet to extend that deadline. The DOJ seems to be stuck on the question of whether the merger would result in a monopoly. The answer to most is no, given that most satellite radio usage happens in cars, where DVD players, iPods, and free radio are also options. Since February 20, 2007, Sirius shares have fallen 22% to $3.05, while XM shares have sunk 15% to $13.13.

Read [Reuters]

In another round of Verizon Loves/Hates consumers, we have the new AirCard/Smartphone data plans that are being announced on March 2nd in the spotlight. With Verizon having announced their unlimited calling plans and also details about their new “Open Network” to be set loose later this year, they looked like they were becoming more user-friendly. Well, that’s changed with this most recent event.

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Shuttle, the gaming PC leviathans are releasing a new model in advance of next week’s Cebit extravaganza. The device in question is an absolute beast of computer muscle power. The XPC P2 3500G sports a 750GB hard drive with a 32MB cache and an Intel Core 2 Quad Core processor. It is all encapsulated within an Aluminum XPC case, and has enough cooling and ventilation systems to ensure it doesn’t sound like a raucous under your desk every time you load up a game.

Other features include ATI Radeon HD3870 graphics, 2 Firewire and 7 USB ports, a 25-in-1 card reader and best of all a fingerprint scanner, for when you don’t want anyone to destroy your Gamerstats. It should retail for around $2,250. The world awaits.

Product [Shuttle] Via [Gizmodo]

Here in corporate America, this growing question is getting louder and harder to avoid.  Is it time we switch to Mac?  Our IT folks swear by Microsoft almost as much as they swear at Microsoft.  How about yours?

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Sprint has officially added their unlimited plan to the lineup and at the same time seem to have one-upped the other carriers. Sprint’s unlimited plan will be at that familiar $99 a month price, but includes more than just voice or voice and SMS. Sprint’s $99 “Simple Everything” plan includes just that, everything, meaning unlimited voice, data, text, e-mail, web surfing, Sprint TV, Sprint Music, GPS, Direct Connect and Group Connect.

The “Simply Everything” plan will be available beginning February 29, 2008 for all CDMA and iDen customers. The “Simply Everything” plan will be available for both new and current customers, and those current customers can switch over without extending their contract. This new unlimited plan is also available to family plan users, and the good part here is that each additional “Simply Everything” plan will get a $5 savings. So the first will be at $99.99, the second at $94.99 and so-on, with discounts up to the fifth plan.

Read [Business Wire]

While we still intend to give you a more in depth comparison of the Everex Cloudbook and Asus Eee PC in words, we thought we would take a little time to show off some side-by-side pictures of the slightly different form factors.

We did find one important item, which we share in the video below. The slow, slow boot time of the Everex Cloudbook. In full disclosure, the Eee (as mentioned in the video) was upgraded to 1GB of RAM while the Cloudbook has the stock 512MB. Aside from that both laptops are stock.

Once we have a little more hands-on with the Cloudbook we will give a follow-up (in words). In the meantime enjoy the video and pictures.

Keep reading for the video and side-by-side comparison pictures of the Everex Cloudbook and Asus Eee PC…

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Everyone wants to love this cute little thing.  Chumby is a fun little alarm clock that features more things than my smartphone: touchscreen, WiFi, accelerometer, active user/developer community and lots more.  Does it live up to our wide-eyed expectations?

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Hulu currently offers a large selection of ad-supported full length television shows that includes The Office, Prison Break, Bionic Woman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice and more. It looks like we can soon add content from Warner Brothers to that collection. According to Bruce Rosenblum, the president of Warner Brothers “a deal with Hulu is imminent.”

Hulu, which is currently still in private beta is rumored to be opening to the public in March. Which means you can either bug your friends that may have access to Hulu for an invitation, or just wait patiently for a little while longer, being fans of Hulu, we can say it is worth the wait.

Via [TV Squad]