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Since June 2008, the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”) has moved forward with a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the right to use selectable output control (SOC).  This practice involves disabling the analog or digital portions of a video stream to the consumer.  The MPAA claims… Continue Reading »

A new Sony Vaio P has recently made its way through the FCC.  Of course, as with FCC reveals, we were not given any information as to when we can expect to see this new model become available, however it does confirm some earlier rumors surrounding a new Vaio P.… Continue Reading »

In light of a federal inquiry into mobile carriers and exclusive deals like the one AT&T has for the iPhone, Verizon has jumped the gun and announced they will not sign onto any exclusives longer than six months.  The move comes as the federal authorities look to help smaller carriers… Continue Reading »

Even though I took a week off from my Crack column, those feeding off the marketing hype definitely didn’t stop.  We’ll look at the movers and shakers in the industry that clearly cry out for a good detoxing and we’ll look at the consumers that can’t get enough.  This week… Continue Reading »

Today is the release of the iPhone 3G S as we all know.  We also all know that unless you want to deal with AT&T it is impossible to use the iPhone (jailbreaking excluded).  There’s also the Palm Pre, which until the end of the year is exclusive to Sprint. … Continue Reading »

Judging from the latest FCC listing to be revealed, it seems that the HTC Touch Pro2, which is also going by the codename of the “Fortress” is going to be available with AT&T sooner than later.  And by saying sooner than later it really means that the release date has… Continue Reading »

In perhaps what is one of the least exciting FCC appearances to date, the Palm Pre has recently had its reviewing.  Not much to be said with this one, except that courtesy of the FCC we now have the label for the Pre. Anyway, moving on to the endless supply… Continue Reading »

The HTC Snap, which is shown by the codename of MAPL100 or Maple in the FCC listing seems like it is ultimately going to end with with T-Mobile as the Dash.  As far as the FCC listing, we can comfortably say it is headed to T-Mobile due to the support… Continue Reading »

At this point it seems to come without question that we will be seeing a new Sidekick in the coming months, what seems to be more of the mystery at this point is what it will be called.  So far the circulating rumors have referred to it as the Sidekick… Continue Reading »

We first got a good look at the Eee PC T91 tablet back at CES, however since then any release information has remained a mystery.  Unfortunately, we still do not have an exact release date to offer up, but the recent FCC appearance does mean it is that much closer… Continue Reading »