HTC EVO 4G: A Multimedia Powerhouse
HTC has struck gold again with the HTC EVO 4G ($200 with a two-year contract from Sprint), which is easily the best smartphone available on Sprint and is second to the HTC Droid Incredible (Verizon) as the best smartphone available today. The EVO 4G packs powerful specs and a lot of features in a slick, [...]
Sony Said to Announce TVs With Intel Chips, Google Tools in May – BusinessWeek
Sony Corp., trying to reverse sales declines in its TV division, will announce home-entertainment devices next month that use Intel Corp. chips and Google Inc. software, said two people familiar with the matter. The companies plan to discuss the new products at a conference sponsored by Google in San Francisco on May 19 and May [...]
United Offers Coast-to-Coast Comfort and Unlimited Bonus Miles – MarketWatch
Image by dmealiffe via Flickr United Airlines announced today that customers flying United’s exclusive p.s.(R) Premium Service between New York and San Francisco and between New York and Los Angeles may earn up to 50,000 Mileage Plus(R) bonus miles for each qualifying roundtrip through June 30, 2010. Travelers booking in United First(R) may earn 50,000 [...]
NTSB investigates near miss over San Francisco | Flightglobal
Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating a 27 March near-miss over San Francisco involving a United Airlines Boeing 777 and a small light aircraft. The NTSB says that the crew of United flight 889 operating N216UA destined for Beijing was cleared for takeoff from runway 28L at San Francisco International [...]
Virgin America Plans Flights to Orlando, Toronto – In Transit Blog – NYTimes.com
Virgin America is going to Disney World. The airline today announced new daily nonstop flights to Orlando from Los Angeles and San Francisco beginning in August. One-way fares will start at $149 and $199 respectively. The three-year-old airline also announced plans for its first international destination, with direct flights to Toronto from Los Angeles and [...]
Twitter Trending Topics Goes Local – Reviews by PC Magazine
Sick of all this Apple Tablet talk? Why not switch your Twitter Trending Topics to something more localized? Actually, the new feature is still confined to major cities, so odds seem pretty good that, no matter where you go, most people will be breathlessly tweeting about Steve Jobs and company. The new feature, rolled out [...]
Itineraries – Start-Ups Airlines Try to Find Room at Airports – NYTimes.com
Virgin America has managed to survive skyrocketing oil prices and an economic crisis since it started in mid-2007 and even hopes to achieve an operating profit this year. Passenger planes at Newark Airport in 2007. Start-up airlines have trouble getting access to scarce runway slots and terminal gates at some of the nation’s biggest and [...]
TripAdvisor.com names dirtiest U.S. hotels
Travel Web site TripAdvisor said San Francisco’s Heritage Marina Hotel topped this year’s list of the 10 dirtiest U.S. hotels. “This hotel is like in a horrible horror movie! The bed was a nightmare. It smelled like urine and had strange spots,” TripAdvisor quoted a user review of the Heritage Marina Hotel as saying. TripAdvisor, [...]
Microsoft To Unveil Zune Phone? — InformationWeek
Microsoft is planning to introduce a Windows Mobile-based phone in the coming weeks in order to keep up with rivals Apple and Google, according to a financial analyst. Jefferies stock picker Katherine Egbert said the company would likely unveil the device next month at the Mobile World Congress in San Francisco. Alternately, the software maker [...]
