Contradicting HTC’s assurances a couple days ago that its Android phones are on track for later this year, an analyst at Global Equities research says that, according to his sources, HTC is “having structural problems to incorporate Google’s demanded feature set” and “demanding a guaranteed minimum revenue surety from Google,” indicating they don’t have a lot of faith in Android phone sales. Consequently, it looks like their Android handset (probably Dream) might slip into next year after all.
Worse in the long-term is that the analyst’s contacts tell him that developers are not exactly snapping up Google’s SDK—they’re too busy developing for the ten million other OSes out there, like Windows Mobile, Symbian, OS X and BlackBerry. It wouldn’t be too surprising, given stuff like infrequent updates to the SDK, unless you’re one of the super special developers with access to the privately updated one. The fact that bad news about Android keeps rearing its head isn’t a good sign itself, since noise this persistent usually has a bit of signal embedded in it. [Barrons via Electronista]
Source: HTC's Android Phone Might Be Delayed 'Til Next Year, and Other Signs Android Is Screwed [Rumor]
Today Sling Media is releasing a public beta of their Windows 2.0 software that adds several new features to the service. Among these upgrades, users can expect a built-in programing guide that enables quick channel search and channel change functionality from your PC with no IR delay. There will also be a live video buffer with DVR-like control, integrated Sling Accounts, and a fancy new look and feel. Clip+Sling is still MIA—but Sling promises that 2.0 will start an “important transition process” that will pave the way for that application and others like it. Detailed information on the new features is available after the break.
These Daan air purifiers from Coway are some of the best looking air purifiers we’ve ever seen. The ones we’ve had are like Danny Trejo: workmanlike in its ability to get the job done, but very very ugly. The Daans are the opposite of ugly, and can cover a 161 sq. ft. room with a single unit, or more if you stack a few together. There’s even a bonus mood lighting function in case you somehow trick a lady into coming home with you, which seems as likely as you importing one of these from Korea. [
It took half a decade, but the T700 is Sony Ericsson’s attempt at finally releasing a successor to one of our old favorites, the T610. The T700 has a 3.2-megapixel camera, stereo speakers, a “premium metal finish”, 2-inch TFT display, 512MB storage (with expandable storage), quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA 3G. Release date’s set some time in Q4 2008, and will come in black/silver, black/red, and just plain silver. For those who owned a T610 a few years ago, this will be both sweetly nostalgic and deeply confusing, when you look down and see that your T610 has a camera that can take photos that aren’t mistaken for abstract paintings. [
What a fantastic photograph. We could tell you the mundane truth behind what these glasses really are and what they really do, but let’s not spoil it. Let’s just enjoy a moment of unadulterated imagination by staring at these electronic clouds, molding them to any purpose we like. [
David Walsh, a network engineer who worked at Apple from 1995 to 2007, is currently suing them for making him work a little too hard. Specifically, he says they made him work more than 40 hours a week without overtime (because he was a “senior” engineer, a pseudo-management position he says was created to skirt paying overtime) and required him to be on call for seven days straight every six weeks. In other words, a pretty 
The Asus pulse mouse is just what it sounds like: A mouse that measures your pulse as you work at your computer. It sends the information via its wireless connection to software running on your PC that keeps track of your heart rate and displays it graphically. It’s not meant for everyone, but anyone using Windows who’s also a heart patient might find it useful, or even lifesaving. [