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Week.End @ Icrontic: Friday/Saturday edition

Week.End @ Icrontic: Friday/Saturday edition

This is Icrontic scrounging for news on a Saturday night when the news mill ground to a screeching halt more than thirty hours ago.

  • Interested in a T-Mobile G1? They’re still taking preorders, but you won’t get it until some time after October 22.
  • Hack the Apple TV to play all sorts of media with Boxee.
  • In a move that will undoubtedly enrage open standards nerds, Microsoft may be making a bid to take over the ODF standard.
  • Is NVIDIA axing AIBs? It appears that Foxconn, Club 3D and three more unnamed board partners have been cut.
  • It’s confirmed. Microsoft Windows XP has six more months of life with OEMs.
  • In a mad grab to save their flailing mobile phone market, Motorola plans to hire 300 Android developers to help them not suck a whole bunch.
  • Make VoIP calls on your iPhone if you’re connected to WiFi!
  • Could counterfeit electronics be in the US Army’s base, muckin’ up their stuff?
  • Virgin Galactic declined a cool $1 million greenbacks that would’ve paid for the world’s first space pr0n.
  • Ever wanted to know what the web’s 10 most useless websites are?
  • Have a hankering for that Android-powered G1, but waited too long to pull the trigger? How about an emulator?
  • Real Steve Jobs didn’t actually have a heart attack. JK JK guys. Who’s to blame for this messup? By the way, it tanked Apple’s stocks for about four minutes.
  • Nailing down a launch date, AMD’s new Shanghai chips are on the way this month.

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