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Another busy week here at TNMS. Here are some important stories that you might have missed over the weekend!

Kevin Rose rumors on new iPods, etc. from Apple - CrunchGear
XBox360 will get motion controllers like the Wii? - Gizmodo
Google and Verizon to partner for cell phone searching - Gizmodo
Virgin Mobile to acquire Helio - Engadget
Cyborgs [...]

Apparently, AT&T has a new home theater tech support center: ConnecTech. Just like Best Buy’s Geek Squad and Circuit City’s FireDog, AT&T will have ConnecTech. CrunchGear has the price breakdown for the available services AT&T has to offer… which is basically the same as BestBuy and CircuitCity. But how well can [...]

I may have the opposite of that multiple-Oscar-Winning movie with Russell Crowe, but as reported on Engadget, American Airlines has begun offering In-flight WiFi on it’s Boeing 757-200 airplanes using a system by Aircell LLC.

Where has the weekend gone? Between the Olympics and the Massachusetts tax-free holiday, I’m spent (literally!)! Here is what you’ve missed:

First Android phone to be shipped in November… without Microsoft Exchange? - Engadget
Intel to release 160GB solid state hard drives, faster, bigger and use less energy - Tom’s Hardware
Dell’s Mini Inspiron laptop specifications [...]

Some quick updates on what you’ve missed this weekend:

Video card wars! Intel vs. Nvidia vs. ATI - Tom’s Hardware
Motherboards with dual-core Atom processors are being made! - Guru3D
Intel’s new processors to be called “Core i7″ - Guru3D
MIT hackers break down subway fare system - Techdirt

There was a great deal of hype building for the new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), which launch on Monday this week.  Unfortunately for Cuil, this hype built up into a PR nightmare that we find happening all too often these days.  At 3PM on Monday, Cuil’s servers crashed.  The site functioned sporatically as it [...]

Weekend recap but first some quick TNMS updates.
We won’t be publishing the grand opening of the Boston Apple Store video as it is way too big of a file (to edit as well) so instead, I will take screen shots of the store and post additional pictures. But we will have another “How to…” [...]

While American Auto Manufacturers are currently blowing exhaust up our.. bums about their plans to increase standards to 35 mpg by 2020 (Wow really?!?! That’s TWELVE YEARS! Twelve years ago I would have just spent 5 minutes connecting to Prodigy online service on my Pentium 133 Mhz processor at 28.8 baud per second, you cheap, [...]

Quick recaps:

iPhones go on sale this Friday at 8am - CrunchGear
Blackberry rolls out touch screen phone? - Gizmodo
Toyota Prius’s go solar to go more green! - Engadget

Not a whole lot this weekend… Hit the links for the full stories.

Comcast misleads customers and public about service - Yahoo!

Ice found on Mars! - CrunchGear
A tent that charges cell phones off of wind and solar energy doubles as temporary shelter - Gizmodo
Finally, a viral video. This one is very interesting first found on [...]

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