Radio Shack to sell $99 Acer Netbook, but there’s a catch

(Credit: Boy Genius Report)

According to this leaked ad posted on Boy Genius Report, Radio Shack is poised to offer an Acer 8.9-inch Netbook for only $99 for people who sign up for a two-year mobile broadband contract through AT&T.

This type of subsidized Netbook is hardly surprising–in …

Zune user-elect Obama

I’ve remained steadfastly neutral on this whole iPod versus Zune thing. I use an iPhone, so it’s easy for me to sit out, but before I got my iPhone, I had both a Zune and an iPod. I liked both quite a bit and still do. They both …

Rare flying car listed for sale on eBay

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It’s no Ferrari, but an original 1956 Aerocar–the first flying car to be deemed street-legal in the U.S.–is listed for sale on eBay. And it’s only $3.5 million–if you use “buy it now.”

It’s presumably in good shape, with the …

AT&T gift guide helps you put right phone under tree

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While I’m not yet sold on the idea of cell phones as gifts (really, a two-year contract is the gift that keeps on taking), I have to like AT&T’s new mobile phone holiday gift finder.

It’s a Flash-based Web site that lets you …

FCC leaks info on AT&T’s Pantech Duo 2

(Credit: FCC)

Before collapsing under the incredible blogger peer pressure and buying an iPhone, I was a user of Helio’s Ocean. The thing was great. It did everything the iPhone did and still outperforms it in some ways (MMS and video capture, anyone?), and Pantech’s engineers used the …

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