RIM, RIM, RIM (Research In Motion to its parents). Why do you pretend to hide all the new phones you're bringing out, then leak a bunch of pictures nearly every week?

The new BlackBerry Javelin, the fun-loving lite sister of the upcoming Bold, has been shown again, but this time as official pictures released by the manufacturers themselves.

We've got a high speed MicroUSB port, 256MB onboard flash memory with more via a MicroSD slot, and a 512MHz processor.

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It's been two years since we've seen Jack Bauer, star character of 24, but the anti-terrorist agent hasn't taken his time off screen to just bask in the sun and enjoy life. Instead the return of 24 is coming with a bang, and the first part of it is called 24: Exile, a made-for-tv movie that will bridge the gap between the last season and the new season, filling audiences in on Jack's adventures during the four year time gap between season six and seven. 24: Exile will air on Fox on November 23rd, and the DVD release will follow closely on its heels, coming to stores two days later on November 25th.

Not only will the DVD follow quickly on the airing of the movie, but it will feature an extended "Creator's Cut" of 24: Exile, with ten minutes of unaired footage, along with an exclusive sneak peek at Season 7 - the first 16 minutes of the new season's first episode, a commentary track and more.

24: Exile finds Jack Bauer in the middle of an uprising in a small African nation where he has been doing missionary work. The ruthless dictator of the fictional nation of Sangala is using children as soldiers in his army, and it's up to Jack Bauer to rescue the children. The fact that the events take place the same day a new U.S. President is being installed probably means something significant as well. 24: Exile stars new 24 cast members Cherry Jones (Signs), Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting), Gil Bellows (Aly McBeal), Tony Todd (Candyman), Jon Voight (National Treasure), and, of course, Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer.

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In an attempt to be the costliest one week hotel stay in the world the Emirates Palace is offering a host of unbelievable treats with their weeklong package. It includes luxurious first-class airline tickets, trips all around the place in a chauffeur-driven Maybach, a personal butler to serve you, a treat at the spa and day trips all around the place in a cool private jet. The Emirates Palace is a hotel located in Abu Dhabi and has come forth with this insanely luxurious package with just one goal in mind: bag the Guinness record for being the costliest hotel in the world. Some part of the proceeds will also be donated to charity.

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The hugely successful launch of Apple's iPhone 3G, quite possibly the highest profile gadget launch in history, is now becoming a distant memory which means it's time for Apple's fervent fanbase to get back to it's favourite pastime of Chinese whispers about Apple's next planned product releases.The consensus among the well-informed seems to be that Apple is to release a new line of Mac and iPod products late September.Don't buy a laptop yetGraham Barlow, editor of MacFormat agrees, telling Te...more

Adobe's Lightroom 2 has gone all official on us with the full release of the programme, following a successful beta test.

The prototype version of the photo editing and organising software was downloaded over 100,000 times and helped to shape the way the eventual release turned out (which makes sense for a beta test really).

For instance, this is the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5, and a few decent pug-ins have been thrown in for good measure.

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Toshiba's Camileo H10 digital camcorder may appeal to many not only for its features but also for its budget pricing. Offering functionality as well as decent specs, the H10 offers 720p high definition recording (1,280 x 720 resolution). With slight memory power of 64MB capacity, it's a good thing that you can expand it with an external SDHC (up to 8GB), offering up to 4 hours of broadcast-quality film. Specs read 5x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom, 10 megapixel CCD sensor, 2.7-inch TFT LCD monitor, Night Mode for shooting in low light, image stabilization, motion detection filming, plus the usual array of special effects Toshiba Camileo H10 camcorder has a standard HDMI output for hooking on to an HDTV; it also comes bundled with ArcSoft software for editing footage on a PC. You will be able to pick it up for about 179.99 or $359, by the end of this month.

Rumors about the next generation MacBooks get more concrete. Seth Weintraub reports on the ComputerWorld about the new features he heard from his sources about the next generation Apple MacBook notebooks.

The new MacBooks are supposed to be thinner (safe guess) and feature a tracpad with glass surface with multi-touch and gesture support. Glass is nice to touch, but you sure will need to clean it every day with Windex.
The body of the new MacBooks would be made from a single piece of aluminum.

The new MacBooks most likely run Intel Centrino 2 and are supposed to be already coming end of September.

More details on ComputerWorld.

Creative has been updating a lot of it's lines of MP3 players lately with the Zen X-Fi and the Zen Krystal. This time it's the Zen V line that's getting an update with the new cheap medium sized Zen Mozaic.

While the Krystal and X-Fi both look very stylish, I must say I'm a bit puzzled about the looks of the Mozaic. The player is available in three basic colors; black, silver and pink, but the front of the player has a rather peculiar pattern which in my opinion just looks weird. The player has gotten a 1.8" TFT screen versus the 1.5" OLED screen of the Zen V and combined with the button area with the 9 tactile buttons on it does make it noticeable bigger than the Zen V. The specs are pretty standard with video support on the 128x160 screen along with a radio and voice recorder. battery life is rated at 32 hours for audio. Only the 2GB ($99) and 4GB ($129) versions will launch now, but 8GB ($169) and 16GB ($249) version will be available later in August.

[Press Release via Nothing But Creative]

AT&T is claiming that it has the fastest nationwide 3G network. I?m sure this claim is a way to help entice shoppers to buy the iPhone 3G that launched today. AT&T says that it bases the claim on a variety of tests conducted by third-party researchers and that AT&T had the fastest network by a significant margin.

AT&T says that it has 3G service in 300 cities and expects to expand the service to 350 cities by the end of the year. The catch with that is my city is one of the 3G "covered" areas and the service is so patchy as to be pretty much useless. I can't even get 3G in my home, but drive a mile down the road and you can get a weak signal.

"We've invested billions of dollars in our 3G network, and now we can proudly claim it as the nation's fastest 3G network," said Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T's wireless unit. "We will continue to expand our 3G network coverage into new areas, grow our lineup of industry-leading devices, such as iPhone 3G, and deliver compelling new 3G services to market like Video Share(SM). And to top it off, only AT&T offers the best global coverage. AT&T's ability to serve its wireless customers is unparalleled in our industry."

Via AT&T

Today's the big day and everywhere you look on the interwebs you see pictures of lines of folks waiting to get their 15 minutes of fame.  That's the amount of time that AT&T says it takes to activate each iPhone sold.  I decided this morning to see for myself if there is big demand for the iPhone 3G here locally and headed for my AT&T store since it's just down the street.  All Apple stores and AT&T stores opened at 8 am to start selling the phone so I drove up to the AT&T store at about 8:15.  This is a small AT&T store in a strip center, not a big outlet or anything.

I admit I was surprised to see over 50 people in line waiting to get in the store.  I spoke with a few of them in the back of the line and most of those folks were at their second location, having given up at the first they went to pre-8 am due to the long line.  While I was talking to them an AT&T rep came out and informed the folks toward the end of the line that they would not have enough phones to go around but that those who waited could take advantage of their "direct fulfillment" program.  He explained how it worked and it's basically a "pay us now, take delivery later" program.  Much to my suprise most of those in line decided to wait it out just to get in to pre-pay for their iPhone 3G.  I asked the rep how long they've been told to estimate delivery of those directly fulfilled iPhones and he said 2 - 3 days.  I then asked him how many iPhone 3Gs they had received at his location and his response was that all AT&T stores selling them received 20 8GB and 20 16GB phones.  That doesn't sound like very many to me.  I have to admit that the demand for the iPhone 3G at launch is bigger than I thought it would be.  Nice marketing, Apple.