Archive for March 4th, 2009
This Week in Digital Imaging: New cameras from Samsung and Olympus
By Emily Price – Obsessable.com After last week’s avalanche of 26 new digital cameras, and with PMA set to start in just a few days, this week was comparatively light for new digital camera announcements. Samsung did announce three unique consumer cameras, and Olympus announced a new digital SLR. Here’s a rundown of all the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Palm Treo Pro for Sprint gets dated
By Peter Ha – Mobilecrunch.com The Treo Pro was supposed to launch in January on Sprint and then it was rumored to launch on the 15th of February, but that never happened either. Then we realized the Pre was coming, so the Treo Pro didn’t matter at all. However, BGR was claiming that a Palm [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple releases new Mac mini, new Mac Pro, and new iMac
By C.K. Sample III – Obsessable.com New 24-inch iMac starts at $1499, new Mac Pro starts at $2499, and the new Mac mini starts at $599. Well, the Apple Store is live again after being down for a few hours this morning with three new desktop computers: a new iMac starting at $1499, a new [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Two Twitter Games That Help Make Your Day Less Boring: @TwitBrain And @BeatMyTweet
By Robin Wauters – Techcrunch.com If you’re procrastinating on Twitter anyway, might as well train your mind while you’re at it. Here are two simple games that make use of the microsharing service’s functionalities and keep your brains busy while tweeting: TwitBrain Follow @TwitBrain and get served calculations on a regular basis (like 3 per [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Vodafone To Start Shipping HTC Magic In April
By Robin Wauters – Mobilecrunch.com A tipster points out to Phandroid that the Vodafone website confirms the Android-powered HTC Magic, recently announced, is arriving in April. Here are the specs: * HSDPA * Built in GPS Navigation * 3.0 -4.0 megapixel – (meaning 3.2) * GPRS * Games * Calendar * WiFi * Full Touch [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google Calendar adds Gears support, now available offline
By Lee Mathews – Downloadsquad.com In late January, Google began offering Gears support for your GMail account and now Google Calendar has received offline superpowers as well. Right now the feature is really only handy for getting a look at what’s on your schedule: it’s read-only, so you can’t edit or add events for synchronization [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone: First Look
By Jay Hathaway – Downloadsquad.com Amazon is going to be selling a heck of a lot more Kindle books very, very soon. With the launch of the Kindle app for iPhone, the online bookseller just opened up their entire Kindle library to folks who already own one expensive mobile device — the iPhone — and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Worldwide PC shipments set for massive decline in 2009
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com While both IDC and iSuppli have already cut their forecast for personal computer shipments this year, expecting a growth of around 4 percent compared to last year, research firm Gartner is painting a much drearier picture today. According to them, PC shipments are expected to decline 11.9 percent to 257 million [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Updates Just About Everything
By John Diggs, Techcrunch.com Apple just updated just about every little thing they could today including adding a $2,400 24-inch iMac and a faster MacBook Pro. Remember that new Mac Mini with 5 USB ports? It’s real. Other highlights include: Airport Extreme – Apple’s latest refresh of the Airport Extreme adds a dual broadcasting mode [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nvidia announces new mobile GPUs
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com There is more activity on the mobile GPU front following AMD’s launch of the world’s first 40nm graphics processors. Specifically, Nvidia today unveiled the GeForce GTX 280M and 260M GPUs for enthusiast notebooks and the GeForce GTS 160M and 150M GPUs for high performance notebooks that shoot for a slimmer profile [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Asus Eee Keyboard to arive in mid-2009
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Remember Asus’ intriguing little computer stuffed inside a keyboard? Well, luckily for gadget lovers and home theater PC fans alike, it appears that the Eee Keyboard was more than just a concept device and in fact it is expected to launch in the second quarter of the year – tentatively around [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon VoD now rocking Roku set-top video player
By David Chartier, arstechnica.com Roku on Tuesday announced that Amazon’s Video On Demand service would join Netflix on its cheap streaming video player. The addition of Amazon’s à la carte video service complements Netflix’s subscription model, elevating the Roku player to an even better position for competing with the Xbox 360, Apple TV, and anything [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TinkOmatic Makes Deal and Job Hunting More Organized
By Leena Rao, Techcrunch In this economy, everyone is looking for a good deal. Startup TinkOmatic (currently in private beta) allows deal-hunting consumers to search and track classifieds or auction sites for multiple items at once, all in one location. Tracking classifieds on Craigslist or deals on Ebay can be overwhelming and tedious to consumers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Subsidies follow AT&T into netbook market
By Glenn Fleishman, arstechnica.com AT&T plans to expand an existing subsidy program that pairs a netbook with a cellular data modem and two-year contract. With fees of $60 for unmetered service and a maximum of 5 GB of data usage each month, AT&T has plenty to give to push a new market. Netbooks are designed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )YouTube Holds A Casting Call To Educate Its Users
By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch.com In the last year, YouTube has introduced a slew of new features, including deep linking, improved analytics, and a new API. But aside from a few very obvious additions, like the bump up to HD, most people have no idea that many of these features exist. YouTube is looking to change [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hands-on: fat-free Xfce 4.6 has nice new features
By Ryan Paul, arstechnica.com GNOME and KDE reign supreme on the Linux desktop, but there are many lesser-known desktop environments that are increasingly popular among users who are looking for lightweight alternatives that deliver more streamlined interfaces and a functional user experience with less overhead. The Xfce project, which produces one of the most polished [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Phishing Attack Takes Down iStockPhoto
By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch.com Twitter is abuzz with news that iStockPhoto, a photo store that was acquired by Getty Images in 2006, has been hit with a phishing attack. All users who have logged into the site today are being instructed to change their passwords (presumably because they have been compromised) and the site’s homepage [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon’s VoD now working through the Roku
By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com Both Amazon and Netflix are about to collectively reach a much larger audience, with the introduction of Amazon’s Video on Demand service to the Netflix Roku. The tiny media player that Netflix sells, originally designed solely for their streaming service, has been somewhat displaced by other hardware that the video rental [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skype to let competitors license speech codec for free
By Brad Linder Voice over IP company Skype is known for a couple things. One of them is annoying the #@&! out of telephone companies by offering cheap or free voice and video calls over the internet. But another thing that Skype does well is offer users the ability to communicate across long distances with [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Xenocode lets you run Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer from a flash drive
By Brad Linder There have been portable versions of web browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera that you can run from a USB flash drive for a while. Basically these apps let you store your data to the flash drive allowing you to run these apps on Windows without installing anything or writing any [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Pumps Up the Mini and Revamps iMacs
By Stephen Williams The new version of Apple’s Mac Mini, which failed to appear two months ago at the Macworld Expo, emerged today, and while it’s billed as “faster” and “greener,” the Mini remains a small desktop computer with the soul of a laptop. Apple has also upgraded the MacPro tower and the iMac line, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )WinPrint routes print jobs from DOS to Windows USB printers
By Lee Mathews As much as I’d like it to not be the case, some of my customers still rely on clunky (but functional) DOS applications to manage their businesses. While their applications tend not to change, their hardware does – which invariably leads to problems. Take printing , example. If your business is stuck [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google quietly launches Google Tasks
By Brad Linder Update: Well that didn’t take long. Apparently Google really hadn’t meant to unleash this service on the public just yet, because the URL no longer works. Google has, without any fanfare, apparently launched an online task manager application cleverly called Google Tasks. This appears to be a more fleshed out version of [...]
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