Archive for July, 2009 - Page 11

Toshiba has acknowledged that their HD DVD format has been buried and that the “future” is Sony’s Blu-ray disc, hence why the company plans to launch their first Blu-ray player by the end of the year. If reports by Japanese newspaper Yomiuri are correct, the new Toshiba BD-18 DVD / [...]

If up until now RIM deliberately failed to consider Mac support for their smartphones, things are about to change with the announcement of the new BlackBerry Desktop Manager. Apparently Mac users who chose a BlackBerry over an iPhone are going to be happier sometime in September when the new BlackBerry [...]

World leaders when it comes to memories and storage devices, Kingston have just announced their new Data Traveler 300, the world’s first 256GB USB flash drive. The highest capacity USB thumb drive, the new Data Traveler 300 is a modern technological marvel that will boast transfer rates of up to [...]

It seems like we are seeing a lot of the new pint-sized netbooks hitting the market lately. These little guys are targeting the ultra-mobile users that require little devices and high-connectivity. They aren’t typically high on the processing power and are basically meant for tackling things like online shopping, email, [...]

Taiwan’s MSI has been working diligently to build a fairly respectable product portfolio and its recent announcement Friday regarding its new CX700 and CR700 notebooks came as little surprise to most. These two 17.3-in laptop computers will serve to complete (if we can ever say that about MSI) their Classic [...]

When it comes to portable GPS devices, there isn’t much that separates the competition. They all offer larger screens, expandable memory, updatable map files, and the typical video game like graphics. All of this and its usually wrapped up in a nice little black plastic frame, too. Wouldn’t it be [...]

Olympus announced today the launch its new LS-11 digital audio recorder as an upgrade to its already successful LS-10 model. Like its predecessor the LS-10, the LS-11 features uncompressed 24 bit/96kHz Linear PCM recording capability. It has the capability to record and play back in WAV, MP3 and WMA formats [...]

Ruckus Wireless today announced a new outdoor wireless product that it claims to be “world’s first and only outdoor dual-band 802.11n with dynamic beam forming.” The ZoneFlex 7762 wireless access point is finally here to help solve some of the biggest problems that are typically seen with outdoor wireless systems [...]

If you’re anything like me you really love your music. The thought of pumping your tunes through anything but the best when it comes to hardware sends chills up and down your spine. The market for high-end speaker systems has certainly not been slowed by the dragging economy and Slovenian [...]

So have you heard of VIA? We haven’t really heard much mention of them over the years either, especially when it comes to computer processors. They seem to have flown under the radar in a market that has been dominated in recent years by the likes of AMD and Intel. [...]