Archive for January, 2010 - Page 11

10-In Apple Tablet Coming from Verizon for $800

Unsubsidized Apple Tablet to Cost $1,000 in March; Verizon to Announce the iPhone Too
Filed by on Wednesday, 27. January 2010

In case you forgot, folks, today, January 27 is the day dedicated to Apple’s upcoming product, the unnamed yet Apple tablet. Apple is hosting a special event in San Francisco in which it should offer us all the details regarding the tablet. After all, the device has already been confirmed [...]

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Real Apple Tablet Pictures Get Leaked Ahead of Official Launch?

New Apple Tablet Pics Look Real; Could Still be Fake
Filed by on Wednesday, 27. January 2010

Yesterday we showed you new leaked pictures of the Apple tablet, which you’ll find just below. Although the rendered Apple tablet looked like we imagine it should look, we couldn’t confirm whether they were real or fake. Today, a few hours before Apple’s event in San Francisco, we found more [...]

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"Unhackable" PlayStation 3 Hacked by George Hotz

PS3 Cracked by iPhone Jailbraker, Supposedly Plays Older PS2 Games or PS3 Pirated Games
Filed by on Wednesday, 27. January 2010

Renowned iPhone jailbreaker George Hotz has told the world that he managed to hack the only gaming console that hasn’t been cracked until now, Sony’s “unhackable” Playstation 3, in less than 5 weeks. GeoHot took three weeks to analyze what’s under the plastic wrapping and another two weeks to actually [...]

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Toshiba Announces Blu-Ray Playing TVs

Toshiba REGZA TV To Feature Slot-Loading Blu-Ray Player
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

Nobody likes clutter at their TV home media centers, and Toshiba is trying to help. Toshiba is adding two entries to their REGZA line of HDTVs that will both feature (iMac-style) slot-loading Blu-Ray players for your HD video enjoyment. It’ll even have USB ports so you can save recorded video [...]

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Apple Tablet Gets Confirmed on Television

McGraw-Hill’s CEO Confirms Apple Tablet on CNBC
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

You know it’s coming tomorrow and you know you want it. Or maybe you hate it but you’d still want to play with one just to prove yourself that you really hate the concept. The Apple tablet is going to be announced tomorrow at 10AM PST and we’ll tell you [...]

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Air New Zealand Revolutionize Couch Cabins, Make a Geek's Flight Special

Air New Zealand Brings PC power, USB & iPod Connections, Beds to Its Economy Seats
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

If you’re like me and are afraid to fly long distances just because you can’t sleep or you get bored during the flight (even staring at the gorgeous cabin crew won’t do good after 12 hours), here’s a little something to think of. Air New Zealand has just pimped the [...]

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Shuttle Announces New Notebook Motherboard Standard

Shuttle's SPA and Micro SPA Motherboards Hope To Standardize Notebook Industry
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

Unlike desktop computers, whose motherboards were standardized by IBM, and later Intel, going way back to the early days of the IBM PC, notebook computers have never had such a standardization, making working on them or building your own difficult or impossible (for a good time, take a look inside [...]

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Zune Phones Hinted by Microsoft’s Software

Zune Software Update Reveals Future Zune Phones
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

This is not the first time we’re talking about a Zune Phone and it won’t be the last time either. Microsoft failed to launch its own Zune Phone so far but it looks like Redmond can’t afford not to have a phone for itself anymore.

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Google Voice Coming to the iPhone, Bypasses the App Store

iPhone & webOS Users to Get Google Voice as Web App Via the Browser
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

Starting today, iPhone users trying to get Google Voice on their handsets have the way to do it. Earlier blocked from the App Store, Mountain View has proved pretty slick in bypassing “Apple’s gatekeepers”, and have announced today that Google Voice comes to the iPhone not as an iPhone app, [...]

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Eros/Wing MID Tablet Coming Out of China

Chinese Cloned 10-Inch MID/Tablet Runs Windows 7, Features Atom Processor
Filed by on Tuesday, 26. January 2010

A new product has come out of China’s Shenzhen region, a region (in)famous for coming out with cloned products that are remarkably similar to their Western counterparts (like this eReader). This new tablet will be called the “Eros” in English, but since that word doesn’t translate well into Chinese, it’ll [...]

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