Archive for January, 2010 - Page 23

DivX Inc. and their codec is already well-known for it’s ability to compress video and maintain a high quality, and it’s become a de facto file format for many… ahem, less than legal video sources on the internet. The DivX format is playable on many digital media set-top boxes and [...]

Civil unrest broke out yesterday in East China as workers for Wintek went on strike on rumors that they would not get their New Years bonus for the second year in a row. Wintek, a Taiwanese company that manufacturers screens for mobile phones, including the Apple iPhones and Nokia phones, [...]

Not all of us can figure out SLR cameras and their lens and moment of expose and all that. For us photography simpletons, Olympus revealed nine new point-and-shoot models earlier this month at CES. They’ll vary in sophistication and price, with the cheapest one coming in at $261.

Right after the New Year’s Eve we caught wind that HTC (together with Google) is going jump on the tablet PC bandwagon and will privately take the wraps off an Android-running device, for the company’s business partners, during CES 2010. And although rumors had it that a press release was [...]

For those out of the know, last year in October, YouTube live streamed the whole U2 concert from the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, live on the band’s YouTube channel. The event proved to be an amazing success with more than 10-million from around the world taking part, which is [...]

Our TFTS ninjas have just managed to find out today some leaked documents on the GSM Global Certification forum, hinting to a debut for LG’s new VS750 handset on Big Red and AT&T. Seen as the Verizion version of the LG GM750, if we’re to believe our sources the new [...]

Vodafone UK have just announced today that Samsung’s Genio Slide mobile phone is now available for free to those willing to sign a two year contract with the British carrier that will set you back at least £15 per month, or a 18-months contract that starts from £25 per month.

Looking for a really sleek, uber thin and extremely light notebook, but won’t go for Apple’s MacBook Air or Sony’s brand new ultra thin models in the new Vaio X series, then you should know that MSI have just added to their X-Slim laptop collection with the new X-Slim X420.

Announced just a few weeks ago during CES, the new Toshiba Satellite E205 is the world’s first Intel Wireless Display-equipped (WiDi) notebook that will hit the market, as Best Buy and Toshiba have just confirmed today that the machine began selling today for a respectable $899.99 price point.

There’s a new DisplayPort standard out there and the Video Electronics Standards Association, in short VESA, finally made it official. DisplayPort 1.2 is apparently industry’s “most innovative and flexible digital communication interface standard for transporting display, audio and data.”