Archive for January, 2010 - Page 3

IPTV may be the future but many people won’t want to bother with things like having to buy an IPTV-enabled media streaming box. Dreamer, a new startup, is planning to bring IPTV to an existing device that people might already have – a Blu-Ray player. Using BD-Live internet-enabled Blu-Ray players, [...]

Earlier this month at CES, the AV gurus at Denon unveiled the S-5BD, an intense looking piece of equipment that combines a Blu-Ray player with an audio receiver. The receiver end of the device will support 7.1-surround sound, with 2-source, 2-zone distribution capabilities.

Space was apparently not the final frontier for Virgin chief Richard Branson.  The serial entrepreneur and conqueror of worlds has officially unveiled his next project, the Virgin Necker Nymph underwater plane that carries three passengers to depths of 130 feet under the sea.

A new leak shows an update to the T-Mobile MyTouch device that is rumored to replace the T-Mobile Sidekick.  The T-Mobile MyTouch Slide adds a slide-out QWERTY keypad and Android 2.0 to T-Mobile’s popular MyTouch smartphone.

One strange thing happened during the iPad keynote this week. Just before Steve Jobs unveiled the new product he showed us again Apple’s performance during these last few years. At a certain moment he claimed that Apple is “the largest mobile devices company in the world.” He wasn’t talking only [...]

Images of Samsung’s latest smartphone creation have hit the internet today. The alleged S5620 “Monteo” will feature a sharp design and a 3-inch touchscreen. Samsung has never done particularly well with their smartphone offerings, between their touchscreen models and the business-aimed QWERTY-featured BlackJack line.

Mobiado has a new handset for us and, like always, it’s a brand new luxury phone which we won’t be able to afford anytime soon. Not that we want luxury phones that aren’t capable of really smart features and cool tricks, do we?

At CES earlier this month, Samsung took the time to unveil a new set of Blu-Ray players for the coming year. The four new players are all pretty typical, but the high-end unit of the four, the BD-C7500 will be the world’s thinnest at just 1.1-inches thick.

After the recent pricing war between AT&T and Verizon which saw both companies lower their unlimited voice and data plans for smartphones, now we hear that AT&T is getting ready to impose new SMS messaging plans for all features phones it activates.

With Apple opening the virtual doors of its own eBook store, Amazon will have a strong competitor in this particular business. Although the iPad is more than an eBook reader, the device is more than capable to be used as one. In fact it has its own eBook reading interface [...]