Archive for February, 2010 - Page 17
Entourage Edge Delayed [Academia's Dualbook eReader Getting Pushed Back, Price Pushed Up]
Earlier this month we covered the Entourage Edge, a dual-screen eReader that had a focus on academic books and texts. One of the device’s dual screens is a color LCD touchscreen, which will be useful for people perusing college textbooks. [...]
NVIDIA Doing Well, Despite Lack of Dx11 Cards [Graphics Giant Posts $132 Million In Profit In Q4 2009]
AMD-ATI may have the most powerful consumer graphics card on the market right now in the Radeon HD 5970, but the folks at NVIDIA are still doing well, mostly led by their Quadro line of workstations graphics cards. With revenues [...]
Samsung SL630 Camera Revealed [New Compact Point-and-Shoot Offers 12.2-Megapixels]
Samsung’s got a new point-and-shoot digital camera coming next month. The SL630 is a new addition to Samsung’s SL-series of compact digital cameras, and this one measures in at only 0.8-inches thick. In addition to its slim design, it’s also [...]
WiMAX & LTE Available on Same Chip from Beceem & Motorola [New 4G Chip Announced at MWC 2010 Packs Both WiMAX & LTE Support]
Who said that WiMAX and LTE have to be enemies? Maybe they can be friends ready to work together to offer us 4G speeds in the future. At least that’s what Beceem’s and Motorola’s press release at MWC 2010 suggests. [...]
Google Buzz Privacy Issues Disturbs Plenty; Harms Nobody [Eric Schmidt Says No Private Information Has Been Buzzed by Google Buzz]
Google Buzz was announced last week and we immediately started buzzing about it too. So did everyone else but Google’s new social networking service failed to really impress us. Google’s intentions were good but not properly implemented. Google Buzz has [...]
Sony Ericsson Declined To Make Nexus One [SE CEO Tells Swedish Newspaper That They Declined Google's Offer Of Subcontracting]
Taiwan’s HTC certainly is known for manufacturing great smartphones, but they weren’t Google’s first choice for being the manufacturers behind their Nexus One superphone. Sony Ericsson’s CEO told Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan that Google approached them about designing and manufacturing the [...]
Steve Jobs Explains iPad’s Lack of Flash Support [Flash to “Hog” the CPU & Drain the Battery of the iPad; No Flash for the iPad]
Yes, I know, you guys already know that Steve Jobs & Co. do not appreciate Flash on their devices including the iPhone and, more importantly, the iPad which is all about a fabulous Internet experience. But why is Apple so [...]
iPhone 3G App Download Limit Raised to 20MB [Up to 20MB App Downloads on iPhone Over 3G Now Supported by Apple & Carriers]
Do you happen to love App Store apps so much that you’re downloading them at all times no matter where you are? Well in case that’s true then it means you must also use your 3G unlimited data plan, whenever [...]
Microsoft Phone 7 Series Phone to be Released by Asus & Microsoft in 2011? [Microsoft Making Its Own Windows Mobile 7 Phone After All? Asus to Help Too]
How does one refer to a Microsoft handset running Windows Mobile 7? Are we talking about a Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone? Or do we simply call it a Windows Phone 7 Phone until we have a name for it? [...]
Sony STR-DN1010 3D-Ready AV Receiver Revealed [Sony Adds 3D Video Capability To Mid-Range Receiver Line]
Sony has unveiled a new AV receiver capable of handling 3D video from Blu Ray sources including the Playstation 3. The Sony STR-DN1010 is the first of its kind from Sony, adding 3D video capability to home entertainment systems.

