Archive for February, 2010 - Page 17

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. Reports have come out that the eReader is being delayed [...]

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 of $982.5 million, the posted a profit of $131.1 million.

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 got a big 12.2-megapixel sensor, as well as a wide-angle [...]

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 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 been built on top of Gmail and that ensured the [...]

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 Nexus One and they declined.

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 against Flash? Is Flash bad for you? Is HTML5 going [...]

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 a 3G connection is available, to get as many apps [...]

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? Call it whatever you will but it looks like Microsoft [...]

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.