Archive for December, 2010 - Page 5

Grace Digital Lends Color Displays And More To Three Internet Radios

Grace Digital's Solo Touch, Bravado X and Mondo Get Some Bonus Features]
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Give Grace Digital due credit for trying, folks, but the scrappy provider of internet capable radios has been hard at work ahead of the CES 2011 show, where they’re planning to show these off for the very first time. It helps, of course, that we’ve got some advance word on [...]

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Santech Leaks Set Of New Laptops Showing at CES 2011

Another Company Spills The Beans--Santech Reveals Sandy Bridge Laptops
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

There have been a whole lot of pre-CES leaks of late, and it seems that Santech is joining in. And what the newest kid who can’t wait for tech company equivalent of Christmas morning  spilled the beans on its new project, the N67.

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Internet Connected TVs Will Break The Internet, Analyst Warns

With Netflix Already Claiming 20% Of the Internet Bandwidth, Analyst Says Smart TVs Could Break The Whole Thing
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Disclaimer, I’m highly skeptical of this story. We’ve been seeing these “Oh my god, the internet is almost out of bandwidth stories” for five years, and all them seem to discount the fact that the United States has massive amounts of dark fiber in the infrastructure that has let to be ‘lit-up’. [...]

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NookColor Is Barnes & Noble's Top Selling Product This Holiday Season

The Android-Powered Secret-Kindle-Machine Is B&N's Best Selling Product This Year, Too
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

A few days ago, Amazon announced that the Kindle was their best selling product of the year. In a “me too!” move, the folks at Barnes & Noble have issue a press release dating that their NookColor was the best selling product for them during the holiday season. Numbers weren’t [...]

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Kindle eBook Loans Now Possible, Amazon eBook-handling Empire to Grow to New Heights

Amazon Decide It’s Time to Start Kindle eBook Loaning; Not All Titles Qualify
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

The Kindle is one of Amazon’s best-selling products and certainly the best Amazon-made device to date. And Amazon is interested in making the most of its eBook reader by offering new features to the eBook-loving crowds. Amazon is ready to let its customers lend books to each other, a feature [...]

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Nokia Employee Says Idea Of Nokia Making Windows Phone Devices Is "Loony"

After Last Week's Talks Of Nokia Making WP7 Phones, Nokia Engineer Says No Way
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

A few weeks back, Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin (who the tech blog echo chamber seems to trust as far as rumors – my experience with him is mixed) said that Nokia may produce a ‘whole line’ of Windows Phone 7 devices. If that sounded goofy to you, it does to [...]

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Apple Should Buy Netflix, Says Analyst

Netflix Is A Major Feature On The Apple TV, So Should The Cash-Rich Cupertino Company Buy Netflix To Have It All To Themselves?
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Apple has an extremely large amount of cash on hand – $51 billion – and there’s been a lot of speculation about what the company will do with that money. Analyst Brian Marshall of Gleacher & Co. has an idea – why don’t they buy Netflix? The DVD mail rental [...]

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GameStop and Toys R Us Running Pokemon Distribution Events During January 2011

GameStop Offering Shiny Legendary Dog Pokemon, Toys R Us Offering Ash's Pikachu During Month Of January
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

In preparation for the upcoming release of Pokemon Black and Pokemon White – both set to release on March 6th in the US – GameStop and Toys R Us have announced promotions that most Pokemon fans are going to find hard to resist. All players need to do is bring [...]

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New Apple iPad 2 Tablet Coming with USB Port?

New Rurmor Suggest Next-gen iPad, the iPad 2, to Sport USB Connectivity; What’s Next, Flash?
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Don’t act so surprised since this isn’t the first time we’re telling you the next-gen Apple tablet, the iPad 2, is going to be packing some USB connectivity. That missing port annoyed both Apple fans and haters when the iPad was first introduced but everyone had to settle with Apple’s [...]

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Motorola Droid Xoom Honeycomb Tablet Release Date Pegged for February 14?

Motorola Xoom Android Tablet Rumored to Launch in February, Some LTE in Tow After All?
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Motorola’s first Android tablet is one of the most expected devices of 2011. Motorola already proved to the world it can produce some outstanding Android handsets and that’s why the Droid Xoom, that’s the name of the tablet, has to be spectacular too. Earlier we fond out that the Xoom [...]

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