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Netflix has easily become the most popular video rental service in the United States, through both its DVD rental mailing service and it’s online streaming service. While they also stream to extenders like the Roku, one of the bigger extender portions of Netflix’s streaming share is the current-gen video game [...]

If you want a note book that will turn heads, then the Toshiba Qosmio X505 is for you. The giant 18-inch notebook computer features a wild looking black and orange styling that is sure to draw attention, if you ever would ever dare to take it outside. While the wild [...]

Google Street View is a great resource from Google, but sometimes the pictures can be months or years out of date. This means that billboards in Street View are often outdated and different – until now. Google has filed a patent in the United States that would let them place [...]

Last week HP introduced six new notebooks aimed at the professional market. The ProBook and EliteBook aren’t any sort of netbook or ultraportable – instead, they’re good old fashioned full-sized, fully powered notebooks for the business market.

Some of you want the power and screen size of a conventional notebook computer but want a low price that’s closer to netbooks, and Acer is ready to fulfill your needs. The Taiwanese computer giant is planning to release two new notebook computers that will come in at a cheap [...]

Internet radio has come a long way from the low-bitrate 56k radio feeds we used to have to deal with in the mid-1990′s. Anybody with a MP3 collection can setup a Shoutcast collection and many radio stations are gladly simulcasting their content over the air and to the internet. At [...]

It’s only been 2010 for a few days and the future is already here. The UK’s own Light Blue Optics demoed a new device at CES, the Light Touch. The small pico-projector projects a 10-inch display that will respond to human interaction like a conventional touchscreen would.

VIA has taken the covers off of their new micro-PC, the VIA AMOS-3001, which measures only 15 x 4.6 x 10.8 cm. While you won’t be playing Crysis on it, it still is an impressive computer for its size. The AMOS-3001 uses the Pico-ITX motherboard form factor that was introduced [...]

SmartStor has uncovered their newest NAS unit, the NS2600 which has a bunch of bundled software and other features to make setting up your own network storage easy. On the hardware side, it’s a two-bay NAS unit and they have full support of DLNA standards.

ASUS has taken the cover off of its latest gaming monstrosity. The ASUS ROG G73jh has enough processing power to rival some desktop computers, what with its Core i7 and DirectX 11 capable ATI Radon HD 5870 graphics card. The computer will be released under ASUS’ Republic of Gamers line [...]