Portable Technology Category - Page 4

Panasonic Bails Out of Jungle [Panasonic's Jungle Handheld Gets Halted Development, Cites "Changes In the Market" And Panasonic's Overall Strategy]

By on Tuesday, 1. March 2011

This will likely not come as much of a surprise to many, but the Jungle handheld game system project that Panasonic has been working on as far back as last October has had its development arrested…possibly permanently.

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Nook Color Hacked, Turned Into In-Dash Car Stereo System [Barnes And Noble's eReader Nook Has Strange New Applications With a Little Engineering]

By on Friday, 25. February 2011

Chances are, when you think of a Nook, your first thought is not of driving down city streets at night with Phil Collins shrieking “In the Air Tonight” with Genesis. But now, as one particularly enterprising soul has discovered, your Nook Color has a lot more use than you might [...]

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TomTom Brings Out Pair of New Models, The Go 2435 and Go 2535 [Few New Attributes Involved In TomTom's New Products--Many Left Wondering What's Up]

By on Thursday, 24. February 2011

I’m very fond of my TomTom navigation system. I love having that little GPS sitting quietly on my dashboard, telling me all the turns I need to make to get to the places I want to go. And if I miss a turn, TomTom will quietly recalculate, and figure out [...]

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SlingPlayer Mobile On iPhone and iPad Gets Video Out Support [Hook Your iPad or iPhone To Your Television And Watch Away With SlingPlayer's New Supported Connection]

By on Wednesday, 23. February 2011

Great news for SlingPlayer Mobile users on iPad and iPhone: they’ve just announced that SlingPlayer Mobile will support video out functions, meaning you won’t have to squint and strain at your relatively tiny Retina display to watch your favorite shows. Now you’ll be able to put them up on bigger [...]

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MWC 2011: AT&T Plans To Step Up Machine To Machine Services [AT&T's Plans To Launch More Machine To Machine Services Mean Lots Of Partnerships]

By on Thursday, 17. February 2011

Those of you who use your cell phone in the course of your business activities are going to be fairly well stoked by the news coming out of the Mobile World Congress show that AT&T is planning to get out a bunch of new offerings for the machine to machine [...]

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TFTS Best eReaders Of 2010 – Editors’ Edition [The Sharp Galapagos, The Kindle, The Color Nook, And Plenty More Keep Our Attention And Help Keep Us Reading Through 2010]

By on Sunday, 23. January 2011

It was a great year for ereaders–in fact, some say that 2011 is going to be the year of the e-publisher–and as such, there were more than a few of them released.  Obviously, of course, some of them were better than others, so we all gathered around just before the [...]

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JVC Shows Off Two New Guidance Systems [JVC KW-NT50HDT and KW-NT30HD Pack Onboard HD Radio With Their Navigation]

By on Tuesday, 18. January 2011

Much like me, you probably don’t think of JVC right away when it comes to GPS units, mostly because you figure they’re too busy doing car stereos and the like. But we’ve got two such examples emerging, the JVC KW-NT50HDT and the JVC KW-NT30HD, and they’ll even pack a surprise [...]

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Shure Shows Off Line Of New Headphones and Earbuds [Shure SE215, SRH550DJ and SRH940 Get Shown Off At Anaheim's NAMM Show]

By on Friday, 14. January 2011

You may not have heard of the NAAM show, which isn’t surprising as it’s currently lurking in the depths of the crater completely covered by the shadow of the only recently dissolved CES show, but they’re putting out some exciting new products. If you’re looking for a new way to [...]

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Google Purchases eBook Technologies, Spurring Google eReader Rumors [Is Google's eBook Technologies Purchase The First Move Of eReader Plan?]

By on Friday, 14. January 2011

Yesterday it was announced that Google has purchased the startup firm known as eBook Technologies Inc. The move is the first acquisition that the internet search giant has made in the New Year and it is expected to help the company further refine their eBook library when it comes to [...]

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Valkee Earbuds Work To Stop Seasonal Affective Disorder [Valkee Earbuds Go After "Winter Blahs" With Light Fired Into Your Ears]

By on Wednesday, 12. January 2011

Yes, it’s winter…the gray, dark, kind of depressing lacunae between the joy of the holiday season and the hopeful start of spring. And for a lot of people, winter is more than just a kind of depressing thing to slog through on your way to warm and sunshiny spring, but [...]

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