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| Nov 3, 2016 | Kohl’s will now sell the Apple Watch in select stores | In a bid to juice declining sales, department store Kohl’s will begin selling the Apple Watch in 400 of its stores starting on November 15th, according to a new report from Fortune. Unlike Macy’s, which also recently added the device to its... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | The 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:
1) The European Union came out in support of Airbnb, Uber ... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | The 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:
1) The European Union came out in support of Airbnb, Uber and other sharing economy companies, encouraging member states not to ban their services except as a last... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 7 technology M&A transactions and 65 funding deals (totalling €254 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.
Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along ... |
| Nov 30, 2015 | Online Black Friday Sales Very Strong, Driven By Mobile Technology | James Geddes, Tech Times 30 November 2015, 05:11 am
A new report from Adobe indicates that online Black Friday sales so far this year are very strong, with Americans spending $100 million more than last year. Some of the hottest-selling ite... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Best Drone Deals For Black Friday From Best Buy, Target And Walmart: DJI Phantom, 3DR Sol Drone, Sky Viper And More | Kyle Nofuente, Tech Times 19 November 2015, 06:11 am
The FAA is going to have a huge problem to deal with going into 2016 as more drones will certainly be taken to the skies between this coming Black Friday and the holiday season capping of... |
| May 10, 2014 | Beanie Baby Creator: Feds Demand New Sentence | Federal prosecutors are demanding a new sentence be handed to Beanie Baby creator Ty Warner, 69, after he was given probation for hiding at least $25 million from tax authorities in Swiss banks.
In a 55-page appeal filed with the U.S. 7th C... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | If Sports Fans Lost The Super Bowl, Then Tech Companies Won | Last night, 100 million people (minus Seattle) were disappointed to watch the Seattle Seahawks spank the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. But that doesn’t mean that the night was a waste.
There were more than a few notable events over t... |
| Dec 24, 2013 | I Stand With Phil Petition Blocked On Twitter | On Monday, Twitter did something that sent Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson supporters into an outrage. The social media site blocked users from linking to the “I Stand With Phil” petition, created by the Christian based group Faith Driven C... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | US Patent & Trademark Office Grants Apple Registered Trademarks for "Retina" & "Game Center" Icon
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Search | Apple's "Retina" Now a Registered Trademark
Apple's trademark which was originally filed for in May 2011 was filed under the sole International Class 009 which basically covers computer displays including handhelds, notepad comput... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Apple Reveals Big Plans to Integrate Projectors into iOS Devices +
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Search | Patent Overview of Shared Projected Workspace
Consumers frequently store many types of data on electronic devices, such as cellular telephones, portable media players, laptop computers, and personal data assistants. For example, consumers m... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | CrunchDeals: A Kindle And A Free $25 Gift Card For Your Muddah | Hello Muddah! Hello Faddah! Here I am at Amazonia. Buying Kindles. For ya mummy. And they even let me save a little money.
For a limited time if you buy a Kindle 3G/WiFi for $189 (or a DX, but Mom doesn’t need one of those) you get a $25 gi... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | Apple Wins Patent for All-New Hybrid DisplayPort/USB 3.0 Connector
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Apple has been granted a powerful patent that packs quite the wallop. Somehow they snuck a secret patent application through the system for an all-new high speed connector that will combine at least USB 3.0... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Metal 3DS Case Is Metal | Not much to say here except that you just spent a lot of money on your 3DS and you should protect it. Sure, you could get some weak plastic shell, but real men use a solid metal case… while they play with their Nintendogs & Cats. Hey, r... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | AMP FLIP USB Flash Drive Announced | Active Media Products, or AMP, have made some interesting flash drives in the past. This time it’s no different, just more flip and less change.
The FLIP is an easy to carry 4 or 8GB USB flash drive. Right at the top is a hinge for it to pi... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | Nintendo 3DS Starter Kit: Headphones, Styluses & Cleaning Cloths | A quick “this exists” for your Monday morning. It’s a Nintendo 3DS Starter Kit, from Icon. The $20 kit contains a number of items to make your 3DS-ing all the more pleasurable come March 27 when the system is released. Rumor has it you’ll f... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | Europe's Trademark Office Confirms iPad's New Landscape Design
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Apple's Trademark Application In-Part
Certificate of Registration
Design Credits: CEO Steve Jobs, Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive + team members Jody Akana, Bartley Andr... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Toshiba Planning Tablets For US Release In Early 2011 | In case you were wondering just where Toshiba’s entry into the tablet wars was, here’s a non-answer for you: coming some time in early 2011. Toshiba engineer Hideo Kasuya has said in interview that the company is planning a worldwide tablet... |
| Sep 25, 2010 | New Apple iPad Designs Surface with Landscape Docking & More
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Update May 29, 2012: News.com Australia reports that a picture of one of the original iPad prototype's recently surfaced on eBay. The unit uniquely sported a landscape connector as our re... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | CrunchDeal: Get A Sony Webbie for $44.99 | Remember the Sony Webbie? We saw it at CES last year, and it’s a nice little digital camcorder. Now you can get a refurbished one cheap from the Sony Outlet store.
The price at the outlet store reads $129.99, but if you enter the coupon cod... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Alleged HDCP 'master key' leaked, HDTV copy protection may be dead | The entertainment industry may have encountered another setback in its efforts to protect its content Monday as a hacker has reportedly cracked high definition content protection, more commonly referred to as HDCP. A supposed "master k... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Dell Home Hawking The New Xbox 360 Arcade For Only $169 | Dude, this is totally a good deal. A new Xbox 360 with 802.11n, 4GB, and a wireless controller for $169? Yessir. I’ll take two. [Dell Home via i4u] |
| Aug 30, 2010 | LG Shows Off Prototype 3D OLED TV, More At IFA | LG seems to be planning on dominating the 3D OLED market this coming year, and will be showing a few examples of their technology off at IFA this week. The jewel in their crown is a 31-inch, 2.9mm thin OLED display. This will earn LG the ti... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch
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While touch-based input is well suited to many applications, conventional styles of input, such as a mouse/keyboard input may be preferred in other applications. Therefore it may be desirable for some devices ... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Microsoft Thinking of Bringing the Xbox 360 To China | China is, shall we say, fairly lax when it comes to intellectual property laws. Therefore, game manufacturers are afraid to drop their consoles into that roiling pit of counterfeiting and have only once launched a console in China, the Nint... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | At E3, Nintendo 3DS Makes iPhone Gaming Look Like Yesterday's News | Evidently Nintendo (NTDOY) was serious when it said its enemy wasn't Sony (SNE) or Microsoft (MSFT), but Apple (AAPL). It seems to have given up the homefront to focus squarely on the mobile with its new Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming system.... |
| May 24, 2010 | Kindle application pre-installed on Asus laptops and netbooks | Notebook and netbook maker Asus is pre-installing the Amazon Kindle for PC application, allowing Asus owners to access Amazon’s selection of e-books without having to suffer through the pain of software installation on their own time. Not m... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | CrunchDeals: Sony Vaio FW for $720 | In the market for a good deal on a laptop? Sony’s Vaio is known for being a pretty decent piece of kit, and this particular model is no exception. It’s a refurbished unit, with a 90 warranty from Sony, but it’s still a good deal.
So what do... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Dude, you're getting a Dell and a Sony Reader | The details are simple: buy a select Dell notebook or desktop and a Sony Reader Pocket Edition ships along with it for no additional cost. It’s actually a nice little deal although it’s only for two days. Of course like with most sales, the... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It. | Editor’s note: Richard Wong is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, an investor in AdMob, GetJar, and SunRun, and a former mobile industry executive. In this guest post he argues that the fragmentation of mobile devices and platforms i... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Home-sized fuel cells are on the way | If you thought solar panels were too expensive to put on your house, wait ’till you hear this one. Bloom Energy, a clean energy start-up in Silicon Valley, said “Hello world” yesterday, unveiling a rather revolutionary solid oxide fuel cell... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | "Butterfly Touch" from Packard bell sounds weak but looks sweet | When you give your product the name “Butterfly Touch,” you’d better get ready for some teasing. I mean, I understand that it’s supposed to evoke the touch capabilities as well as the swiveling, tilting screen, but what you’ve ended up with ... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Is concept-based advertising the future of Internet ads? | The way Internet ads work right now is fairly basic: Publishers create pages with a certain word or phrase in it, and advertisers buy ads next to those particular keywords. If you search for “guitar,” or write a blog about guitars, you’re g... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Get your Nintendo DSi XL (actually, it's an LL) game on now | Nintendo isn’t bringing the larger screen DSi to the States until next year, but you can get one now as long as you’re willing to pay a bit extra. But of course you would be the coolest kid on your bus so it’s totally worth it.
Play-Asia ha... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | The G1 Burned Out Long Before The Android Ever Did | Let’s not beat around the bush: The G1 was not a very good phone. That’s not to say Android isn’t a good mobile OS — it is, it’s just that the initial hardware built to run the OS didn’t do it justice. It was poorly designed and had a fairl... |
| Aug 6, 2009 | "Party-shot" accessory for new Sony cameras automatically takes pictures of everyone at the party | Somehow I missed this accessory when I posted the new TX1 and WX1 cameras from Sony last night. How could I… well, let me check. Nope… nope, this was not in the press release I got. Very funny, Sony. I know we give the PS3 a lot of flak but... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | Mitsubishi drops the price on LaserVue HDTVs | Anyone seen a Mitsubishi LaserVue HDTV in person? They are among the best quality HDTVs available and it seems that they are finally dropping in price. Too bad you still can’t afford one.
Amazon has dropped the price on the 65-inch by 500 b... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Mig33 is most downloaded mobile app — have you heard of it? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mig33, a company that lets millions of users communicate on mobile phones via IM, chat rooms, and photo sharing, says it’s the most pop... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Mig33 is most downloaded mobile app — have you heard of it? | Mig33, a company that lets millions of users communicate on mobile phones via IM, chat rooms, and photo sharing, says it’s the most popular downloaded mobile application ever.
You’d hardly know it, though. Chances are, if you live in the US... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Samsung intros low-voltage, 32GB DDR3 memory | Samsung just outed the first 32GB DDR3 memory module. This sucker is fast too with 20% better throughput at 1.35 volts than the current 1.5 volt generation, thanks to 72 4Gb memory chips. It’s just too bad that you will not be popping this ... |
| May 24, 2009 | Mattel Mindflex game available for pre-order | Hey, Mike. John here. Remember that weird telekinesis game you liked from CES this year? It’s available at Amazon for pre-order, so go ahead and pick it up. It’s going to cost $99 and I personally think it’s garbage but I know you and the T... |
| Feb 5, 2009 | Hitachi busts out the 500GB CinemaStar 2.5-inch HDD | Hitachi’s CinemaStar HDDs have been available for sometime but the latest in the pedigree boosts a 2.5-inch form factor while maintaing a high storage capacity. The C5K500 500GB drive is meant specifically for video as the drive only consum... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Gefen HDMI extender extends HDMI, makes sandwiches | Getting an HDMI signal from one side of the room to the other is difficult, particularly if you live in an apartment. You can run long cables around the room, and risk tripping over them, you can run a long cable through the attic, or under... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Wear your video camera | VIEVU unveiled at CES 2009 two new wearable video cameras, the consumer-oriented PVR-PRO 2 and the law-enforcement oriented PVR LE2. Both feature a 4GB capacity and battery capacity for up to 4 hours of recording 640×480 color video, and ar... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | Weasel puked coffee may be good, or will make you want to vomit | Weasel puked coffee from Vietnam: picked and regurgitated by a weasel. Why puked coffee, you ask? The weasel (a type of civet) likes to eat the fruit of the coffee plant, but the seeds don’t agree with their stomachs, so the weasel vomits t... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Alienware Black Friday: $200 off m17x gaming notebook | Well, this is a great deal… if you were in the market for a gaming notebook, which I suspect not too many people are. Which is probably why Alienware is pushing them like they’re HD-DVD players in January of ’08.
Still, a solid gaming machi... |
| Nov 9, 2008 | R2-D2 aquarium | Leave it to Hammacher Schlemmer to sell an R2-D2 Aquarium. It isn’t very large with only a 1.75-gallon capacity but it should still provide enough room for a Beta fish or a couple of gold fish. R2’s eye-piece even works as a periscope so yo... |
| Oct 24, 2008 | jill-e designs steps up and produces manly camera bags dubbed jack | jill-e designs have been around for a while with great, but pricey, camera bags. the firm has won numerous awards but is now stepping in to the male arena with its jack lineup. three different bags make up the line starting with a rolling c... |
| Oct 9, 2008 | Trap door pool table is a good weekend project | Finally, a solution to the whole “I wish I had a pool table” problem for those of us living in cramped city apartments. All I’ve needed to do this whole time was cut a big four foot deep rectangular hole in my living room floor and add a hy... |
| Oct 8, 2008 | Internet radio on a stick from Aluratek | Most of you who read this site are savvy enough to figure out internet radio for yourselves but for the other 90% of the world, here’s Aluratek’s USB Internet Radio Jukebox. It’s pretty much how it sounds. You plug the USB stick into your c... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | Crazy rotary phone watch won't get you laid here or in Japan | First off, this ‘watch’ lacks any sort of display and you have to dial 117 to hear the time. Second, first one to rock the $79 watch in their cubical gets a 1000 bonus points.
AudioCubes via I4U |
| Sep 15, 2008 | ION premium Rock Band drum set gets official at $299 | Here she blows; the premium Xbox 360 Rock Band drum kit from ION. It’s priced at $299, available now, and features four gum-rubber drum pads (read: quiet) and two cymbals with mounting arms. That’s right, two. You’ll have to purchase that t... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Amazon Is Getting Into the Alcohol Business | Amazon has again announced that it will start selling US-produced wine to its American customers by the beginning of October.
But before you start getting excited about buying wine online, there’s one catch: it will only be available to peo... |
| Aug 29, 2008 | Delta announces LED-lit DLP projector; AV crowd looks on curiously | Delta Electronics took the IFA global stage and announced the companies first LED-powered DLP projector. The initial specs sound good – expect one, keep reading – 1080p, large color gamut, and 20,000 hours on the LED unit. The company didn’... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | Freesky suggests airlines dismiss per flight pricing for in-flight Wi-Fi service | I can’t say for sure that Freesky and their so-called ‘reports’ should be trusted but something about their latest regarding in-flight broadband leads me to believe that they’re dumb, like, really dumb. They’re suggesting that airlines shou... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | iPhone app-makers are raking it in (likely Apple too) | While I’m sure many app developers for the new app store were happy just to be working with Apple on such a cool device as the iPhone 3G, I’m not so sure they all thought they would be swimming in money before a month was out. But some of t... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | Belkin TuneCast Auto for iPhone 3G | Passing Apple’s “Work with iPhone” certification, Belkin has announced the 3G-ready TuneCast Auto. Connecting wirelessly to an available FM station, the device plays songs straight from your iPhone or iPod to your car stereo.
Retailing for ... |
| Jul 31, 2008 | DISH Network rolling out big 1080p update tomorrow | I’ll be honest. I’ve never met anyone in real life who subscribes to DISH Network, but I’m fairly convinced that the company does exist and probably turns a profit. If you happen to be a DISH subscriber and you have one of the HD packages, ... |
| Jul 26, 2008 | Week in Storage: Cloud storage fumbles, tape sets records | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 12, 2008 | Lower-priced Xbox 360 already selling at Target? | Can’t wait for tomorrow when rumors of an expected Xbox 360 price drop are supposed to come true? Head on over to your local Target store tonight – most of them are open until 10:00, if you’re interested. You might just find the Xbox 360 Pr... |
| Jul 11, 2008 | Not iPhone: Seagate introduces new 1.5TB desktop drive, two 500GB notebook drives | Seagate has just given storage a bump across the board with the introduction of a 1.5-terabyte 3.5-inch hard drive – the Barracuda 7200.11 (running at 7,200 RPM) – and two 500-gigabyte 2.5-inch drives – the Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | Nathan Schwartz crowned National Texting Champion | Twenty-year-old Nathan Schwartz of Clyde, Ohio took home the $50,000 prize in LG’s National Texting Championship – the down and dirty battle on the QWERTY. Schwartz was able to accurately tap out a ridiculously long phrase in 60 seconds. Ac... |
| Jun 15, 2008 | T-Mobile to offer iPhone 3G for 1 Euro in Germany | Following in O2’s footsteps, T-Mobile will offer the iPhone 3G for one Euro if subscribers choose the highest rate plan which is 89 Euro (roughly $137). However, the lowest plan at 29 Euro (roughly $44) will set you back 169 Euro (roughly $... |
| Jun 2, 2008 | LG has two new wide-widescreen LCDs | If you are looking at your monitor right now thinking, “Man I wish this widescreen was even wider”, you’re in luck. LG is launching two stretched LCD’s today with screen sizes of 38-inches (M3800S-BN) and 29-inches (M2900S-BN).
The new disp... |
| May 27, 2008 | Samsung introduces 256GB SSD, flip-flops on SLC versus MLC | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| May 12, 2008 | Nintendo launches "homebrew" service WiiWare | Have a great idea for a game? Add it to WiiWare, a game distribution system on the Wii that lets you sell your own video games online. The current line-up iusn’t great (Defend Your Castle is one and sounds like an anti-masturbation title) b... |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Opus No4 digital music server stores up to 3,000 CDs | What’s wireless, made by Opus and streams MP3s? Why it’s the Opus No4 digital music server, which, strangely, wirelessly streams music to up to 10 rooms in your house. You’ll need the additional Opus No2 to be able to stream, mind you. With... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Claim: This is the world's thinnest 256MB SSD | [photopress:FSD56GC25H.jpg,full,right]
Super Talent Technology claims that this solid state drive (SSD) is the world’s thinnest, with a capacity of 256MB. Does that really matter to us in any practical sense? Probably not, no, but it’s alwa... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | ECTACO jetBook e-Book reader: BEHOLD THE FUTURE! | Here it is, you guys; the book of the future. It’s the $350 ECTACO jetBook — the “ultimate pocket library.” It’s got a 5-inch screen yet “fits perfectly in the palm of your hand.” My what an enormous palm you have, sir.
It’s got a cool tran... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | HD DVD in trouble??? Onkyo stops HD DVD production | Okay you guys, listen up for a second. I’ve got some bad news. It’s been a long and winding road and we’ve all fought really hard, but it appears that HD DVD might actually be on its way out for real. We just got word that Onkyo has decided... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | MirrorPilot: Like a pilot in your mirror but a digital GPS pilot, not an airline pilot hiding in your back seat | I have seen the future and her name is MirrorPilot. Sure, you’d think that her name would be some sort of amalgamation of the word “future” like Futura, Futurosa, or Futurama, but it’s just MirrorPilot.
The MirrorPilot will be announced at ... |
| Feb 8, 2008 | Atari launches Alone In The Dark: Central Park site | Remember Alone In The Dark? If you do, you might already know that a new version called Alone In The Dark: Central Park will be released for the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC on June 2nd. Or if you’re like me, you’ll have remembered playing the... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Amazon buys Audible — giving it triple threat of print, digital, audio | Amazon said it will buy Audible, a digital audiobook publisher, for roughly $300 million.
Audible provides 80,000 products in audio form, ranging from books by famed authors Stephen King and Jane Austen, newspapers such as the New York Time... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Crunchdeals: Wal-Mart wants to outfit you with cheap TVs for Funday | Agreed to host that Super Bowl party, but forgot that you’ve got a 12-inch TV with dials for UHF and VHF? Well, go kick it at Wal-Mart. And while you’re trying to forget that you’re at Wal-Mart, buy some of their inexpensive goods.
They’ve ... |
| Jan 10, 2008 | The world’s coolest new gadgets | Some of the zippiest technological gizmos about to hit the market are currently on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Here are four of the most innovative items identified by technology news service I4U News:
1) Boy, that i... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | New Toshiba Qosmio with integrated HD DVD-RW drive | I’m Norwegian so it’s only natural that I get all the Japanese press releases to translate.
Thanks to my good friends at Babelfish, I’m pleased to tell you about the "worldwide beginning about the sale of the AV note PC ‘Qosmio’ which ... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | NVIDIA adds one more graphics card to your rig | Sure, why not? NVIDIA’s just announced 3-way SLI and is now one step closer to having your entire case filled with video cards. According to the company, "Now hot, new, graphics-intensive titles, such as Call of Duty 4, Company of Hero... |
| Nov 26, 2007 | Green Eee (4GB) shows up on eBay Germany | The green Eee wasn’t supposed to be available until early next year and it was supposed to be the 2-gigabyte version. Well there’s apparently a 4-gigabyte version shipping out of Taiwan that’s only being offered by two Taiwanese sellers on ... |
| Nov 11, 2007 | Amazon's 'Customers Vote' back for the holidays | Wow, it IS the most wonderful time of the year. In my self-centered quest for survival over the past however-many months, I completely forgot about Amazon .com’s Customers Vote thing. Products will be revealed this Thursday, the 15th.
I can... |
| Oct 20, 2007 | Phantiq projector costs $180, comes with Wii cable | If you bought a Wii for its mind-blowing graphics, then you’ll want to stay away from this. Also, you should have bought a PS3 or an Xbox 360.
However, if you bought a Wii for FUN (!!!), then you might be interested in this $180 portable pr... |
| Oct 17, 2007 | Samsung develops white LED notebook LCDs and more | Photo: I4U News
Hello, battery life. Samsung has developed a white LED backlight for use in notebook LCD displays that uses approximately 40% less power while still maintaining a 10,000:1 contrast ratio.
The first Samsung notebooks to inclu... |
| Oct 16, 2007 | Live Free, Die Hard and Pirate Well | In an unprecedented move by 20th Century Fox, the DVD version of “Live Free or Die Hard” will contain a copy of the movie as a digital file (AVI, MPG perhaps?) that can be played back on a computer or select PMPs. Sure to please Pirates, I ... |
| Oct 16, 2007 | Asus's eee PCs get names, specs, real | When the lines between UMPC and laptop get blurred, we get confused, angry, agitated, and aroused. It’s an odd reaction mixture, sure, but our shrink says it’s natural. That’s what we’re feeling now on news that Asus’s eee PC line has new m... |
| Oct 13, 2007 | Nintendo's big list of upcoming Wii and DS games | Looking for some new games for that little white box? Me too. I4U News has an exhaustive list of what’ll be coming out between now and next Spring, according to Nintendo. Some of the titles that get me excitable are…
Guitar Hero III on Octo... |
| Aug 30, 2007 | iPod Speaker Goes Retro | Advanced Sound Devices is putting out one of the most hilarious speakers we’ve ever seen — a vintage-looking miniature wood and plastic jukebox with an iPod dock built-in. (It looks like some sort of freakish shrine to the GodPod/JesusPhone... |
| Aug 23, 2007 | VIA Announces New 1-Watt, 500MHz Processor | Say hello to the “world’s most power efficient x86 CPU” from VIA. It’s a 1-watt, 500MHz processor with a 400MHz frontside bus that can be paired with VIA’s CX700/M all-in-one digital media chipset to create a complete system that uses less ... |
| Aug 22, 2007 | VIZIO Now Leads North American Flat Panel Market | Four years ago, you might have guessed that VIZIO was some sort of graphic design company or electric scooter manufacturer. It toiled about in relative obscurity until for a couple years and, at the end of the second quarter of 2005, the co... |
| Jul 31, 2007 | $20 iPhone Battery Replacement Kit | Apple doesn’t want you messing with the iPhone’s battery. Really, it doesn’t. When your iPhone’s warranty runs out, you’ll have to send it back to Apple to get the battery replaced for an exhorbitant fee ($79 + shipping). Yes it sucks, but ... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | YouTube Coming to Euro LG Handsets | One thing many of us CruchGear staffers have in common is our love of the Helio Ocean. Another is the untreatable version of measles, but that’s a different post. What we like about the Helio Ocean, besides it being kickass all around, is t... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | Sony PSP Gets Wi-Fi Geolocation Software | New software for the Sony PSP will allow users to use a GPS accessory for outdoor geolocation and then switch to indoor geolocation provided by a Wi-Fi signal when in a building.
The new navigation software from Zenrin Map 2 and the Edia Ma... |
| Jun 3, 2007 | EU Gets No Love, Zune Not Coming in 2007 | Looks like the folks on the other side of the pond won’t be seeing Zune’s in time for Christmas after all. Steve Ballmer has made it clear that the Zune won’t be shipping over seas until sometime in 2008. So why the adamant statement? It’s ... |
| May 18, 2007 | Maxell Developing 200GB Blu-ray Disc | Not much information here, but it looks like TDK isn’t going to be leading the Blu-ray optical market for much longer. Word is that Maxell is also working on a 200GB-capacity Blu-ray disc. Each disc will carry eight layers of tasty data on ... |
| May 7, 2007 | Your Wii Wii Needs To Cool Off | Are those marathon sessions of Paper Mario and/or Zelda leaving your Wii Wii a bit too warm? Yes, maybe. I’ve never had problems with my Wii overheating, but maybe you do.
In any case, Firstsing is offering a USB cooling fan that runs “with... |
| Apr 17, 2007 | LED Candles That You Can Blow Out: Now You Just Need Friends To Dine With | Since some places don’t allow actual candles — my dorm, for instance — these LED candles could be a sad, if not practical solution. They “blow out” like real candles once the main button is pushed and, so says ThinkGeek, they almost look li... |
| Apr 4, 2007 | D-Link DWA-643 Xtreme N ExpressCard – Long Name, Fast Speeds | Those of you who didn’t get a Macbook Pro with 802.11n built-in or own a laptop with an ExpressCard slot, you’re actually in luck. D-Link has just released a new ExpressCard featuring Pre-N speeds — the DWA-643 Xtreme N. You’ll be covered a... |
| Mar 27, 2007 | The Cell Processor: The Brains of The PS3 and Now Tekken 6 | The Cell processor already sits at the heart of Sony’s PlayStation 3, but starting with Tekken 6 it will also power arcade machines. Namco’s upcoming fighter is currently scheduled for release sometime this year and will be the first arcade... |
| Mar 22, 2007 | Ricavision Vista SideShow Remote Control: Explore Vista's Majesty From The Couch | One of the many wows of Windows Vista is SideShow, a technology that outputs information like e-mail onto screens other than a PC monitor. Using SideShow, this Ricavision Bluetooth remote control lets you navigate through your Vista PC’s me... |
| Mar 5, 2007 | Samsung Fridge Puts Rachael Ray On Ice | Oh, how I wish I had this fridge for my Rachael Ray cooking needs. The Samsung RH269 wireless fridge comes with a 10.4-inch color TFT touch-panel tablet that features a digital memo pad, wireless TV/Radio, digital scheduler and food-managem... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Stanton UBERSTAND For Laptop-based DJs | Normally, I’d dismiss an stand like this as utter crap. However, after reviewing and spending time with M-Audio’s Torq Mixlab, I realize that there is a market for this stand and it’s probably very useful. The Uberstand was created as a por... |