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IEEE approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 high-speed serial bus specification

July 31st, 2008 at 11:10 pm » Comments (0)

IEEE 1394, which is very well known under the names of Firewire or i.Link, seems to be getting ready for a speed enhancement by the end of the year. The new IEEE 1394-2008 specification, which will offer support for up to 3.2 Gb/s bandwidth, has been recently approved by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and [...]



Fujifilms brings in 10 Megapixels Finepix Z200fd

July 31st, 2008 at 10:52 pm » Comments (0)

Fujifilm today announced the latest in its youth oriented Z line, the FinePix Z200fd. Featuring a 10MP sensor, 5x optical zoom lens and 2.7-inch LCD, the slim (20mm thick) camera offers combination mechanical/digital image stabilization, face detection that also removes red-eye, a rotary dial menu for selecting key functions, and a “blog mode” web resolution images that [...]



Dell vostro 2510 available for $899

July 31st, 2008 at 10:42 pm » Comments (0)

Dell is coming up with new laptop Vostro 2510. Vostro 2510 was spotted in a business flier. As far as listed specs, it has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 160GB hdd, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GPU, and integrated webcam. There are not a lot of details on dell.com at U.S site , but [...]



Dish Network to broadcast live 1080p content

July 31st, 2008 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)

Satellite TV provider Dish Network became first live TV provider to broadcast full 1080p ((1920×1080 progressive) content on demand in America.  Starting with an August 1st Video On Demand option for the movie I Am Legend, DISH says it will start offering 1080p whenever the content is available rather than the lower-resolution 1080i (interlaced) or [...]



Open Media library Beta 0.1 rolls out to the public

July 31st, 2008 at 7:10 pm » Comments (0)

Forget about waiting for Niveus to open up its slick Movie Library to the public, now that the Open Media Library is available. The GPL v3-licensed project just rolled out the 0.1 beta version, designed for users to access their entire movie library and associated metadata (actors, summary, etc.) no matter the format, through extenders [...]



LG’s BD300 Blu-ray player will play Netflix online movies

July 31st, 2008 at 7:34 am » Comments (1)

LG Electronics and Netflix, Inc. today announced plans for the first Blu-ray disc player with the added capability of instantly streaming movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to the TV. The photo shows the LG BD300 Blu-ray Disc Player, available this fall, and the Netflix instant Queue as it will appear on the TV.
Available this [...]



TiVo silently removing Series3 from it’s website

July 30th, 2008 at 11:45 pm » Comments (0)

TiVo on Wednesday quietly removed its Series3 flagship digital video recorder from its webstore, removing its normal entry for the device and listing the DVR as “out of stock” on its separate product page. The shift leaves the lower-end TiVo HD as the only recorder capable of saving HD video and leaves the analog-resolution Series 2 as the only [...]



Neonode N2’s recalled due to reception problems

July 30th, 2008 at 11:26 pm » Comments (0)

Still remember that Neonode N2 ? It was first shown as CES earlier this year. The company had very tough time with the product. Because of “reception problems,” the company had decided to recall its N2 product from the shelves. They’ve fixed the problem, but the recall and repair has cost the company time and [...]



Dell trying to challenge Ipod once again

July 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pm » Comments (0)

Dell first entered the music market in 2003 with a line of MP3 players that were designed by Creative and marketed under the name Dell D.J. The product was designed to compete with first generation Ipod then. It did not click and dell D.J had to exit the market in 2006.
Since then Ipod has dominated [...]



Ancient Gadget [Antikythera Mechanism] from 100 B.C.

July 30th, 2008 at 10:43 pm » Comments (0)

The Antikythera Mechanism has puzzled international experts since its discovery by Greek sponge divers in 1901.
After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, [...]



PURE introduces ONE Elite DAB radio

July 30th, 2008 at 8:32 pm » Comments (0)

PURE has released ONE Elite with the slogan “Radio For Everyone”.
ONE Elite not only looks great but has been engineered to sound fantastic, whether you want to tune in to your favourite DAB or FM stations or listen to your own music by plugging in your iPod and using ONE Elite as a portable stereo [...]



AT&T Says It Will Cut Off P2P Wireless Users

July 30th, 2008 at 8:27 pm » Comments (0)

Following the footprints of Sprint to cap the download limit on wireless phones to 5GB per month, AT&T has told FCC that it will terminate the service of P2P consumers of it’s wireless network.
If AT&T’s biggest concern about P2P file-sharing apps is clogging its 3G wireless network, why does it allow streaming apps to run [...]



Netgear announces wireless-N upgrade kit WNEB3100

July 30th, 2008 at 7:55 pm » Comments (0)

Netgear today announced the launch of the Wireless-N Upgrade Kit (WNEB3100), a plug-and-play solution that is commited to make it fast and super easy to add 5GHz Wireless-N access to any existing network and upgrade a computer to dual-band Wireless-N.

The Wireless-N Upgrade Kit, which includes Netgear’s 5GHz Wireless-N HD Access Point (WNHDE111) and RangeMax Dual-Band [...]