The Recording Industry Association of America is taking a dangerous step with its decision to stop suing suspected music sharers and start cutting off their Internet access instead. While the discontinuation of the lawsuit practice has its merits, the move opens up a whole new can of worms — one that could have serious implications [...]
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RIAA’s New Piracy Plan Poses a New Set of Problems
Philips intros Prestigo SRT9320 touchscreen universal remote
The new remote Prestigo SRT9320 combines a 2.8-inch color touch screen on the top half with hard buttons on the lower portion. The screen handles both channel favorites (replete with familiar icon logos) and customized commands. The SRT9320 can control up to 20 devices, and it’s completely programmable as-is–including learning modes and multidevice macros–without the [...]
iiNet Pushes Broadband To 85Mbps in W. Australia
Western Australia-based iiNet says it has achieved download speeds of up to 85 megabits per second and uplinks at 47Mbps in a Perth field trial of VDSL2 equipment, according to a Communications Day report. In the live trial, iiNet is said to be working on the commercial viability of establishing “mini-exchanges” in multi-dwelling units to [...]
Olevia’s BD-100 Blu-ray player dropping to $149.99 at Target
Blu-ray players keep on dropping in price and Target has a nice deal on an Olevia unit. For those who have not bought PS3 for just playing Blu-Ray movies like me , it’s the time to grab one from Target. The BD-100 has all the bells and whistles of a Profile 1.1 player at a [...]
Wazabee 3DeeShell brings no glasses 3D to iphone and ultraportables
Spatial View, a leader in manufacturing products for creating 3D effects, introduces its latest product, Wazabee 3DeeShell, a special protective skin with an integrated removable lens that can display 3D content on the Apple iPhone. This and other Spatial View Macintosh and iPhone products will be on display at MacWorld 2009 [...]
Super Talent Ships World’s Smallest 16GB USB Flash Drive
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced that their ultra-small Pico family of USB drives will now be offered in 16GB capacities, making it the world’s tiniest line of 16GB USB drives. 16GB Pico drives will be offered in four different styles that use patented closing [...]
LaCie Ethernet Disk 1U 19″ rack-mounted backup solution for small and medium business
LaCie today introduced a new version of its award-winning Ethernet Disk, a network-attached storage (NAS) device featuring a capacity increase of up to 6TB in a 1U 19″ rack form factor. Designed by Neil Poulton, it is the most compact all-in-one rack-mounted backup appliance operating in heterogeneous ecosystems. Designed for small and medium business needs, [...]
Castrade CV-MP01 LED projector can easily be dropped into a wine glass
Castrade CV-MP01 is the smallest and lightest, pocket-size LCOS projector. The projector with 4:3 aspect ratio, 10 lumens brightness uses LED as light source with a life expectancy of about 10,000 hours. Focusing is manual. Power is supplied from the included AC adapter. Power consumption is about 10W. Other features include built in monaural speaker [...]
AOC introduces 22-inch LED-backlit V22 Verfino display
AOC’s latest creation, the V22 Verfino certainly does not a disappoint when you take the following specifications into consideration:
100,000:1 contrast ratio
HDMI inputs
2ms response time
Dynamic contrast ratio control
22″ LED backlit panel at 1,680 x 1,050 resolution
You can use this for both gaming and movies, as it is an ideal candidate that won’t disappoint. AOC won’t attempt [...]
Toshiba becomes the capacity king in SSD market with a 512GB SSD
Toshiba is upping the solid state drive (SSD) game via new solid state drives based upon 43 nanometer multi-level cell NAND technology. The company plans to showcase at the Consumer Electronics Show the first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD as part of a new SSD roll out. Toshiba said that, besides the 512GB SSD, it will also [...]
