Anyone interested in trying out Slacker should go to www.slacker.com on their iPhone or iPod Touch. This review suggests that Slacker is a “lot like satellite radio,” and mentions that it plays 30 second radio ads after every fifth song. This might be a small price to pay for most users, although Last.fm and Pandora [...]

NEC has announced three new laptops for Japan. The leader of the pack is the 16-inch LaVie C, a notebook powered by 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo P8600 processor at 2.4GHz. The LaVie C also includes a GeForce 9600M GS, 320GB of HDD, a Blu-Ray disc drive or DVD drive, HDMI out, [...]

NEC has released two all-in-one desktops each with the Valuestar designation simply named the “W” and the “N.” The W has a 22-inch WSXGA+ (1680×1050) monitor and is available with either a Core 2 Quad Q8200s or a Core 2 Duo E7400, 4GB of RAM, 1TB of HDD, Blu-ray drive, digital TV tuner, and AVCREC [...]

United Airlines will begin offering inflight internet service to customers onboard its p.s. transcontinental service between New York and California starting in the second half of this year.Aircell’s Gogo® Inflight Internet service will turn United’s p.s. aircraft into flying Wi-Fi hotspots, enabling customers to surf the Web, check e-mail, instant message and access corporate VPNs [...]

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Lenovo only barely dabbled in the U.S. home PC market last year, but it looks like it will make a stronger push for those consumer dollars in 2009. We caught wind of a new Lenovo all-in-one at CES, and Tuesday it announces two new standard desktops aimed at home users.

The two [...]

Smartfish has developed the world’s first intelligent and healthy range of “injury avoidance” ergonomic keyboards and devices for your computer. These patented and innovative products actually eliminates risks of RSI and carpel tunnel syndrome for the user. Our first product launch is the Pro-Motion keyboard that slowly adapts and adjusts to your typing style. Smartfish’s [...]

SonyStyle is taking pre-orders for much touted VAIO P series netbook or Notebook as Sony calls it. First shown at CES 2009 last week, the Vaio P scores points on its insanely small size. It’s really tiny. In fact, its depth is only a hair longer than my iPhone 3g (see the comparison in the [...]

Samsung have published the user manual for their upcoming netbook, the NC20, which is expected to launch next month.  The NC20 has a 12-inch display running at 1280 x 800, 1.3GHz VIA Nano processor and a choice of HDD or SSD storage.  There are also various tweaks to port positioning from the Samsung NC10, and what [...]

Western Digital will launch its 2TB hard drive later this week, and it should be available immediately. The Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EADS drive features 32MB of cache, an 8.9ms seek time and it runs either at 7200 or 5400RMP, which allows it to save a few inches of Brazilian rain forest. The SATA disk should [...]

The two companies are collaborating with a host of consumer electronic (CE) manufacturers, including Sonic’s existing CinemaNow providers, to expand the ecosystem of interoperable devices offering the Blockbuster service. These devices include PCs, portable media players, Blu-ray Disc players, personal video recorders (PVRs), set-top boxes, mobile phones and Web-connected television sets. Additionally, the two companies [...]