It looks like ‘09 is going to be an innovative year for Asus. The company, which heralded the age of the netbook in the US with its original Eee PC, is turning that keyboard-in-a-PC concept we showed you into a real product with a launch date and everything.
Asus has two versions of its gussied up [...]

Sony Corp prototyped a fuel-cell system small enough to fit in one hand. The size of the system is about 50 × 30mm, which was realized by combining a fuel cell, Li-polymer secondary battery, control circuit and so forth. This is the first time that Sony revealed the prototype of a practical fuel-cell system including, [...]

The Nautiz X5 is a versatile PDA that delivers a category-leading combination of performance features in a small but rugged [...]

Asus has officially launched the latest addition to its Eee Box desktop PC line: the 206. Although first spied online back in December, Asus has now confirmed that the 223 x 178 x 16mm machine is based on Intel’s 1.6GHz N270 Atom processor and 945GSE chipset. An AMD ATI Radeon HD 3450 GPU is also [...]

Microsoft has confirmed it is testing a new search engine called Kumo, based on technology from its Powerset acquisition, that is likely to be an early version of a soon-to-be-rebranded Live Search product. Microsoft added that it has “nothing new to announce at this time.” However, the company has been rumored for some time to [...]

A new company called ZillionTV says it will soon introduce a new service that will enable cable and satellite subscribers to cut the cord and get subscription-free movies and TV shows right on their TVs from the Internet. The company, which officially launched on Wednesday, has struck deals with some major Hollywood movie studios and [...]

In a bid to increase its slice of the e-book market, the Seattle-based online retailer rolled out a free program Wednesday that brings several of the Kindle’s functions to the iPod and iPhone’s smaller screen.The program, which can be downloaded from Apple’s online application store, lets iPhone and iPod Touch users read the same electronic [...]

Six months after Palm Inc. started selling an unlocked version of its Treo Pro smartphone for $549, the company said Sprint Nextel Corp. will sell the device for $200 after rebates and a two-year service agreement. Sales start March 15 at Sprint stores and a day later through Palm’s online store.
The shipment news came one [...]

The QNAP NMP-1000 network multimedia player is the new generation home networked appliance for playing the videos, photos, and music on the internal hard disk or network playback of the digital contents from the PCs or NAS on your home network. The player can be seamlessly integrated with TV and stereo system for playing your [...]