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Sony Alpha 230, 330, and 380 DSLRs leak out a little early

May 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from www.engadget.com

We’ve been hearing vague murmurs of revised Sony Alpha DSLRs all week, but now we’ve got some actual proof: these shots of the new Alpha 230, 330, and 380 went up briefly on Sony’s Russian website earlier today. The biggest improvements seem to be smaller cases, a revised interface, and HDMI [...]



JVC Gets Super High-Res With 8K/4K Projector and 4K Camera

May 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from www.gearcrave.com

Going the complete opposite way of the mini projector trend, JVC announced that it will soon ship a 370-pound projector. Obviously, the D-ILA 3 8K and 4K aren’t about dinky pictures, beaming out 35-megapixel pictures, in resolutions of up to 8192 x 4320. They also feature brightness of 10,000 lumens, a [...]



Craigslist gives in, will shut down Erotic Services section

May 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from arstechnica.com

Craigslist has been working hard to fend off criticism that it facilitates prostitution by implementing numerous measures to help curb Erotic Services listings. In November of 2008, Craigslist came to an agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Attorneys General of more than 40 states [...]



UMID mbook M1D blurs line between MID and e-dictionary

May 13th, 2009 at 5:39 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from www.pocketables.net

Considering that multimedia e-dictionaries, which are all the rage in Korea, have started to become more advanced with WinCE 5.0 cores, WiFi, and Bluetooth (e.g., Udea Expert 300W), it was really only a matter of time before one of them got outfitted with Windows XP and an Intel Atom [...]



Intel’s $1.4 billion fine–that’s a lot of Netbooks

May 13th, 2009 at 5:34 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from news.cnet.com

We read with great interest Wednesday’s news about the record $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel by the European Commission for violating antitrust legislation. By giving rebates to PC makers buying Intel chips and urging them to drop products using other CPU brands, Intel maintained an unfair competitive advantage over the [...]



Can Wolfram Alpha take on Google?

May 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

Millions of web users have Google’s search engine as the homepage on their computer. It’s the first thing they see when they switch their machine on and their first port of call whenever they need to find the answer to a question.

Such is Google’s dominance of the search space that any attempt to [...]



Apple Strikes Back Against Laptop Hunters

May 13th, 2009 at 5:21 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from www.cheaplaptops.org.uk

Microsoft has been eating at Apple for a while with their Microsoft Laptop Hunters adverts, and well it was only a matter of time before Apple retaliated, and today we have the first counterattack from Apple as they take off the gloves against the Microsoft Laptop Hunters.

Yes Apple has made a [...]



Sprint to bring MiFi 2200 mobile hot spot in June

May 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from news.cnet.com

Just one week after Verizon Wireless made its announcement, Sprint said on Wednesday that it will also offer the Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 mobile hot spot device starting the first week of June.

The MiFi frees you from having to search out a Wi-Fi hot spot by providing instant wireless access using [...]



AMD Delivers the World’s First 1 GHz Graphics Processor

May 13th, 2009 at 4:29 pm » Comments (0)

clipped from hothardware.com

Building on the success of the recently launched ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics card — driven by the world’s most powerful graphics processor1 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability of a factory overclocked graphics processor that is the first to break the 1 Gigahertz (GHz) barrier using standard air-cooling solutions. “The ATI [...]