(Credit: CNET)Leave it to Apple to make Slacker look like a…you know.
Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, streaming Internet radio company Slacker Radio released Slacker Radio for BlackBerry (download), and announced that an iPhone cousin was coming out as soon as Apple approved …
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Ready for more iPhone nano rumors? Good, because apparently the Chinese trade paper Economic Daily News is now reporting that Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) will be handling chip manufacturing for a low-cost device being referred to as… you guessed it: the iPhone nano. While the paper has a fairly good reputation, it is filtered through the lens of DigiTimes on our end, so as usual, take it with the required grain of salt. Still, the source is calling a June launch of the handset on the heels of an order for the components in March. The time frame is reasonable enough, and if history is any lesson here, Apple loves to intro iPhones in the Summer. Given that China has yet to see a deal for the iPhone proper, and a lower-cost entry may be perfectly tuned for vast Asian markets, the nano could gather in a whole new fold of users (and the smaller screen would be less of an issue given the need for character recognition). That theory falls in line with statements from analysts, though as always, putting too much stock in any of this speculation could be hazardous to your health. Just ask Steve Jobs.
[Via AppleInsider]
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iPhone nano now rumored for June, Unicorn delayed again until September originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A smaller, cheaper iPhone could hit China later this year, now that two companies appear to have gotten contracts to make its chips.
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More iPhone Nano rumors are surfacing out of China, as some are starting to wonder whether the much-rumored diminutive iPhone will ship in that region …
Originally posted at News – Apple
With its unique design, built-in BD-Live Blu-ray player, Netflix onboard, and Wi-Fi compatibility, the Samsung HT-BD7200 encapsulated cutting-edge home theater this year.
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The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is history. As far as the home audio world is concerned, the product lineup and trends were pretty much right in …
Originally posted at CES 2009
Is plasma dead yet? Not if Panasonic can help it.
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The television category is a perennial CES staple and this year was no different. For some reason nobody showed a TV bigger than Panasonic’s 150-inch plasma from last year (have we maxed out in flat-panel screen size?), but most of the other trends I discussed in the preview were borne out in the show’s extensive announcements. Here’s my take on what CES 2009 bodes for HDTV this year.
Plasma ain’t dead yet. I get more than my share of emails, and have seen plenty of blog comments and forum posts, that are quick to claim the demise of plasma at the hands of LCD. Judging from CES announcements by companies that comprise the “big three” of plasma–Panasonic, LG and Samsung–those big glass flat-panels have a brighter future than Detroit, at least.
Panasonic, by far the biggest and, unlike GM, the most-committed of the group, bragged about its newest plasma factory (number five) coming online, and showed its largest plasma lineup ever, with five new series and a new 54-inch screen size. I’m really excited to review the company’s new “NEO PDP” panels, the first of which, members of the S1 series, will ship in March. They boast significantly improved black-level performance and contrast ratios, according to the company, yet manage to cut power consumption in half. If the latter claim proves true, LCD will lose perhaps its biggest arrow in the anti-plasma quiver (at least among consumers who care about the planet and are savvy enough to ignore the non-issues).
Absent any announcements by Pioneer (which will come in late spring, most likely), Panasonic’s G10 series is probably the surest bet for Editors’ Choice of any TV I saw at the show. That’s why I awarded it Best of CES in the TV category. In case you’re wondering, however, all of the Neo PDP panels, including the least-expensive S1, share the same basic picture quality specs….
Originally posted at CES 2009
While the rest of tech world was busy scouring news from CES 2009, Samsung’s duo of Netflix-enabled Blu-ray players–the BD-P2500 and BD-P2550–received a firmware update to enable onboard DTS-HD Master Audio decoding. The players were promised the update “by the end of the year”, but chalk it up …
Microsoft’s new Retail Experience Center is a new showcase of Microsoft’s products and solutions for retailers — including back-end stuff and point of sale. It’s all pretty boring and corporate, but it could also be construed as a look at what a Microsoft take on an “Apple Store-style” experience might be. Result? It kinda looks like Circuit City plus a few Surface displays, Microsoft Tags and magical screen-equipped shopping carts (pictured above). Oh, and before you gather up your Zune pals for a road trip: the Experience Center is real, but the customers are fake — the store isn’t open to the public. Video is after the break.
[Via istartedsomething]
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You can't take the Bionicle Lego camera apart–but it would be fun if you could.
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In a brilliant marketing move, Lego and Digital Blue have partnered to bring out Lego-branded kid’s tech products. The line, which is due to launch this summer, will …
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CBS Interactive)There may be a lot of new green cars on the floor at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, but powerful cars still have a strong presence. We take a look at the new Ford Shelby, Jaguar R series, Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro, the …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
This article was written on December 03, 2007 by CyberNet.
So far this year we’ve had two hard drives crash on us, and prior to that we’ve never had a hard drive crash on us. One of the crashed drives was on our web server, where we would have lost a year and a half worth of content and files if we did not have local backups. Our backups saved the day, and we were thankful to have them.
We’re asked quite often what we use to perform backups of our site, and our preferred choice is SyncBackSE. Earlier this year we purchased a license for SyncBackSE because of what a vital application it had become. Not only does it connect to our web server to backup the files on our website, but it also backs up three other computers located on our local network every night. Important things such as our music and pictures are backed up between all three computers to help ensure that nothing could possibly go wrong.
What’s so great about SyncBackSE? You can customize nearly everything for your backup and synchronization tasks. Here are some of the different options available for every task that you create:
When you begin creating new tasks you may not see where you can edit all of those options, but that is because SyncBackSE is trying to hide the confusing stuff from the average user. It actually has two different interfaces for configuring tasks, one that is simple and another that is advanced, which can be toggled from the “Click For Options” button located in the upper-right corner of the task modification screen:
Simple Backup/Sync Configuration:
Expert Backup/Sync Configuration:
SyncBackSE has saved my butt on more than one occasion, and I don’t think that I would ever remove it from my network. To me it is as critical as running antivirus and firewall software, and in some instances it is probably even more critical. Just like security software you’ll take it for granted as it does all the dirty work in the background without ever interrupting you, but it will be there when you call on it!
This giveaway is going to work a little bit differently than the others, and it is important that you read this paragraph. Each winner will not receive a license, but will instead get a $30 coupon to use at the 2BrightSparks store. In this round we have 3 of the $30 coupons to giveaway, but we’ll also have another round later on for one of their products, OnClick, where we’ll give out a few more coupons. Both SyncBackSE and OnClick cost $30, so the coupon will work with either or.
All you have to do is drop a comment below providing both your name and email address in the appropriate fields. We obviously need your email address for contacting you in the event that you should win. Believe it or not, we’ve actually had winners in previous giveaways get randomly selected, but since they didn’t provide an email address we had to pick someone else.
Just as with all of our giveaways we will be using a random number generator to determine the winners. For this round, here is how we’re going to give out the coupons:
Entries for the giveaway will be accepted up until December 4th at 5:00PM Central Time.
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