The Kins have an audience, a sense of style, and—a rarity from Microsoft—a coherent philosophy. They’re precocious feature phones, with the potential to make mainstream, phone-based social network not suck. So why are they priced like smartphones? More »
The second generation of Envy laptops is here, and the two new models are the Envy 14 and Envy 17.
The latest updates to the HP Pavilion line feature a move away from thin-and-light design, and an infusion of AMD processor options.
Could plaid be our gateway into accepting pink laptops? HP’s new color scheme to their Mini 210 challenges us to say yes.
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AOL is not going to try and take the corporate world by storm with the release of AIM Pro. This new instant messenger tries to make it easy for people to communicate with each other by providing WebEx integration.
AIM Pro does have a lot of great communication tools that will help those people looking for an all-in-one application. It definitely has more features than Windows Messenger which seems to be the current corporate messenger.
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This is turning into a serious boy-who-cried-wolf kind of situation, but evidence is growing today that HTC and Sprint are finally — yes, finally — ready to drop a hot batch of Sense-laden Android 2.1 on eager Hero owners. A screen shot of a Best Buy employee news page reads that the update was “delayed until this week” and will be “in all stores” by this Friday, May 7; what that means isn’t exactly clear, but it could suggest that all Heros being sold in Best Buy Mobile locations will have the update applied by then. As for current customers, Best Buy is sending out instructions on how staff can help owners upgrade if they happen to wander into the store, but otherwise, it should be available from HTC’s site (yeah, no over-the-air action here). Stay tuned, folks.
[Thanks, John]
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Well, here’s something of a surprise. In addition to demonstrating Flash running on phones like the Nexus One and Palm Pre at the now-happening Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe also has a prototype Android tablet of some sort on hand that, according to Zedomax, runs Flash and Air apps “flawlessly.” Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any details at all on the tablet itself, and judging from the looks of things, it is a prototype in the truest sense of the word (check out the other shot after the break). It does seem to deliver the goods when it comes to Air and Flash, however, with it able to run Wired’s Air-based magazine app and play YouTube videos without so much as a hiccup, although we’d definitely like to see it in a few more taxing situations. See for yourself in a pair of all too brief videos after the break.
Update: looks like that “flawless” Flash performance is all thanks to Tegra 2, as we’ve been informed by NVIDIA just now. Here’s the statement:
“It is indeed Tegra 2. We worked closely with Adobe to show how next-gen Tegra can bring the complete web to tablets at Web 2.0.
You can expect to start seeing Tegra 2 devices appearing this summer, with plenty on the way in the third and fourth quarters of the year.”
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As if all the Ryoma Sakamoto merchandise wasn’t enough, back in January Georgia made the news for its series of Sengoku (Warring States) period samurai-themed coffee.
Well, now they’re back, with the Espresso Blux, dedicated to the legendary Nobunaga Oda.
Posters and ads have used images of the ancient warrior, along with intriguing slogans (”Nobunaga lives”, 信長は生きていた) and directions to search for Honnouji no hen (本能寺の変), the name given to the incident at Honnouji Temple which ended in Nobunaga’s downfall. Going online you arrive at the campaign’s homepage (though Google lists Wikipedia higher!) and you’ll see a list of tweets.
Yes, Georgia might well be using history as part of its imagery but it is also utilizing the latest trendy marketing tool — Twitter. During the campaign, readers can read mini episodes from a “science fiction” story about Nobunaga surviving and living to the present day.
Espresso Blux takes a canned coffee primary consumer (salarymen) and something they like (samurai history), and mixes it with a bit of viral online sav. The result? A campaign that matches perfectly with the drink’s advertising line: “Good things, a bit at a time” (いいものはちょっとずつ). After all, you should savor espresso and are simultaneously tantalized by the Twitter narrative updates.
This also apparently marks the first time that a company has positioned tweets as part of a TV campaign. Previously it was common for marketeers to put “continued online” (続きはWebで) on the poster or TV commercial, but Georgia used “continued on Twitter” (続きはTwitterで).
We all knew Seagate’s FreeAgent line couldn’t hang around forever, and tonight the storage mainstay has revealed the next logical step for the line. The GoFlex family is one of the more varied ranges out there from any hard drive maker, with the primary intent on the HDD side being to create drives (ranging from 320GB to 2TB) that are friendly with both Macs and PCs (simultaneously) while also giving users the ability to upgrade their connection or switch it out depending on what workstation they interface with. The new crew supports USB 2.0 out of the box, though upgrading to USB 3.0, FireWire 800 or eSATA can be accomplished via the new GoFlex cable system. Also launched today is the GoFlex TV HD media player, which essentially acts as a liaison between your tele and your media, regardless of whether it’s stored locally, on the LAN or on the internet. Moving on, there’s the GoFlex Net media sharing device, which transforms any USB mass storage device into one that’s happy to pump out content via the ‘net — think Pogoplug, and you’ve pretty much got the idea. It looks as if the whole crew will be available for purchase starting this week, with the full list of details and prices just beyond the break.
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