Sep 16

LaCie Wireless Space takes on Time Capsule, doubles as NAS and WLAN router

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And here you were thinking the upcoming Photokina trade show was all about cameras. Not so, vaquero. Granted, LaCie’s probably taking advantage of this here event to reveal its latest and greatest media storage device, but we digress. The newly announced Wireless Space is perhaps the most interested and multifaceted device to emerge from the company in quite some time, and to say it’s taking on Apple’s Time Capsule would be understating things tremendously. In essence, what we have here is a NAS backup drive and an 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi access point / router, all bundled into one delicious black box. Available in 1TB and 2TB flavors, the Space enables both Mac and PC users both to backup their files wirelessly (or via cabling, should you so choose), and it also acts as a network hard drive for accessing files remotely, a UPnP / DLNA media streamer and a full-on router should you need one. It’s fully compatible with Time Machine, and you’ll also find a trio of Ethernet sockets and a pair of USB jacks on the rear. It’s shipping today for $229.99 and $349.99, respectively, leaving Apple the loser once again in the price department. Is that a war we smell brewin’?

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Sep 16

Looxcie wearable camera: For those afraid to blink

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If you thought always-on communications technology was already out of hand, you haven’t seen the Looxcie.

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Sep 16

iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Getting Wireless Printing in Nov.–Developer Beta Available Now

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At the Apple event a couple week back, Steve Jobs announced that printing would officially be coming soon to the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The company shed a bit more light on its plans this week, announcing that the new AirPrint feature would be included in the free iOS 4.2 update coming in November.

AirPrint discovers local printers, letting the Apple devices print over them via Wi-Fi, without having to install any drivers. HP ePrint devices will be the first printers to support the upcoming feature.

Apple also rolled out a beta version of the feature for developers this week. AirPrint will be compatible with the iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch (third generation and above).

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Sep 16

ASUS to ship gargantuan NX90J this month, plenty of other laptops soon

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ASUS doesn’t seem to have an issue introducing new laptops. ASUS does seem to have an issue belting out release dates alongside those announcements. Thankfully, a whole slew of the company’s newly revealed machines were both priced and dated at a media event last night in the Big Apple, and the most exciting (or horrifying, depending on perspective) news is that the David Lewis-designed NX90J will be shipping this month. Yeah — your time to run and hide from the world’s next 18.4-inch lappie is just about up, with a pair of models set to land prior to October for $2,299. There’s also a Bang & Olufsen-infused 15-incher for the more sensible among us, as the N53Jf (shown above) will bring a Core i5 CPU, NVIDIA’s GeForce GT425M GPU and a business-minded design to US shores within the next fortnight for $999. The ROG G73Jw that we heard about earlier in the year is also destined to ship this month for $1,799, and the outfit’s new WiCast EW2000 wireless streamer should hit channels this week for a buck ninety-nine. Hit the links below for all the nitty-gritty.

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Sep 16

Report: Apple, RIM losing market share to Android

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Google’s Android continues to surge in popularity among smartphone users, with its main competitors all shrinking or stagnating in market share. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20016647-94.html” class=”origPostedBlog”News – Wireless/a/p

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Sep 16

On Sept 21st, Watch 3-D Movies on Your PS3

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A free software update for all Sony Playstation 3 owners on Sept 21st will enable playback of 3-D Blu-ray movies and games.

Sony’s Hiroshi Kawano made the announcement at the Tokyo Game Show this morning, according to the AP’s Yuri Kageyama.

The update is actually being pushed out early to capitalize on the popularity of 3-D movies, and to coincide with the Sept 19th US release of Sony’s new Move motion-controller wand.

The release of the Move and 3-D video playback also puts Sony ahead of rival Microsoft, whose Kinect video-capture system won’t be released in North America until November. Sony wants to be the first in the console gaming and home theater markets to offer an integrated three-dimensional experience — at a lower cost (just $99 for the Move package).

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Sep 16

Boeing plans to add space tourism seats to its CST-100 flights by 2015

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Boeing has announced plans to add space tourism to its CST-100 — or Crew Space Transportation-100– low orbit flights by 2015. Operated by a partnership with Space Adventures, the flights will be able to carry up to seven passengers about 62 miles above Earth’s surface, and the craft are currently being developed with the help of NASA.The vehicles could also be used as a ferry to get people to and from the various space habitats companies are working away at. There’s no word on what the pricing of one of these journeys will look like, but trust us: Jared Leto will be able to afford one, while you probably will not.

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Sep 16

Boeing Launching Passengers into Space Within Five Years

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Admit it–you’ve entertained fantasies of going into space at some point. I don’t care who you are, we’ve all thought about it. Boeing, the company that brings you most of the commercial planes you’ve ever flown in, is looking to extend its influence beyond boring old terrestrial flight.

The company announced this week that it intends to put space tourists into low Earth orbit (LEO) by 2015.

The company has struck a deal with a Vienna, VA-based company called Space Adventures. The deal will use the Boeing-designed CST-100 crew capsule to transport passengers. The capsule [pictured above] looks a good deal like NASA’s Orion spacecraft.

The CST-100 will be compatible with various Boeing vehicles. It seats seven people. The companies have yet to settle upon a price for such a trip.

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Sep 16

Nokia Is the McDonald’s of Phones [Video]

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Didn’t you notice? It was just Nokia World! But with profits plummeting and executives fleeing—both at alarming rates—maybe it should have been a reckoning instead. More »

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Sep 16

Kingston issues its first USB 3.0 thumb drive: DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0

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It ain’t the first, but it’s Kingston’s first, regardless. The DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 is the company’s first foray into the wild and blossoming world of high(er)-speed thumb drives (following the likes of A-DATA with its own N005), with this guy in particular pulling down read speeds of up to 80MB/sec and write speeds of 60MB/sec. It’s available in a trio of sizes (16GB, 32GB and 64GB), with a five-year warranty affixed to each. Regrettably, such speed and capaciousness won’t run ya cheap, as these fellows are priced at $89, $138 and $270 in order of mention. Nothing the corporate card can’t handle, though.

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