Apr 12

Sony keeps OLED hope alive with ‘budget’ monitor line (video)

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It was just two short months ago that Sony had us drooling over its latest OLED monitors. But, at the double-take-inspiring price of $16,000, its safe to assume the company isn’t moving too many of these professional-level displays. For film and TV production companies turned off by the high-priced BVM line, Sony has announced the PVM-2541 and PVM-1741, which arrive at less than a third of the cost. The 25-inch and 17-inch screens (we’re sure you can guess which is which) will retail for $7,400 and $4,900, respectively, while boasting the same 1080p, “Super Top Emission” panels (explained in the lengthy video after the break) and 10-bit drivers of their more expensive cousins. The one trade off is the significantly smaller, 89-degree viewing angle. Good thing movie editors are used to huddling uncomfortably close together.

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Apr 12

Cisco Shuts Down Flip Video, Axes 550 Employees

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Flip Video, makers of the Flip Ultra, Mino, and Mino HD lines of pocket-sized flash-based camcorders, and who found themselves purchased by Cisco 2 years ago for over $590 million, is no more. 
Back in 2009 Cisco said they were acquiring Flip Video because the company was “key to Cisco’s strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking,” according to SVP Ned Hooper. 
Today however, the company announced that it would be ending the Flip Video line of devices, shuttering the offices, and firing the 550 employees who made up the division. 
Cisco will likely take Flip Video’s technology and apply it to its other videoconferencing products, like Cisco umi and Cisco Unified Videoconferencing, both of which are focused at businesses with telepresence needs. Even umi, which has been marketed to users who want to talk to family members on their television screens, costs too much to be affordable for most home users. Cisco’s approach seems to be to focus on business instead. 
At the same time, it’s difficult to see how Flip managed to stay competitive up to this point, especially when consumers can record HD video on mobile devices of all shapes and sizes, and those same smartpones are at or below the price-point as Flip Video’s handheld camcorders.
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Apr 12

Digitimes Squashes iPad 3 Rumors

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A few months ago, right before the iPad 2 was due to be released, a flurry of rumors started that Apple may release another iPad model before the end of the year. One analyst explained their thoughts were that Apple would eventually want to move to a September release schedule for the iPad, which matches the timeframe we usually see new iPod models. Another source pointed to an unnamed Apple staff member who claimed “If you like the iPad 2, wait until you see the iPad 3!” 
Digitimes, for its part, put the kibosh on those rumors this week, claiming that it’s highly unlikely that Apple will cannibalize its current iPad2 sales to bring out an iPad 3. Digitimes says the original rumors hinged on the iPad 2 being some kind of bridge product between the original iPad and something drastically new, but the iPad 2 is doing just fine of its own accord. 
According to the same article however, Apple is asking its touchscreen manufacturers to investigate the feasibility of making touchscreens that are higher resolution than the current iPad 2’s display, which may lend some credence to the rumor that the iPad 3 will have a Retina Display, but according to the report that work is in the very early stages and not likely to yield a new product this year.
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Apr 12

Intricate watch commemorates first man in space

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A tourbillon doesn’t stay in one place, but “orbits” around the watch dial, which bears the names of places and cities Gagarin passed in his Vostok-1 spacecraft back in 1961.

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Apr 12

OCZ Vertex 3 SSD review: Fast is in

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CNET reviews the OCZ Vertex 3, a solid-state drive that supports SATA 6Gbps.

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Apr 12

Intel teases 32nm Cloverview tablet processor, 22nm Ivy Bridge CPU

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It hasn’t even been a week since Intel rolled out Oak Trail, and it’s already teasing us with yet another tablet-ready chip called Cloverview. What’s more, we’re also seeing unofficial details emerging for its next generation Ivy Bridge CPU. Starting from the top: PC World is reporting that Intel’s Doug Davis introduced the Atom-based Cloverview at the firm’s Developer Forum in Beijing Tuesday, touting its 32nm architecture and low power consumption. Meanwhile a set of rather convincing slides are showing off the 22nm stylings of Sandy Bridge’s successor, Ivy Bridge. From the look of things, the CPU will support DirectX 11 graphics, USB 3.0, and 1600MHz DDR3 memory — its desktop platform has been christened Maho Bay. Ivy Bridge is reportedly expected to arrive in the first half of 2012, but we’re still waiting on Cloverview’s ETA. Isn’t silicon fun?

Intel teases 32nm Cloverview tablet processor, 22nm Ivy Bridge CPU originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 12

New services unlock iPhones without jailbreaking

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Without voiding your warranty, too. Just one problem: it ain’t cheap. But at least one prominent source has confirmed that it works–and remotely, at that!

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

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Apr 12

Opera 11.10 launched with company’s ‘most expensive ad ever’

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Opera has always been the little browser that could, and the company is now embracing that spirit more than ever with its new ad campaign for the just-released Opera 11.10. To that end, it’s launched a new ad campaign that it proudly boasts is its most expensive ever — a record-setting $8,517.26, including a hefty $1,500 that they splurged on some “trendy Swedish clothes.” Of course, the browser itself is the real story here and, while it’s an incremental upgrade, it does boast a few fairly big new features, including support for Google’s new WebP image format, a “SpeedDial” for your favorite websites, and a turbo mode that promises to compress and load web pages faster when you’re on a slow connection. Just how does that work? We’ll let Opera’s Christen Krogh explain in the no-expenses-spared video after the break.

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Apr 12

Boost Mobile intros new international services

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Boost Mobile introduces $5 and $10 International Connect plans.

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Apr 12

Updated MeeGo interface gets shown off on Atom Z670-based reference tablet

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Well, here’s something of a surprise. Not only has Netbook News managed to get its hands on a reference tablet based on Intel’s brand new Atom Z670 processor at IDF Beijing, but one running a new version of MeeGo with a spiffed-up UI. As you can see above and in the video after the break, it looks to be a marked improvement over the tablet interface that was just shown off at Mobile World Congress in February, with it offering both a more refined appearance and what appears to be a more intuitive navigation system. Like what you see? Then you’ll likely be seeing even more of it shortly — there’s a “MeeGo Day” planned for April 14th.

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Updated MeeGo interface gets shown off on Atom Z670-based reference tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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