Archive for: October 11, 2007

October 11, 2007

Black Box Lightshow flickers its LEDs to the beat

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Filed under: Displays, Portable Audio
Nah, the Black Box Lightshow won’t welcome you domestic, do your laundry or keep you updated on scores around the league, but it will keep your eyes fixated when connected to an audio source. The unit was reportedly based on a design conjured up while Rosendahl …

Keepin’ it real fake, part LXXXVIII: Zen Vision:M goes metallic

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We’re not assured who out there is looking to recapture the glory of the Zen Vision:M, but just in case you peaked in 2005, that little Chinese player might look awfully familiar. Apart from the goofy metal case and miniscule 2GB storage, it’s a approach p…

Samsung, Sun teaming up for Java phone?

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Filed under: CellphonesConsidering that we’ve already seen Sun parade its iPhone-like Java Mobile FX platform around, it’s not too surprising to take in that Samsung and Sun Microsystems could be teaming up to “jointly develop a mobile phone to challenge Apple’s iPhone.” Furthermore, the two firms a…

Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan leaving at year’s end

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

No shocker here: Nintendo’s Vice President of Marketing, Perrin Kaplan, will be joining George Harrison and Beth Llewelyn at the end of that year by not continuing to work for the Big N. After being employed by Nintendo for some 15 years, Kaplan has now announced that she “will be leaving the ou…

Patent research could force tough drives off US market

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

This one’s still a ways off, but the universal Trade Commission has just launched a patent observation into five manufacturers that could aftereffect in a ban on tough drive imports whether the agency finds evidence of infringement. The patents, which are owned by Californians Steven and Mary Re…

Asus introduces trio of new LCD monitors

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Not composition with launching just a without LCD, Asus has decided to loose three new ones on us at all once. Up first is the 19-inch VW198, which features a WSXGA+ (1,680 x 1,050) resolution, 300 cd/m2 brightness, a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, five-millisecond response day, built-in one-watt stere…

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IBM, Linden Lab Envision Borderless Metaverse

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Heavy interpretation is under way to create an open playing field of interoperable technologies for users to navigate the so-called 3D World Wide Web of the future. Linden Lab, the creators of moment Life, and IBM announced Tuesday that they will work with other partners to drive open standa…

President of AT&T’s mobile phone biz retires

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Stan Sigman, the president and chief executive of AT&T’s mobile phone commerce, has announced that it won’t be faraway before he punches his final date card for the carrier. Reportedly, the exec revealed that he would be leaving to enjoy the luxuries of retirement after 42 years with the fir…

Widget Summit next week in San Francisco

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

We love widgets, we’re virtually obsessed with them — both hardware and software — which is why we’re stoked to announce our media sponsorship of Engadget pal and columnist Niall Kennedy’s Widget Summit, which is going on next Monday and Tuesday out in San Francisco. Attendees will be treated …

*Review: Mandriva Linux PowerPack 2008.0*

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Earlier that week, Mandriva released Mandriva Linux 2008.0, the latest version of their flagship Linux distribution. Mandriva was so kind as to supply me with a copy of Mandriva Linux 2008.0 PowerPack, the commercial version. Back when it was named Mandrake, it was my first ever Linux distribution (…

TiVo offers lifetime service transfers to the HD… whether you’ve got $199

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Really want to get that new TiVo HD DVR, but don’t want to fork by the cash for another lifetime service plan for it or start going month to month? Well guess what, once again TiVo is sorting you out with a transfer of your lifetime service to the TiVo HD — for $199 — whether you compose your …

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Comcast begins enlarged-awaited rollout of TiVo set-top-box

Filed under: Review - 11 Oct 2007

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It was tough not to doubt yet another seemingly baseless promise heard just that week, but apparently, things have finally fell into place for Comcast and TiVo. According to TiVo spokesman Whit Clay, the New England market of Comcast users can now get their hand…

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