Archive for: November 4, 2007

November 4, 2007

Samsung announces 64GB SATA II drives in 2.5, 1.8-inch varieties

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Storage
All familiar things: Samsung, SSD flash drives, SATA II, 2.5 and 1.8-inch sizes (read: laptop and portable media device sizes, respectively), 100MBps write / 120MBps read, up to 64GB (again). Not that they stated prices, but we’re not even asking.[Via Akihabara News]Continue rea…

Windows domestic Server launches hardware blitz for holidays

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Media PCs, Storage
Microsoft’s Windows domestic Server is saying balls to its dicey launch year and rallying the troops for a holiday hardware blitz. Its original hardware launch partner HP’s on-sale-again-off-sale-again MediaSmart domestic Server is officially back and on sale (huzzah!…

Yahoo Kickstarts a social service aimed at college grads

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Yahoo is set to launch Kickstart on Monday, a social network aimed at college students, alumni, and recruiters.

Yahoo already is experimenting with a general-purpose social network, Mash. But whereas Mash will be for socializing, Kickstart will be for career networking, says Scott Gatz, senior dir…

Fawnt makes font hunting easy, sexy

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Fawnt is a new font link directory that’s got a variety of interesting and neat looking fonts for your computer. I’ve been to a lot of sites like these in years past, and many are nauseatingly ugly and difficult to navigate. Fawnt on the other hand, goes the slick and clean route, showing you a doze…

Denon unveils new S-52 iPod dock, AT series speakers

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio
Denon has a few new audio offerings as of late, with the S-52 iPod speaker dock firing the opening shot. It’s additionally an Net / DAB / FM radio, CD player, and a wireless audio streamer that can stream MP3s, AACs and other formats from a PC. At £500 ($1000+), it’…

Charge your USB gadgets by breathing

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Wearables
USB devices do everything these days, including charge your gadgets with only the ability provided by your breathing: specifically, the act of moving one’s chest in and out. Just in case you thought that needed sticking a gadget down your throat, see the image above and note t…

Samsung pursues crowd, preps M4650 Windows Mobile touchphone

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Don’t be fooled: Samsung officially calls that the M4650 Multi-Touch, but get that, it doesn’t support multi-touch. It does support without touches of its 2.8 inch screen, though, which’ll have to do seeing how it lacks either numeric or QWERTY keypads. The Korean …

iPhone named Invention of the Year by moment Magazine

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

The iPhone’s living up to its award as the Most Anticipated gadget final October at the T3 Gadget Awards by snagging the status of Invention of the Year from Time Magazine. While accepting that the iPhone is not without its faults, duration outlines five good reasons why that Apple gadget deserves…

Blaupunkt announces TravelPilot Lucca 3.5, 5.3 Editions

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Aimed for Europe’s roads (for now), Blaupunkt has announced the TravelPilot Lucca 3.5, a circular GPS unit that will probably invoke some love it / hate it style comments. Either it’s a stylish looking unit, or its a waste of space (consider the square screen.) Either way, that thing features a …

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Microsoft launches Google Gears competitor

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, BetaMicrosoft has launched a new technology that will allow developers to create offline versions of web applications. Microsoft posted a download link for Microsoft Sync Framework on Sunday.It looks like that is Microsoft’s reply to Google Gears, an online/offlin…

DARPA’s Urban Challenge ends, six cars cross the line

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

Filed under: Robots, Transportation
DARPA’s Urban Challenge has finished, with six of the eleven cars making it across the finishing line. Cars from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Virginia Tech were the “winners,” taking less than the six hour maximum to total the 60 mile course which involved avoid…

DARPA’s Urban Challenge ends, all eleven cars cross the line

Filed under: Review - 04 Nov 2007

DARPA’s Urban Challenge has finished, with all eleven cars making it across the finishing line. Cars from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Virginia Tech were the “winners,” taking less than the six hour maximum to total the 60 mile course which involved avoiding obstacles and fifty cars with human…

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