Archive for: November 8, 2007

Apple users have speculated that the new iMac lockups were products of naughty software design (hence Apple’s attempts to update the software), but new discoveries pegged these reasons as unfounded. Instead, evidence began to point at the hardware side of Apple’s iMac line, and graphical anomalies h…

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Goldmail is a new service for creating narrated slide shows. I’ve seen other multimedia presentation products, but never one as drop-dead easy as that. It’s a great tool. And I say that despite the fact that Goldmail’s CEO, Guy Longworth, introduced the product to me with worst pitch I’ve ever he…

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Filed under: Peripherals
No need to fix something whether it isn’t broken, right? Apparently LaCie is feelin’ said mantra, as its latest version of the Hub differs very little from last year’s iteration in the design department, but it certainly shows preference for the tried and true Universal Seri…

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Yahoo Messenger allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends Unlike e mail instant messages appear as soon they 39 re sent By downloading the application to your computer you can send instant messages Other features include voice chat file transfer mail and stock quote alerts sports scores news and much more

Filed under: Cellphones
Looks like Apple just published firmware v1.1.2 for the iPhone; hit the download link to seize it yourself, iTunes hasn’t yet gotten wise to the fact that it’s out. Details to follow, but don’t expect jailbreak to work, ok? … aaaand we’re watching our download speed drop as…

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It’s been a tick since we’ve heard any news on the 3D drawing front, but a number of computer scientists from Brown University are putting the art back in the proverbial foreground with its Drawing on Air installation. Put simply, users can slip on a virtual reality mask, seize a stylus and trac…

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We’re beginning to see some increasingly interesting PMPs out of China lately, like that white number out of Acelabs that’s listed as the S3 even though it’s marked “Handy.” The 0.4-inch thick device features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 8GB of microSD-exp…

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“That tall mocha Frappuccino never sounded so good,” comments Ellen Lee (San Francisco Chronicle) as she downs her mocha while checking out the iTunes WiFi Music Store at a San Francisco Starbucks. “The new service lets customers shop for music wirelessly through iTunes at Starbucks for free,�…

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Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, Media PCs
There’s a choose group of red flags that seem when a product is, or is dangerously shut to fitting, vaporware, and we’ve seen just about all of ‘em when looking at McPerson’s I-TV. Apparently, that so-called do-it-all LCD TV first presented final …

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If you’ve visited the Aperture Users Professional Network recently, you no doubt noticed that the site sports a great new design that makes finding subject matter on Aperture—like that informative write-up by Brett Wilhelm—much easier. Aperture gave Wilhelm, a photojournalist by trade, all the…

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Filed under: Displays
Don’t expect anything miraculous from Mitsubishi’s latest announcement, but the firm is doling out a bevy of totally average LCD monitors for those in the market. First up is the 19-inch RDT193WM, which features a WXGA+ (1,440 x 900) panel, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 bri…

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Blockbuster, which last week essentially conceded the by-mail-movie-rental battle to Netflix, announced today that it will be testing new pricing and rental options. CEO Jim Keyes refused to acknowledge that an examination of new pricing options necessarily meant that Blockbuster would be raising prices.

He also compared Blockbuster's rapidly declining number of brick and mortar stores to Apple's retail presence, pointing out that the Cupertino company is doing well despite having few store fronts: "I get excited about what we could do with what is some of the most choice real estate," said Keyes. It's a flawed comparison, of course, since Apple's retail presence extends far beyond its few storefronts. But heck, it never hurts to compare yourself favorably with a company like Apple. Just the other day, I was thinking about how much I have in common with search giant Google--but I digress.

According to a story by Reuters, Blockbuster is looking at implementing kiosks for downloading media onto portable devices. Blockbuster is also looking to build up digital distribution by merging Blockbuster.com and its Movielink service. All of this comes after the company posted a substantial quarterly loss at the beginning of the month.