Archive for: February 13, 2008

February 13, 2008

HP cancels the iPAQ 610 smartphone in the US

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Ah, iPAQ 610. You were so shut, and yet… so far absent. According to a handful of tipsters, after a round of delays, HP has decided to cancel the release of its upcoming Windows Mobile smartphone, the 610 (also known as the iPAQ 614, 614c and 600). The company didn’t give a lot of data, though…

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Disney brings back the House of the Future — with help from Microsoft and HP

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
The Disney parks have been getting all kinds of upgrades lately, and the latest is the revival of the “House of the Future,” which originally opened in the 50s and showcased such space-age household technologies as microwave ovens and plastic furniture. The new attraction …

Samsung’s See’N’Search set-top box automagically connects World Wide Web, TV

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Home EntertainmentSamsung — not convinced with citizens using their TVs and set top boxes to, y’know, watch TV — has announced its See’N'Search set-top box. Separate from its Media Center Extender and RSS-enabled HDTVs, that box pores by channel guide info and closed caption metadata …

Nope, no AT&T iPhone tethering plan (yet)

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
So there’s a rumor floating around the internets concerning AT&T, iPhones, and tethering. The story goes something like that: the word tether is mentioned in an AT&T notice about users upgrading to a new iPhone and being forced into another two-year agreement. Apparen…

NVIDIA / Ageia deal gets officially official

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Well that was fast — just nine days after announcing plans to acquire PhysX maker Ageia, NVIDIA said nowadays that the deal is done. Still no word on when we might see NVIDIA cards with Ageia tech in them, but we’ll let these two enjoy their first Valentine’s day as a happy couple merged corpor…

MadCatz Xbox 360 HDMI Conversion kit now officially available

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentNo, it won’t get you “true” HDMI, but older 360 owners looking to get rid of those clunky component cables might want to take note: that MadCatz HDMI Conversion Kit is now official. The $90 adapter comes with cables and supports HDMI 1.3, 1080p, Dolby Digital a…

Texas Instruments nearly set to ship Android dev platform

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Aside from the Android analysis platform we saw earlier that week, Texas Instruments has its Android development platform up and running and expects to be in a position to start shipping to developers — yeah you, the programmers that will form our dreams come true — in the …

Vista SP1 doesn’t significantly boost performance, slows down positive tasks

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsWe heard a lot of different performance claims about Vista SP1 in past few month, and now that it’s finally (sort of) here, it’s day to bust out the stopwatches and see what’s what. According to CNET, early tests of SP1 indicate that while there are some performance enh…

Apple reduces iPod / iPhone build rates, increases iMac production

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable VideoAlthough Apple has said that it’s still on track to ship 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, it looks like that rumor about scaled back production may have been true after all: several analysts are now reporting that the co…

Purported shots, specs of Olympus E-430 turn up online

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
You’ll have to take that one with the usual grain of salt, but whether a poster on Photo-Forum.net is to be believed, what you’re looking at above is Olympus’s yet-to-be-announced E-430 digital camera, seemingly a follow-up to the company’s E-330 DSLR. According to that …

New Android SDK gallery

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Features
Here it is folks, the latest and greatest that Google has to offer — the new Android SDK. As you can see, they’ve made some major cosmetic changes, as well as added some functionality. Why tell you about when we can show you, though? Take a look at the gallery belo…

ASUS U6S ultraportable gets reviewed

Filed under: Review - 13 Feb 2008

Filed under: Laptops
ASUS certainly got our attention with its ultraportable U6S laptop, and it looks like it piqued the interest of the folks at HotHardware as well, who’ve now turned out a full review of the diminutive, leather-bound system. While they expectedly found a few shortcomings with lap…

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