Archive for: February 27, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
It hasn’t even been a full month since Panasonic’s PMA lineup was revealed, but the folks by at PhotographyBLOG have already had a chance to put the succulent Lumix DMC-FS20 through a series of paces. Upon whipping that shooter out, it was immediately praised for having…

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Filed under: LaptopsAs the Penryn updates slow to a trickle, Dell is looking out for one remaining straggler by updating the potent Precision M6300 workstation. Starting nowadays, users can choose either the 2.6GHz T9500 Core 2 Duo or the drool-worthy 2.8GHz X9000 Core 2 Extreme, but curiously adequ…

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Filed under: Wireless, Storage, Networking
According to AppleInsider, it sounds like Time Capsule customers’ orders are in the crucial “preparing to ship” phase about now, meaning credit cards are being charged and units will be loaded onto trucks for distribution as early as tomorrow for some. Appl…

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Filed under: Displays
Texas Instruments and others have been touting mini (or pico) projectors without hesitation as of late, but it seems that not everyone is fairly so excited about them, with some folks now even warning about a number of potential dangers. One of those naysayers is Future Laborat…

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Filed under: CellphonesAlthough we’d been hearing that Apple had slowed down iPhone production, the company is still on track to hit its goal of selling 10m units that year, according to COO Tim Cook. Cook, speaking at a Goldman Sachs investor’s conference in Vegas, additionally said that “Apple is …

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While we wait patiently for camera manufacturers to realize that geotagging is a much more compelling feature than yet another megapixel, we’ll be building that DIY GPS attachment for the Nikon D200 instead. Just like the $400 GeoPic II, the box is based on a SiRF Star III chip, but since you’re…

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Digital Cameras, Gadgets

The eBay boycott that emerged after the online auction site announced several major policy changes is reportedly being extended to March 9.

Power sellers who were irked by changes like the elimination of negative feedback kicked off a boycott of the site on February 18. It was supposed to end on February 25, but will now continue into March.

The first leg of the boycott resulted in a slight drop in daily listings, though nothing particularly dramatic compared with listing stats for all of January and February.

Auction stats posted on dealscart.com reported a jump in listings between Sunday and Tuesday, from approximately 10.7 million listings on February 22 to 11.1 million on Tuesday.

EBay has not indicated it will alter its new policies as a result of the boycott.

PC Magazine's Oliver Rist reports that after five years, Windows Server 2008 finally arrived today. Microsoft made the big announcement at a fancy Los Angeles launch event and also showed sneak peaks of Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. CEO Steve Ballmer called the new version of Server "the most significant enhancement to the server platform since its inception." From Oliver's story: Ballmer touted the same four Server 2008 benefits that Microsoft has been highlighting for the past year: virtualization, more server roles like Server Core, embedded high availability, and new energy-efficient features for the green set. (That's Balllmer at left, shaking hands with Tom Brokaw.) For the whole story with lots of details on Windows Server 2008, click over to PCMag.com.

Although we’d been told that the hot Asus U2E ultraportable was delayed so the company could launch several products at once, it looks like the crew at PC Perspective managed to get their hands on one and do the requisite unboxing. No word on how the lil’ scamp runs with that ULV Core Duo, but …

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Although the mention of a magnetically levitating train outside of US borders won’t seize too much attention, saying that phrase here most definitely perks up ears. certain sufficient, a maglev project that would shuttle folks from Disneyland to Las Vegas at up to 300 miles-per-hour is now joust…

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We’ve already gotten wind of Intel’s not-so-surprising branding choice for its Montevina platform, but it looks like the company’s just now gotten a whole lot more specific about things, with it laying out its roadmap for the newly-named Centrino 2 product line. As Daily Tech reports, the new pl…

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FreeBSD 7.0 has been released. “The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. that is the first release from the 7-STABLE department which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branche…

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