Archive for: April 22, 2008

Filed under: GPS, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Though it pains us so, there’s not an terrible lot of info out there just yet on MeLE’s forthcoming do-it-all PMP. Spotted at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong, the admittedly beefy unit was seen sporting a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 resolution display, …

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Gadgets

final year Microsoft really carried on about fulfilling its commitment to all the potential users that anted up to get untold future Vista final Extras — yet none really materialized besides the disappointing early stuff like DreamScene and Texas Hold ‘Em. Well, get ready to feel a whole new wa…

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Desktops, Laptops

Man, that tiny EeePC can be used for just about anything: surfing the web, blogging, surreptitiously hiding inside an ATM machine and stealing your identity. You know, the usual stuff. Yeah, so three creative Brazilian thieves were recently caught stuffing a black Eee into an ATM, where it r…

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Gadgets, News

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_introduces_tiny_bamboo_covered_green_PC’; Michael Dell spoke at Fortune’s Brainstorm:Green conference nowadays, and he took the wraps off that funky bamboo-encased eco-PC concept. Said to be Dell’s smallest-ever computer, the machine is 81 percent smalle…

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Desktops, Gadgets

Apparently MediaGate heard the “What? No HD?” cries from you folks during yesterday’s PC-on-TV DPG-1200 shipment announcement, as it has just opened up the flood gates and allowed its MG-450HD entertainment server to start filtering out to end users. whether you’ll recall, that wireless HD media…

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Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Wireless

Archos just launched its new GPS In-Car Holder for the Archos 605 WiFi. True to its name, the unit holds the 605 in your car and pipes steaming hot GPS info into the unit. With that 4.3-inch LCD to view the maps it’s certainly a fitting match, and features include full voice navigation. There ar…

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Gadgets, GPS, Peripherals, Portable Audio, Portable Video

It’s one thing to bust out your own Eee PC wannabe knowing full well it isn’t apt to catch on, but the Airis Kira 100 isn’t even different sufficient to warrant such a label. No, that copycat smells, looks and likely feels just like Asus’ darling, packing a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, a…

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Gadgets, Laptops

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Google has opened up a new sandbox for developers designed to entice them into building richer social networking gadgets for iGoogle. iGoogle is basically a customizable domestic page for individuals that uses Web-based “gadgets” to deliver substance to the page. The new sandbox will let dev…

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Yahoo! is holding its first quarter earnings call. I quickly skimmed the conference call materials and the only reference to Microsoft is the $14 million Yahoo! has spent on outside advisors regarding Microsoft's unsolicited bid.

The numbers: Net income for Q1 2008 was $542 million, compared to $142 million during the same period in 2007. That number includes one-time gains from its investment in Alibaba.com. Without that, profits are $150 million, down from $154 million last year.

And now to Jerry Yang, Yahoo! CEO, and the Microsoft bid:

"After a careful evaluation, our board of directors determined that Microsoft's offer substantially undervalues Yahoo ... Yahoo has a unique and valuable combination of assets that include our global brand, large worldwide audience, our leadership in online advertising, strategic position in Asia, emerging mobile markets, ... tools and technology. The board's decision was based on the strength of our business and our operation and financial plan. We gained significant traction in 2007 and believe that momentum will continue. The board and management team continue to be open to any and all alternatives, including a sales to Microsoft. We are exploring a number of strategic alternatives, which we believe will help achieve over-arching goal of maximizing shareholder value. [Yahoo] will not enter into any transaction that does not recognize the full value of this company."

And what of Yahoo's controversial advertising plan with Google? Yahoo has "narrowed the search monetization gap" with things like the Google deal, said Sue Decker, Yahoo's president. It is "premature" however to speculate bout what other options Yahoo might pursue with Google, she said.

Yahoo also spent $166 million to acquire Maven Networks ...

It’s far from the only strength-boosting exoskeleton out there, but Honda’s so-called “walking assist device” is one of the few that you can actually take for a experiment spin — whether you happen to be attending the Barrier Free 2008 trade show in Osaka, Japan next week, that is. Apparently…

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Gadgets, Wearables

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