Archive for: August 6, 2008

Filed under: Displays
It’s been a while since we’ve heard about Canon’s legal troubles with SED, but it sounds like things are taking a turn for the better — the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled final week that Canon had not broken its contract with Nano-Proprietary (now called Applied Nanotech…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Digital CamerasWell, well. What have we here? A few new Nikon’s in the run-up to Photokina, based on looks alone. Up first is the previously rumored Coolpix P6000 (£429; $835), a high-end point-and-shoot with a patently absurd 14-megapixel sensor, a 4x optical zoom, 2.7-inch touch…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Desktops
The $12 PC project just got a little more interesting — opposite to what the Boston Herald reported yesterday, the project is actually based around an off-license NES clone from China called the Victor, not the Apple II. The machine is entirely restricted within a keyboard and…

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Gadgets

Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine your most likely current web browser which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features like Tabbed Browsing Interface Mouse Gestures Super Drag amp Drop Privacy Protection AD Hunter RSS Reader IE Extensions Support External Utility Bar Skinning And Much More to Explore

DirecTV and DISH Network trying to get together again? That’s the concept according to the Wall Street Journal, apparently in response to DISH making “a major strategic shift” after losing 25,000 subscribers in Q2. Of course the final instance these two tried U + me = Us back in 2001, regulators…

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HDTV, Home Entertainment

If you’re a big user of Twitter search (formerly Summize), you’ll probably like Monitter three times better. That’s considering it lets you search for not just one word or phrase in the Twitterverse, but three at one day.

Leaving it open in a tab or window turns your browser into something like …

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Web

Some researchers at Northwestern University and University of Illinois have managed to build an eye-like camera that’s actually shaped like an eye. certain, that sounds a tad unimpressive, but the real contribution of that project is the concept of electronics on a curved, flexible surface. The …

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Digital Cameras

Mozilla has released a 0.1 version of Snowl (official blog post), an experimental add-in for Firefox that reads news and nanoblog feeds. It’s an attempt to marry together the incoming separate subject matter streams that many of us have feeding on to our desktops full duration: News and blog stor…

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Web

“Thanks to its superior design, excellent software bundle, and approachable price, Apple’s MacBook tops our list for those matriculating that fall,” says CNET.com in its 2008 Back-to-School Gift Guide. MacBook earns an “Excellent” 8.3 (out of 10) rating to top the list of recommended lapto…

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Apple

“It’s like nothing you’ve never laid your hands on,” says National Geographic’s Steve Casimiro (ngadventure.com) of the MacBook Air. “And yes, you have to lay your hands on it to get the full effect.” It has, he notes, “ the heft of a leather portfolio, the dimensions of a design mag…

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Apple

RAmos tends to tease us with slick product photos / renders all the moment and thereupon pump out shoddy, derivative crap, so we’re not going to get too excited about the new T8 iMovie (sigh, terrible name), but here it is looking pretty slick on video — and the specs are solid for $219. Th…

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Gadgets, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Good news for Google, Yahoo, MSN, and maybe even Cuil--search engine use is on the rise, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

While it may seem like everyone has Googled themselves, Twittered some inane tidbit about their day, or shared a little too much via Facebook status updates, some people apparently only use the Internet to send useless forwards and check the weather.

The ranks of the Internet illiterate are dwindling, however. The number of people who regularly use online search engines is up 69 percent from January 2002, the report said.

E-mail use increased about 15 percent in the same time period, but e-mail has always been the most popular app on the Internet, wrote report author Deborah Fallows.

Among daily Internet activities, 60 percent use e-mail, 49 percent use online search, 39 percent check news, 30 percent check weather, 29 percent research a hobby, 28 percent surf the Web for fun, and 13 percent use social networking sites.

This is the second time Pew has seen a jump in search engine use - the first being a 10 percent increase in late 2005 when there was a lot of media buzz around search engines, including the Google IPO.

What accounts for the jump this time around?

Fallows suggested that at this point, Internet users can find a high-performing, site-specific search engine on any Web site "that is worth its salt."

Increased access to broadband and the quality of search returns has also contributed to the rise in use, she wrote.

"Previous studies have shown that when a user upgrades to home broadband, she is more likely to turn to the Internet first ...