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Samsung's Galaxy Tab Runs Froyo, Has Flash and Measures 7-Inches [Tablets] (Gizmodo)
It was possibly the worst-kept secret in tablet-land (more so than the iPad), but the final specs have now been revealed for the Samsung Galaxy Tab . It'll run Android 2.2 (Froyo) and comes in a 7-inch flavor—for now. More Source : GizmodoExplore : Gizmodo, Internet, Technology BlogsRead Full Arti...
 
Samsung's HMX-T10 Camcorder Has Full HD and 20-Degree Slanted Lens [Camcorders] (Gizmodo)
They describe it as "groundbreaking," with the 20-degree slanted lens of the HMX-T10 supposedly aiding sore wrists. I don't know about that, but the rest of the specs make me happy: full HD, for start...
 
Sony Delays 3D Blu-ray Playback for PS3 [PS3] (Gizmodo)
Sony's plan to update the PS3's firmware with support for 3D playback via Blu-ray has been put back, with the company now saying it'll be here some time during October. So you'll have to find some oth...
 
Charles Darwin's Best-kept Secret
Charles Darwin's Best-kept Secret
beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an atte...
 
Australian Crackdown On Console Modchips Likely To Continue
Australian Crackdown On Console Modchips Likely To Continue
angry tapir writes "Late last week an Australian court issued an injunction against a handful of retailers selling or importing hardware — commonly known as 'mod chips' — that allows unaut...
 
Target To Sell Facebook "Credits" As Gift Cards
Target To Sell Facebook
Julie188 writes "Target will begin selling Facebook's virtual currency as gift cards on September 5, becoming the first brick-and-mortar retailer to do so. Facebook Credit gift cards will be available...
 
Lineage II Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA
Lineage II Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA
We recently discussed a man who sued NCsoft for making Lineage II "too addictive" after he spent 20,000 hours over five years playing it. Now, several readers have pointed out that the lawsuit has pro...
 
Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle
Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle
aarondubrow writes "Three years ago, researchers from Caltech and The University of Texas at Austin came together to create a computational tool that could model the Earth and answer the most pressing...
 
Deal of the Day – HP ENVY 14 Beats Edition 14.5” Core i5 (or i7) Laptop + 1GB Radeon HD 5650 Switcha
The LogicBUY Deal for Thursday is a first-time discount on the new HP ENVY 14 Beats Edition laptop.  The ENVY 14 Beats Edition is 1.16” thick, weighs 5.69 pounds, and is one of the thinnest and lighte...
 
Apple updates iPod lineup and adds social networking to iTunes
Apple updates iPod lineup and adds social networking to iTunes
Apple’s September 1 event saw the announcement of updates to the entire iPod line with the sole exception of the iPod Classic. The iPod touch gains the same high resolution Retina display and A4...
 
Neutrino observatory under Antarctic ice nearing completion
Neutrino observatory under Antarctic ice nearing completion
After two decades of planning, the world’s first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory should finally be completed by this December. Named IceCube, it will consist of an array of 5,160 optical se...
 
Sony unveils 3D 240fps laptop due in 2011
Sony unveils 3D 240fps laptop due in 2011
Sony continued to build out its entire 3D ecosystem at IFA in Berlin last evening when it showed a number of new 3D capable devices, including plans for a 3D IPTV network, a new 3D Home Projector (VPL...
 
Video: how to fly a helicopter
Video: how to fly a helicopter
James Bond, Evelyn Salt, Jason Bourne... One thing you'll notice about all secret agents (at least, the ones worthy of Hollywood franchise love) is that if they need to get the hell outta Dodge, ANY v...
 
Panasonic unveils world’s first 42-inch 3D plasmas amongst new line-up at IFA 2010
Panasonic unveils world’s first 42-inch 3D plasmas amongst new line-up at IFA 2010
Amongst the plethora of displays out to tempt our eyeballs at IFA 2010 in Berlin were some nice looking new release plasmas from Panasonic. There was the 42-inch TX-P42GT20 that marks the addition of ...
 
Panasonic announces speedy new 8GB, 16GB UHS-I SDHC cards
Panasonic announces speedy new 8GB, 16GB UHS-I SDHC cards
We've already heard some of the claims made about SHDC cards using the new UHS-I specification, and it looks like we'll now soon have our first actual cards based on the spec courtesy of Panasonic. T...
 
Philips and O'Neill launch durable headphones -- shaka bra!
Philips and O'Neill launch durable headphones -- shaka bra!
In what amounts to yet another co-branding marketing kerfuffle, Philips and O'Neill have teamed up on a foursome of so-called durable headphones. The Stretch headphones (pictured) are the toughest of...
 
Globalfoundries takes ARM Cortex-A9 into 28nm land, looks forward to 20nm chips in 2013
Globalfoundries takes ARM Cortex-A9 into 28nm land, looks forward to 20nm chips in 2013
Forget the numbers, here's what matters: Globalfoundries' new production capabilities will lead to "smooth production ramp-ups and faster time-to-market" for its customers. Now consider that this pro...
 
Kinect won't support voice recognition in some countries until 2011, putting on airs won't help
Kinect won't support voice recognition in some countries until 2011, putting on airs won't help
"If you see it, just say it," says Microsoft's Kinect, but only in the US, UK, Mexico and Japan to start -- those are the only four countries that will support Kinect voice control by the motion-sens...
 
ASUS teams with Amimon on WiCast EW2000 1080p streamer
ASUS teams with Amimon on WiCast EW2000 1080p streamer
Keepin' it varied, are we ASUS? Just a few months after we peeked a pair of WirelessHD-equipped laptops at ASUS' Computex booth, in flies this -- news that the company has aligned with Amimon and joi...
 
Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event
Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event
The room is utterly packed at Samsung's IFA presser, and it's not hard to figure out why: Samsung typically goes wild at this show, and with the Galaxy Tab leading this year's lineup, it looks like w...
 
Samsung's HMX-T10 HD camcorder features a new perspective
Samsung's HMX-T10 HD camcorder features a new perspective
Samsung's oddly angled camcorders have gotten plenty of love around these parts for their design and specs, and the new HMX-T10 series is no different. Separating itself from last year's HMX-R10 with...
 
Samsung Galaxy Tab preview
Samsung Galaxy Tab preview
After a week of painful teasing, Samsung has come clean about its Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet. We got the nitty gritty specs, along with some quality time with the device, and we like what we're...
 
Ultimate Ears announces $999 In-Ear Reference Monitors and $19.99 Blue Robots, because it can
Ultimate Ears announces $999 In-Ear Reference Monitors and $19.99 Blue Robots, because it can
Ultimate Ears is pushing out a tag team of in-ear earphones that clearly demonstrates the heights (and depths) the Logitech-owned company is willing to scale. Starting at the extreme high end are the...
 
Xbox 360 slimster made over in white, just for the hell of it
Xbox 360 slimster made over in white, just for the hell of it
Missing your oldie Xbox 360's bright and airy white finish? Well, Microsoft's still not willing to sell you a slimmified 360 in any color other than black (excepting the limited edition Halo gear), b...
 
Samsung Gem for Verizon shows up in Best Buy buyer's guide
Samsung Gem for Verizon shows up in Best Buy buyer's guide
We've heard talk of the Gem before, and a new listing for the phone in Best Buy's September buyer's guide confirms the existence of Verizon's new low-end Android piece that'll likely slot in below th...
 
Debate with Nina Paley about noncommercial licenses
Debate with Nina Paley about noncommercial licenses
Recently, Nina "Sita Sings the Blues" Paley and I conducted a protected email exchange debating the merits of the Creative Commons "noncommerical" licenses (like those used on my novels and here at Bo...
 
Creative Commons licensed banjo gospel
Creative Commons licensed banjo gospel
Copyfighting banjo-picker Patrick Costello has a new book of free/open banjo tunes: Songs for Sunday: "In this book you will find a selection of hymns, country gospel and even some blues songs arrange...
 
Back To School Dorm Gadgets – The College Animal House Edition
We gave our take on a boat load of helpful back to school items a few weeks ago. But now lets drop the educational parts and focus on what we all really care about – the stuff that will get us t...
 
Deal of the Day: HP Pavilion dm3 Laptop for $624.99
The brand spanking new HP Pavilion dm3 was just announced yesterday, yet it’s a;lready getting a discount. Originally priced for $749.99, you now get it for $624.99 with an instant discount of $...
 
Hello Kitty iPod Touch Dock is a Big Kitty Face
OMG the cutest dock ever has just landed! The Hello Kitty Dock Speaker for iPod is simply adorable with its pink bow and big kitty face. The sound quality however isn’t all that impressive from ...
 
Samsung Launches HD HMX-T10 Camcorder Features 20 Degree Slanted Lens
Samsunghas announced the HMX-T10 camcorder, a super compact and portable camcorder that comes in both black and white (to match your Macnook of course). The HD HMX-T10 features a unique 20-degree Slan...
 
Griffin Wristlet Makes it Easy to Lose the iPod Nano 6g
Sure, the new iPod Nano 6g is certainly adorable, but I can already foresee these little fellas getting lost all around the city, kinda just like the bed bugs going around.  So I find it amusing when ...
 
Sony MDR-EX80LP Jienne CHIC Earphones Pack in a Swarovski Zirconia Design
We ordinary wouldn’t expect these type of earphones from Sony, but apparently they are taking their line of earphones and headphones into a new direction these days. Sony’s latest, the MDR...
 
Videos: PSGroove PS3 jailbreak in action
On Tuesday the big news for the PlayStation 3-owning community was the appearance of an open-source jailbreak called PSGroove. The jailbreak required a software download, and the supply of your own US...
 
Microsoft finally makes the Arc Touch mouse official
After over two months of teasing and, an accidental early unveiling, Microsoft has finally officially announced its own answer to Apple’s Magic Mouse, the Arc Touch. Touting the Arc Touch as &...
 
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is here, and it means to kill both the iPad and the iPhone
After weeks of teasing and leaks and rumors, Samsung has finally unveiled its long awaited iPad challenger, the Galaxy Tab. and despite all we’ve heard about the Tab so far, Samsung’s sti...
 
Amazon counters Apple TV rentals with 99-cent purchases
Apple unveiled a lot of new gadgets yesterday during its music event. One of the stand-out announcements was the new, tiny Apple TV with 99-cent rentals for TV show rentals. Less than a dollar to ren...
 
Boxee thinks its $199 Boxee Box is a better deal, feature-for-feature, than $99 AppleTV
As you’re no doubt aware from the furor of the gadget feeds this morning, Apple announced the evolution of their “hobby” AppleTV set-top box, and while it doesn’t have apps or...
 
Sony beats iTunes to the cloud with new Music Unlimited streaming service
Sony does what Sony does, and oftentimes tends to launch competing products against seemingly unstoppable industry forces, just for the lark. Sometimes it works out well for Sony: consider the way t...
 
Windows Phone 7 has gone gold
Microsoft is banking big on the success of its upcoming mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7… so big that they plan on gambling billions on the software’s success. Pummeled by the lik...
 
Analyst: Xbox Live could get $100 per year Platinum subscription tier
When Microsoft announced earlier in the week that it was bumping the price of an Xbox Live subscription by $10 a year, the response on the Internet was incredulous anger. Sony has managed to keep its ...
 
Chrome, Firefox and Safari continue to make gains against IE in browser wars
Seen on a pie chart, Internet Explorer is still the biggest, baddest and most important browser in the world, claiming over 60% of the world’s computers. What that lion’s share worth of s...
 
Latest iPod touch only takes 960×720 resolution photos
Apple refreshed its iPod lineup yesterday and the iPod touch – the company’s best-selling iPod – has received the most thorough makeover, adding camcorder and video calling capabili...
 
If Apple Can't Deal With Facebook's "Onerous" Terms For Ping, Why Is It In Apple's Keynote Screensho
Did Steve Jobs pull Facebook support for Ping, Apple's new music-focused social networking service , at the last second? Ping launched yesterday without support for Facebook, the world's most popular ...
 
After Dell Matches $2B Offer For 3PAR, HP Ups Its Bid To $2.4B (TechCrunch)
It looks like we're back to square one again. Dell has matche d HP's $2 billion offer to buy 3PAR, and HP upped the ante today with an offer worth $33 per share or $2.4 billion. 3PAR has accepted HP's...
 
The First 20 Android Apps You Need To Download (GOOG, AAPL) (Silicon Alley Insider)
Consumers now buy more of Google's Android phones than Apple's iPhones . But Apple is still the undisputed king of apps. Whatever your metric -- apps available, total downloads, dollars spent -- Apple...
 
Make your own gadget with Ponoko and SparkFun (VentureBeat)
Think you can give Steve Jobs a run for his money in product design? Ponoko, which let’s you manufacture your own products from materials like timber, plastic and metal, has just announced a partnersh...
 
Stephen Hawking: "Big Bangs Happen" [Blockquote] (Gizmodo)
Hawking's covered the end of the world , now he's examining the beginning—writing "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going". The Big Bang was a certa...
 
OnLive announces beta test for server gaming over Wi-Fi connections (VentureBeat)
OnLive is announcing today that it has begun a beta test to let gamers use its games-on-demand service over wireless networking connections. As a technical achievement, that’s pretty cool. OnLive runs...
 
The World's New Fastest SDHC Memory Card [Memory] (Gizmodo)
Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I is the fastest in the world. The new 8, 16, and 32GB memory cards are compliant with the SD 3.0 USH104 standard. More ...
 
Back to the future: two years of Google Chrome (The Official Google Blog)
(Cross-posted from the Google Chrome Blog ) Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 yea...
 
Gorgeous 21:9 LCD TV from Philips Goes 3D (Mashable)
Think what you will about the ultra-widescreen, 21:9 format Philips is pushing, but you can’t deny that its cinema-proportioned Full HD LCD TV is gorgeous . Now, Philips plans to push it even further,...
 
BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard (GigaOM)
BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytics dashboard that the site it uses to monitor the spread of these Internet "memes" to any website, brand ...
 
Dell Withdraws From 3PAR Bidding War (TechCrunch)
It looks like the bidding war for 3PAR could be over. Dell has just issued a release indicating that it will not increase its most recent $2 billion proposal to acquire 3PAR, and the company's has end...
 
Steve Wozniak gives thumbs up to Steve Jobs’ new Ping social network (video) (VentureBeat)
Steve Jobs called out his “partner in crime” Steve Wozniak yesterday at the launch of Apple’s new products. Wozniak, also known as Woz, stood up and took the applause. Afterward, reporters grabbed him...
 
10 of the Web’s Most Insightful News Infographics (Mashable)
A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better. Infographics at their best...
 
Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook (The Huffington Post
Facebook is in what's called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That's when employee growth expands at the g...
 
Data storage company 3Par accepts HP’s hefty $2.4B offer, Dell withdraws (VentureBeat)
The very public Dell and HP bidding war for the data storage company 3Par may finally be coming to an end. HP announced today that it increased its offer for 3Par to $33 per share — or $2.4 billion. S...
 
LivingSocial Brings Daily Deals To The Hood (TechCrunch)
One of the challenges of running a social commerce site these days is that there is just too much demand, from both local merchants wanting to give out deals and consumers who want to try them. There ...
 
Twitter's New iPad App Shines, but Not Perfect (ReadWriteWeb)
Twitter has just launched its first official iPad application and the reviews so far have been glowing. The new app offers a few notable features: panes for interacting with content within a stream, m...
 
15 Essential Back to School Podcasts (Mashable)
Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Al...
 
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