Mobile HDTV? Korea brings the future to you

January 2nd, 2008

Even if you thought you didn’t need hi-def TV in your car, or while walking on the street, or while frolicking in the fields, Korea will convince you otherwise. Those crazy guys at LG have invested seven billion woolongs, er, won, in R&D just so that you can watch “Desperate Housewives” on the bus as [...]

Wal-Mart closes its online video store, HP’s fault

December 28th, 2007

Oh, Wal-Mart. We love your low prices, your imported-from-China everything, but when it comes to online movie purchases, it seems you misstepped. Your HP-powered online movie store that launchedin February was supposed to, as Peter Ha might say, “change the game.” Only it didn’t; the game is the same. For HP, the brains behind the [...]

DemystifyingDigital.com: New & Easy Point & Shoot Digital Cameras

December 21st, 2007

DemystifyingDigital is a feature written by Dan Havlik, editor of DemystifyingDigital.com
Ok, face the music. You’ve procrastinated too long and it’s time go get a last minute gift for everyone on your list. If it’s people you really care about — friends, family, loved ones — get them a digital camera. There are those who like [...]

CG Holiday 2007 Recommendation: XtremeMac’s XtremeHD HDMI switcher

December 20th, 2007


Smartphones Now: Symbian

December 20th, 2007

Ask the average American about Symbian and they’ll look at you blankly. In the grand pantheon of mobile OSes, it is the dashing, shadowy figure with the charming accent to sneaks into your life through Nokia and some Sony Ericsson phones.
At its core, Symbian is fairly basic. It works as equally well on a [...]

Mark Cuban hits Facebook friend limit

December 20th, 2007

Mark Cuban has too many friends. To be fair, he doesn’t know most of them personally. He gets more than 100 friend requests every day on Facebook and he’s just recently hit the 5,000-friend limit. That’s right, you’re only allowed 5,000 friends on Facebook. Only.
He’s had to whittle down his list to make [...]

New Toshiba Qosmio with integrated HD DVD-RW drive

December 17th, 2007

I’m Norwegian so it’s only natural that I get all the Japanese press releases to translate.
Thanks to my good friends at Babelfish, I’m pleased to tell you about the "worldwide beginning about the sale of the AV note PC ‘Qosmio’ which loads the HD DVD-RW correspondence drive and so on".

The Essential Blake Robinson Holiday Gift Guide

December 15th, 2007

Certified thumbs up.

John Biggs’ Holiday Gift Guide: Bringing it all back home

December 13th, 2007

Come back with me to a simpler time. It was twenty years ago, I was about 12, and the coolest stuff I owned was a huge set of G.I. Joe figures and, as I recall, an NES. I was late to the video game party mostly because I used my Atari 800XL a lot at [...]

Led Zeppelin takes the bullet train to Squaresville?

December 13th, 2007

Led Zeppelin gets a bustle in their hedgerow and demands that grainy, shaky, short clips or their reunion show be taken off of video sharing sites like YouTube. The band’s label, Warner Music, is "making the takedown requests to users of YouTube and other services hosting the clips on behalf of the band."
It’s [...]

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