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Rumor: Samsung Galaxy Tab To Cost More Than Apple’s iPad?

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:42:22 +0000

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is one of the more popular subjects this week, though one thing that many folks out there are wondering about is its price. If the rumors are accurate, we're in for a spot of bad news, as word is going around that the 16GB v...

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Toshiba Unveils 3D And 2D Blu-ray Players

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:27:49 +0000

Toshiba has just unveiled its first 3D Blu-ray player in the form of the BDX3100KB, and also an entry-level 3D Blu-ray player, the BDX1100KB. The former is capable of pumping out 1080p 3D content when connected to a TV via HDMI output. The 7.1-channel...

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Roku XD IP Set Top Box Visits The FCC

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:24:42 +0000

Folks who are looking to get hold of a Roku box to stream Netflix shows might want to take note that the company has just sent a new device dubbed the Roku XD to the FCC, bearing the model number 2050X. According to the description at the FCC, the dev...

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Samsung Doesn’t Have Symbian In Its Plans

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:21:30 +0000

Bad news for Symbian as Samsung's head of marketing, YH Lee, has confirmed that the company has not planned any Symbian devices for the moment, but if there is enough consumer demand it will consider launching Symbian devices again. Without Symbi...

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Starbucks Card Mobile App For BlackBerry Launched

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:15:05 +0000

BlackBerry owners who can't get enough of Starbucks should be pretty happy to hear that Starbucks has launched its Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry, an app which is capable of syncing with your Starbucks Card and My Starbucks Rewards, making y...

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Canon’s PowerShot S95 gets reviewed, found to be worthy S90-successor

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:27:00 +0000

Canon's PowerShot S90 managed to attract a considerable fan base with some stellar image quality and professional-level features, but it did have a few drawbacks -- most notably a lack of HD video that's hard to overlook these days. The new and improv...

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Sharp Quattron 3D official

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:23:00 +0000

Sharp’s superbright Quattron TV has been one of 2010’s hottest gadgets. But it was missing one key skill: 3D. Not any more, as the Japanese tech giant has just pulled the wrappers off its new Quattron 3D TV. We won’t lie. At £3,500, this thi...

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Camangi Unveils Two New Android Tablets

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:20:08 +0000

You might have checked out the Android-powered tablet from Camangi before, and now the company is back again with two new offerings, the FM600 and the Camangi II. Not much is mentioned about the Camangi II, save that it will apparently carry a 1GHz Sa...

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Toshiba Launches The World’s Fastest Memory Card

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:08:04 +0000

The SD Association had previously approved of the new UHS-I standard for faster flash memory cards,and now Toshiba has announced a new line of SDHC UHS-I memory cards that are slated to begin shipping this November. The cards will offer read and write...

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Huawei Unveils Its Android-powered Ideos Phone

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:05:29 +0000

As expected, Huawei has unveiled the Ideos, the company's first smartphone to come bundled with Android 2.2 from the get go. The Ideos isn't a high-end device, but should be able to compete pretty well in the low-end smartphone market. Expect the Ideo...

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Skype 5.0 beta brings 10-way video calling to the world

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:03:00 +0000

Skype's Windows client is showing a bit of ambition today as its latest beta version now boasts a mighty 10-way video calling implementation. The earlier v5.0 beta threw up five-way vidchat, but it'd seem Skype kept its software engineers working thro...

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Apple and Facebook in spat over Ping – TechRadar UK

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:01:11 +0000

CBC.caApple and Facebook in spat over PingTechRadar UKApple and Facebook are not seeing eye-to-eye over the former's entry into social networking this week, with the announcement of Apple Ping. Ping is available now, as part of the new Apple iTunes...

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Sharp releases slew of new Quattron TVs at IFA 2010

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:39:00 +0000

Just in case those George Takei commercials didn't clue you in that Sharp was serious about Quattron, the company has announced four new TV lines at IFA sporting yellow as a fourth subpixel color. At the top of the list, the Quattron 3D-enabled LE925 ...

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Police to use 25mph tractor to curb agricultural crime – Mirror.co.uk

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:18:07 +0000

Mirror.co.ukPolice to use 25mph tractor to curb agricultural crimeMirror.co.ukThe £50000 John Deere 6630, with police stripes, badges and flashing blue light, was unveiled yesterday by Lincolnshire Police to spearhead a war on agricultural crime. Farm...

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Nokia seeks to tap the X-Factor – Register

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:09:16 +0000

NokNok.tvNokia seeks to tap the X-FactorRegisterNokia is backing ITV's X Factor with a dedicated application and exclusive content, but it will take more then Auto Tune to make Ovi a Christmas number one. The X Factor application can be downloaded ...

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NES controller pressed into service to Android overlord (video)

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Perhaps the worst, and least repairable, shortcoming of touchscreens is their failure to act as viable game controllers. Keyboard-equipped smartphones alleviate that pain a little (particularly if you pair them with a Game Gripper), but ultimately we'...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab detailed

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

A week after it was teased by Sammy itself, the iPad-battling Galaxy Tab has been detailed at annual gadget fest IFA over in Berlin. And on first impressions it looks every inch the tablet we’ve been hoping for. The latest Android software keeps ...

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SageTV puts $150 HD Theater 300 up for pre-order, breaks down the specifications

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:42:00 +0000

Whoa, welcome to the new decade SageTV! Nearly two full years after introducing the HD Theater HD200, the aforesaid company is hitting back with the HD Theater 300 -- and frankly, the timing couldn't possibly be worse. Last month, a $149.95 price tag ...

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Philips unveils new PicoPix pico projectors

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:14:00 +0000

Our friends at Engadget en Español have turned us on to some pico projecters that recently popped up on Philips' Flickr account. We don't have too much info, other than they are designated (in no particular order): PPX-1430, PPX-1230 and PPX-10...

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Quantum refrigerator could cool your quantum computer, allow for quantum overclocking

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:52:00 +0000

The quantum computer is still ranking pretty high up there on the vaporware charts, somewhere between Duke Nukem Forever and a Steorn in-home power generator. Eventually we'll get there, and theoretical physicists at the University of Bristol are help...

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Philips 3D 21:9 Cinema TV: extra wide television goes three dimensional – Pocket-lint.com

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:19:19 +0000

Gadget Venue (blog)Philips 3D 21:9 Cinema TV: extra wide television goes three dimensionalPocket-lint.comIt's been over a year in the making, but Philips has used its IFA 2010 press conference to announce that it will be bringing a 3D version of it...

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NVIDIA GeForce 400M Series Launched

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:02:20 +0000

NVIDIA's "Fermi" architecture hits portable computers with the launch of the GeForce 400M family of chips that covers the "performance" (from 48 cores) and "enthusiast" (up to 288 cores) segments. With DirectX 11 features and better performance per sq...

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Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0000

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Samsung’s 50-inch 720p PN50C490 3D plasma on sale now for under a grand

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:56:00 +0000

Looking to spoil yourself with a fancy new 3DTV? Ain't got the cash to go all-out? Hello, compromise. Samsung's 50-inch PN50C490 -- which we peeked just a few weeks ago -- is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy and a slew of other local consumer electr...

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The Touch Screen Haters Club [Image Cache]

Sid — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:40:00 +0000

I've always wondered why some people absolutely loathe touch screen devices, but now I realize that it was insensitive to not even consider that physical limitations play a role in that hate. More&n...

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