Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
When computers finally overthrow us (probably thanks to some Google idea gone horribly wrong), they’ll need some robot enforcers. A good place to start might be with the PostlerFurguson “Life Machines”.
UK-based designer PostlerFurguson is trying to work out how “an aging population’s needs can be met through technology.”
To help illustrate some ideas, they’ve created and [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
If you’re a Mac user and have been waiting for Microsoft Office 2008, your waiting is nearly over. On December 12 Mac Office 2008 was released to manufacturing for production and will be available in stores on January 15.
If you’re eager to start your purchasing experience you can pre-order it right now from Apple and [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
Sony has announced that they will be dropping the 20GB and 60GB Playstation 3’s in Japan once the final shipments go out at the end of this month.
Those two models, the 20GB and 60GB versions, are the original ones that first launched in Japan in November, 2006.
Once those units are all sold, the only PS3 [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
No, this isn’t a takeover or an attempted hijack of a brand name.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., parent company of Panasonic Corp., has announced that they will be dropping the Matsushita name and now be called Panasonic Corp.
The move still have to be approved by shareholders at their next meeting in June, but I would expect [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
The February issue of Wired magazine contains a story about the the early days of the Apple iPhone. Its a bit long but is a very interesting read–you can find the full story here.
If you don’t have that much time and just want to highlights, Valleywag has taken the story and trimmed it down into [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
CES this year brought lots of good news and rumors for the Blu-ray group and the opposite for the HD DVD group.
What can save HD DVD? A web petition?
Hmmm…doubt it. But, one has been started just in case.
2,478 people (as of five minutes ago) have signed the petition so far, with the intent to persuade [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
As I continue working with the new blog, one of the things that I initially had liked, the Snap Preview Anywhere feature, now kinda bothers me.
What is Snap Preview Anywhere?
Until about five minutes ago, when you would hover your mouse over a link on this site, a pop-up would appear giving you a preview of [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
No official devices running Google’s Android are expected until the end of 2008, but that hasn’t stopped some enterprising hackers from finding a way around that.
After some poking around (technical term) they discovered that any device with the ARMv5TE CPU with adequate RAM and Flash should be able to run Android right now.
So far several [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
Looks like Alienware wasn’t the only company that brought a large, curved, DLP display with them to CES.
NEC showed off their CRVD-42DWX+ display that sports a 2880 x 900 resolution (double WGA+) and a contrast ration of 10,000:1.
The specs are very similar to the display that Alienware was showing off, so both may be made [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Dan
More rumors about HD DVD defectors…a couple of days ago a rumor about Paramount dropping HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray was floating around. Paramount denied it, but the rumor’s back and this time it’s also with Universal.
According to Bill Hunt at Digital Bits, a reliable source says that both Universal and Paramount are in [...]
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