There was a lot of excitement around FroYo (Android 2.2) when it was released and Android owners everywhere celebrated the fact that they will soon have a phone full of those cool features that they saw at the presentation at Google I/O. However, in all that excitement it is easy to forget that phone and [...]
Archive for June, 2010
In light of the recent major price drops on the two most popular devices in the eReader market, there’s every reason to believe that a fresh wave of first time buyers is likely to be hunting for the right fit. New to the eBook situation and wanting some advice on which way to go? Let’s [...]
One Story is available for Kindle and Kindle DX for $1.49 a month. The schedule for this short story literary magazine is every three weeks, so in the long run, the price is pretty reasonable.
One Story began in 2002, and has won many literary awards such as the Best American Short Stories, Best American [...]
It seems that in one day we not only get a drop in price for the Barnes & Noble(NYSE:BKS) nook, one of the front runners in the eReader device marketplace, but an immediate reaction and one-upping from Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN).
As already reported, the nook has undergone a steep drop in price from $259 to $199, as well [...]
Well, the internet is abuzz today with talk of a recent report by a Citi analyst declaring the Kindle effectively dead in the water in the long haul. Now, if you accept the validity of the analysis of where things stand today, and let’s say for the sake of argument that we do for the [...]
As it turns out, the Nintendo leak reported earlier was spot on. Nintendo finally unveiled their latest handheld gaming device at E3 and it is a nice piece of work. Dual touchscreens and the best part is this — 3D viewing without glasses. So the nightmare I had about looking like a dork in public [...]
It appears that not only were the rumors from a few months ago about a WiFi only version of the popular Barnes & Noble(NYSE:BKS) nook true, but that the price wars have had an effect. The new nook comes to us at a mere $149, which, as far as I know, makes it the first [...]
Optoma has released three new projectors recently and amongst them is the Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector. This is a RGB LED-based DLP projector is made using the same Texas Instruments DLP chip that powers many other pico projectors in the market and the same chip that kick-started the wave of pico projectors. But the [...]
A company called Antrica has released a board level solution for sending video over IP. They seem to be a fairly news company who are focussed on providing local area solutions for private video streaming needs. Their boards seem to have a good set of specifications to back up the company’s claims but it seems [...]
The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has bought a large stake in the US-bsed Solar Energy firm Stio Corp. TSMC is the largest contract chip maker in the world this and they have been pushing into the clean energy sector for quite some time now. Other than the stake in the company, TSMC has also [...]