Autumn Archive

  • Google Chrome OS set to launch this fall

    Google Chrome OS set to launch this fall

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The wait it almost over for Google Chrome OS. The operating system based on Google's Chrome browser, hence the name, should be released for free this coming autumn. Google expects big things from the launch, too. Google's VP of product management stated "We expect it to reach millions of users on day." That just might happen -- if there's a hardware partner in place.

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  • Microsoft gearing up for worldwide launch of Project Natal in October

    Microsoft gearing up for worldwide launch of Project Natal in October

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    In an interview with GamertagRadio, Microsoft Saudi marketing manager Syed Bilal Tariq reportedly spilled the beans on the launch date (well, month) of Project Natal, the Redmond company's motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360. Not only did Tariq say that Project Natal would be hitting the market in October 2010, well in time for the holiday season, but he apparently also revealed that the launch would be global, or simultaneously in North-America and the EMEA region at the very least.

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  • NEC apparently plans to roll out touch screen business hand-held

    NEC apparently plans to roll out touch screen business hand-held

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Not much info on this yet, but NEC is apparently preparing a mobile PC that's reportedly as "capable as a personal computer" for business customers. The yet to be named device features three main buttons and a 7 to 8-inch LCD display (which appears to be a touch screen). Sorry, the small picture is all that's available at this point.

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  • Belkin’s Windows 7 Easy Transfer Cable is your way out of family tech support

    Belkin’s Windows 7 Easy Transfer Cable is your way out of family tech support

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Ah, late October – a time when a young man’s fancy turns to love, the autumn gingerly steps aside to make way for winter, and, this year, the beginning of at least a year’s worth of non-stop free tech support you’ll have to provide to any of your friends and family that decide to buy a new computer with Windows 7 on it. The biggest question: How do I get all my dumb photos, tax returns, and Miley Cyrus MP3s onto my new computer? Your new answer: Buy this $40 cable and leave me alone.

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  • Asustek keyboard and netbook expected this fall

    Asustek keyboard and netbook expected this fall

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    While nothing official has been shared yet, industry insiders are expecting Asustek to announce and release some of their new product lines this coming September and October. Looks like it's going to be an interesting autumn.

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  • John Carmack: Expect new game system ‘earlier rather than later’

    John Carmack: Expect new game system ‘earlier rather than later’

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Let's say you get home from work or class, you make some dinner, and sit down to play an hour or so of Game 2: The Game. You're cool with that; you have no reason to shell out $500 to buy another video game system this autumn. But, oh! Wait! What's this? John Carmack seems to think that, despite the fact that there's nothing wrong with this generation of consoles just yet, someone may announce a new video game system “earlier rather than later.”

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  • Five Things Google’s Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook

    Five Things Google’s Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines. Essentially, the OS is a small, fast-booting platform whose purpose is to run a browser, and from there all the Google apps and other web services you know and love. But why bother? Your [...]

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  • Quick hands-on: Perfect Pushup V2

    Quick hands-on: Perfect Pushup V2

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The Fitness Fairy just dropped off the Perfect Pushup V2, from Perfect Fitness. So consider this a quick hands-on, not a full review. (Give me a few days for that.) My first thoughts, compared to the mobile unit I reviewed a few months ago: my God the handles are a lot more comfortable.

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  • Sony patent shows surefire method of PS2 emulation possible on all PS3 models

    Sony patent shows surefire method of PS2 emulation possible on all PS3 models

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Think back to the autumn of 2006, right before the big PS3 launch. Expecting someone to pay five-hundred-and-ninety-nine-U.S.-dollars was (rightly) considered ludicrous, but the ability to play the entire PS2 library on the system somewhat lessened the blow. But then Sony removed the Emotion Engine chip from the PS3, thus rendering it unable to play PS2 games. (More recent models, like the one found in the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle, used a just-sorta-okay software emulation method to grant partial PS2 backwards compatibility.) All that may well change if Sony goes ahead and executes the idea found in this recently unearthed patent.

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  • Nikkei: Nintendo’s Wii Fit plus coming to make weight loss competitive, Internet fun

    Nikkei: Nintendo’s Wii Fit plus coming to make weight loss competitive, Internet fun

    Posted on May 31, 2009 | No Comments

    Wii Fit not cutting the fat fast enough? Don't sweat it, the house of Mario is getting ready to make your weight loss competitive. According to Japan's Nikkei business daily, Nintendo will be launching its Wii Fit plus in autumn that will let users compete with friends and family over the Internet to "lose weight and other activities" -- the latter presumably hinting at cruel taunting Miis with the ability to point and laugh at the fatties. The new balance board is said to feature more precise measurements to better hone your sense of embarrassment and shame. E3 kicks off next week where we'll undoubtedly hear more if the rumor is true.

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