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  • iPad Confusing The Hell Out Of The Public. Or Is It Just The Brits?

    iPad Confusing The Hell Out Of The Public. Or Is It Just The Brits?

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    As magical as Apple's iPad maybe, it's unlikely to go mass market anytime soon. Whoa! Hold everything. At least that's according to research carried out in the UK, which concludes that consumers struggle to see how the device could fit into their lives. Oh come, on guys... really? Simpson Carpenter's qualitative research drew comments from participants such as: "It's just a big iPod Touch ... a big iPhone without the phone" and "everything it does I can do on my PC or my phone right now." Geez, these Brits... where do they get off, pointing out the bloody obvious...

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  • HDMI coming to more netbooks in 2011

    HDMI coming to more netbooks in 2011

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    HDMI can be found on a few netbooks right now, but it's set to become standard next year when Intel's Cedar Trail-M platform hits the tiny lappies. Most of the current netbooks with HDMI are built around Nvidia's ION GPU platform, which also drives up the cost. But by moving HDMI support to the CPU, it should come on nearly every netbook.

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  • Microsoft cancels the Courier, the Internet sheds a tear

    Microsoft cancels the Courier, the Internet sheds a tear

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    The Microsoft Courier will never make it out of Microsoft's labs and into consumers hands. The project is dead. Kaput. Finished. At least that's what two sources told Gizmodo. Apparently the Courier team got an email from Microsoft execs that stated the project will "no longer be supported," which pretty much means the project is dead. Even though it's somewhat surprising that the project was axed seeing as it was reportedly close to completion, it's not unheard of in other industries for companies to spend untold fortunes on a concept just for the hell of it.

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  • Polaroid enters video games market with new accessories

    Polaroid enters video games market with new accessories

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Polaroid, a company best known for its instant cameras and maybe for hiring Lady Gaga as their Creative Director, will be entering the gaming industry soon with a wide variety of video games accessories. These would mostly be peripherals for popular gaming system such as a microphone headset and battery packs for the Xbox 360, wireless controllers for the PS3, sports packs and a sensor bar for the Wii, as well as a dock for the Nintendo DS.

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  • TomTom Go Live 1000 blurs the line between PND and connected tablet

    TomTom Go Live 1000 blurs the line between PND and connected tablet

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    The dedicated GPS market is slowly but steadily shrinking as smartphones gain the same abilities, but yet the major players keep rolling out new devices. The TomTom Go Live 1000 bucks the trend of a semi-smart connected device and instead adds a ton of storage on top of a powerful setup to run a WebKit-based UI along with a ton of connected apps. This just might be the PND we've been waiting for -- too bad it's a few years late.

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  • Seagate teams with Paramount pictures, pre-loads DRM-laced movies onto FreeAgent Go portable hard drives

    Seagate teams with Paramount pictures, pre-loads DRM-laced movies onto FreeAgent Go portable hard drives

    Posted on April 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Seagate and Paramount are trying something new. The thought here is to offer consumers an alternative source for movie content and so select FreeAgent Go portable will soon come with 21 of Paramount’s best flicks. But of course these movies aren’t free. Nope, while they are actually pre-loaded on the drive, they cost between $10 [...]

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  • Digitimes analyst predicts iPad…nano?

    Digitimes analyst predicts iPad…nano?

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Earlier today, a senior analyst at Digitimes research claimed that Apple is planning to launch a 5 to 7 inch version of the iPad in the first quarter of 2011. The smaller iPad will be priced below $400 and will target consumers who focus mainly on reading and do not have a high demand for text input. For comparison, the current iPad has a 9.7 inch display while the iPod touch has a 3.5 inch display, but both the Nook and Kindle have a 6-inch screen.

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  • The iPad is designed so even a 2-year old can use it

    The iPad is designed so even a 2-year old can use it

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple knows people are idiots and didn’t want its consumers to learn another interface. So the iPad rocks the iPhone OS. That way anyone familiar with the other system can easily pick up and instantly use the iPad — like the 2.5-year old daughter of Laughing Squid’s Todd Lappin. She’s not a genius, she’s just [...]

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  • HP and Dell say the 10-inch netbook market is getting too crowded

    HP and Dell say the 10-inch netbook market is getting too crowded

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Despite the boom in netbooks in recent years thanks to a poor economy and cash-strapped consumers, a recent Digitimes article reported that HP and Dell are actually reducing their investments in the commoditized 10-inch netbook market. In fact, HP is considering quitting the 10-inch segment altogether to focus on its 11.6-inch AMD notebooks as the Intel Pine Trail netbooks have not been very profitable.

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  • iFixit tears apart an Apple tablet

    iFixit tears apart an Apple tablet

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    'Dem crazy boys over at iFixit are at it again. This time they've torn apart the only Apple Tablet so far to be owned by consumers and detailed the entire process for the ages. That is of course if someone would actually wanna disassemble a priceless first-gen Apple tablet otherwise known as an Apple Newton. Good times.

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  • Dude, you’re getting a Dell and a Sony Reader

    Dude, you’re getting a Dell and a Sony Reader

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    The details are simple: buy a select Dell notebook or desktop and a Sony Reader Pocket Edition ships along with it for no additional cost. It's actually a nice little deal although it's only for two days. Of course like with most sales, the actual cost savings is minimal as the sale price is likely inflated to included the cost of the ereader, but that's fine. Ereaders tend to be something the consumers are curious about and are unwilling to pull the trigger just yet. Getting more ereaders in the average joes that buy Dells might help the whole industry.

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  • What’s the deal with these Microsoft Seinfeld ads?

    What’s the deal with these Microsoft Seinfeld ads?

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm not quite sure what this was important to someone, but Todd Bishop of TechFlash sat down with Microsoft to discuss those crazy Seinfeld ads from way back in ought-8. He essentially asked Microsoft "What were you thinking?" and got some interesting replies. Essentially, Microsoft wanted to introduce Windows 7 in a big way but they weren't sure how to go about it. Their marketing execs wanted an icebreaker to invite the world back into the mind of Microsoft. The result? Some of the craziest commercials the company ever released.

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  • Circuit City brick and mortar stores might live again

    Circuit City brick and mortar stores might live again

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    We all know the story: Circuit City Stores spiraled down from its high point in the late 90's to bankruptcy in 2008 and then liquidation in 2009. Systemax then bought the rights to the brand a few months later and quickly relaunched CircuitCity.com. Since then Systemax has been racking in the cash. So much cash in fact that Systemax is thinking about opening some Circuit City retail locations. Seriously.

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  • Peek has some “big stuff” in the works even though it’s short on cash

    Peek has some “big stuff” in the works even though it’s short on cash

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    "Big stuff that will blow away folks. Not just an awesome “Peek for Life” promo. But really, truly big stuff. So stay tuned for Project Big Stuff." That's a direct quote from Peek's official blog after stating flat out the company is short on cash even though they make a decent amount of revenue. Of course Peek could probably raise a bit more if absoulity necessary, but we're curious what the company that brought us the email-only, and more recently Twitter-only, device is working on.

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  • Belkin seems to understand normal people, releases aptly named wireless routers

    Belkin seems to understand normal people, releases aptly named wireless routers

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Consumers are dumb. Don't deny it. We are. Belkin apparently relized that and instead of opting for the standard router naming scheme which would be something like 802.11 WiFi MAX with Double Speed Pipe Router, the company took a simpler approach. Its new router's names are simply their capabilities: Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max. Nice and easy, although my mother-in-law would probably still call me up while she's standing in front of them to ask which one she should buy even though she doesn't game nor have another computer to share items. Digressing...

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