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Digi-Key’s Android App Listed as a Top App
08 February 2012 9:58 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design ...
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Infonetics Research: Mobile Broadband, Smartphones, LTE Drive Diameter Signaling Controllers to 106% CAGR to 2016
08 February 2012 4:40 PM | No CommentsCAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Communications market research firm Infonetics Research (www.twitter.com/infonetics) on Friday released its Diameter Signaling Control Worldwide and Regional Market Size and Forecasts ...
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BioHorizons Unveils New Mobile Application for Dental Implant Professionals
07 February 2012 5:05 PM | No CommentsBIRMINGHAM, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioHorizons, a dental implant company, today announced a new mobile application allowing Apple iPad mobile digital device users access to the latest BioHorizons product information. The free app is...
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Youngsters assume smartphones are secure
07 February 2012 4:49 PM | No CommentsG Data supports Safer Internet Day with mobile security tips for children London, UK – 07 February 2012: With only 13% of the 2.8 million children in the UK now owning a smartphone using a security solution, many youngsters are putting themselves at risk. **(source: Carphone...
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Evi, The New Girl in Town, Has All the Answers
07 February 2012 4:37 PM | No CommentsCAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Evi, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) now being launched via her own “conversational search” mobile app, has skyrocketed to the top of iOS and Android app popularity. ...
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Sony announces portable DVD player with LED backlight and 7.5 hours of battery life
Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
We have numerous super-light laptops, a plethora of netbooks, and the iPad to choose from. But some companies still produce portable DVD players. One example is Sony, which yesterday in Japan announced [JP] just that, the DVP-FX950. The player has two selling points: a 9-inch LCD screen that features an LED backlight and a battery life of 7.5 hours (up 25% from the previous model).
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Using children to steal DVDs eh?
Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
Here's a candidate for the Canadian parent of the year award. Police in Richmond B.C. are looking for a couple that used their kids to load up on over $3000 worth of Blu-ray and DVD discs from Future Shop. The estimate is that the couple took between 80 to 100 movies.
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Ring of Honor figures out the Internet, launches video download store to discourage BitTorrent piracy
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsCredit to Ring of Honor, the professional wrestling promotion, for embracing the Internet era. The promotion has launched a new download store that makes its extensive video library only a $10 download away. A legal download, mind you. It's all a fan could ever ask for.
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CrunchGear Week in Review: Bathroom Remodeling Edition
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s a recap of some of the stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Thunder 30 amplifier from Orange A call to arms: Reboot the public bathroom LEGO synth has you build your sound Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs Thin, flexible “solar threads” to turn fabrics into power generators -
Daily Crunch: Bath Night Edition
Posted on March 3, 2010 | No CommentsHere are some of yesterday’s top stories: Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs Music Planet: Ball-shaped, water-proof MP3 player for your bath tub Muitos brasileiros estam comprando televisões especificamente para A Copa do Mundo Build (or just buy) your own flying hovercraft Valve understands the internet, quietly launches biggest alternate reality game since “I Love Bees” -
Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs
Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
Bam. If you've ever had to sit through a modern educational kids movie, you've realized they're garbage. Junk like Diego and Baby Einstein are useless educationally and, in comparison to Looney Tunes and the like, absolute pablum. Now parents won't feel guilty because little Mason and Kirsten aren't learning how to say "monito" through video watching. It is written that 12- to 24-month olds get no language-learning benefits from garbage educational videos.
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Japanese Twilight/New Moon DVD box includes a movie on microSD
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
Teenage movie sensations Twilight and New Moon have grossed over $1 billion at box offices worldwide so far (New Moon is still in theaters), and both movies have proven to be extremely successful in the world's second biggest movie market, Japan, too. That's perhaps the reason why the second movie (New Moon) gets a special treatment in this country, namely a huge and Japan-only DVD premium box.
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Oh look, POP247 video game, Blu-ray vending machines trickle into the UK
Posted on December 16, 2009 | No CommentsWould you buy a video game out of a vending machine? I certainly would, if only to avoid the phony human contact thrust upon me at GameStop. So these POP247 whiz-bangs are great. Too bad I've never seen one here.
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CrunchDeals: Lost seasons 1-5 on Blu-ray for only $108
Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
Lost is about to start back up again and Amazon has the first five seasons on sale today. How convenient. Actually the deal is rather nice. You get a whole lot of Blu-ray on the cheap.
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CrunchDeals: Blockbuster Express 2-for-1 $1 rentals
Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
Look at this. It was just yesterday that we learned about the Blockbuster Express DVD kiosks that will be invading NYC shortly and there is already a deal for the rentals. You can get two DVDs for only $1. That's, well, cheap.
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Microsoft bans ‘small percentage’ of modded Xbox 360s from Xbox Live
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Man faces 5 years in prison after stealing 3,000 Netflix DVDs
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsSome Netflix news for you this morning. It looks like a 49-year-old post office worker is facing a maximum of five years in federal prison after having plead guilty to federal theft charges. What was he stealing? Oh, you know, some 3,000 Netflix DVDs over the years.
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Toshiba still ignores Blu-ray, releases three DVD-based DVRs in Japan
Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
Toshiba, the company behind the now dead HD DVD format, first talked about joining the Blu-ray bandwagon back in June, but it seems there's no hurry. The company announced a total of three new Vardia DVRs today [JP], and they all use DVDs and HDDs to store data.
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One second for 720 DVDs: New super-fast fiber optic cable
Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
KDDI R&D Laboratories, research arm of KDDI (a Japanese telcom) and Japan's National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT) yesterday announced [JP, PDF] the development of the world's most advanced fiber optic cable.
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Disney Japan to launch movies on microSD cards in November
Posted on July 22, 2009 | No CommentsWell, this is certainly a novel idea that I hope studios in the US will adopt. Disney Japan announced today that it would begin shipping microSD cards chock-full of Disney movie goodness with the DVDs themselves. Panasonic will provide Disney Japan with the pint-sized memory cards when the DVD/microSD combos ship in November for 4935 [...]