Sunday, February 5, 2012
 
 

Google Maps Navigation comes to Canada and mainland Europe

GooGle Map Navigation

GooGle Map Navigation

Patience has had to be your foremost virtue if you were eager to use Google Maps Navigation outside the US  or UK, but you might be in luck today as a sizable new batch of countries is getting the free turn-by-turn nav service activated. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Father of webOS notifications leaves for Apple

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Apple phone 4G

Rich Dellinger might not be a name you instantly recognize, but he is  the dude credited with bringing about the unintrusive banner notification system that forms part of webOS’ widespread appeal. And, as of today, he’s also in the employ of one Steve Jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Sheeva plug, energy monitoring plug computer

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sheeva-plug

If you asked Intel what this is, the company would tell you it’s an experimental power sensor; if you asked a storage guru, they’d ID it as the PogoPlug. Truth be told, it’s a miniature Linux computer designed by Marvell — who’s apparently decided to beat Intel at the former function. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Sony VAIO J touchscreen all-in-one

Sony VAIO J  touchscreen all-in-one

Sony VAIO J all-in-one

On the surface it doesn’t look like much separates Sony’s new 21.5-inch VAIO J all-in-one from the growing number of touchscreen AIOs on the market, but it’s definitely one of the more head-turning options out there. Like its 24-inch L Series, the VAIO J has a 1920×1080-resolution display and a Blu-ray drive, but the larger model now packs a 2.66GHz Intel Core i7-620M CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, and NVIDIA discrete graphics options with 512 vRAM. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Pentax Optio X90 superzoom

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Pentax-X90-SLR

The power of an SLR with the ease of a compact. That’s what Pentax would like you to believe its Optio X90 offers and, according to a Photography Blog review, that’s about what you can expect. The 12 megapixel, 26x superzoomer’s lens offers amazing flexibility without doing the lens-swap shuffle, and image quality was said to deliver very good with “striking colours” (it’s a British site, mind). Read the rest of this entry »

 

Core i3 Sony VAIO EA and EC Series available in colors

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Sony VAIO EA and EC Series

You’ve really got a thing for florescent these days, don’t ya Sony? Just like its colorful 15.5-inch EB series, Sony’s new 14-inch VAIO EA and 17.3-inch EC Series are available in colors that can only remind us of 80′s workout attire, including bright green, blue, and pink. Though (thankfully!) for us more conservative types, the two new lines are also available in a matte white, brown and black. Read the rest of this entry »

 

HP teams with Google to give connected printers their own email address

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hp-web_printer

We get the feeling that there will be lots more details on this whole announcement during Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming press event, but for now, all we know is that HP’s next generation of web connected printers will have something that no other consumer printer has had before: an email address to call their own. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Researcher say’s: petabyte Hyper-CDs as we struggle to maintain interest

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holo-storage

Holographic storage sure has a lot of potential, but so far all those promises have resulted in nothing more than broken dreams. Now we have some new promises, promises that we’ll report with due skepticism. Romanian scientist Eugen Pavel is pledging that his company, Storex Technologies, can create a “Hyper” CD-sized disc (120mm diameter, 1.2mm thickness) capable of absorbing a whopping 1,000,000GB. Read the rest of this entry »