LaCie on Tuesday announced the worldwide release of its LaCie USB Speakers designed by Neil Poulton . The US$60 speakers join LaCie's $90 FireWire Speakers as part of LaCie's audio offerings. The bus-powered USB Speakers offer driver-free plug and play compatibility with Macs and Windows PCs. T...
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More and more consumer electronics products come equipped with DLNA ( Digital Living Network Alliance ) certification -- at the IFA electronics show new TVs, home theater systems, and computers all come with the DLNA stamp. The promise of DLNA is to let users view and listen to content (including m...
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Humax showed off some of what it has in store with a demonstration of the forthcoming iCORD Hybrid set-top box at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. The product name comes from the set-top box's ability to work for both IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) and satellite TV, which will make it possible for ...
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If you enjoy having lyrics with your music in iTunes , you're probably familiar with the tools available to collect those lyrics. These tools include the wonderful (but sadly, no longer available) PearLyrics and SingThatiTune (and probably others I'm not aware of--feel free to list your favorites...
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Sharp is presenting an environmentally friendly way to watch television at this year's IFA electronics show in Berlin. The company says solar-panel and LCD (liquid crystal display) television technology is at the stage where a single panel can provide enough energy to power the TV for four and a ha...
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Back in May I took a look at three silicon skins for the iPod touch . This week, I have three more skin-like cases that offer snug protection for your iPod touch. Griffin FlexGrip The back of the silicone FlexGrip is covered with big and small nubs to give the skin better grip. Just by holding i...
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Logitech announced on Thursday the Squeezebox Boom , the latest addition to its Squeezebox line of streaming-audio products . Featuring an integrated amplifier and speakers, the Squeezebox Boom brings iTunes music, and streaming Internet audio into rooms and onto nightstands without any external ...
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Nikon announced a new digital SLR camera that it claims is the first digital single-lens reflex camera capable of shooting high-definition movies. The Nikon D90 is a 12.3-megapixel camera featuring Nikon's Expeed image processing technology. The D90 replaces the D80 in Nikon's line of DSLRs. ...
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Online TV company, Livestation, on Tuesday released a Mac player for its Internet service. Livestation enables users to watch free online TV. Partner broadcasters include Al Jazeera, BBC World News, Bloomberg Television, EuroNews (English, French, Italian and now Spanish), France 24, i>Tel...
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Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to sell its digital television business to Broadcom forUS $192.8 million, as the chip maker fights to return to profitability, the companies announced Monday. AMD's digital TV business, which includes processors, receivers and software for digital sets, will hel...
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and Yahoo have partnered in the development of a hardware and software platform designed to meld television and the Internet. TV sets, cable set-top boxes and optical media players built with special Intel processors and supporting a Yahoo software framework will allow people to integrate lightwe...
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said last week the flat screen television market was poised for much slower growth in 2009, but maintained high growth targets for its own plasma and liquid crystal products. "We definitely expect a slowdown in the growth of the TV market,...
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JVC 's Everio GZ-HD5 is a digital camcorder that uses three charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to record high-definition video to its built-in 60GB hard drive. The quality of the video captured on the GZ-HD5 was decent (though we've seen better), and the quirky methods necessary to transfer the video to ...
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As you may have heard, there's a smallish sporting event going on in China. Despite its humbleness, people seem to be interested in the thing. Some of them use Macs. And some of those Mac users are more that a little peeved that NBC seems unwilling to provide Olympics videos that are compatible wi...
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Apple is blaming a problem with overheating iPods in Japan on faulty batteries, the company said in a statement Tuesday. In response to reports that Japan is investigating incidents of iPod nanos getting hot enough to scorch paper placed nearby, Apple acknowledged that "in very rare cases...
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"Excellence," said John W. Gardner , "is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." That's worth thinking about with back-to-school time right around the corner. Students these days take their computers everywhere and use them for everything, so with that in mind, here are som...
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Logitech on Thursday announced plans to acquire Ultimate Ears , the maker of in-ear monitors and consumer earphones. The deal is valued at US$34 million in cash, and is expected to close by the end of August. Logitech manufactures a wide range of computer peripherals -- game controllers, keyboa...
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Apple has released a software update for the Apple TV. The software - which is only available using the 'Updates" section within Settings on an Apple TV - adds support for MobileMe and the new Remote application that will be free in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. MobileMe now sh...
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Illustration: Marc Rosenthal Plasma is dead. Front and rear projection? Fuggeddaboutit. LCD has a few good years left, and then it's sayonara, baby. TV technology's future lies in tiny phosphorescent molecules. Organic light-emitting diodes--OLEDs--employ a thin layer of organic material that em...
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Digital Signature has introduced its Mint 220 Digital Music Station for the Mac and PC. The speakers feature wireless capabilities and a built-in iPod dock. They cost US$179. The Mint 220 encloses two speakers and a universal docking station for the iPod. The system connects to a Mac or PC usin...
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