Despite losing money on the back of lower sales during its fiscal second quarter Sony said business was better than expected and has cut full-year loss forecasts as a result. Sales during the quarter, the period from July to September, were down 20 percent on the same period last year at ¥...
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Photo Credit: Rich Kubiszewski Our tech lives are entangled in wires. Nearly every electronic gadget and gizmo we buy comes with its own charger, and don't forget the additional cables for transferring data, listening to audio, and so on. Wouldn't it be nice to cut the cords and go completely wir...
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The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 point-and-shoot and the Sonim XP3 Quest rugged phone are supposed to be tough. How tough? Sarah and Chris, PC World's Digital Demolition team, drop them, dunk them, toss them and run one over with an SUV. Take a look to see if they survive.
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In this week鈥檚 show, Motorola unveils an Android smartphone for Verizon, Nintendo鈥檚 profits slide, Netflix streams directly to Playstation 3 consoles, and Panasonic demonstrates robots.
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As e-readers grow in popularity, a debate is growing about how well proprietary formats such as Amazon.com uses with the Kindle will do against more open approaches that allow users to download e-books to just about any device. LibreDigital Inc. is previewing its AllAccess content delivery pla...
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It's been some time since the Apple TV has received much attention from Apple, and no, dropping the 40GB model and the price on the 160GB model doesn't count. But just in time for the holidays, a new iTunes Store Terms of Service agreement may have let the cat out of the bag. When I checked for i...
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Well, gang, it's official: Verizon's Motorola Droid smartphone is on its way into the world . The Droid, unveiled Wednesday, will hit store shelves on November 6 with a $199.99 price tag, after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year contract. The phone is the first to run Google's brand n...
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Well, Google 's done it again: Tossed a monkey wrench inside a well-oiled, profitable machine, and gummed it up good. Of course, I'm talkin g out the company's foray into the turn-by-turn GPS navigation market, a bold move that's bound to cause more than a few migraines at the headquarters of...
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In an unexpected move, Nintendo says it plans to launch a jumbo-sized version of its DS handheld in Japan with twin screens nearly twice the area of those found in the current models. The new system, dubbed the DSi LL, will hit the streets on November 21 and sell for 楼20,000 or about $220 USD. Speci...
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A month and a half after dropping the 40GB Apple TV model and dropping the price on the remaining, 160GB, version to $229 , Apple has now dropped a new software version on Apple TV ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) users. On Thursday, the company released Apple TV 3.0 software . The updated so...
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How many of your photographs are you not enjoying because they are lost in dust-covered shoe boxes under the bed? Trapped in those cardboard containers are snapshots from family reunions, birthday parties, weddings, vacations, and, sometimes most importantly, the simple moments in life. They might b...
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Among the bevy of interesting things about Verizon鈥檚 Droid smartphone is Android 2.0鈥檚 new version of Google Maps , which includes full-blown turn-by-turn GPS navigation with spoken instructions鈥揻or free. Judging from the couple of trips around San Francisco it鈥檚 guided me on so far, it would be ...
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Toshiba's Dynario fuel cell chargers went on sale in Japan via Toshiba's web site last week in a limited batch of 3,000. They can charge gadgets without the use of a wall socket.
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Congrats, Google: you've finally rolled out a mobile feature that's got me ooh-ing and ahh-ing. In advance of the Droid launch, Google has publicly dished on its new turn-by-direction service, Google Navigation, which will be available on Android 2.0 mobile devices. It's currently, of course, in...
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Today's formal unveiling of the Motorola Droid smartphone on Verizon's network was an anticlimax, given most of the details had been leaked days earlier . Nevertheless, it's the boldest, most open iPhone challenge yet. Android 2.0: Your complete primer The announcement in New York revealed a...
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Google today introduced a beta of their navigation app for the Android 2.0 powered Motorola Droid . The application is an extension of its Maps.app for Android but it has a lot of the qualities of personal navigation software products from TomTom, Navigon and Garmin. Google's offering i...
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Roku's little video player is one of my favorite ways to get movies and TV shows off the Internet and onto a TV: It's cheap, inconspicuous, and ridiculously easy to set up and use. And the content providers-Netflix, Amazon , and Major League Baseball -make for a nice lineup of entertainment. Tod...
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Whether you do the job yourself, or hire someone else , scanning boxes of old photos, slides, and negatives is a big undertaking. And turning those old analog pictures into digital files is only the first hurdle in the process. Next, you need to find the best way to organize and protect all of thos...
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NEW YORK -- After weeks of ads teasing us with glimpses of a handset that could do what iPhones don't, Verizon Wireless finally unveiled the Droid by Motorola . This is an impressive phone that flexes its raw data and graphics processing muscle as much as its does its smart features such as Google'...
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An impressive feature of Google's new Android 2.0 mobile device operating system is Google Maps Navigation, a that's not only free to use, but is fairly easy to learn as well. The application is included with Motorola's new Droid handset for Verizon Wireless, introduced earlier this week ...
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