Archive for September, 2009

Toshiba Satellite T100 series of thin-and-lights receive Windows 7 nod

Hope you’re ready for it ’cause a deluge of new computing hardware is coming with the launch of Windows 7. Here’s Toshiba’s T100 series with LED backlit displays, Intel CULV SU4100 processors, DDR3 memory, eSATA/USB combo ports, integrated webcams, 5-in-1 card readers, HDMI-out, a claimed 9-hours of life from 6-cell batteries, and multi-touch trackpads set [...]

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Lighthouse SQ7 MID brings voice recognition to Facebook, Twitter

If you’re savvy enough to want to use the Facebook Mobile app, we’re guessing you’re savvy enough to get it up and running on your phone or portable — so buying an additional device for responding to friend requests seems a little silly. Hopefully, AdelaVoice (a company that develops voice-enabled apps for the Internet and [...]

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Dell’s Latitude Z 600 is a 16-inch thin-and-light, makes overcompensated CEOs out of us all (update: video!)

It’s not every day you see something thoroughly distinct in the laptop scene — or even barely off the beaten path — so we were quite happy to behold Dell’s new Latitude Z 600 outside of the narrow confines of the FCC. The machine combines a 16-inch 1600 x 900 display with a Core 2 [...]

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TomTom Adds LIVE Service To Mid-Range XL 340S LIVE

TomTom is moving fast to expand its GPS product line. On Monday, the company rolled out the TomTom XL 340S LIVE. TomTom also announced a new agreement with AT&T to provide the wireless connection to the XL 340S LIVE.

TomTom initially launched LIVE services on the premium GO range of devices. Now the company is [...]

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China Unicom Ready To Sell iPhone in October

China Unicom will sell the iPhone in China beginning next month, the company confirmed Monday. The deal between Apple and China Unicom was officially made public in August after news leaked that employees were being trained on the iPhone.

The first leak came when a company insider from subsidiary Guangdong Unicom said it had reached an [...]

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Apple’s App Store Reaches Two Billion Downloads

Apple’s App Store has reached two billion downloads. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been promoting both its iPhone and its App Store as rivals have launched new smartphones and online app stores.

With more than 85,000 apps available to 50 million plus iPhone and iPod touch customers and 125,000 developers, Apple said its store continues [...]

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Production Canon EOS 7D video samples hit the web

We’ve already seen some video from a pre-production Canon EOS 7D, but it looks like it’s hitting stores now, and this is the first video we’ve seen from a final retail unit. It’s genuinely impressive, especially since filmmaker Dan Chung says most of it was shot at 1600 to 6400 ISO, but it’s important to [...]

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HTC Leo benchmarked, leaves blisters

The HTC Leo has already got hearts-aflutter the world over with its high-end spec sheet and huge capacitive touchscreen, but now that some early benchmarks have hit we might have a full-on fanboy panic on our hands. That 1GHz Snapdragon processor isn’t just for show, people — you’re looking at least a 300 percent improvement [...]

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Acer A1 Android phone listed for pre-order with 768MHz processor

We’d been hearing that Acer’s Android-based A1 smartphone would be hitting this month, and while we still haven’t heard anything official, it’s just gone up for pre-order at Expansys. The spec sheet is rather intriguing, since it lists Android 2.0 Donut and a 768MHz Qualcomm 8250 processor, which is a 240MHz bump over every [...]

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Atomic Zune HD explodes all over Ebay

Hey, remember that totally wild, awesome looking “Atomic” Zune HD we spied evidence of in the source files a week or so ago? Well, we later saw an image or two of it, but now one’s shown up in the flesh on ebay — and for a starting bid of a mere 265 bones you [...]

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