CES 2009 : SanDisk has today unveil the new Sansa slotRadio player, along with a companion line of slotRadio music cards, based around the slotMusic idea, and will be preloaded with 1,000 songs handpicked from the Billboard charts and arranged into a variety of "genre-themed playlists”.
Matthew Robert Young, a man who is a “State prisoner confined in the Oregon Department of Corrections, Snake River Correctional Institution” (basically, he’s in jail), has brought a suit against Intel; claiming that he told Steve Jobs about the virtualisation technology, which Jobs then passed it on to Intel.
Motorola has brought out a new touchscreen phone, being described as a “new, intuitive, customizable and vibrant touch tablet” with 3G support. Called the MOTOSURF A3100, its home page is just a restyled front-page being overlaid on top of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.
CES 2009 : Motorola has announced three brand new phones that it will sell in 2009; including one that has its casing made out of recycled plastic water bottles (The other two phones will be posted soon).
HP has announced, along with the Pavilion dv2 and the HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA, the Pavilion dv3. It features a 13.3” widescreen display, a backlit keyboard, a webcam, and also a sleek, bronze look that simply looks marvelous. It does come with Windows Vista, but either in Ultimate, Home Premium or Business.
Logitech has today expanded its MetroFi line of Ultimate Ears earphones; bringing out two new noise-isolating earphones designed, as what they claim, to deliver “customised comfort that’s perfect for listening to music on an iPod.
HP has announced at CES 2009 its brand new lineup of products for CES 2009; with two new entertainment laptops (Pavilion dv2 and dv3), the new HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA, the HP Mini 2140 and a new photo printing application for the Apple iPhone.
CES 2009 : SanDisk has announced that it will bring a new USB that will allow you to backup your files, a revamp on its Cruzer USBs and a new the “Extreme Contour”, which provides “security protection and higher performance levels”, all packaged in a “sleek industrial design”.
RUMOUR MILL : CrunchGear is reporting that a source has told them that the latest smartphone from Palm will be launched on Thursday. Running on the new Nova operating system, it is expected to have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide-down from the touchscreen.
On December 31, the final day of the year of 2008, gave users of the Microsoft Zune some frustration after the player would not turn on. Now, a person from zuneboards.com has claimed that he has found the problem that caused the mass shutdown – and it has to do something with the time.
CES 2009 : LG has announced that it will bring out its LH95 LCD TV to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which happens in January; and has branded it as the world’s thinnest LED-illuminated LCD TV out there in the world. Being only 24.8mm thick, it is slightly thicker to the MacBook Air, which is only 19.3mm; it also features a 240Hz TrueMotion Drive for blur-free video reproduction and a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1 – almost placing it in the same image quality class as the old-fashion pictures.
This might not look like much at all, except being a watch with a full-colour screen. However, this possess one of the new form-factor of mobile phones, the ones being built into watches. However, since most watches are not powered lithium-ion batteries, it does not a watch a very good way of having phone capabilities – but alas, it has been done before.
RUMOUR MILL : Dell’s new Adamo laptop, which is set to be a competitor to Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air, is believed to have a couple of features – thanks to a Google cache search on its accessories for the new laptop. The new laptop is set to have a 45-watt power adapter, which is not really special; but will also feature the new DisplayPort and a 2X Blu-Ray combo drive.
While Boxing Day is typically reserved for Myer and David Jones to have their clearance sales; Big W, Target and K-Mart have their clearance specials tomorrow (27th of December). And we thought that it wouldn’t be fair for us to cover only Myer and David Jones, in case that you, the reader, thought that we were, well, biased and taking money from the company – and we are not.
It’s Boxing Day, and everyone knows what today is! And we are not talking about the cricket, even though it may sound better than technology.
It’s the day where Myer and David Jones need to clean out their inventory so they can sell more expensive crap to you; and since most of this year’s crap would still be there, they need to make some room so they can put this out – and lets face it, both of these stores are highly competitive to get you to spend cash to get clothing, perfume or even tech they sell.