Archive for October, 2007
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
After referring to the OLPC laptop as "pedagogically suspect" a year ago and rejected it, and claiming that they could build a laptop for $10 this past May, India has come back down to Earth and decided to take part in the project by delivering 22 of the laptops to ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Three reviews are in from USA Today, WSJ and NYT and they're all positive (though some more positive than others).
USA Today Review: Ed Baig says it "hits all the right spots"—a obvious pun, but it gets right to the heart of his review. He continues to say that OS X ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
If you've been yearning for a well-spec'd, feature packed NAS, Buffalo's latest additions are certainly not what you're interested in, but for those who just need the basics, these units just might fit the bill. The 750GB LS-L750GL, LS-L750GL / M and 1TB LS-L1000GL / M (the M interestingly ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
In what actually seems like more of a slight than a good-willed apology acceptance, the Church of England's Very Reverend Rogers Govender was quoted as saying "we do forgive Sony for what they have done, even though they still believe they have done nothing wrong." The Dean of Manchester ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Hitachi's no stranger to GPS-laden cellphones, and it now looks to be upping the ante even further, with it recenlty introducing a new phone that seemingly aims to replace your car's GPS entirely. As with its previous W51H model, the new W54H phone (also called the "Wooo") sports a reasonably-sized ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
HP's iPaq 210 has been in the buzz for a while, and the last news we heard is all pre-orders had been canceled and HP's product pages had been updated to cheerily say "Coming in 2008!" -- which makes it so very strange that HP's store now lists the business-oriented ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
On one hand, the designs of Yamaha's latest devices could have easily been ripped straight from last century, but in another sense, there's a certain level of attractiveness that comes with brushed aluminum AV components sporting retro-inspired buttons / knobs. Nevertheless, the CD-S2000 SACD / CD player (which arrives ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Sony just announced the sticky-sweet Cyber-shot DSC-T2 compact camera.
Specs:
* 8 megapixel
* 1/2.5-inch CCD
* 4GB of on-board flash storage with Memory Stick Pro Duo expansion
* 2.7-inch, 230k pixel touchscreen LCD
* ISO 3200 max sensitivity
* Sony's "smile shutter" and face detection tech
* 3x Carl Zeiss zoom with optical image stabilization
Colors: blue, ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
If you've been strangely itching to get a closer look at the Sun without totally ruining your eyesight, you can color yourself quite fortunate. The aptly-named Sunrise project is an international collaboration involving a number of institutions that have successfully sent a jumbo-jet sized balloon some 120,000 feet high with ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
With just three days to go before Leopard hits the scene, Apple's gone ahead and made Boot Camp unavailable to download -- a move that shouldn't surprise anyone, because we knew it was coming the day Leopard was announced. Tiger users with Boot Camp partitions who aren't ready to make ...
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