Blogs Posts in Announcements category; 89 blog posts

Microsoft finalise Danger deal: aim to make Windows Mobile f...

Microsoft’s acquisition of Sidekick-developer Danger - which it first announced back in February - has finally reached completion, according to an announcement today. The company will now be consumed by Microsoft’s Premium [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

XP Home availability extended

If you're buying an Eee PC in 2010, don't be surprised if it comes with Windows XP Home preinstalled. If you're one of the many people dreading the removal of Windows XP from sale in the next few months, then you'll be pleased to hear that [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2008 | Comments : 1

Smart brake light system would provide more information to d...

Students in Virginia Tech mechanical engineering Professor Mehdi Ahmadian’s senior design class developed a horizontal light bar to communicate slowing and stopping actions to a driver in a following vehicle. It had several drawback [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Motorola's DH02 mobile TV with PVR gains GPS and HSDPA, lose...

Motorola just announced a new portable DVB-H TV to followup its DH01. The name? DH02, of course. The new mobile TV now features a GPS receiver and Tele Atlas maps, an HSDPA / GPRS back-channel for interactive media, and new "auto-fli [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Samsung Launches Touch-Screen Cell Phone

Samsung's Anycall Haptic looks like a thinner version of Apple's iPhone, but adds a new dimension to the touch interface. The phone, launched in South Korea on Tuesday, has a large touch-screen display that also provides haptic feedback, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Samsung's new drives can give laptops 1TB of storage

To meet the growing storage needs of laptop users, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday introduced a 500GB hard drive that could provide a notebook PC with as much as 1TB of storage. The Spinpoint M6, a 2.5-inch hard drive, fits into the chass [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Sony to launch Skype via PSP in Japan this month

Sony said on Tuesday it will add the Skype telephone service to its slim PlayStation Portable handheld console in Japan this month, enabling users to make free or low-cost telephone calls. Sony will start selling microphones for the PSP- [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2008 | Comments : 1

Iriver gets in touch with its inner pink

We're not exactly sure what the special event is -- Breast Cancer Awareness Month isn't until October -- but we suppose you can celebrate the joy of pink whenever the mood strikes. Iriver is busting out pink versions for a bunch of its pl [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Lighter that needs no gas to run

Every smoker knows that lighters are limited by their gas charge. And when it runs out of gas you must throw your lighter away, or recharge it. If you smoke a lot, you will find it annoying to throw money away on lighters. What about a ligh [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

Print your Photos On the Go with Mobile Photo Printer

Even in the digital era, photos are much better when they are printed on paper. They feel somehow... material when they are printed, after a century of usual film cameras we are accustomed to a printed image. That's why many owners of digit [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

BeatBearing project weds ball bearings, elegance to make jam...

Rest assured, we've seen a fair amount of totally sexy music makers in our day, but Peter Bennett's BeatBearing has instantly become one of our favorites. The project is described as a "simple tangible user interface that uses ball b [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

Gen next: TVs with Internet connectivity

High-definition televisions making their way to U.S. stores are getting bigger, brighter and better -- including Internet connectivity. Many of the biggest TV makers at the recently ended Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas pointed to I [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2008 | Comments : 0

Canon Powershot SD870 IS - Digital Camera Review

Funny-Games.wsDuring the course of the review, I will sometimes refer to my personal SD850 IS because the comparison highlights some seemingly minor but significant feature/design changes. While I (by a small margin) prefer the look and fee [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Google Maps for Mobiles shows your location, even without GP...

The newest beta version of Google Maps for Mobile has a nice little feature called My Location, which shows where you are on a map. It's currently a beta, so there might be some niggles in it, but it's well worth trying for a few reasons. F [...]