Posted on December 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Forget the cavernous big box stores that laid waste to the retail landscape a decade ago. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs’ tiny iPod has turned his company into a category killer for the digital era–first wiping out music stores and now, potentially, the corner video store.
Starting in mid-January, the Cupertino, Calif., computer and gadget maker [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft on Thursday introduced Linksys, D-Link, and Niveus Media products that would distribute high-definition video from a Windows Media Center PC to any home TV with a wired or wireless network connection.
In addition, Microsoft said that on Friday it expects to distribute an automatic upgrade to Media Center in Windows Vista Home Premium Edition and [...]
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Posted on September 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Apple Inc. slashed the price of the top iPhone by $200 Wednesday to bolster holiday sales, but also angered loyal customers who paid top dollar in the gadget’s first 10 weeks on the market.
The company also revamped its iPod media player lineup, introducing a model called iPod Touch that incorporates the iPhone’s touch-screen and adds [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.
A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums, and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player’s wires. Last summer, a Colorado teen was hurt when lightning struck nearby as he was listening to his iPod [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January, I wrote,
The other problem is that computers are inherently buggy. Macs crash, and it’s frustrating when they do. It’s even more frustrating, however, when your music player crashes, and if your phone or your TV crashes, you’ll probably want to tear your hair out. The iPhone is [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced the industry’s first 65 nanometer (nm) multi-standard channel decoder (S3C4F31) and multi-band radio frequency (RF) tuner (S5M8602) chipset which supports multi digital mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and terrestrial DMB for the multiple standards in the different countries around the world.
“Although a [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Live TV in your pocket
Finland is the first to experience optimized mobile TV with the Nokia N77 multimedia computer. Later this month also Vietnam and India will start shipments of the Nokia N77. Consumers will now be able to keep up to date with news and sports and enjoy their favorite TV shows live on [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft says it is on track to sell its millionth Zune music player, the software company’s would-be challenger to Apple’s enormously popular iPod.
Microsoft expects the player to hit the sales milestone by the end of its fiscal year in June, almost eight months after the product made its debut. Apple, which launched its iPod music [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The other day a client of mine presented me with a situation in which he needed to add a second monitor to his PC. The solution. An external USB 2.0 video card was just the ticket.
External video card you say. Yep. But you thought you had to open the PC, pop a 2nd video card [...]
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