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PRS Guitarbud jacks your axe, ego into iPhone / iPod touch

admin | March 11, 2010

Whatever happened to that dreamy Line 6 / Apple tie-up? Who knows, right? While those two sort out their future behind the scenes, Paul Reed Smith Guitars is stepping up to take advantage of an obvious market opportunity. The newly announced Guitarbud is a simplistic accessory that allows axe slingers to jack their guitar into [...]

Verizon promises first 4G handset for next summer, foretells end of unlimited data plans

admin | March 11, 2010

Alright, you ultrafast mobile broadband zealots, whip out your calendars and draw a big red tick around the middle of 2011. Verizon’s CTO Anthony Melone has identified next summer as the carrier’s release window for its first LTE handset, which should be preceded by the 4G service being rolled out by the end of this [...]

Nokia Symbian^3 UI demonstrated in detail, seeks multitouch devices (video)

admin | March 11, 2010

Nokia VP, David Rivas, was in San Francisco yesterday touting Symbian^3 improvements. While we’ve heard and seen plenty about Symbian Three’s enhanced user experience already, it’s still worthy of another look considering Symbian’s dominant marketshare. Besides, David provides a very detailed look as he walks us though elements like the customizable (and more finger friendly) [...]

Google Apps Marketplace opens for business, for business

admin | March 10, 2010

Google’s certainly made some enterprise inroads with Google Apps, and now it’s open the road for other cloud-based service providers to build on that success: it’s launching Google Apps Marketplace to sell third-party web apps that integrate with the Apps suite. The apps are sold as a subscription, with both monthly and annual pricing, and [...]

Martin Jetpack priced at $86,000, mere mortals will soon be able to buy one too

admin | March 10, 2010

Tired of the limited legroom, bad food, and worse movies you have to put up with during a flight? Well, it’s time to bust out your company credit card and get yourself a Martin Jetpack, which has just become the first commercially available jetpack. Driven by a pair of washing machine-sized fans strapped to your [...]

Pentax gets official with 40 megapixel 645D medium format camera

admin | March 9, 2010

We had a hunch that Pentax was readying a 645 Digital, and sure enough, the company has come clean with that very camera today. The May-bound 40 megapixel 645D is a medium format beast, but unlike similar options from Hasselblad, this one won’t actually destroy your hopes of sending four generations of offspring to college. [...]

Newegg selling ASUS Eee Box with Red Flag Linux pre-installed

admin | March 9, 2010

Well, Newegg just seems to be full of surprises these days. The latest example is this ASUS Eee Box (model EBXB202-BLK-E0037), which wouldn’t be so remarkable if not for the fact that it comes pre-installed with the Chinese Linux distribution, Red Flag Linux. That helps bring the price down to just $189.99 after rebate, which [...]

Shuttle’s ION 2-equipped XS35 shows off its slimline nettop credentials in hands-on video

admin | March 9, 2010

In the market for a new HTPC? Then you’ll probably be wanting the slimmest possible enclosure that can still fit an optical drive and the grunt to power through HD video. Set aside some of your attention for Shuttle’s XS35, in that case, as this 3.3cm-thick slab of engineering contains an Atom D510 (yawn) paired [...]

Sausage stylus for the iPhone now on sale in the US

admin | March 8, 2010

So you thought awesome gear never made the transition from Korea to the USA, huh? Not so in the case of the infamous sausage stylus we spotted a month ago. That cold weather peripheral — allowing its ingenious users to operate a capacitive touchscreen with gloves on — has made the big leap over to [...]

Acer working on frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard?

admin | March 8, 2010

Would you believe that Acer is working on an frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? As far-fetched as the idea might be, it’s certainly plausible, expected even. The idea, as rumored by DigiTimes, involves doing away with the display’s frame by printing colors directly onto the back of the display’s reinforced glass substrate from Corning (a [...]