Leaf rolls out wide frame AFi 10 camera system
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras
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Leaf rolls out wide frame AFi 10 camera system
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras
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Ask Engadget: Best digiframe / alarm clock combo?
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Ask Engadget, Digital Cameras, Displays, Misc. Gadgets
Frightening though it may be, the fall semester is just around the corner. You know what that means? You'll actually have to get up at -- wait for it -- an appointed time. Carissa, being the proactive student she is, posed this question: "Going to school in the fall, I'm looking for the ideal alarm clock to beat the late nights and what not and noticed a few digital photo frames / alarm clocks. I want a decent alarm clock that has battery backup and good resolution on the screen for viewing photos. An auxiliary audio jack would be a major plus. Which one do you guys recommend that falls under the 200 dollar mark? Thanks a million!"
Look at that -- you all even received a thank you in advance! For those who've mastered the art of waking up on time and pretending to be a real live adult, which alarm clock / digiframe hybrid have you found to be supreme? Oh, and you know that question you've been hitting the snooze on? Yeah, send it on over to ask at engadget dawt com.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Tether your iPhone, wirelessly. Maybe.
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones
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Logitech to produce “premium” Guitar Hero: World Tour instruments
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
If you didn't think every single third-party peripheral provider would try to snag a piece of the band game pie, we guess you thought wrong, huh? With outfits like Mad Catz and Ion already jumping in, it was only a matter of time before Logitech threw on its tightest jeans, blacked out its blond hair and threw up some horns. Details are admittedly scarce, but the company has promised to provide "premium instruments" for Guitar Hero: World Tour on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii. Rockers can expect the new gear to start shipping "later this year," though prices, designs and pretty much anything else of importance remains a mystery.[Via NintendoWiiFanboy]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Logitech to produce “premium” Guitar Hero: World Tour instruments
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
If you didn't think every single third-party peripheral provider would try to snag a piece of the band game pie, we guess you thought wrong, huh? With outfits like Mad Catz and Ion already jumping in, it was only a matter of time before Logitech threw on its tightest jeans, blacked out its blond hair and threw up some horns. Details are admittedly scarce, but the company has promised to provide "premium instruments" for Guitar Hero: World Tour on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii. Rockers can expect the new gear to start shipping "later this year," though prices, designs and pretty much anything else of importance remains a mystery.[Via NintendoWiiFanboy]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
T-Mobile Gives Parents More Control with Family Allowances
July 31, 2008
T-Mobile will launch parental control features to family plans in August, allows parents to manage when and how their family members use their T-Mobile phones and service.
With Family Allowances, parents can give teens an upfront monthly wireless allowance, eliminating the worry of surprise overages. Parents set and change limits for minutes, messages and downloads (games, ringtones and wallpaper) using an online tool. Once the allowance is reached, the feature shuts off service for that specific element and parents receive a notification.
Numbers setup on "Always Allowed" will continue to call, even after allowances have been spent. Unlimited calling features such as myFaves and T-Mobile-to-T-Mobile, can also still be used.
Parents can establish limits on the time of day a phone may be used, set allowances to zero to prohibit the use of minutes, messages or downloads, and establish numbers that are blocked from calling or sending messages.
"Parents across the country want their teens to have a mobile phone to stay in contact, but also want that phone to be used responsibly," said Lisa Brown, director, marketing at T-Mobile USA. "With Family Allowances, parents get peace of mind knowing they can reach their sons and daughters, without having to worry about surprise bills. They can also reward their teens for responsible phone use by increasing their allowance."
Family Allowances will be available in the coming weeks at retail stores and online for an introductory rate of $2 per month on top of a current family plan.
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Nokia Cuts Phone Prices, Pressuring Rivals
July 31, 2008
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Finnish cell phone maker Nokia cut prices for many of its handsets in July, putting further pressure on its rivals' already thin profits. Nokia made the steepest price reductions of up to 10 percent for selected music and media phones, while it made smaller cuts across the portfolio.
The sharpest falls were in the average retail price of the 5310 and 5610 music phones and the multimedia N81 8GB.
The price cuts follow Nokia's launch of its Supernova phone range - aggressively priced products with integrated music players, challenging Sony Ericsson's Walkman portfolio.
Manufacturers are facing an increasingly intense battle for market share as demand for pricey phones has started to slow in the U.S. and Europe, where economies are under pressure from the global credit crunch.
The price cuts from Nokia, which controls 40 percent of the cell phone market, will put further pressure on its smaller rivals like Sony Ericsson, which has focused on music and camera phones. Sony Ericsson made practically no money in the April-June quarter, and said it would cut 2,000 jobs as it forecast the remainder of 2008 would also be tough.
Struggling Motorola has made losses since its flagship RAZR phone lost appeal among consumers.
Nokia increased its market share to 41 percent in the second quarter, helped by surging demand in emerging markets.
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Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective — it’s a lot
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Laptops
So now that HP's joined Dell in releasing information on which laptops have those defective NVIDIA GPUs, we can sort of piece together which chips are faulty -- and just as had been rumored, it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected. That's not good news for NVIDIA, which has been saying that only "previous-generation" chips were problematic -- unless the chipmaker is planning on updating the hugely popular 8x00 series sometime, say, now, that's not exactly true, now is it? Other affected chips appear to be in the GeForce Go 7000 and 6000 lines, as well as the Quadro NVS 135M and the Quadro FX 360M, but that's just looking at model numbers, and we can't be exactly sure. We'd say that if you've got a machine with any one of these GPUs, it might be wise to call in and see what your laptop maker is going to do -- and it would be smart for NVIDIA to come right out and say exactly how big and how bad this problem really is.Read - Dell list of machines and patch
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Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective — it’s a lot
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Laptops
So now that HP's joined Dell in releasing information on which laptops have those defective NVIDIA GPUs, we can sort of piece together which chips are faulty -- and just as had been rumored, it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected. That's not good news for NVIDIA, which has been saying that only "previous-generation" chips were problematic -- unless the chipmaker is planning on updating the hugely popular 8x00 series sometime, say, now, that's not exactly true, now is it? Other affected chips appear to be in the GeForce Go 7000 and 6000 lines, as well as the Quadro NVS 135M and the Quadro FX 360M, but that's just looking at model numbers, and we can't be exactly sure. We'd say that if you've got a machine with any one of these GPUs, it might be wise to call in and see what your laptop maker is going to do -- and it would be smart for NVIDIA to come right out and say exactly how big and how bad this problem really is.Read - Dell list of machines and patch
Read - HP list of machines, extended warranty infoPermalink | Email this | Comments