Archive for July, 2010

$35 tablet from India looks to be worth every paisa (video) We’ve seen some janky tablets over the years, and to be honest this latest one out of India hardly looks posh. But, for the price, it could be pretty amazing: $35. That’s what India’s Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal, is saying this...
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iPad-toting Syte Shirt redefines ‘multitasking’ // 281diggsdigg Disgusted with Apple’s refusal to bestow honest-to-goodness backgrounding to the iPad, even though the (presumably) weaker iPhone 4 has been doing it for weeks? You aren’t alone. Syte Shirt, a new startup with a vision to change the world in a way you’ve never even dreamed of,...
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China Is Now the World’s Leading Energy Consumer
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Antenna-aid bandages your iPhone 4 reception issue, hopes for role in next Eminem video Oh, Steve — you should’ve known better. You show up and remove a laptop from a manila envelope, and Earth’s most creative go and create a case fashioned out of one. You go and suggest that Eminem could ‘come out...
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Toshiba shows off Smart Pad tablet prototype, promises launch before October It may not stand out from the pack quite as much as Toshiba’s dual-screen Libretto W100, but it looks like the company will soon be expanding its tablet options a bit further. The latest addition was revealed in Australia by Toshiba’s Mark Whittard,...
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Samsung’s new plasmas will do 3D for much cheaper – Update: $989 for 50-inch 720p Looks like Samsung’s 3D Blu-ray players aren’t the only ones coming in cheaper versions, as it’s unveiled the new 680 Series and 490 Series plasma HDTVs. Both were shown off in Korea yesterday, though the US website only features...
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Apple posts record $3.25b profit in first full quarter of iPad sales, says more ‘amazing products’ coming this year Apple just posted up its third quarter earnings — its first full quarter selling the iPad — and, well, it’s raining cash in Cupertino. The company posted a record profit of $3.25b on record revenues...
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Researcher will enable hackers to take over millions of home routers Cisco and company, you’ve got approximately seven days before a security researcher rains down exploits on your web-based home router parade. Seismic’s Craig Heffner claims he’s got a tool that can hack ‘millions’ of gateways using a new spin on the age-old DNS...
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‘Transformers 3′ to Feature NASCAR Transformers? Together at last! Hollywood stereotype, meet Southern stereotype, as newly-published set photos strongly suggest that Michael Bay’s Transformers 3 will feature NASCAR vehicles. The evidence comes from Jalopnik, which received photos from a reader in Detroit Chicago*, where Transformers 3 has been filming recently. We grabbed one to...
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Nintendo unlikely to significantly alter 3DS design before release In an interview from this year’s E3 that’s only just been published, Nintendo 3DS platform producer Hideo Konno says that the upcoming handheld is in its ‘final shape.’ Reggie Fils-Aime, the company’s leading North American voice, has more recently told us that, au contraire, the...
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