Monday, October 5, 2009
Peripherals
A-DATA Hard Drive Proceeds With Diesel And Grunting
11:40PM Mark Wilson | The A-DATA SH93 hard drive looks to be covered in caution tape, but you needn’t worry about dropping it on land or water. More »
Peripherals
11:00PM Wilson Rothman | While touring Microsoft’s Hardware division, I saw some concept mice that renewed my faith in the quintessential desktop accessory, ones that had capacitive touch surfaces and cameras that enabled an array of precision multitouch gesture. Take a look: More »
The Future Of Mice (If There Is One)
11:00PM Wilson Rothman | While touring Microsoft’s Hardware division, I saw some concept mice that renewed my faith in the quintessential desktop accessory, ones that had capacitive touch surfaces and cameras that enabled an array of precision multitouch gesture. Take a look: More »
Computers
Apple Working On A Tablet Since At Least 2003?
8:58PM Danny Allen | More fuel for the Apple Tablet rumours. According to the NY Times, several former Apple employees say a PowerPC-based prototype was developed in 2003 — but it was too power-hungry, and Steve Jobs felt it was limited to bathroom Web-surfing. More »
Software
Windows Marketplace Reportedly Live On WinMo 6.5 Phones
8:16PM Danny Allen | An Engadget tipster is reporting that Microsoft’s app store for 6.5 WinMo phones is already live and kicking, a day ahead of tomorrow’s global roll-out of Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones. Marketplace support for 6.x WinMo phones is expected before the end of the year. [Engadget] More »
Screens
Toshiba’s Cell-Powered TV Records Or Displays 8 Channels At Once
7:21PM Danny Allen | Toshiba’s first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs. For starters: The 55-incher’s LED backlighting divides the 240Hz display into 512 individually controlled areas, and has a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1. More »
Phones
Samsung Behold II Pairs Android With TouchWiz Interface
5:10PM Danny Allen | Wow, another T-Mobile Android phone (Sprint’s HTC Hero is the only Android-handset on another carrier). The Behold II has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5MP camera and TouchWiz UI (now with 3D cube menu for quick access to multimedia). More »
Phones
HTC Tilt 2 And HTC Pure WinMo 6.5 Phones Arrive In The US
3:15PM Danny Allen | Windows Mobile 6.5 rolls-out tomorrow, so expect to hear about a bunch of new handsets this week. Getting in early, AT&T has gotten official with its versions of HTC’s TouchPro 2 (Tilt 2; shown left) and Touch Diamond2 (Pure). More »
Software
Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids
3:01PM Matt Buchanan | A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »
Business
Deja Vu: Apple Sues Someone Because Their Logo Looks Like Fruit
10:00AM Jack Loftus | As part of a legal manoeuvre worthy of Monster Cable, Apple has set its lawyers on Australia’s largest supermarket chain because their new logo is a little tad too similar to their own. More »
Music
