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One of Microsoft's executives recently claimed that the Xbox 360's producer would eventually support the Blu-ray format, in case it gets popular and enough and meets a high public demand, during a series of CES 2008 interviews. It all comes down to the failure or success of the HD DVD format and it's ... |
9 January 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile carrier in the US, showcased at the Las Vegas CES the Verizon Wireless SMT5800 smartphone, its branded version of HTC Libra (also known as HTC S720). The handset is available on-line from the Verizon website and will also hit the stores on 21 January. As the HTC S720, V... |
9 January 2008
07:34 GMT |
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Hewlett Packard announced that it will dramatically reduce the energy requirements for its future computers by up to 25 percent. The HP promise will become reality within two years, as part of the company's involvement in preserving a clean environment.In order to achieve its goal, Hewlett-Packard will reconside... |
9 January 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Comcast managed to stun everyone as they presented the new Internet speed plans for this year during a conference at the Consumer Electronics Show. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts stated that the company "will show the two-way, fiber-optic-based network we built is ready for the next generation" of TV, phone and Internet p... |
9 January 2008
06:37 GMT |
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Coby and WoozyFly.com have teamed up to deliver a brand new series of MP3 players, MP4 and Portable Media Players, all of them enhanced with cool music content to suit all tastes.Therefore, starting this month, Coby's customers will be able to select from MP3 players with video, MP4 players and Portable Media pl... |
9 January 2008
06:17 GMT |
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The first few days of CES have been pretty busy, so we're taking one company at a time and presenting you their full offerings for the most important yearly event of the CE industry. So, without further ado, it's about time to take a look at what JVC's got up its sleeve as far as displays go, and boy d... |
9 January 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Fujitsu have once again managed to amaze the audience as they announced their third generation of Biblo PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show. The notebook is fully functional and looks just like a common unit. While its interior is built with regular hardware, the outside casing is made out of plant-based plastic.Mor... |
9 January 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Among many things showcased at the CES 2008, from the ridiculous ones to the professional-use gear, there is another category, the "you can't afford it" one. Of course, there are a lot of people who ear the really big bucks and they could actually buy the whole category itself, but we're talking about a way... |
9 January 2008
05:49 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has just unveiled its ATI TV Wonder 600 high-definition USB tuner. The device has been announced quite a while ago, but it was never publicly demonstrated until now. The high-speed USB stick resembles a pen drive, but its functions are much more complex (and entertaining at the same time). Th... |
9 January 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Gateway has shown the world its latest P-series FX notebooks at CES with immediate availability within the United States. The new series of notebooks is designed for various tasks, such as gaming, digital media, and other advanced applications.The notebooks are built around the Intel Centrino technology and Core 2 Du... |
9 January 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Despite being one of the companies which have been spearheading the audio industry for so many decades now, and being the creator of neat portable multimedia devices which sell like crazy, it seems like Sony has no choice but to get in line with the generic trend and go for the iPod-compatible standards as well.The C... |
9 January 2008
04:44 GMT |
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OCZ has announced and demonstrated their first SSD drives to feature 32 GB and 64 GB storage capacities. The demonstration took place within the Consumer Electronics Show, and the company claimed that these two models are the beginning of a new line of solid-state products OCZ will develop soon.Although some solid-st... |
9 January 2008
04:23 GMT |
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With all the rush surrounding the first CES 2008 days, we missed Panasonic's four new consumer-oriented camcorders.Unlike previous reports on camcorders from Sony and Canon, we'll start off with the standard definition ones, the SW20 and SDR-S7. The most impressive of them is the SW20, which can go underwat... |
9 January 2008
04:12 GMT |
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As it happens every year, the CES 2008 is rich in all sorts of crazy things exhibitors put up in order to make you leave completely dazed and confused, with a smile of intense satisfaction on your face and a thrilling feel like that we used to get in the Christmas morning. Among all the cool and dumb pieces of "consu... |
9 January 2008
04:02 GMT |
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The DisplayPort format parents have released the complete picture of the standard that will help hardware manufacturers include it into their products. The DisplayPort group also demonstrated working chips and complete systems produced by various technology partners. The new interconnection standard has been designed... |
9 January 2008
03:50 GMT |
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The Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asustek failed to impress its audience with the 10-inch Eee sub-notebook, although it has been announced since early December. The company stated that the next-generation Eee PC will become available in the second quarter of the year, and rumor has it that Asustek is waiting for Intel�... |
9 January 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Nvidia launched its Hybrid SLI technology during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show, along with a new line of chipsets. The Hybrid SLI merges the power of Nvidia integrated graphics chipsets with Nvidia discrete GPU units, which allows them to work as a single entity. This approach saves a considerable am... |
9 January 2008
02:41 GMT |
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My Theater is a brand new product showcased for the first time at the CES 2008 and it has everything to do with your room and home cinema system sounding way better than you ever could think it would. My Theater is an acoustic panel solution with a very broad use and spectacular results (as its manufacturer claims).N... |
9 January 2008
02:35 GMT |
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Panasonic's Viera line of widescreen plasma displays needs no introduction, but it would seem that the Japanese company liked the name so much that it has decided to extend the brand. Thus, at CES 2008, Panasonic has announced that its entire 2008 line of high definition flat screen televisions will be branded V... |
8 January 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Kingston used the CES 2008 to unveil three new Data Traveler (DT) USB flash drives: the DTHyperX, which provides very high data transfer rates (but at premium price tags), the DT110 (for the budget-conscious users) and the DT400, which allows users to work among multiple PCs by directly synchronizing files, email and... |
8 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Like most other CE manufacturers, SlingMedia is using the International CES 2008 as a marketing booster right from the year's start, making all sorts of announcements regarding its upcoming products. After announcing the Slingbox PRO-HD yesterday, the company has also announced that it will be demonstrating its ... |
8 January 2008
13:06 GMT |
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As I do believe you've been able to see over the past few days, some of the most important camcorder manufacturers have rolled out a bevy of new, improved and HD-enabled models at CES 2008, targeting just about every segment of the CE market. Furthermore, some of the respective cameras (like the ones from Canon ... |
8 January 2008
12:36 GMT |
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Intel yesterday stunned the CES audience when it announced the launch of no less than 16 45-nanometer processors in the Penryn family. Shock grew even bigger when the chip manufacturer stated that the quad-core mobile processors will be substantially delayed due to power consumption-related issues.Intel's 45-nan... |
8 January 2008
11:39 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has given a helping hand to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC initiative during the second day of Consumer Electronics Show. It seems that the One Laptop Per Child initiative had a difficult start this year, after its CTO, Mary Louis Jepsen left for her own business. As if this was not enough, In... |
8 January 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Belkin has run a series of wireless experiments at the Consumer Electronics Show with its FlyWire high definition video streamer. The device is the result of the joint work between Belkin and wireless specialist Aminom and is the wireless equivalent of the HDMI switching boxes that have already emerged on the market.... |
8 January 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has just announced a new suite of desktop and mobile PC's, called AMD Live! Ultra. The new PC brand will include computers powered by the company's multi-core platforms for both desktop and notebook sectors: the "Spider" and the "Puma" platforms, respectively.The systems branded as A... |
8 January 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices announced that their new mobile processor platform codenamed "Puma" will start mass-production in the second quarter of the year, with Puma notebooks to emerge at a short interval.The announcement tries to focus the market's interest towards the company's products and at the same time... |
8 January 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Dark? Definitely! Gruesome? Not really! High-tech! You bet! I guess this could be a pretty neat description of what the Mako 2.1 sound system from Razer is all about... but I just need more words for this piece of news. Well, again, from the biggest event of this year's beginning, the Consumer Electronic Show 2... |
8 January 2008
08:17 GMT |
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Just about every major name in the CE industry has come out with a new series of products at CES 2008, with TV sets (both plasmas and LCDs) being among the most popular announcements. So it's no wonder that Sharp has also joined this HDTVs galore, announcing quite a large number of new models in its AQUOS LCD TV... |
8 January 2008
07:46 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation, one of the manufacturer leaders in flash memory, just announced it has begun to sample 12GB microSDHC flash memory cards to major phone manufacturers for testing and evaluation. The 12GB card represents a 50 percent boost in card capacity from SanDisk's industry-leading 8GB microSDHC cards, ... |
8 January 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini thinks big over the future of the consumer electronics and entertainment applications, and plans to join them all "under the same Internet". The Intel CEO motivates this vision through the fact that the Internet has changed into a more personable place. "We're now in the mi... |
8 January 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Philips and RealNetworks future partnership intends to bring Rhapsody- digital music service from Real and MTV Networks- closer to its consumers. According to Philips, the first digital audio players from the alliance are expected to hit the shelves this year. They will, however, be available for a preview starting J... |
8 January 2008
06:43 GMT |
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The Consumer Electronics Show is not only about well-known companies and their products. The event has attracted small businesses as well, and some of their products are really worth mentioning. This is the case of a small company called RTCcom that manufactures video switches and converters for multiple monitor vide... |
8 January 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Mitsubishi is not only one of the most famous car manufacturers around, but it has quite a long history as a developer and innovator in the field of consumer electronics. And now, as CES 2008 is in full swing, the Japanese company has just announced the imminent release of its LaserTV, a whole new approach to HDTV Mi... |
8 January 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas the addition of new titles to its Games for Windows portfolio, revealing the first-year results for the initiative that brought PC gaming some of the most popular Windows-based games available. New "Games for Windows"-branded titles includ... |
8 January 2008
06:10 GMT |
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It looks like the guys over at Engadget.com are way closer to the CES 2008 hottest news than I am; from them I've learned about the newest pieces of audio tech showcased at the fair, including the latest news from the LG camp, related to surround sound systems.The new gear is the result of a fruitful collaborati... |
8 January 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Sure thing this year's Consumer Electronics Show is full of surprises. Since gaming gear is a major part of the big picture, Alienware has come with a new gaming monitor prototype. What makes it special is the curved aspect of the wide display, as seen in the picture.The monitor is more than a traditional displa... |
8 January 2008
05:54 GMT |
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This here internal memo written by Microsoft games chief Don Mattrick to his PR staff for CES 2008 is something that Dean Takahashi (of the San Jose Mercury News) managed to get his hands on and print it in full on his Tech Talk Blog. The memo reveals a bunch of plans for 2008, including more HD content for XBLM Vide... |
8 January 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Just like Sony, Canon also felt the "urge" the refresh its entire lineup of consumer oriented camcorders with new high definition and standard definition models. As usual, since standard definition is not so "hip" anymore, we'll start off with the high definition models as Canon has a brand new lineup of HD unit... |
8 January 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Creative fans should be happy to know that their favorite company has just announced during the 2008 International Consumer Electronic trade show two new micro boom boxes to join its popular MP3 player series.Apparently, both ZEN Stone and ZEN Stone Plus will feature built-in speakers, albeit don't expect hi-fi ... |
8 January 2008
04:50 GMT |
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Rumors about Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus OLED-based keyboard have started to emerge back in 2005. Its design has undergone plenty of changes since then, and has been repeatedly delayed. The functional principle is simple: an OLED screen is placed under each keycap, so the key symbol can be instantly morphed th... |
8 January 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Ladies, it's time for some glamorous weaponry! You'll be happy to know that Taser has just announced the future release of a brand new leopard print TASER C2 personal protection device during the 2008 International Consumer Electronic trade show.Besides that, the company, known for its work in advanced elec... |
8 January 2008
04:06 GMT |
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At CES 2008, Sennheiser have presented their latest series of in-ear headphones oriented for both music listening as well as for monitoring purposes, a truly generous offer aimed at more than one single category of listeners and thus with a very serious potential for success.The Sennheiser IE series comprises three n... |
8 January 2008
04:00 GMT |
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It was for sure that this year's CES main attractions were the wireless technologies and the appliances that made heavy use of them. Although less expected than the wireless devices, the ultramobile computers made a strong appearance at the event.Asustek's second-generation Eee PC failed to show up at the e... |
8 January 2008
03:41 GMT |
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According to the latest Microsoft forecasts, the company estimates a strong level of growth on the home server front. Windows Home Server, the brainchild of Charlie Kindel, Microsoft Product Unit Manager, was introduced at CES International 2007, by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The Redmond company then rapidly went... |
8 January 2008
03:38 GMT |
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While showcasing its products at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show, SanDisk has official announced capacity increases for two of its most popular flash-based digital media players. The Sansa Clip player will move to a top capacity of 4 GB from a previous 2GB one, while the Sansa View will jump to 32 GB... |
8 January 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Asustek's prodigy, the second-generation Eee PC missed the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Although it has been officially announced for the event, Asus delayed it until the mid-2008. Asus' decision is a big disappointment for those that took the announcement seriously: the company was supposed to "pre... |
8 January 2008
03:08 GMT |
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Apparently, Casio's prototype in late August was not just some idea thought up by crazy engineers as the company has just come out with a CES press release announcing the new lineup of Exilim digital cameras. As expected, the most impressive model in the lineup is the aforementioned prototype, which now has a na... |
7 January 2008
14:20 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work on the development of the Next-Generation IPTV System-on-a-Chip in collaboration with Broadcom. The partnership will result in the interoperability between the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform and the Broadcom BCM7405 system on a chip (SOC). According to the Redmond company, ... |
7 January 2008
11:00 GMT |
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The Skype service is probably the biggest marketing vehicle for VoIP communications, with an increasing customer base of hundreds of millions of people from all around the world. However, it generally requires the presence of a computer, unless the user decides to go for one of the many Skype-compatible phones availa... |
7 January 2008
10:52 GMT |
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