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Monday night the Sony press conference was pretty spectacular. Once the new products and services was talked up, Sony played the MIB3 trailer in 3D and then Will Smith came on stage briefly (cool stuff) and I was on the front row. A few moments later Kelly Clarkson made a appearance and sang.
Back to the tech after the jump… [click to continue…]
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The OnStar / Cadillac press conference last night saw some pretty exciting news. The Cue infotainment center, OnStar open source API and expanding on the Verizon 4G LTE partnership with streaming content, in-vehicle content sharing and Skype video calling. [click to continue…]
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The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 is about to kick off this week and while there is a particular them is not really pushing to the forefront this year like tablets did last year and 3DTV the year before, there are some trends and emerging technologies to look for. [click to continue…]
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NVIDIA has already announced the first quad-core mobile processor, the Tegra 3 ARM Cortex A9 CPU. Four performance processors reportedly preform at record pace and an ingenious “fifth core” companion works at incredibly low power for low performance tasks like listening to music, video play-back and background data updates. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first announced quad-core tablet to market and having the Tegra 3 on board promises PC like performance and insane battery life. [click to continue…]
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Good news for Kindle owners, but especially for Amazon Prime members: Amazon announced a new ‘benefit’ where you can borrow a kindle book, one per month, with no due dates. Looks like another way Amazon is connecting its content library to its devices, and it makes the $79/year Prime membership look like a steal. Prime membership originally was intended for frequent shoppers, offering free 2 day delivery, then included unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, and now its ventured into e-books.
Leave a comment if you’re a Prime member and tried the book borrowing feature.
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Beginning Monday, Redbox patrons will be shelling out an extra 20 cents for daily DVD rentals. The DVD price increase news overshadowed reports of strong third quarter performance and while the dust still settles from the Netflix decision to sharply increase prices.
Reportedly, Coinstar (Redbox’s parent company) nearly double earnings in an announcement this week, but share price fell on Thurday after news of the price increase hit the streets. The price for a DVD at the Redbox kiosks will rise to $1.20 per day on Monday, however, Blu-ray disc and Xbox game prices will remain at the current $1.50 and $2.00 price respectively.
Coinstar tested the increased price in select markets before the decision was made and found that there will be minimal impact on demand. The blame for the increase is pinned on the rising cost of DVDs and processing debit card transactions.
[via USA Today]
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At Nokia World 2011, the Finnish giant-turned-underdog has announced the long-awaited (by geeks anyway) smart phones featuring Windows Phone 7 by Microsoft. These phones represent the first products from the new Nokia – Microsoft partnership, where Nokia replaced Symbian and Meego operating systems with WP7 for its top of the line smart phones. New Symbian “Belle” phones are still being released, as well as feature phones running S40. These newer, entry-mid level phones were also announced at Nokia World, dubbed “Asha” 200, 201, 300 and 303. Videos of these phones are also included.
So, will the two tech giants’ new litter of puppies have a fighting chance against the smartphone leaders from Apple and Android? We’ll just have to wait and see how well these phones are marketed worldwide, and especially if any major U.S. carriers will subsidize them with a low price + 2 year contracts.
Sit back, get some popcorn, and enjoy the videos after the break.
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In the wake of Apple’s iPhone 4S debut, Research In Motion (RIM) scrambles to fix a global service outage, frustrating BlackBerry users, in some cases for days. The email, BBM and internet service outage that originated in Europe on Monday quickly spread to North and South America, along with other parts of the world. [click to continue…]
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The new, official Facebook for iPad app is finally here, in the App Store. For the iPhone, it’s a new version (4.0, and according to the app description, uninstall the older version before installing 4.0).
Here are some of the Facebook for iPad highlights:
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Now that we’ve seen the new iPhone 4S, which was not an earth shattering reveal, perhaps it’s time for Samsung to wow us finicky folks in the smart phone geekdom. The next super Droid phone, dubbed the “Nexus Prime,” is rumored to be announced at the Samsung event on October 11th, and the potential wow factors will be it’s curved screen, and the latest Android OS, “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Enjoy the sneak peek video, and click below for a brief story by CNET, while I go get an ice cream sandwich. Damn that power of suggestion!
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