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Zune 30GB Digital Media Player 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Introducing Zune, a 30GB digital media player with a twist: you can wirelessly share select, full-length sample tracks, playlists, and photos with other Zunes1. Listen to select received songs up to three times in three days, mark the ones you like, and then buy them the next time you sync up (via USB 2.0). You can also show pictures and videos on Zune's bright, 3" screen, and even listen to the radio via built-in FM! ...

SIRIUS Satellite Radio 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Listen to live and recorded 100% commercial-free SIRIUS almost anywhere with this super sleek portable receiver. Experience SIRIUS' programming over an accessible WiFi network for expanded listening possibilities.Portable design lets you take your favorite live Sirius content wherever you go One-touch recording allows you to store up to 100 hours of live programming, up to 10 hours of individual songs and up to 6-hour blocks of 100% commercial-free music programming, talk or news so you can enjoy your favorite programs anytime .Schedule and record feature allows you to record your favorite show at the same time every day Product Info ...

Nethrone entertainment station 1969-12-31 17:59:59 The Nethrone is the latest advancement in personal digital entertainment environment engineered with comfort & style in mind. The end result is a sleek, relaxing & space efficient gaming and work environment. If you are dealing with heavy paperwork or Just checking mail, the Nethrone is probably not for you. The Nethrone is perfect for those who envision the optimum station for serious work & intense play. Incorporation of the Nethrone into virtually any setting position is simple with the unit's five electric actuators. The unit nestles users in a multi-positional cradle-like environment, complete with an adjustable reclining vibrating seat, keyboard/joystick, dual mouse positionarmrest, neck cushion and dual footrest position. Each unit isequipped with an adjustable monitor lift and tilt support as well as frame support for a VGA box, Apple's Mac mini and Sony`s PS2, users can insert their units into a slot behind their LCD monitor. A frame support compatible with Xbox 360 is comin ... Entertainment

How Lunar Design Made PC Games More Tactile 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Here's a trick question (or two): How do you design a consumer-electronics device that has no precedent in the marketplace? Say, a miniature robot that can be used by both players of entertainment PC games and doctors? In other words, a controller for on-screen simulations, from shoot-'em-up war scenes to surgical practice sessions. And what if you're challenged to design this mini-robot so that it can also provide a sense of 3D touch and texture, such as moving through liquid or passing over bumps? Finally, what if your last task as a designer was to ensure that this ultra-sophisticated game controller could be made from materials and mechanisms so affordable that the device would cost approximately $200, qualifying it as a mass-market item? This is exactly the challenge that the design team at Bay Area-based Lunar Design faced when creating the Falcon, a new type of haptic, or tactile, PC game controller that was released last week by Novint Technologies (NVNT), a maker of 3D touc ... Design  Games

Will the Ford Mondeo Come to America? 1969-12-31 17:59:59 It's hard to overstate the impact of the Ford Mondeo on British motoring. The D-segment saloon/wagon has been a top-ten seller every month since launch in 1993. Nearly 1.2 million have found homes, and Prime Minister Tony Blair even coined the phrase "Mondeo Man" to describe the kind of Average Joe voter he wanted to help. What's more, the car was the benchmark in the class, besting the likes of the Vauxhall Vectra, VW Passat, Renault Laguna, and Honda Accord. So you can imagine that the launch of a new Ford Mondeo is a pretty big event in theU.K. The question for American drivers is, why couldn't Ford sell the Mondeo in the States, since it's so well done? Styling-wise, the Mondeo would fit right in with the latest tailored designs seen in America . It has a crisp look, a take on the "kinetic design" language seen recently on the S-MAX MPV, the current European Car of the Year. It's a world away from the outgoing Mondeo, and while it's very modern it won't be to everyone's lik ... America

Flybook VM 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Flybook has burst on the scene as one of the best innovators in mobile PC design. Their notebooks -- designed in Italy and manufactured in Taiwan -- fuse style and personality with leading technology and impressive quality. The Flybook VM typifies their ingenuity. It features an Intel Core Duo processor, 3G wireless broadband, and totally unique chassis design. Thanks to a telescoping arm, the screen can be positioned higher and over the keyboard, and at any angle. Quite honestly, when we first saw this feature we thought, "that's nice but why would we really want to do that?" But it only takes 30 minutes of real-world use to see the distinct advantage. A screen that is precisely oriented to the way you sit -- instead of the other way around -- is much easier on your neck and your eyes. We really like this feature. Product Info ...

Will iPhone rock music industry? 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Carlos Gomez could be the recording industry's ideal mobile music customer.His phone is his music player of choice and he spends about $100 a month buying songs for it -- often on impulse after hearing a tune on his car radio.That's why he's not buying an iPhone.It's not that he doesn't want one. The 24-year-old office clerk is mesmerized by the look and feel of Apple Inc.'s uber-sleek new phone that's a combination cell phone, iPod media player and Web-browsing gadget. He particularly likes its touch-screen navigation.But Gomez says he won't buy the handset because users can't use it to buy and download music over a wireless network.Instead, iPhone owners will have to buy music via their computers and then download it to their phones, a process called side-loading."I'm not the type of person that likes to wait until I get home," Gomez said. "If I hear it, I want it there and then."The arrival of the iPhone on Friday has stoked optimism among some music company executives tha ... Iphone

Lenovo 3000 N200 a business-friendly laptop 1969-12-31 17:59:59 With a starting price of $949, the small-business-focused Lenovo 3000 N200 line is one of the best deals going if you want to buy a laptop built on Intel's latest processors and the new Centrino Duo platform. Even our N200 review unit, which included a number of upgrades to bring its price to $1,599, costs less than a similarly configured HP Pavilion dv6500t, Gateway E-475M, and Toshiba Tecra A9. Figuring there had to be a catch, we expected the lower-priced Lenovo 3000 N200 to drag behind those more expensive systems on our performance benchmarks -- but it largely held its own against the competition, with the exception of our 3D gaming benchmark, and it posted a lengthy battery life. Lest home users be enticed by the N200's performance, we should point out that it lacks the full speakers, media controls, and other consumer-friendly features found on the HP and the Gateway, offering instead a fingerprint reader and a suite of support utilities designed to help business users mainta ...

Google to help charities with mapping software 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Google Inc. launched an initiative Tuesday to help charities and other non-profit groups use maps and satellite images to raise awareness, recruit volunteers and encourage donations.The Google Earth Outreach program represents a formalization of ad-hoc partnerships with organizations using the free software to publicize their works.Already, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been using Google Earth to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. When users scan over Darfur, they see icons of flames representing destroyed villages and of tents for refugee camps. Clicking on one opens a window with details and links on how to help.The U.N. Environmental Program, meanwhile, has used the software to show areas of environmental destruction. The Jane Goodall Institute shows locations of its research on chimpanzees and African deforestation. A Brazilian Indian tribe is working on ways to help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold."There's ... Google

Audi's new $115,000 car hits the road 1969-12-31 17:59:59 For Audi, long thought of in the U.S. as a builder of highly engineered but slightly bland sedans, the R8 is an aggressive image changer. "Cars like the R8 will help redefine Audi's image in the U.S," Martin Winterkorn, the new head of the VW Group (Audi's parent company) told me. "My target is to sell 200,000 vehicles here within five or six years." (Last year Audi sold 90,116 cars in America, only 10 percent of its global sales.) The Audi guys have been trying to build a sports car for 25 years - this has been a long wait," Winterkorn told me as he flogged the R8 around the track. I asked him, yelling to be heard over the engine's snarl, what impressed him most about the car. "That anyone can drive it" - he glanced at me - "even a woman." If Audi wants to conquer America, it had better get a mindset adjustment: Next time, Herr Doktor, I'll drive. Winterkorn and Rupert Stadler, Audi's new boss, confirmed that the next step for the R8 is to get a bigger engine. Eventually, says W ...

Hitachi 7K1000 1TB Hard Drive 1969-12-31 17:59:59 We have with us the world?s first Terabyte or 1000 GB internal hard drive - the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000. There are a couple of firsts with the 7K1000 and one of them is the 32MB buffer or cache memory used with the 7K1000. A hard drive cache stores the most recent reads requests made to the disc and also pre-fetches the information that is most probably going to be requested like the sector or the sectors succeeding the information just requested. This improves performance as the number of accesses to the hard drive are reduced. And finally this is the first drive from Hitachi in the 3.5-inch category (3.5-inch is the form factor of desktop hard drives whereas 2.5-inch for laptop hard drives) that features PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording). PMR is used to increase the areal density of the storage media to meet such a large capacity. Perpendicular recording is capable of giving up to 10 times the storage density of the conventional longitudinal recording. Seagate first used PMR in ...

Apple Sells One Latop in Seven 1969-12-31 17:59:59 According to industry reports, Apple's is now the fourth leading company on the laptop sales ladder, selling one in seven laptops, in the US alone. The company has seen a 14% increase from last month, while the desktop market awaits the rumored new iMacs.The same research company, NDP, has announced that behind Hewlett Packard, Toshiba and Gateway lead the laptop sales roster. NPD collects its sales data primarily from retail point-of-sale sources, and excludes most online and all direct sales.Analysts also noted that while desktop sales are declining, Apple's desktop computers' sales figures have declined a little less than others. Apple's desktop machines the all-in-one, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro accounted for 10.4% of all desktop sales in May 2007 ... Apple

Creative Announces Zen Stone Plus 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Creative has introduced the Zen Stone Plus to complement the recent introduction of the Zen Stone MP3 player.The new Zen Stone Plus is a 2 GB MP3 player with features that include FM radio, voice recording and more and will be available in July at Amazon.com, Buy.com, Dell.com, Fry's Electronics, Frys.com, J&R, Newegg.com, Target.com, WalMart.com and us.creative.com for US$69.99.Read More ...

Nokia 6110 Navigator 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Nokia 6110 NavigatorThe main feature of the Nokia 6110 navigator is the built in GPS option. Combined with the Nokia maps application, this gives you a power packed phone and Satellite navigation product. The phone itself is also heavy on features, including 3G and mobile broadband, a 2.0 megapixel camera, MP3 player and stereo FM radio. The screen is a quality 16m colour QVGA TFT offering, allowing for excellent map viewing.Product Info ... Nokia

France Warns Officials on BlackBerry Use 1969-12-31 17:59:59 BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful - and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France's corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies.''It's not a question of trust,'' French lawmaker Pierre Lasbordes told The Associated Press. ''We are friends with the Americans, the Anglo-Saxons, but it's economic war.''Le Monde newspaper, which broke the story, described BlackBerry withdrawal among those who have given them up. ''We feel that we are wasting huge amounts of time, having to relearn how to work in the old way,'' the daily quoted a ministry office director as saying.E-mails sent from ''Le BlackBerry'' pass through servers in the United States and Britain, and France fears that makes the system vulnerable to snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency, Le Monde reported. The company th ...