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Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
Back when 12-inch iBooks were available, someone turned a 12-inch iBook into a Tablet, but offered no warranty and you lost use of the keyboard. Now, Other World Computing (OWC) and Axiotron will release the ModBook – a MacBook converted into a Mac Tablet – and it’s launching at Macworld next week!
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Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
Next week’s CES sees the forced marriage of the Blu-ray and HD DVD standard through a unified player and a new dual format disc, but it won’t be until much later in 2007 that consumers will truly see any benefit. Thank goodness these developments have happened, as they’ll help to end the format war madness. But why did we ever have to go through this ridiculous pain at all?
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
While none of the cameras will be available directly after CES, but instead in March, Fuji have capitulated to the success of SD cards at last, with a dual SD/xD card mechanism in three upcoming models. Other features like face recognition and the ability to take photos in infrared light modes is also new, upping the challenge to the competition.
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
Until we see proof that Laser TVs will be on display at CES, it looks like Plasma and LCD TVs will continue to rule the high-def TV roost, with continuing competition from DLP, LCoS and high-def CRTs. The other great hope to beat plasma and LCD, the SED is under lawsuit attack!
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
A new iPod or two, an iPod phone or two, the iTV, an 8-core Mac Pro, a 12-inch MacBook, the Mac Tablet, an OS X 10.5 demo, new ‘Universal’ software and more… everyone is expecting Apple to release something in just about every category they currently cover. Can Apple really deliver something in each category, and will the press only focus on what wasn’t delivered, instead of what was?
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
With Google’s Answer service gone, Yahoo’s Answers was the 800lb gorilla in the online answer space, where real users answer questions rather than results from a search engine. Now Amazon has decided to enter the race shortly after Yahoo Answer’s first year anniversary. The question is, can they succeed where Google has failed?
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
After being cancelled on the Mac platform back in 2003 thanks to the success of Apple’s Final Cut video editing software, Premiere is set to come back to Intel Macs only in mid-2007.
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
Mobile phone games developer, In-Fusio, who have turned previous Microsoft titles like Midtown Madness 3, Zoo Tycoon 2 and Age of Empires 2 into mobile phone games, claims that Microsoft is actively trying to stop it from releasing a mobile version of Halo.
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
Halo hungry Xbox 360 owners will get access to the Halo 3 beta in two interesting ways – one a guaranteed way, by buying new Xbox 360 game ‘Crackdown’, the other by playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live for three hours from the 1st to the 3rd of Febraury, and being one of the first 13,333 people to do so.
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
The New York Times reports that Warner Bros is set to release a high-def disc that works in both types of next-gen players, potentially solving the problem of which player to buy. But in the short term it ads yet another disc for retailers to stock. Is it the solution?
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