Posted on October 20, 2009, 8:26 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
The new Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Digital SLR camera is a high-speed multimedia performance monster with a 16-megapixel Canon CMOS sensor, Dual DIGIC 4 Imaging Processors, and 14-bit A/D data conversion, all at 10 frames-per-second (fps), with the widest ISO range Canon has produced to date. Canon EOS-1D Mark IV also features 1080p Full High-Definition [...]
Posted on October 20, 2009, 8:08 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
It may seem like overkill at this point, but Barnes & Noble is releasing their own e-book reader today: the Nook, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Although an official event and annoucement is scheduled for later today, most of the important information has already been leaked. Like Spring Design’s Alex, it will run on Google Android OS. While it’s roughly the same price [...]
Posted on October 20, 2009, 4:49 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
Apple enjoyed its most profitable quarter ever, as the company set sales marks for both Mac and iPhone sales. The company announced earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Monday. For the quarter ending September 30, Apple reported a net profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per share, on revenue of $7.9 billion. Those [...]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:28 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
Revo has outed the Domino D3, a new DAB radio that combines a whole range of radio formats with iPod connectivity, wireless streaming capabilities and Last.fm access for a whole myriad of music.With a contemporary design, the Domino D3 features a joystick for users to navigate their way around the radio’s features, and an OLED [...]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:24 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
Microsoft is launching the first smartphones packing Windows Mobile today, and has shared a few details on the new OS ahead of its full announcement.With a cleaned up, easier-to-use interface, WinMo 6.5 promises better browsing capabilities and easy access to services such as Windows Live, Bing, Mobile Office Communicator and Microsoft Online Services such as [...]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:16 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
We knew it would be coming this month, but now with Nokia has ‘fessed up as to when we can expect to see the Nokia N97 Mini in the shops.If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the smaller handset, Nokia has confirmed via its Flagship Store Twitter feed that we’ll be able to pick it [...]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:06 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
TomTom has launched a new sat nav that drops a few of the more advanced TomTom features in exchange for a lower price tag. With a simplified menu, the TomTom Start is aimed at motorists just looking for a bit of a hand getting from A to B as quickly as possible. This means you’ll get the [...]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 12:59 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
So we knew it was coming, and now the HTC HD2 has been officially outed and confirmed to go on sale later this month.Although it packs Windows Mobile 6.5, the HD2 benefits from the rather lovely HTC Sense skin we’ve seen on the Android-loving Hero, bringing multi-touch to the a Windows Mobile phone for the [...]
Posted on October 4, 2009, 12:13 am, by Abhijit Kamal.
A student who sued Amazon for deleting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from his Kindle ebook, rendering his notes useless, has won $150,000 along with protection for other Kindle users.
The agreement (pdf), which was spotted by Seattle’s TechFlash, effectively prevents Amazon reaching out and deleting or modifying works in future. However, as a negotiated agreement it doesn’t [...]
Posted on October 4, 2009, 12:03 am, by Abhijit Kamal.
It seems O2 is throwing its toys out of the iPhone pram, and is sitting on the fence as to whether it will provide users with iPhone unlock codes to move to other networks.Previously the network had refused to unlock handsets based on the grounds that it had an exclusive deal with Apple. Now that [...]
Posted on October 3, 2009, 10:31 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
Joby has outed a new addition to its Gorillapod line of camera tripods for the iPhone, tipping its hat to the importance that the iPhone has played in amateur photography and movie making.Following the launch of the iPhone 3G S, YouTube saw an increase in uploads of 400%, and all three models of the iPhone combined make [...]
Posted on October 2, 2009, 1:09 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
PREVIEWArchos has long been king of the PMP, and while Apple drags its feet over an internet tablet, Archos has jumped straight in with a sleek, Android-toting device putting web, media and TV in the palm of your hand.Full-width web browsingThe extra real-estate afforded by the 4.8in 800×480-pixel screen means you can surf the web [...]
Posted on October 2, 2009, 12:55 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
Perhaps Sony knew something we didn’t when it launched its e-book Readers in August, with rumours suggesting that the e-book industry’s 500-pound gorilla, Amazon, will launch the Kindle in the UK far sooner than initially thought.
Amazon is all set to launch the Kindle in the UK as soon as next week, if new reports are to [...]
Posted on October 1, 2009, 7:50 pm, by Abhijit Kamal.
Back in July, Apple stealthily acquired Placebase, a mapping company that provides a service similar to Google Maps, but with more robust customizations and set of APIs, called Pushpin, for layering data sets over maps.
Google and Apple have been steadily moving from friends to frenemies of late, with the advent of Android and CloudOS, the whole Google [...]