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Toshiba will ready its tablets late in 2010

Published on: 14th March, 2010

Jeff Barney, Toshiba’s US notebook lead, has said the company would develop its own tablets. He said a line of devices is scheduled for late this year or early in 2011. Details of how the devices would look like were not revealed. Jeff Barney said that Toshiba would have to move very fast to get [...]

Dual-core Wind U230 from MSI to ship in the United States

Published on: 14th March, 2010

MSI has launched the Wind U230 in the United States continuing the series of netbook launches. The U230 is a 12-inch system and uses for the first time the dual-core, 1.6GHz Athlon Neo X2 AMD processor in order to get better-than-usual performance for this size and price. The netbook sports Windows 7 full Home Premium [...]

Free wireless Internet access possible in the United States

Published on: 14th March, 2010

According to a statement released by the FCC, the possibility of providing free wireless access to the Internet is in discussion for the United States. A draft broadband plan was discussed at the recent Digital Inclusion Summit, exposes a series of strategies meant to expand to 90 percent the number of connected Americans, compared to [...]

Cell phones’ displays could be combined thanks to Motorola’s patent

Published on: 9th March, 2010

On March 4th, 2010, a Motorola patent published at the US Patent and Trademark Office has been spotted, suggesting the idea that the company may be planning to combine handheld displays. Considering the fact that different sizes of displays are needed for various different tasks, the patent intends to allow two or more phones, mobile [...]

Would Nintendo Wii face shortages through this month?

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

Nintendo Wii is facing supply shortages again, according to Reggie Fils-Aimé, chief of Nintendo of America. After the record December sales of 3.8 million, the game console maker is again low on stock and does not expect to end it before the end of March. There is also very low supply for the Balance Board [...]

Portégé M780 and Satellite Pro U500 brought to the United States by Toshiba

Published on: 25th February, 2010

The Portégé M780 tablet notebook presented earlier this year by Toshiba is now selling in the United States. Interesting details previously unknown are revealed by the product page, such as the fact that even if being dropped from up to three feet its hard drive does not suffer permanent damage. The 12.1-inch PC is equipped [...]

Samsung 3D TVs soon available in the UK and maybe in the US

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Samsung’s president Hu has announced that the company is about to release its 3D-enabled TVs to the UK market, somewhere in March. He has also promised that every top Samsung TV will have 3D capability. In March, the company will be launching about 20 different 3D-capable products, including Blu-ray players, as well as 3D glasses.
Moreover, [...]

Yamaha’s Tenori-on Orange available in the USA

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

On February 19, 2010, Yamaha has released its Tenori-on Orange to the USA public. This is a unique musical instrument, initially launched in Japan, which is technically a lower-cost variant of the company’s original pad; it creates light and sounds just by pressing on any of the 256 LED buttons. Yamaha Tenori-on Orange is more [...]

FCC – efforts to increase the speed of Internet in the United States to 100Mbps

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Julius Genachowski, chairman of FCC, has launched an effort to increase the speed of Internet access in the United States to 100Mbps or even higher. The initiative is named “100 Squared” and would provide at least 100Mbps access speed to about 100 million homes in the United States. Genachowski did not provide a timeline for [...]

Sony’s XEL-1 is confronting slow demand

Published on: 18th February, 2010

Sony intends to gradually stop shipping the company’s first OLED TV, the XEL-1, in Japan, the home country. Since the late 2007 debut and because of the slow rates of the 11-inch TV set, which has a price of $2,200, this is the company’s first move in what OLED TVs are concerned. Sales for the [...]

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