Archive for January, 2008

Western Digital intros My Passport Essential external HDD

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Filed under: Storage

WD’s Passport portable drive a bit too clunky for your tastes? We dig your style, and if you’re always looking for something sleeker and sexier, the new My Passport Essential is likely to satisfy — if only for a moment. Reportedly, these were tweaked to look more like the firm’s popular My Book […]

eMachines’ new T5246 and T3642 desktops make you go “Eh.”

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Filed under: Desktops

eMachines, long known for dropping mediocre, middle of the road, inoffensive desktops, has once again busted out of the gate with two new defiantly tame PCs that will make you say “Hello.” The latest entries — confusingly named the T5246 and T3642 — share similar guts, including NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPUs, DVD DVD±R […]

Sony intros the makeup-inducing PCS-XG80 1080i video conferencing system

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV

The kind, loving folks over at Sony claim that they’re about to explode the video conferencing market wide open — HD style — and we’ve got front row seats to the festivities. According to the electronics-maker, the PCS-XG80 is the industry’s first 1080i, HD conferencing solution, and will provide dual streaming, […]

Nokia N95 8GB with US 3G passes FCC

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones

We certainly can’t guarantee that your wait for the US 3G version of the Nokia N95 8GB is nigh, but it did just pass through the FCC, meaning the last major hurdle to selling the things in the US is over. We don’t blame you for gawking, just hang tight until Nokia […]

Mio and Qualcomm to merge GPS, real-time traffic, and cellphone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Handhelds

In case you missed it, the biggest trend in GPS navigators at the moment is real-time, two-way data feeds for traffic updates. There’s the Dash Express of course, and TomTom’s ONE XL HD Traffic GPS navigator with real-time traffic feeds provided over Vodafone’s GSM network. Now Mio is looking for a […]