Bullguard and SteelSeries Announce PC Security for Gamers

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According to security software maker Bullguard about 20% of gamers don’t use Pc security of any kind. To address the needs for security among gamers, Bullguard announced its Gamers' Edition software.

The software doesn’t require lots of resources and when placed in game profile the user gets no firewall or update messages while playing. The software provides full antivirus, antispyware, and firewall. Pricing for the software is EUR49.99 for a year's subscription. Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:38:25 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

LG Voyager Titanium announced by Verizon

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Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics today introduced the LG Voyager in Titanium.
The Titanium LG Voyager is boasting the same dual-screen design and features of its predecessor in black, the Voyager in Titanium has a titanium finish and also supports V CAST Music with Rhapsody and Visual Voice Mail.
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Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:15:57 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG N4B1 Blu-ray NAS premiers at IFA 2008

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LG will unveil the N4B1 Blu-ray NAS (Network Attached Storage) at the IFA 2008 later this week.
LG claims that the LG N4B1 is the world's first NAS with integrated Blu-ray drive. Owners of a N4B1 can automatically archive old and unused data to Blu-ray disc. The LG N4B1 has a web interface and is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Read more

Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG and AT&T Introduce the Invision Mobile Phone

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LG Mobile Phones announced a new handset called the Invision that will be an AT&T exclusive handset. The Invision is the third device to offer access to AT&T Mobile TV and is the smallest mobile TV capable phone in the United States. The handset measures 4 inches tall x 2 inches wide x less than a half-inch thick.

The handset allows TV fans to watch their favorite programs including college football games on CBS mobile, ESPN mobile, Fox mobile, and NBC2GO. The handset also offers Video Share calling and has 1.3-megapixel camera. Read more

Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Visual Voice Mail announced by Verizon for LG Voyager

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Verizon Wireless announces Visual Voice Mail service available today on the LG Voyager smartphone.
Visual Voice Mail was first available on the Apple iPhone. Since Apple had to license Visual Voice Mail from Klausner it seems everyone who licenses from them can call it Visual Voice Mail. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:38:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG HS102G palm-sized LED Projector unveiled

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LG announces the palm-sized LED projector LG HS102G. Measurements of the highly portable new LG projector are 154x117mm, and the weight is 780g.
The LED DLP HS102G projector achieves a lamp life of over 30,000 hours and runs at a very quite 23db.

The brightness of the HS102G is 160 ANSI Lumen and the contrast ratio is 2,000:1. Read more

Posted on Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:48:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG first to mass-produce Halogen-free 13.3 inch LCD Panel

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LG announces that they will commence mass-production of environmentally friendly 13.3 inch notebook display panels this month.

The new LCD panels are halogen-free, meaning that the concentration of Bromine (Br) and chlorine (Cl) got dramatically reduced in these panels. Read more

Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:40:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Weekly Top 10: New Asus Eee PCs, new MacBooks and new iPod nanos Rumors, LG BD30

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Surprise! Asus has many more Eee PCs coming this year to completely take over the netbook market and also reach into the notebook segment.
NVIDIA announced a couple new GPUs this week.
Apple is rumored to update their MacBooks and iPod nano soon.

See also our latest Gadget Videos.
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Posted on Sun, 3 Aug 2008 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New LG BD300 Blu-ray Player streams Netflix

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Netflix gets another hardware device that supports their on demand video service. The Roku Netflix player was launched in May. Now LG announced the LG BD300 Blu-ray player with Netflix movie streaming capability.

Available this fall, the LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player will play high definition Blu-ray discs, up-convert standard DVDs to 1080p and allow Netflix subscribers to instantly stream more than 12,000 choices of movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the TV for no additional charge. Read more

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG unveils 1 inch thin tilting Flat Screen TV Wall Mount

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LG unveiled a tilting Flat Screen TV wall mount that is 50% thinner than former solutions.

The new wall mount has a depth of only 25mm. Today when flat screen TVs get thinner and thinner, it is of course important to have wall mounts that are as thin as possible too. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:01:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New moldless Mobile Phone Displays by LG Innotek

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LG Innotek is manufacturing new LCD displays for mobile phones that are much more compact as they almost get rid of the frame around the visible display.

LG calls these new displays mold-less. Currently the company produces 2.2 by 2.4 inch moldless displays. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:45:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG XD1 stylish portable hard-drives unveiled

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LG unveils the XD1 line of portable hard-drives.

The LG XD1 devices are based on 2.5 inch drives with a SATA II interface. The USB 2.0 E-SATA port has transfer speeds of up to 480mbps.
LG will offer the XD1 in capacities of 120, 160, 250, and 320GB. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:54:42 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG S510, R510 and R410 Intel Centrino 2 Notebooks unveiled

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LG Electronics announces three new notebooks that are based on the new Intel Centrino 2 platform that was also just announced by Intel. The new LG notebooks include the LG X-Note S510, R510 and R410 models.

The LG X-Note S510 series features a 15.4-inch LED LCD backlight screen, Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz, 6MB, FSB 1066MHz), 3GB DDR3 memory and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:24:20 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Chocolate 3 unveiled by Verizon Wireless

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Verizon Wireless announced on iPhone 3G launch day the new LG Chocolate 3 phone.

The new LG Chocolate 3 is a flip phone style music phone with support of the new Verizon Wireless V CAST Music with Rhapsody. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Text Messaging Champion Crowned by LG

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LG has crowned the champion of its second annual LG National Texting Competition. The finals were held July 9th in New York City and Nathan Schwartz from Ohio won $50,000 in prize money for his texting skills.

The text that Schwartz sent to win the competition was, “Does everybody here know the alphabet? Let's text. Here it goes ... AbcDeFghiJKlmNoPQrStuvWXy & Z! Now I know my A-B-C's, next time won't you text with me?" Schwartz was able to complete the text accurately in 50 seconds. The competition was only open to those with active LG phones. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:02:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

LG Display Q2 net surges on TV Sales, tight Supply

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd reported on Wednesday its net profit more than trebled thanks to strong demand for flat-screen televisions and tight supplies of PC panels.
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Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Display Q2 seen surging, but LCD Outlook dimmer

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By Rhee So-eui

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd and two smaller Taiwanese rivals are set to post profits for the second quarter that more than trebled thanks to strong demand for TVs and tight supplies of PC panels.
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Posted on Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:45:07 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Image Fulgurator wins an a Prix Ars Electronica Price

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The Image Fulgurator is a device that physically manipulates photos without the photographer knowing about it.
The Image Fulgurator detects a camera flash and projects an image just for a couple of milliseconds.
The inventor called Julius von Bismarck actually won one of the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica golden Nicas this year with the Fulgurator. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Dare now available on Verizon Wireless

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Early June Verizon announced the LG Dare touchscreen phone. Today Verizon says that the smartphone is now available.

The LG Dare features a 3 inch touchscreen with handwriting recognition, a 3.2MP camera with face detection and flash, and photo editing capabilities. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:17:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG and Samsung sexy Phone Girls at the CommunicAsia 2008

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LG and Samsung pushed out photos featuring models with the phones the companies exhibit at the CommunicAsia 2008 in Singapore. There are no real new phones, but the photos are nice to look at, especially the ones from LG.

LG features the LG-KF750, LG-KT610 Symbian QWERTY smartphone, LG-KC550 and LG-KS360. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:52:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Dare, LG Chocolate 3 and LG Decoy new at Verizon

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Verizon Wireless is expanding its LG line-up with the LG Dare, LG Decoy, and the new LG Chocolate 3.

The most interesting of the three new LG phones from Verizon is the LG Dare touch-screen phone.

The 3G V-Cast enabled LG Dare features a 3.2MP camera, in-phone photo editing tool, direct uploads to a social networking site. Other details are still not published. Verizon promises updates on the Dare later this month. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr