Asus UL50AG-A2 And UL80Vt-A1 Notebooks With $100 Gift Card Deal Offered On Amazo

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Gift card bundle deals seem to be a hot trend again this holiday shopping season. Walmart is offering the Xbox 360 Arcade with a $100 gift card tomorrow. Amazon just launched a gift card deal on three Asus notebook from their UL series.
You get a free $100 Amazon gift card with the purchase of the Asus UL50AG-A2 or Asus UL80Vt-A1. If you buy the Asus UL20A-A1 you get still a $75 Amazon gift card.
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Posted on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Super Mario Bros Wii Game With $10 Credit Available On Amazon

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Amazon matches the $10 off deal on the New Super Mario Bros Wii Game that Walmart started offering over the weekend.
When you order New Super Mario Bros. Wii you get $10 off a future video game purchase. The promotional code will be placed directly into your Amazon.com account within 2 business days after the product ships. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Black Friday Rumored To See Launch of Verizon BlackBerry Curve2 Or HTC Passion

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Verizon Wireless is currently the hottest carrier in the news with the upcoming Droid release this week. BGR has a hot rumor on hand that Verizon Wireless is not done with hot new smartphone releases this year.
Verizon is supposed to launch the BlackBerry Curve2 or the HTC Passion on Black Friday.

Overall Verizon is said to introduce 15 new phones during the coming holiday shopping season. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:00:26 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Droid And Droid Eris Rumored To Launch November 6th

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Verizon Wireless started officially teasing the highly anticipated Droid Android 2.0 smartphone ten days ago. BoyGeniusReport says that their contacts claim the launch date of the Droid and the Droid Eris will be November 6th on Verizon Wireless. Read more

Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:57:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Nintendo DSi With Bigger Screen Rumored

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The Nintendo DSi is supposed to get an upgrade. According to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Shimbun Nintendo will still release a DSi console with a larger screen in 2009.
The article that Nikkei published online does not contain the information that the new DSi screen would be 4-inches as the print edition supposedly did. According to Joystiq's coverage, the price point of the new DSi would stay the same. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LoJack Unveils Self Powered Vehicle Recovery Solution

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If you have ever seen the show Jacked, you know how LoJack works. A transponder is hidden on a vehicle to give the cars location in the event that it is stolen. LoJack has announced a new next generation tracking device that is aimed at use in future electric and hybrid vehicles.

The solution allows the vehicles to have the security of LoJack tracking but is self powered so it doesn't impact the driving range of electric or hybrid vehicles. The new device doesn't have be tied into the vehicles battery making it less of a drain and requiring no splicing into the vehicles power system. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Epson Adds Tethered Shooting to P-6000 and P-7000 Photo Viewers

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Epson unveiled its P-6000 and P-7000 photo viewers a while back and has been adding new features to the devices ever since. The P-6000 and P-7000 photo viewers are devices that allow photographers to offload their photos to a larger hard drive for storage in the field.

The photo viewers are perfect for backing your photos up while you are shooting them. Epson announced last week that the P-6000 and P-7000 digital photo viewers have gained new features. Both of the devices can now be tethered to a DSLR camera via a USB cable. This allows the image taken to be stored to the camera's internal memory card and to the Epson photo viewer at the same time. Read more

Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Black Friday Blu-ray Player Deal Predicted At $49

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Blu-ray player prices are in free fall compared to last year. Sales analyst NPD even sees a $49 Blu-ray player deal as conceivable on Black Friday according to Blu-ray.com.
I agree that a $49 Blu-ray player is possible. We just reported about the Sylvania NB530SLX Blu-ray player on sale for $124.99 last week.
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Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Slate Has Reappeared As A Name For The Apple Tablet

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The Apple Tablet rumor is still strong, but because the launch is expected for 2010 it got a bit quite. Over the weekend the potential name of the Apple Tablet appeared. According to 9to5Mac Bill Keller, Executive Editor of The NY Times, mentioned Apple Slate as an example of devices in a speech. It could be a slip, but it also could mean nothing.
See, back in 2007, the Apple Tablet rumor already existed and some referred to it as Apple Slate. I also found on Google that some people just like to refer to a Tablet computer as a Slate. Read more

Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

BlackBerry OS 5.0 Update Rumored To Be Released This Week

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RIM is expected to release the new BlackBerry firmware update 5.0 in the coming week on October 28th.
According to CrackBerry the list of BlackBerry phones that will be able to run OS 5.0 include BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8200, Curve 8330, Curve 8350i, Curve 8900, Bold 9000, Tour 9630 and as reported already the BlackBerry Storm. Read more

Posted on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Epson Photo viewers Now Support Tethered Shooting

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Epson is probably best known by most of us for its line of printers and scanners. The company makes a range of other gear too, including home theater projectors and picturing viewing devices for pro photographers. Epson has announced that it's P-6000 and P-7000 multimedia photo viewers now feature tethering.

The ability to tether to the camera as the photographer is shooting allows them to be able to see their images immediately and save them as they are shot to streamline the backup process. The DSLR camera has to connect to the Epson viewers via a USB cable and the image is automatically saved to the viewer. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Google Music Service Rumored [Update]

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Google is rumored to soon launch a music service according to a report on TechCrunch.
It could be named Google Audio, but this name is not very sexy in my mind. It is not known yet if the Google music service would be streaming like Spotify or a download service like iTunes. Read more

Posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:01:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Impressive Apple iMac, New Plastic MacBook, New Mac Mini Rumored For Today

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As reported over the weekend the Apple rumor mill points to a big hardware announcement today Tuesday 20th.
John Gruber on his Daring Fireball site posted a short post on what he heard Apple will unveil today. His list contains new Apple iMac, which he calls impressive. Well, I really hope they are. If the new iMac has Core i7 and SSD options, I think I will get weak. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:45:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Alex Dual Screen Android Powered eBook Reader Unveiled By Spring Design

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What is this? We just received a press-release announcing an eBook reader with two screens running Android dubbed Alex. The Alex eBook reader is by California based Spring Design.
Alex looks pretty much like the leaked photos of the alleged Barnes & Noble eBook reader that is supposed to be announced tomorrow.
Alex is the first e-book based on Google Android featuring full browser capabilities and patented dual screen interaction technology, the Duet Navigator. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:10:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Q4 Earnings To Be Announced Monday, Blockbuster Mac Sales Predicted

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Apple announced to report their Q4 earnings on Monday October 19th. As always there will be live audio streaming of the call available on the Apple site.
According to AppleInsider two new analyst reports are pretty upbeat on what Apple will announce. Read more

Posted on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:37:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nikon D3s Rumored For October Release

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Rumors about a new professional Nikon DSLR are intensifying. Nikon is said to release the Nikon D3s this month.
Nikon Rumors summarized what the new features of the Nikon D3s are rumored to be. The Nikon D3s is supposed to have better ISO, 1.2 Crop mode, 720p (not 1080p) video recording, bigger buffer, improved AF-On and multi-dial controls. Read more

Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:21:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Solar Powered eBook Unveiled

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Since eBook Reader is a very hot topic right now, LG Displays decided to show off their new thin-film solar cell in an eBook Reader.
The thin-film solar cell featured in the e-book measures 100mm in width and length, it was developed to fit the 6-inch display panel for e-books currently mass produced by LG Display. The solar cell measures 0.7mm in thickness and weighs a mere 20g.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:56:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Barnes & Noble eBook Reader Rumored For A November Release

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Barnes & Noble already sells eBooks and you can read these for instance already on the iPhone with the B&N eReader.
Barnes & Noble already announced in July a partnership with eReader maker Plastic Logic. The WSJ reports now that Barnes & Noble is according to sources ready to launch their eBook reader in November. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Oct 2009 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

BlackBerry Bold 2 Aka Onyx aka 9700 Rumored For October 21st

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Besides a new BlackBerry Storm 2 there is supposed to be also a new BlackBerry Bold 2 coming.
Engadget serves up a rumor that T-Mobile and AT&T will announce the new BlackBerry Bold 2 on October 21st. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Oct 2009 02:53:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell Android Phone Rumored For AT&T

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Dell has developed an Android Smartphone for the Chinese market. Yesterday we already reported about a rumor that Dell is trying to enter the U.S. market with their Android phones over the next month.
The Wall Street Journal (Subscription) tops this rumor saying that Dell is building an Android phone for AT&T. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:43:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Huge Ring Around Saturn Discovered

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If you look to closely you sometimes miss the full picture like in the case of planet Saturn. Saturn is known for his rings. Now NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn.
The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturn system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane. The bulk of its material starts about 3.7 million miles away from the planet and extends outward roughly another 7.4 million miles. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:08:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr