Sonos S5 Ships And Now Supports Twitter

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Sonos unveiled the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 last month and announced today that the S5 is now shipping nation-wide. The all-in-one wireless music system you can control with an iPhone, iPod touch or any Sonos Controller has an MSRP of $399 and is available on Amazon.

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Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:49:15 CST | 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

iFrame Video Format Support With iMovie 8.0.5 Update

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Apple issued an update that brings iFrame video format support to the iMovie application available in the iLife '09 software package.
With the iMovie 8.0.5 update you can use the new iFrame format designed by Apple to speed up importing and editing by keeping the content in its native recorded format while editing. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Sanyo VPC-FH1A And VPC-HD2000A Support New Apple iFrame

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Apple silently cooked up a new video format dubbed iFrame. The iFrame format has a resolution of 960 x 540px and is designed by Apple to speed up importing and editing by keeping the content in its native recorded format while editing.
The first two camcorder supporting iFrame are from Sanyo. The new Sanyo VPC-FH1A (Buy Now On Amazon) and VPC-HD2000A camcorder were announced today.

The Sanyo HD2000A and the FH1A Dual Cameras are automatically programmed to default to the iFrame mode for ultimate ease of use and convenience to the user.
In addition to the iFrame video format (960 x 540), the cameras can record in High Definition 1080P (1920 x 1080), as well as high speed video formats for slow motion playback. The two new models are nearly identical camcorders in two different body designs. The HD2000A is in SANYO's signature vertical form factor while the FH1A is a traditional style camcorder shape (horizontal). Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:31:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nvidia Ion 2 Shipping On Time, Supports Multiple Processors

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If you're planning to pick up a netbook or CULV around the turn of the year, you might be in luck. Electronista has just confirmed that Nvidia's Ion 2 chipset is still expected to ship before the end of 2009. The Ion platform brings superior graphics processing to smaller machines like netbooks. Ion 2 is an extension of this, and one that should come with support for more platforms than its predecessor.

That's right, an Nvidia executive has confirmed that the Ion 2 will support more processors than just the venerable Atom. The Celeron, Core 2, and Pentium processors will all be able to work with Ion 2. That means we'll get to see this chipset make an appearance in a whole bunch of HD-capable CULV notebooks.

Posted on Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:31:48 CDT | by Robert Evans

AT&T Officially Supports VOIP On Apple iPhone

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AT&T announced it has taken the steps necessary so that Apple can enable VoIP applications on iPhone to run on AT&T’s wireless network.

Since the Vonage VOIP App launched on Monday, is seems AT&T already had this enabled. I assume it is also more a question of actively blocking than enabling.

AT&T says that previously, VoIP applications on iPhone were enabled for Wi-Fi connectivity. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Hexaglot N518 eBook Reader Supports Handwriting Recognition

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Hexaglot offers in Germany a new eBook reader with E-ink touchscreen that lets you scribble on book pages and even add text. The Hexaglot N518 has integrated handwriting recognition.

Other features of the Hexaglot N518 include 5-inch E-Ink touchscreen with 8 shades of grey, 512MB Flash memory, SD-card slot, ePUB (Adobe DRM), PDF, TXT, HTXT, HTML, Microsoft Word format support, battery life is 15 days of intensive reading.

If the Hexaglot N518 would support WiFi or a 3G network it would be more advanced overall than the Amazon Kindle. Watch out for future Kindle eBook reader to support annotating pages and taking handwritten notes. Read more

Posted on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:28:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New ATI Radeon HD 5870 And 5850 Are First To Support DirectX 11

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Today AMD launched the most powerful processor ever created, found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series effectively doubles the value you can expect of your graphics purchases, delivering twice the performance-per-dollar of previous generations of graphics products. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:08:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gmail Gets Push Support for iPhone, Symbian, WinMo

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Today is a great day to be alive. After years of torturous, agonized, nigh-unbearable waiting, mankind has taken a major step forward. Google Sync now has push Gmail support. Sure, that might not be quite as impressive as the moon landing or the discovery of Drambuie, but it's going to make day-to-day life much more convenient for a hell of a lot of people.

Google Sync lets users synchronize their Gmail contacts/Google Calendar with their iPhone OS, WinMo, or Symbian smartphones. Today Google has added Gmail support to sync, which means you can now have your messages pushed straight to your phone. Your inbox stays up to date wherever you are, without you needing to refresh.

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:28:07 CDT | by Robert Evans

RIM Bringing Full Flash Support to BlackBerries

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Huge news, BlackBerry addicts! According to Boy Genius RIM is in the process of integrating full Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support to the BlackBerry web browser. This is HUGE news for the world's #2 smartphone manufacturer, and bad news to Apple's h.264 codec. Smartphones have gotten away with ignoring Flash for a long time, but it looks like Adobe finally won this particular tug-of-war.

Now, be forewarned that just because Flash support is in development doesn't mean we'll see it anytime soon. RIM is notoriously slow with this sort of thing, and the current scuttlebutt doesn't have this integration going live before next Summer. If that's true, Flash integration will likely be introduced alongside the next big upgrade to the BlackBerry line.

Posted on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:35:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Akamai Supports Variable Bit Rate HQ Video Streaming for iPhone

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Akamai has announced that it now supports variably high quality bit rate streaming to deliver high quality video for the iPhone and iPod touch. The feature was one of the key items in the new iPhone 3.0 OS update that was recently unveiled.

Support for streaming to the iPhone is part of the Akamai Media Delivery solution. The company has teamed with broadcasters including Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Discovery, FOX News, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, MTV, NPR, Turner Sports and USA TODAY. Read more

Posted on Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AT&T not supporting iPhone tethering in new iPhone 3.0 OS

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Apple is right now presenting the new iPhone 3.0 OS at the WWDC 2009 and confirmed that it will support tethering. Tethering is a seamless experience on the iPhone and part of the OS.
22 carriers around the world will support tethering at launch. According to the live WWDC 2009 coverage at MacRumors AT&T is not among them. Read more

Posted on Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:12:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New iPhone 2009 may support real Background Apps

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So far Apple has only announced push notification support in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS to support building apps that at least can listen for messages in the background. Now Silicon Alley Insider kicked off a slew of new rumors (see also Daring Fireball and TechCrunch ) by saying that Apple is trying to get real background app support for 3rd party iPhone applications on the iPhone.
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Posted on Sat, 16 May 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 2.2 supports Windows 7

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NVIDIA released version 2.2 of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK for GPU Computing. This latest release supports several significant new features that deliver a major leap forward in getting the most performance out of NVIDIA's parallel CUDA-enabled GPUs.
In addition, version 2.2 of the CUDA Toolkit includes support for Windows 7.

Besides Windows 7 the upcoming Apple OS X Snow Leopard is supporting NVIDIA CUDA. Of course you need one of the new Macs that have the NVIDIA chipset. CUDA is rather promising in speeding up some applications. The new Nero Move media app gained a 5x performance gain with CUDA. Read more

Posted on Sat, 9 May 2009 12:49:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New iPhone 2009 rumored to support HD Video Playback and Output

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If this rumor is true, the new iPhone would be a more of a revolution and not just an upgrade. According to PhoneNews (via IntoMobile) Apple is having its retailers clear out the Apple Composite AV Cable and Apple Component AV Cable as it is supposed to be replaced by a new Apple AV Cable that supports both. Read more

Posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:40:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sun Solaris Platforms support Intel Xeon 5500 CPUs

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Sun has announced that its Solaris platform including the Solaris 10 operating system and OpenSolaris has been extended to support the new Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. Sun says that it has already shipped several Sun Blade servers using the new processors to HPC customer deployments.

Part of the new benefit of Sun platforms and the Xeon 5500 series CPUs is power management capabilities. Sun says that it leverages the power of its operating systems and the 5500 series CPUs to boost energy efficiency and adjust processor power on demand in response to system utilization. Read more

Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Microsoft Announces Support for Windows Marketplace or Mobile

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Microsoft has announced that support has been gathered for a coming Windows Mobile application store called Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The store will be much like the Apple App Store that has been such a huge hit and massive moneymaker for Apple and its iPhone/iPod touch.

Microsoft says that it has gathered support for the marketplace from some of the biggest companies in the mobile entertainment and software realm. Among the companies that will be producing applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices are EA mobile, Facebook, Glu Mobile, MySpace, Namco, Netflix, and many more. Read more

Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:27:59 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Wii Menu 4.0 System Update features SD Card Support

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Nintendo launched a new system update for the Nintendo Wii bringing SD card access support.
Now you can store and manage games and other data stored on SD and SDHC cards.
you can now extend the storage capacity of your Wii up to to 32GB and launch WiiWare titles, Virtual Console games, or channels directly from an SD/SDHC Card. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 2009 rumored to support HSDPA

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Yet another rumor appeared today about the features the all new iPhone 2009 seen to arrive in June or July will bring.
Silicon Alley Insider reports that they heard from an mobile industry insider that they iPhone would get significantly faster internet speeds.
What this possibly means that the iPhone would support HSDPA 3G speeds of 7.2Mbps. A skill many other smartphones are already capable of. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:37:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 3.0 supports USB Tethering unofficially

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It is the most normal thing you would want to do with a 3G phone. Connect it via a USB cable to your notebook and use it as a modem. The iPhone said no to this unless you jailbreak it. Now a developer discovered that the new iPhone 3.0 firmware has USB Tethering built-in.
Let's hope it stays and carriers give up on the idea of selling us an iPhone and a 3G data card. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:57:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Scosche supports new iPod shuffle with Noise isolating Earphones

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Apple unveiled the new iPod shuffle 3G yesterday featuring a new headset design. Headsets for the new iPod shuffle need to feature the special control unit to operate the iPod shuffle or you cannot use the new iPod.
Scosche jumps on the new iPod shuffle hardware and announces new IDR (Increased Dynamic Range) noise isolating earphones that give iPod shuffle users the ability to play, pause, adjust volume, skip tracks, navigate playlists and hear the name of the song and artist with the press of a button. Read more

Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr