WD My Book Studio Edition II Review

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PhotographyBlog published a review of the new WD My Book Studio Edition II external hard-drive.

Quote from the review: "Only just announced, we bring you the World’s first review of the WD My Book Studio Edition II, an eco-friendly, high-capacity backup solution. Safely backing up your images on a regular basis is an essential part of any photographer’s workflow. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:03:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

WD Caviar RE2 GreenPower 1TB HDD Review

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Hothardware published a review of the Western Digital Caviar and RE.2 GreenPower 1TB hard drive.

Quote from the review: "In addition to their large capacities, these drives offer a number of proprietary features designed to lower their power consumption and acoustic profiles, like IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, IntelliPark, and in the RE.2's case RAFF (Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward). Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple WWDC 08 starts June 9th

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Apple announced the details of this years WWDC ( World Wide Developers Conference 2008). The tag line for the WWDC 08 is: "A landmark event. In more ways than one."

With the iPhone 2.0 and SDK launching in June, I totally agree with the bold tagline. The iPhone SDK has already been downloaded over a 100,000 times, which indicates a strong interest in the developer community to create applications for the Mac OS phone. Read more

Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Medium Enterprises Says Three HD Formats Was a Crowd

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New Medium Enterprises who promotes and makes players and movie titles for its own VMD HD movie format says now that HD DVD is gone, it’s time to look at VMD. NME says that both VMD and Blu-ray use 6-inch optical disc formats and have players and content in the market.

The big benefit of VMD according to the NME is that the players are cheaper because they are based on red laser technology. "The way is now clear for VMD to be embraced by the industry, our technology is robust and our format is clearly equal to the quality required to deliver a true HD experience for the consumer at a price they are prepared to afford" Said Interim CEO Geoff Russell. Read more

Posted on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:18:49 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Rambo leads Crowd entering Box-office fray

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There just might be blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and Oscar-rejuvenated titles. Read more

Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:35:50 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sanyo LVT-WD40 Waterproof LCD TV

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Sanyo announces the LVT-WD40 waterproof portable LCD TV for kitchen and bathrooms.

Apparently the Sanyo LVT-WD40 has the industry's best water resistance (IPX6/IPX7). IPX7 means you can immersive completely in water and the TV will survive the bath. It features a digital TV tuner (Wansegu) and the screen size is 4 inch.
The battery holds for 7 hours and the LVT-WD40 recharges in 3.5 hours. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tech Firms alert for U.S. Slowdown spread to Europe

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By Georgina Prodhan, European Technology Correspondent

BARCELONA (Reuters) - The technology sector is alert for signs that effects of a U.S. spending slowdown will spread to Europe but has not seen evidence of that yet, companies at a Barcelona conference said this week. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

WD My DVR Expander Hard Drives Add 60 Hrs of HD Video Recording to TIVO

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Western Digital announced today its latest product called the My DVR Expander designed to expand the recording capacity of DVR systems. The My DVD Expander is verified compatible with TiVo HD and Series3 DVR systems.

The drives are available now at Best Buy or via the TiVo online store. With capacities of 500GB the My DVR Extender can store up to 300 hours of SD programming or 60 hours of HD programming. Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:11:13 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Wilson surprises Darjeeling Premiere Crowd

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By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Owen Wilson made a surprise appearance at Thursday night's Los Angeles premiere of the road comedy "The Darjeeling Limited," his first public outing since a reported suicide attempt in August. Read more

Posted on Sat, 6 Oct 2007 01:11:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Kanye West crushes 50 Cent in Sales Showdown

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kanye West sold almost a million copies of his latest album during its first week in U.S. stores, winning a much-hyped sales race with rival rapper 50 Cent and providing the ailing record industry with a rare piece of good news. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Midnight Movies draw Crowds to hoot and holler

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By Ka Yan Ng

TORONTO (Reuters) - Blood and gore, rock and roll, naked men wrestling, killer sheep, "general freakdom," and an audience that hoots and hollers its way through a movie are par for the course at midnight screenings here. Read more

Posted on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Epson Projectors EMP-TW2000, EMP-DM1 and EMP-TWD10

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Epson announces three new LCD projectors in their Dreamio line.

The highlight is the full HD EMP-TW2000 projector with 50,000:1 contrast ratio, 1600lm and two HDMI ports.
Other features of the new Epson 1080p Home cinema projector EMP-TW2000 include DeepBlack, C2 Fine, Opti Focus, Color Reality III and a 2.1x zoom lens. Read more

Posted on Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Navigation Makers vie to stand out in a Crowd

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By Niclas Mika

BERLIN (Reuters) - Manufacturers of satellite navigation devices are loading up their gadgets with features from audio sightseeing guides to three-dimensional city views as they seek to differentiate themselves in a crowded market. Read more

Posted on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive WD7500AAKS Review

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3dGameMan reviews the Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive WD7500AAKS. The WD 750GB HDD starts at $190 on these stores.

Quote from the review: "The Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB Hard Drive (WD7500AAKS) is one of the largest hard drives currently on the market. Why does anyone need a hard drive this large? Well, if you are asking this question, you probably don't. Read more

Posted on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Simpsons draws Crowds as Box Office surges

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By Gregg Kilday

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Simpsons joined Hollywood's list of power families as their big-screen debut conquered the North American box office with weekend sales of $74.04 million, according to final data issued Monday. Read more

Posted on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hyundai Tiburon Replacement will be RWD, V8 a Possibility

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Motor Trend is reporting that information is leaking out of Korea and confirming that the replacement for the current Hyundai Tiburon will be a rear wheel drive car. The new Tiburon will be based on Hyundai’s upcoming Genesis platform which will be shared amongst several models.

One of the models that will share the Genesis platform along with the Tiburon’s replacement is a sedan to battle the BMW 5 series. The really interesting part about the new sedan is that a V8 will be optional. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

The black WD Passport 250GB Portable HDD

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Western Digital has one of the most stylish portable hard-drives on the market with the Passport.

The USB powered 250GB drive is ultra-compact and sports a glossy black casing.
The drive comes with installed Google software (Windows Only) to search and organize your data. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug WD Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption. (Windows only) Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony Walkman NWD-B100

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Sony introduces the Walkman NWD-B100 in Europe.

The NWD-B100 features the stick design with integrated USB plug that we already know from Sony.
Features of the new Walkman include 3-line color display, Auto Transfer software (iTunes for the poor), 6-mode equalizer, voice recorder and FM-tuner (NWD-B103F, B105F only). Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Transformers Animated Shirts for the Geeky & Proud of it Crowd

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ThinkGeek has possibly the geekiest shirt every devised, the animated Transformers shirt. You have two choices the AutoBot in red or Decepticon in purple. The Logo lights up in a pattern sure to announce your geekdom to the world.

The shirt is powered by a pair of AAA batteries hidden inside a interior pocket of the shirt. Geeks be warned, you must hand wash the shirt. The description says you can adjust the animation style. Read more

Posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:39:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Highlights of Steve Jobs Keynote at WWDC 07

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Apple boss Steve Jobs revealed in gory details the Mac OS X Leopard at the WWDC 07. It looks great and will sell for an affordable $129.

Apple says that you get more than 300 inventions with this 64-bit OS X update. The highlights are the new cool desktop with stacks, Finder with music cover browser, Time Machine backup, Quick look and the new iChat.

Apple will enable 3rd party developer support on the iPhone. They do it with Web 2.0 technologies like Ajax, to keep the core of the phone save.

The 3rd interesting announcement is Apple releasing Safari 3 web browser on Windows Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Steve Jobs Keynote at the Apple WWDC 07

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Apple boss Steve Jobs will take the stage at the WWDC 07 developer conference in San Francisco in less than 1 hour.

Apple will show a feature complete version of Mac OS X Leopard and attendees get a copy of the beta.

If Steve Jobs will reveal something about the iPhone is just speculation.
The latest rumors include that Google is improving .Mac service (Engadget). Read more