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News August 31, 2009
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Klipsch Quietly Updates the IGroove SXT iPod Dock

Klipsch has given its 2-year old iGroove SXT iPod dock a much needed refresh. Now boasting Apple’s ‘Works with iPod’ certification, the iGroove accommodates all current iPod and iPhone models, and charges a docked device using a 1000mA rapid recharge circuit (theoretically twice as fast as charging through USB). Other enhancements include retuned bass ports [...]

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Reviews August 19, 2009
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Review: Olympus E-P1 Digital Pen (Part 1)

This is the Olympus E-P1 , the digital camera that set a million tongues wagging when it was announced. The first Olympus camera to be based on the Micro Four-Thirds standard co-developed with Panasonic, the E-P1 is supposed to be able to capture close to professional DSLR (digital SLR) quality photographs, in a form-factor barely [...]

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News July 10, 2009
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The Flipside of Fashion is Security – This Wallet is a Vault in a Pocket

Tin foil is sooo passé. If you’re stylish and paranoid, the Flipside wallet is the fashion accessory for you. This polymer and aluminum wallet comes in three striking colors, holds 6 cards or 15 cash bills, and springs open automatically at the press of a button. Credit cards these days come with embedded radio (RFID) [...]

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News June 25, 2009
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iPhone 3GS Gives YouTube a 400% Boost in Mobile Uploads

The iPhone has done it again. Google announced today that in less than a week since its release, the latest iteration of the iPhone has boosted mobile video uploads to YouTube by 400%. This is part of a wider trend that has seen a 1700% rise in uploads to YouTube from mobile phones over the [...]

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News June 22, 2009
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Apple Delaying Release of iPhone Push-capable Apps?

According to one iPhone app developer, the current paucity of push-capable apps is due to server-side problems at Apple. Powerybase, developer of the NotifyMe app, received an email from Apple notifying them of a delay. According to NotifyMe’s developers, they believe Apple may not have even started testing some (most?) of these apps; as with [...]

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News June 19, 2009
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iPhone 3G S Dissected: 833 MHz Processor, 720p Video Recording Capable

RapidRepair got one of the first commercially available iPhone 3G S’ from France and performed a quick teardown. They’re in the process of conducting a more detailed analysis, but they’ve already found out that the 3G S runs on a Samsung S5PC100 SoC (system on a chip). The S5PC100 is capable of running at up [...]

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News June 17, 2009
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One Year On, How Is the iPhone Doing In Your Country?

The iPhone 3G was launched internationally a year ago. From June to August 2008, iPhone mania reached a peak; lines snaked around phone stores worldwide, and for a while, the ubiquitous xylophone ringtone was heard everywhere. It’s been almost a year since then and the true 3rd-generation iPhone, the 3G S, is about to be [...]

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News June 16, 2009
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Opera Unite: My Computer Is Your Computer

Opera, maker of the Opera web browser, has just announced Opera Unite – a feature that turns your web browser into a web server with one click. It’s hard to categorize, but the description makes it sound like a mash up of P2P, social networking, file transfer, internet relay chat, instant messaging and cloud-based technologies. [...]

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News June 10, 2009
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iPhone Model Differentiation Getting Ridiculous

Apple has said in the past that from the iPhone 3G onwards, the iPhone product range will be segmented, based not on hardware, but on software. The iPhone 3G S gives an idea of how Apple is working towards this. The iPhone 3G, when upgraded to the new iPhone OS 3.0, lacks the voice-dialing and [...]

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News June 2, 2009
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China Blocks… Pretty Much Everything

It’s amazing that in these troubling times filled with economic uncertainty and unbridled social woe, the petty-minded governments of various countries still manage to find the time and resources to censor media outlets in order to protect their citizenry from the corrupting influence of free speech. Iran briefly blocked access to Facebook, ahead of its [...]

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News June 2, 2009
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Let Loose Your Quirky Inner Billionaire

With quirky, no longer will budding James Dysons have to move Down Under or enter humiliating reality TV shows, in order to bring their inventions to market. Quirky is an “online social product development company”. For a non-refundable $99 fee, you get to submit an idea for a product that, if selected (by the quirky [...]

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Reviews May 29, 2009
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Spb TV for Symbian S60 Review

A while ago, I ranted on a Symbian forum about what a piece of cr disappointment the Nokia N96 was, and how it’d put me off Nokia smartphones forever. Until a recent firmware update, the N96 was slow, buggy and practically unusable. It creaks so much, I’ve actually come to think of the squishy casing [...]

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News May 18, 2009
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iPhone à la Microsoft?

The Register reports that Apple is considering expanding the iPhone range; not with radically differentiated hardware, but by varying the software features included with various models. Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner, speaking exclusively to Register reporter James Sherwood, recently met with Apple executives in which several hints about future iPhones were dropped. Apple staff are notoriously [...]

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News May 6, 2009
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Bang & Olufsen Launches the BeoVision 4 103″ Television Online – Marc Shows You Its Massive Tubes

Bang & Olufsen, the Danish purveyors of massively expensive audio-visual equipment, previewed the ginormous 103″ BeoVision 4-103 to selected journalists earlier this year, via private webcast events. Messrs. Bang and Olufsen have finally consented to allowing the hoi polloi to marvel over their massive baby.

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Reviews May 5, 2009
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Review: Memopal Online Backup and Storage

I reviewed Diino last week and while I thought that it had potential, I couldn’t really recommend using it as a primary online backup solution. I was trying out two other services at the same time, so here’s Part II of the trilogy. Memopal is a year-old start up based in Italy, providing online backup [...]

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