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News January 8, 2009

PhoneFace and FlipSide get BlackBerry Stormed

Popular BlackBerry Applications FlipSide and PhoneFace have received an update to make them compatible with the new touch screen on the BlackBerry Storm. FlipSide is an MP3 player that plays songs from your memory card and allows you to search online for album artwork. PhoneFace adds large pictures to your contacts making it easier to [...]

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News January 8, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Sony Vaio PC purse sized PC to give MacBook Air stiff competition

Sony introduced their new Vaio P series Lifestyle PC at CES 2009 yesterday. Weighing in at only 1.4 pounds and less than an inch thick the device is looking like one of the first true competitors to Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air. The screen is an 8 inch 1600 x 768 LCD (compared to the 13.3 [...]

SlingPlayer for iPhone gets a demo

Sling Media is busy demonstrating their upcoming SlingPlayer for iPhone. This program for your iPhone (also available for a slew of other mobile devices including Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian and BlackBerry) uses your TV connection and redirects the signal (audio and video) over the Internet so you can view it (legally) from wherever you are. [...]

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News January 8, 2009

by Dan Cohen

Targus Keeps Your Notebook Cool

Targus is announcing a series of new innovative accessories for keeping your laptop cool. Targus is expanding its line of innovative cooling products. The new products include the Chill Mat, Chill Mat XC, Chill Hub XC, CoolWave™, and Stow-N-Go Chill Mat. All are compatible with PCs and Macs and are built to offer protection from [...]

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News January 8, 2009

by Dan Cohen

Targus Introduces New Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Cases and Launches Fashion-Forward Bags

Targus is expanding their line of laptop carrying cases. The new cases include the Venture collection of checkpoint-friendly laptop bagss and launched a new series of “Fashion-Forward” Bags which includes the Intersection, Echoes, Rio and Madrid. Checkpoint Friendly Al Giazzon, vice president of marketing at Targus note- “Our new line of “Checkpoint Friendly” laptop cases, [...]

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News January 8, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Follow the CES action on your mobile device courtesy Sprint and Engadget

If you’re sporting a BlackBerry Curve, Pearl, Bold, Storm, World, or a Samsung Instinct on Sprint, Verizon or AT&T you can get real time Consumer Electronic Show 2009 news directly on your device. Sprint and Engadget have teamed up to produce show summaries that are fed to this standalone mobile application. The real time feed [...]

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News January 7, 2009

by Dan Cohen

A Crash Course In One-Handed Blogging

I have never before been as thankful as I currently am to have technology that has advanced as it has, here in 2009. A little background to explain why this is the case and how our technology is coming in as “handy” (a pun — as will become clear in the moment), as it is. [...]

Wristfone: If Dick Tracy Could See Us Now…

(Image from Gizmag) One of the iconic comic book images, along with Superman leaping over tall buildings and Batman swinging in to fight crime with his own unique vigilante justice, was Dick Tracy’s chiseled chin jutting out toward his wrist as he received a communication from the Chief. Back in this golden age of [...]

Jaybird Coming Out with New Headphones

Remember the Jaybird JB-200 Headphones I reviewed? Well Jaybird is back with another set of Bluetooth headphones. The Freedom headset looks like the JB-200′s I reviewed, but comes in different boxes for different platforms depending on what you need to make them work. For example, the JB-200im comes with everything that shipped with my JB-200 [...]

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News January 7, 2009

by Joel McLaughlin

Emtec Launching the Gdium Liberty 1000 at CES 09

Netbooks look like they are going to be hot this year, and Emtec is taking a unique spin on the netbook concept called the Gdium. It is using a bootable USB based flash drive to store the OS. It will be available with a 8 GB or 16 GB G-Key, as they call it. The [...]

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News January 7, 2009

by Joel McLaughlin

The SD Association Announces SDXC

Remember when 1 GB SD cards were all the rage? Then that wasn’t enough. So they created the SDHC standard. Well, now we’re hitting the top of SDHC, so what does the SD association do? Up the ante again, of course! The SD Association has announced the SDXC standard. How about 2 TB maximum. Will that [...]

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News January 7, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Crazy cat ladies rejoice – relive every moment of the cat’s day with a pet’s eye view camera

Ever wonder what your cat or dog does all day when you’re not home? I really never have given it much thought but for the pet lovers who can’t wait to buy birthday and holiday presents for fluffy or fido, this pet eye camera may be your thing. Set the camera interval to 1, 5 [...]

Asus reveals 512 GB SSD, keyboard computer and other prototypes at CES

Asus is working hard at the CES 2009 show. They’ve introduced their 512 GB SSD based 3 pound computer with claimed 8 hour battery life (will 2009 be the year of the 8 hour laptop battery?). They also trotted out the Eee PC T91 which is an update of their netbook model that now includes [...]

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News January 7, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

T-Mobile BlackBerry 8900 Sports UMA, GPS, 3.2 MP

Photos and a press release have raised expectations that the BlackBerry 8900 will appear on T-Mobile USA retail shelves by the widely reported February 11, 2009 due date. This updated BlackBerry Curve (aka BlackBerry Javelin) sports a 3.2 MP camera, Wi-Fi (but NO 3G), updated OS, GPS and T-Mobile’s UMA service (cellular voice and data [...]

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