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Microsoft Code Names Successor to Vista

According to insiders, Microsoft has code-named its next version of Windows, calling it Fiji. So that’s right, Fiji is the next version after Vista, and we’re also hearing that after Fiji will be Vienna. Of course, by the time these products reach the real world marketplace, if ever, they will probably have some other vaguely…

Tech News Charlie White

Switch Back Handset Offers Teen-Popular Feature Set

The Switch Back handset by Virgin Mobile and Kyocera Wireless bundles features that are known and loved by tech-loving youth, such as dedicated text messaging keys, a camera, AIM, Email and Web browsing. It’s a clamshell that opens lengthwise to expose the QWERTY keyboard and a 128×160 widescreen display. Of course, there will be full…

Tech News Charlie White

Pod Cowboy iBass iPod Speaker

If you’re looking for an iPod dock/speaker system, preferably one that looks like a bandaid and has a silly name, the Pod Cowboy iBass is available in white and black (with matching remote) and will set you back ¥9,000 in Japan or $99 from AudioCubes. Pod Cowboy iBass [Digital Cowboy, via Tech Know] l CowBoy…

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Playaway Audiobooks

We’ll have one of these here at the office soon, so we can do a hands-on, but they’re basically mini audiobook players that are ready to go out of the box. You pull a little tab to activate the battery and you’ve got a few hours of listening time. Once you’re done, you’re supposed to…

Tech News Johnb

TiVo and DirecTV Extend Agreement for Three More Years

Here’s big news for a DirecTV/TiVo users, where it appears that reports of TiVo’s death on that DirecTV satellite service were greatly exaggerated. The two companies announced a three-year extension to the agreement that let DirecTV subscribers receive the TiVo service. The companies also agreed not to shoot each other in the foot over patent…

Tech News Charlie White

Get a Free PocketDock

SendStation is “giving out” 1,000 of its little PocketDock thingies until the 16th. This is a little dongle that converts your iPods docking port into a FireWire port. It’s for folks who have old iPod accessories. I’m not amazed by this, but it’s kind of a one-off little thing and it only costs $7 for…

Tech News Johnb

Fujitsu LifeBook P1510

Now this is a laptop we can love. The LifeBook P1510 is Fujitsu’s latest foray into the convertible laptop market. While there is no internal optical drive—kind of a big deal for some—there’s an 8.9″ screen. It runs a Pentium M773 at 1.30GHz and and weighs just under three pounds. No word on battery life…

Tech News Johnb

Kate Moss Flogs Nikon S6

Nikon is taking the “slim and sexy” category of its digital cameras quite literally by having controversial überwaif supermodel Kate Moss star in a new commercial for Nikon’s stylish Coolpix S6 digital camera. Since the target market for superslim cameras like the S6 are typically “club kids” who likely care more about how easily a…

Tech News Johnb

Twig Discovery: Not What You Think

The designer of this phone, Matt Sinclair, sent us this image of his latest creation, the Twig Discovery. Big buttons, rubber grips, and built-in GPS still doesn’t make up for the fact that it sounds kind of dirty, but let’s ignore that for now. Essentially, this phone is a “real” GPS phone with special GPS…

Tech News Johnb

Sony Announces VAIO RC300 Series with Blu-ray On Board

As part of Sony’s barrage of computer announcements, the champion of the Blu-ray format could hardly resist rolling out its Blu-ray-packing desktop, the VAIO RC. The configuration includes a Pentium D dual core processor and RAID 0 serial ATA hard disks, giving it the quick throughput necessary to play back HD camcorder content or burn…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony Announces Type L VAIO Desktops

Sony announced its Type L all-in-one desktops which will be released first in Japan, a product line designed to be equally at home as a PC or multimedia player. There are two models, one with a 19-inch 1680×1050 LCD and another with a smaller 15.4-inch 1200×800 LCD. Either gives you a choice of the 1.66GHz…

Tech News Charlie White

Rumor: MacBooks in Colors?

In a fawning, rambling article that takes forever to get to the point, Apple Insider passes along vague rumors that we may see at least two MacBooks festooned in colors other than the revered iMac White. Adding to rumors from earlier this year that had Apple thinking about making a black version of these latest…

Tech News Charlie White

XSATA: Hard Drive Interface for 360

This isn’t a hard drive per se, but it allows you to hook your PCs hard drive up to your 360 and shuttle data back and forth with reckless and hacker-like abandon. Plus it has blue LEDs, which means it’s good. The XSATA attaches to your XBox hard drive and turns it into a USB…

Tech News Johnb

Apple On Da Plane, Boss

The latest news out of the media event of the season, also known as the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, is that Apple is in preliminary talks with in-flight entertainment providers to license its iTunes media store for commercial airplane use. Several airlines are already investigating the possibility of putting iPod docks or USB ports…

Tech News Johnb

RIM Sees Red: China Unicom releases RedBerry

In what can only be seen as the international business equivalent of a raspberry, China Unicom announced its own mobile push email service called the Redberry. CU hopes to lure local Chinese businesses with its lower princing and blatant disregard for brand ownership. Less than $1USD a month for 5 megabytes of data on its…

Tech News Johnb

Give a Poor Boy a Break

We’re suckers for a good sob story. Whether its a dame who’s husband has turned up missing with the deed to the family manse or a kid, Stefan, with an old 450MHz ThinkPad, we’re suckers for folks in trouble. That said, let’s help this kid out. He wants to buy an iMac for $2,375 and…

Gadgets Johnb

PixelShade

Details are sketchy at this point, but this PixelShade lets you create digital patterns and then it projects them on the inside of its cylindrical shape. The phosphorescent lamp shade can display images, text, or anything else on its surface, and it’s easily modified, too. The lampshade was shown at a design exposition in Milan…

Gadgets Charlie White

TDK To Develop 200GB Blu-ray Disc

TDK confirmed that it’s working on a 200GB Blu-ray disc—that’s four times the capacity of the largest first-generation dual-layer Blu-ray blanks that are just about to be released worldwide. TDK already showed a next-generation four-layer Blu-ray disc with 100GB of storage in May of last year. No target date was given for the release of…

Tech News Charlie White

Build Your Own DVR on Lifehacker

If you’re considering breaking up with TiVo now that lifetime subscription is almost gone for good (the deadline for signing up was extended to April 15th, by the way) and other commercially available DVRs just don’t strike your fancy, the exceedingly crafty Adam Pash over at our most organized of siblings, Lifehacker, put together a…

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BenQ Adds Players to Joybee Line

BenQ announced a few new members of its Joybee portable music player family, including the E520 (left), an MP3 player with a built-in Bluetooth module. Link it up with your cellphone, and it can stop music playback when a call comes in. It has a 65K color OLED display and supports MP3, WMA and AMV…

Tech News Charlie White

Microsoft Code Names Successor to Vista

Switch Back Handset Offers Teen-Popular Feature Set

Pod Cowboy iBass iPod Speaker

Playaway Audiobooks

TiVo and DirecTV Extend Agreement for Three More Years

Get a Free PocketDock

Fujitsu LifeBook P1510

Kate Moss Flogs Nikon S6

Twig Discovery: Not What You Think

Sony Announces VAIO RC300 Series with Blu-ray On Board

Sony Announces Type L VAIO Desktops

Rumor: MacBooks in Colors?

XSATA: Hard Drive Interface for 360

Apple On Da Plane, Boss

RIM Sees Red: China Unicom releases RedBerry

Give a Poor Boy a Break

PixelShade

TDK To Develop 200GB Blu-ray Disc

Build Your Own DVR on Lifehacker

BenQ Adds Players to Joybee Line

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