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Ximeta is coming out with the NetDisk Mini, a smaller, portable, 40GB addition to its line of NetDisk network attached storage devices which have both Ethernet ports for connecting to a local area network and USB 2.0 ports for connecting directly to a PC. Read
BargainPDA got to ask Dell CEO Michael Dell a few questions at COMDEX yesterday, and he confirmed that they’re not planning to release a PDA running on the Palm operating system or a Tablet PC, and that a Smartphone isn’t in Dell’s immediate future. Read
And while we’re on the topic of DVDs today, USA Today reports that cameraphones are on track to surpass DVD players as the most quickly adopted consumer technology of all-time. Read [Via Reiter’s Camera Phone Report]
DesignTechnica review of JVC’s mini-laptop, the Interlink 7310. At just under 2 pounds, the 7310 lays claim to being the smallest Centrino laptop on the market. The 7310 isn’t as dimunitive as Sony’s lilliputian U101 laptop, but with its squint-inducing 8.9-inch display and cramped keyboard, it is approaching the limits of how small a laptop…
Guess we were a bit premature when we reported that AT&T Wireless was taking orders for the Treo 600 last week. The page listing the Treo 600 has disappeared from their website. Anyway, no one seems to know exactly when they’ll start selling them again, though we’ve been hearing early December as the most likely…
One of our fave writers on this stuff, Kevin Werbach, admits that he was wrong when he predicted three years that converged mobile devices would never take off. What turned him around? Nothing less than the Treo 600, which he says isn’t perfect. but that it doesn’t have to be to be successful: My Treo…
We’d thought that the USB gadget madness had largely come to an end, but we were sorely mistaken. The latest USB-powered gadget to surface (and we are not making this up) is a USB Christmas tree light that glows in six different colors. Read [Thanks, James]
Just to make this whole mess over which standard will succeed the DVD, a Chinese business consortium and two Chinese DVD manufacturers are rolling out the Enhanced Versatile Disc, or EVD. The idea is to have a homegrown standard to avoid paying royalties to non-Chinese electronics congolomerates that developed the DVD. Which certainly makes some…
Curmudgeonly PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wonders, with hard drive capacities doubling every year, whether all PCs might eventually have to become Media Center PCs just so we’ll have something (i.e. recorded TV shows) to fill up their massive hard drives with. He is, of course, not particularly pleased by the prospect of this. Read
Philips is working on a 16x recordable DVD burner, which is twice as fast what’s commercially available right now. This might turn out to be about as quickly you can burn a DVD, since spinning the disc any faster might actually cause it to crack. Read
Speaking of the XDA, BBC News has a disarmingly well-written review of its successor, the XDA II, which runs on the 2003 version of Pocket PC Phone Phone Edition operating system, has 128MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, an SDIO expansion slot (so you can add WiFi), a 65,000 color display, Bluetooth, and a built-in…
Really worried about eavesdroppers? German company Cryptophone is selling a special version of HTC’s XDA Pocket PC Phone that comes complete with built-in encryption technology that makes it next-to-impossible for anyone to intercept and listen in on your phone calls. The catch is that only the phone can only make secure calls to another XDA…
The jury is still out on whether or not cellphones cause brain cancer, but let’s just say that the latest research indicates that it’s not looking so good. Unfortunately, Federally-funded research that might be able to give us a conclusive answer to all this isn’t expected to be completed until 2011. Just in time for…
Seiko Epson is showing off the world’s smallest flying robot at the Tokyo Robot Exhibition. Even better, the Micro Flying Robot, which is sort of like a small helicopter, is controlled wirelessly via Bluetooth. Read
Not to be left out on the latest trend, Acer has its own widescreen laptop on the way. The Aspire 2000 will have a 15.4-inch widescreen display, as well as built-in WiFi, a 1.5GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a DVD/CD-RW combination drive. Read
A couple of new Pocket PC from Asus, the MyPal A716, which will have built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and the MyPal A8100 (pictured at right), a Pocket PC Phone. Besides the WiFi and Bluetooth, the A716 will have a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and both SD and CompactFlash memory card slots. We’re more excited…
Turned out to be completely untrue, but last week a Japanese newspaper reported that Nikon was planning to kill their line of 35mm compact cameras and go entirely digital. Though you gotta wonder how long it’ll be until one of the big manufacturers does decide to exit the consumer 35mm camera business entirely. Can’t be…
New iMac with a 20-inch LCD screen from Apple today. The 20-inch model joins their 17-inch and 15-inch models, and has a 1.25GHz G4 processor, 256MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and DVD-R/CD-RW drive. Read
Slim Devices has updated its SLIMP3 player, coming out with the Squeezebox (an obvious Who reference), which has built-in WiFi for wirelessly streaming MP3s and Internet radio from your PC to your stereo (the SLIMP3 could only do this over Ethernet). Read [Thanks to everyone who wrote in with this one]
ViewSonic wasn’t the only company to unveil a new Tablet PC yesterday. Toshiba took the wraps off of its long-rumored M200 Tablet PC, which goes on sale today and has a high-resolution 1400×1050 pixel 12.1-inch screen, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and built-in WiFi. Read