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Sony has decided to go after Palm‘s share of the low-end of the handheld market with its Sony CLIE PEG-SL10, which costs only $149 and has a high-resolution monochrome screen. You can read CNet‘s story on it here, and PalmInfocenter‘s story here. Let’s pray for a price war.
Hot on the heels of Toshiba’s unveiling of its iPod clone, the Gigabeat MEG50JS, e.Digital has just introduced the Odyssey 1000, which looks even more like an iPod than the Gigabeat. The Odyssey 1000 has a 20GB hard drive, a USB 2.0 connection, and is Mac and PC compatible (it even works with iTunes!). Is…
The Gadgeteer has a review of a 1 gigabyte FireWire keychain from WiebeTech, which is basically just some CompactFlash memory with a FireWire port all in a 2.35 inch by 1.75 inch metal box. Hopefully this will mark the beginning of a trend towards using high-speed connections like FireWire and USB 2.0 for these pocket…
CNet has a piece about the ten most popular cellphones in Asia. At least according to them. I’m quite partial to the Samsung SGH-T100 myself.
Wired.com has a Reuters piece about a new technology that reduces a television to just 50-millionths of an inch thick. You could roll one up and toss it in your bag. From the story: You’re effectively printing televisions,” CDT Chief Executive David Fyfe said. “They can be printed onto thin plastic almost like paper.” Roll-up…
PDABuzz.com is running what is reputed to be a sneak peak at the next-generation Palm, which is code-named “Oslo”. Not much word on what improvements will be made to the Palm OS (besides rumors that Bluetooth will be incorporated), but from the leaked picture that purports to show an Oslo Palm, the major advances seem…
For the last few months I’ve been thinking about buying a PDA, and I think I just found exactly what I’m looking for. It’s called OQO. It’s made by the team that designed Apple’s Titanium PowerBook, who left to form their own company. Their first product is what they’re calling an Ultra-Personal Computer: an iPaq…
Not to focus too much on Mac-related items (though it is Macworld week), Apple announced that next month they’ll release a line of PC-compatible iPods. It’s about time.
A few months ago my Sprint PCS cellphone died while I was on the road, and I was forced in a pinch to buy a new one. I was loathe to replace the faulty model that had stopped functioning (and had never really worked that well in the first place), but I also wasn’t too…
Speaking of Tivo, Moxi announced a big deal yesterday that will have its software incorporated into Scientific Atlanta’s set-top cable boxes. Moxi records your favorite TV shows like a Tivo, but it can also play DVDs and MP3s, stream to other TVs in the house, has Firewire and USB ports for adding extra storage space…
At the Macworld New York conference that is going on right now El Gato Software are introducing a new product called EyeTV that promises to give Macs all the functionality of a Tivo. Looks cool, and it lets you archive shows to CD-R or share them with easily friends over the Net (something Tivo won’t…
Just a few weeks ago the Copyright Office came down with a decision about the amount webcasters should pay in royalties for streaming Internet radio. Typically, the decision satisfied no one – the recording industry thinks 0.07 cents per song per performance is way too low, while many webcasters counter that even that low fee…
ZDNet has a story about how Toshiba, the company that manufactures the tiny hard drives that live inside the iPod, has introduced its own iPod clone, the Gigabeat MEG50JS. It weighs a little more, and uses a USB 2.0 connection instead of FireWire, but the drive is swappable and is designed to work with a…
CNET has a review of several different 802.11b access points by D-Link, Agere, and Belkin. Where’s the trusty Linksys WAP-11?
A couple of years ago I attended the Digital Dividend conference in Seattle. The idea behind the conference was to talk about ways to bring the benefits of the information age to the world’s poorest three billion people. While most of the attendees talked about putting solar powered cyber kiosks in remote villages, it took…
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