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We’ve posted our first impressions of Google Chrome, and after extended use most of them have held up. Chrome is fast, feature-rich and stable, not to mention highly usable. But Google’s in-house innovations (the multi-threaded engine, Javascript handling and task manager, mainly) make up a tiny portion of the user experience. The rest of the…
It probably comes as no surprise, but Google co-founder Sergey Brin believes that Chrome will make its way into Android in one form or another (both Chrome and the current Android browser employ WebKit). “Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” Brin said, pointing to…
If you are looking to take advantage of Apple’s annual back to school promotion, here is a friendly reminder that September 15th is your last chance to score a free 8GB nano, 8GB iPod touch (after rebate) or a discount on a Mac. Just remember, we don’t know what is coming on September 9th, so…
Google has responded with haste to the huge outcry about a section in Chrome‘s EULA that gives Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license” to do all kinds of dirty stuff—in public no less—to content you post through Chrome. Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, told Ars that it’s actually an…
Some 1080p projectors are getting down below the $2,000 mark, but the real news is that insanely good projectors are appearing in the $3,000 range. On the heels of Sony’s VPL-HW10 comes Panasonic’s AE3000, which has 60,000:1 contrast ratio using LCD projection technology. The $3,500 system handles motion blur withsomething like the 120Hz seen in…
We’ve covered Panasonic’s flagship connected plasmas from the beginning, first at CES and then later when pricing was announced. Today at CEDIA they’ve bumped pricing down, and confirmed availability for this month. The 65-inch TH-65PZ850 will sell for $7,000 (we reported it earlier at $8000), while the 58-incher will sell for an even $4,000, down…
Earlier today, we published the article Comcast’s Video Download Store Is Wholly Unremarkable about Comcast’s expansion of Fancast, a place to download movies a la Amazon Unbox. Then a reliable tipster filled us in on where Fancast is going—specifically, in the mobile market. And we have to say, it’s caught our attention.Fancast is essentially Comcast’s…
We snuck in (or casually moseyed in, actually) to CEDIA’s main show floor, which is still being set up for tomorrow’s opening, and we’ve learned a few things in advance of any announcements. Sony’s Motionflow wall which was in the process of being powered up had a 240Hz set like the 200Hz Bravia we saw…
The My Document ntoebook folder folder we posted back in May has finally made its way to the US by way of Thinkgeek. Always an expert at setting up shipping agreements with overseas manufacturers, Thinkgeek now offers this for $29.99 + shipping, which is much easier than arranging an import from Taiwan yourself. It fits…
Even the most crippling insomnia is surely no match for the Gentle Wave lounge. Using a handheld remote, users can control a rocking motion that is designed to simulate floating in a lake. It can also be used to manage the intensity of the sound wave massage emanating from its dual 50-watt transducers. Combine that…
Here’s something you don’t want to hear describing your latest browser: “epically porcine.” Yes, that’s exactly how software research firm Devil Mountain CEO Craig Barth described it. Just how bad is the bloat on the latest beta? Well, on a 10-site scenario test, Firefox 3.0.1 consumed 159MB of memory. IE7 consumed a heartier 250MB. IE…
LG kicks off the press conferences here at CEDIA in Denver. After teasing the Netflix-streaming LG BD300 Blu-ray player, a double threat if I ever saw one, they finally told us the price today: $400, well below the $500 mark LG was aiming to stay under. (Keep in mind, the Netflix box by Roku is,…
When you’re going to buy a USB thumb drive, there’s not much differentiating all the brands other than looks. Usually, people just grab the cheapest or the least stupid-looking. That won’t be the case when PNY unleashes it’s newest 2GB drive. Why? It’ll come preloaded with Ghostbusters, that’s why. Ghostbusters! There’s no word on the…
Can you imagine all the little Eton brothers and sisters sitting around the dinner table, when in walks the Eton P’9120? Its speakers and remote are different…not like mommy or daddy’s at all. Awwwwkward. Anyway, the Eton P’9120 is a Porsche-designed Eton iPod dock packing an alarm clock and XM satellite radio antenna. And its…
Commuters at Liverpool’s Lime Street station need only to glance at a nearby office block to bear witness to their impending doom. What they will see is a 50-foot, 40 ton spider that currently lies dormant, but it is set to “come alive” on Friday. Apparently, the spider is a component in an elaborate bit…
It appears that some of Kevin Rose’s predictions about iTunes 8 have been corroborated by other tipsters to MacRumors, which says that there’s going to be a “Genius” feature that generates playlists containing songs that have similar qualities to other songs. MacRumors calls this unconfirmed because they didn’t receive the tip from one of their…
Modular gadgets are great because they are part toy and part serious technology. In other words, when we reconfigure a device, it reminds us of how much fun we had (and still have) with Legos and other building toys. The folks at OObject have put together a list of 14 modular gadgets and concepts—like Bug…
The mighty custom installer show known as CEDIA comes but once a year, with its projectors, its media servers, its extra big-ass speakers and maybe a THX-certified toaser oven or two. We’re here in Denver to absorb it all, and share with you the tastiest bits. Stay tuned, cuz the press conferences start around 3pm…
The dudes at iLounge have scored schematics laying out the dimensions of the new iPod touch and iPod nano widely expected to debut on Sept. 9. While the nano’s tall, skinny and curvy silhouette ain’t a secret, according to these measurements, it’s a smidge taller and about 0.4mm thinner than the second-gen nano (making it…
Comcast’s internet video site, Fancast, used to be a place to check out Hulu clips and waste away your data cap along with your brain. Now it’s a place to buy and rent full-length movies a la Amazon Unbox or iTunes to play on your Windows PC (and up to two other authorized computers). Filled…