Giznotes: April 9, 2007
Looks like Google can’t think of everything. They apologized today for stealing using part of their rival Sohu.com’s application. AMD lowered their 1Q earnings forecast to $1.225 billion. It seems their little rivalry with Intel is to blame. So what’s better than IM capabilities on your 360? Support for Mpeg4 and H.264 video. 1˚, that’s…
Sony DVP-FX850 Portable DVD Player: It’s Shiny, It Swivels, It Supports USB Media
I don’t know about you, but I find DVD portable players like this Sony DVP-FX850, quite boring. Even with this model’s 800 x 480 panoramic LCD screen, which can swivel almost as much as the Exorcist girl’s head without the gross drooling. I don’t care that it can decode Dolby Digital audio with its built-in…
SanDisk and Yahoo, a Love Connect-ion?
Back in September, it appeared as the Zing, a Flash-based Wi-Fi-enabled music player with the un-Zune-y ability to download tracks wirelessly from an Internet service. At CES, it was re-named Connect and announced as part of SanDisk’s successful Flash-player lineup. Now it’s shipping—4GB of internal flash memory, 2.2-in. TFT color screen and a microSD slot…
100 Million iPods—in Sony’s Face
It’s official. Apple has sold 100 million iPods. According to the press release, this isn’t just some round number. Apparently, 100 million units sold in five and a half years makes the iPod “the fastest selling music player in history.” As if that wasn’t enough of a potshot at Sony, makers of the now-forgotten Walkman,…