Archive for September, 2011

Sony 3D display and 3D glasses for PS3 to hit Japan in November

We have already talked a bit about why you should buy the Sony PS3 3D display and 3D glasses a while back. Sony Japan has announced that the display and the 3D glasses will be shipping soon in Japan. The official pricing for the products has also been unveiled for Japan. The 3D display comes [...]

Epson outs Stylus NX430 Small-in-One printer

Epson has rolled out a new printer that will go perfectly with that space saving AIO computer you have. The new Epson printer is the NX430 and while it is an all in one printer, Epson calls the printer a small-in-one because of its small size. The machine measures in at 15.4″ x 11.8″ x [...]

Hitachi GST unveils 1TB per platter HDDs

Hitachi has started to ship its latest HDD called the Deskstar 7K1000.D globally. The coolest thing about the new HDD is that the drive has 1TB of storage space crammed onto a single platter. The HDD comes in both Deskstar and CinemaStar flavors with a storage capacity for the line of 250GB – 1TB in [...]

LG, Philips and Sharp form Smart TV open-app alliance

LG, Philips and Sharp have joined Smart TV forces to create a common, open-standards based app development platform that will allow coders to create one version of their software to run on sets from all three manufacturers. A beta of the common SDK is expected to be released in early October, using HTML5, CE-HTML and [...]

Wary Ultrabook vendors dip toes with tiny stock orders

Ultrabooks weren’t in short supply at IFA 2011 last week – Toshiba, Acer and Lenovo all brought their new models to the show – but while publicly each is gung-ho about the segment, on the production line it’s a far more tentative story. Each intends to produce less than 50,000 ultrabook units initially, DigiTimes‘ sources [...]

Google kills Aardvark, Desktop and more in “spring-clean” cull

Google is staging a cull across its services, lining up ten products and features are are getting the chop as the search giant streamlines its experiments. Social search acquisition Aardvark, Google Desktop and Google Web Security are all among the victims in what the company describes as a “spring-clean“; meanwhile, Google Notebook is being torn [...]

iPhone 5: iOS 5 training begins but Best Buy leak tips late October launch

Apple’s iPhone 5 launch date could have been telegraphed in a number of leaked retailer memos, suggesting late October installations of mysterious “Apple fixture” hardware as well as imminent training for employees. According to a Best Buy message passed to This is my next, store managers have been told to be on-hand at 6AM on [...]

Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Tablet gets handled, priced at $250 for November

One of the two long-rumored Amazon tablets has been shown to TechCrunch for some hands-on time under the condition that no photos be revealed. This is the first time we’ve gotten more concrete details and specs on what the first Amazon tablet has to offer. Unfortunately, it’s sounding much less like an iPad-killer and more [...]

Toshiba Camileo 3D camcorder hands-on

Toshiba may have made the most noise about its new Camileo Clip, X200 and X400 camcorders for IFA 2011, but the company slipped another rare beast into its booth. The Calimeo 3D model packs double the lenses into its palm-friendly chassis, recording Full HD 1920 x 1080 footage and allowing users to preview the 3D [...]

HTC Amaze 4G Leaks Again for T-Mobile

More details and pictures have emerged today regarding the recently rumored HTC Ruby. It seems T-Mobile is gearing up to launch another powerhouse smartphone soon, wasting no time through this AT&T merger situation. We have new never before seen images as well as confirmation on a few of the specs we can expect to see [...]