Casio has announced two new digital cameras, especially designed for YouTube. The Casio Exilim TX-S880 spors a 2.8 inches LCD display, supports SD and SDHC memory cards and comes in red or black colors, being priced at $299.99. The other one, Casio Exilim EX-Z77 features a smaller LCD display, of 2.6 inches and comes in four color options.
Both the EX-S880 and the EX-Z77 feature a unique YouTube capture mode and come with a bundle software that provides them settings for recording, storing and uploading the videos. They record in 640×480 …

Dell Inc. is expecting personal computer shipments in Asia to increase by 20% in 2007 together with servers and notebooks. This does not include South Korea, Japan and China. Shipments for the whole continent reached 3.5 million units per quarter last year and no official figure was released for the aimed market.Dell Inc. is currently the number 2 maker of PCs, holding 15% of the global market. Hewlett Packard Co. is number 1 with 19% so the competition is tight. Dell has always been a company that is based on …

BlackBerry is coming to China after years of being expected. Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM) announced the news in a conference call with different analysts. He said:
“We’re finalizing delivery availability in the mainland. We’re excited to move forward to deliver BlackBerry to corporate customers in key cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, where there’s strong interest in the BlackBerry solution.”
China Mobile Communications and RIM have been working together to make this possible but had to fight many regulatory hurdles. BlackBerry sales were expected in May 2006 …

Jon Johansen, a prolific 23 year old Norwegian hacker of consumer electronics gadgets declared on his blog that he has found a way to overcome iPhone’s restrictions in order to bypass AT&T Inc’s network to let users use the mobile phone’s Music and Internet features. He declared in a post entitled “iPhone Independence Day”:
“I’ve found a way to activate a brand new inactivated iPhone. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and Wi-Fi work. Stay tuned!”
His site contains a lot of technical details for other hackers and …

There is a new Apple patent application that has started a lot of speculation among bloggers and analysts. Some people think that the company is planning the release of a special iPhone light version that is to focus on music and voice communication, kind of like an iPhone Nano. The US Patent and Trademark Office got this request for a patent to use a scroll wheel, similar to that of the iPod for a way to control the device. In the official application it can be read:

“The invention pertains to …

The Nintendo Wii is becoming more popular by the day. We now have an interesting situation: demand is higher than supply. To get your hand on one of the consoles you will have to be among the first to arrive at the stores when new batches appear. A Wii costs $250 retail price but you can find units being sold at prices between $350 and $600 on Amazon.com. Chris Byrne, an independent toy analyst declared:
“The PlayStation 1 was certainly a big introduction, but I don’t recall any game system more …

According to Microsoft Corp. the advanced version of their Xbox 360 video game console called Xbox 360 Elite will be launched in Japan on October 11. This is because Xbox 360 sales in the country are far less than that of competitors Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co. LTD’s Wii.
The Xbox 360 Elite comes with a built in 120-GB hard drive, six times bigger than that of a regular console and twice as big as a PlayStation 3. You can thus store on it thousands of audio files and even …

The twin rovers’ operations on Mars are being affected by a powerful dust storm according to mission scientists. This storm had an unexpected effect as it partially blocked the sun and Spirit and Opportunity (the two rovers) have solar panels. Sunlight is crucial for charging their batteries. The good news is that these robots can operate at low power levels so there is no real danger of failure until now. John Callas, project manager of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared:
“The storm is affecting both rovers and reducing the power levels …

A recent poll organized for the readers of Edge Magazine and industry experts tried to put together a list of the top 100 games of all time. The first place was taken by a game that is 10 years old now: “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”. This was the video game that helped usher in a new era of modern 3D gaming.
To top it all up, Zelda is one of the only five games to have ever received a 10 out of 10 review by Edge. Nintendo …

Russian music download site allofmp3.com was closed. It offered a music download service that offered songs at low prices when compared to similar sites and also claimed to be the second biggest seller of music downloads after iTunes. Allofmp3.com is owned by MediaServices. The company claimed that all was legal under Russian law but was faced with numerous lawsuits coming from USA and UK based record labels on the claims of copyright law violation. The closure of the site is welcomed in the music industry. John Kennedy, president of the …

Panasonic is now the first company to introduce Blu-ray discs that can be written at 4x and have double-layer capability of 50 Gbytes. Most of the others available on the market today only have half of the capability of the new format. Panasonic, a brand name of Matsushita Electric Industrial, has plans to release a 25 Gbytes version this month and the 50 Gbytes Blu-ray disc in September. The maximum transfer rate announced is 144 M per second, which translates in a never before achieved capability of writing 1 Gbyte …

PC Mag Review: Does the iPhone Live Up to Its Hype?
The product of the year has finally arrived, and who on the tech-loving planet would waste a second before tearing it open and taking it for a test run? Not the PC Mag analysts, that’s for sure. Over the past 24 hours, our lead audio and cell phone gurus have been poking and prodding the much-touted uber phone, running it through every imaginable test to find out if it really is “all that.”  So, what’s the verdict: iGenius or iDud?
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Two new GPS PDAs are going to be released by Mio, the P360 and P560. Currently, we don’t have many details on them, but we know they will feature WiFi, an embeded GPS antenna, Bluetooth 2.0, a miniUSB port, a microphone and their memory can be expanded via the SD/MMC memory card slot.
Both the P360 and P560 will sport an LCD touchscreen, that controls almost everything, the rest of the device featuring only a few buttons.

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LED are becoming more and more used and so Taiwan announced than in the following three years all their traffic lights will use LED technologies. The project will cost them about $7 million and they will begin to replace the lights from 2008, changing 420,000 traffic lights. This change will both improve the quality of traffic lights and reduce power consumption with almost 85%.

Ironically named ABS Ultimate X8 Stealth Extreme is very noisey and inovative. Looking less like a computer and more like a modem design housing concept because of its bulky case. If you forget about this you may actually start to like this new PC for its low budget performance. Its price can stand up strongly against other high-end gaming PCs. If you’re only want to get the most PC for your money then this ABS makes a perfect argument with this $3,120 system, but after purchasing it you would be …