What would you say if I told you that thanks to the US Air Force Research Laboratory we could have laptop batteries that would last for 30 years without the need of a recharge? You would say I am crazy but this is exactly what we need to talk about now. They invented a special betavolic power cell that is built from semiconductors with the use of radioisotopes as energy sources. Radioactive material ends up decaying over time and as a result it emits beta particles. They transform into electric …

Here we have the new PSP-2000. Let us see what was modified since the last PSP model and see whether or not it is worth it or not. To get right into the facts, the first thing I noticed is how light this PSP actually is. It is a lot lighter when compared with the original PSP. It looks a lot shinier and slick and you get the feeling that it will slip out of your hands when you are playing. The good news is that this will not happen …

Nokia recently launched the unlocked N95-3, the model that brings back the originality of N95 with a few extra features. The most important aspect that needs to be discussed is HSDPA on the 1900 and 850 MHz bands. We also see a battery with a higher capacity, a camera lens that was recessed, twice the amount of RAM memory and two color availabilities in “Dark Sand” and “Black” for the back of the mobile phone. The front is still silver no matter what. We can notice the new Nokias in …

Now here is something we do not see every day. Apple and Starbucks are teaming together. The popular coffee and more shops will be handing out iTunes download cards with the title “Song of the Day”. Starbucks thinks that they will hand out around 1.5 million songs per day, in a period between October 2 and November 7. This sums up to around 50 million downloads and the deal with Apple is aimed to promote the iTunes Wi-Fi store, to which Starbucks will give free access thanks to their T-Mobile …

Sony recently announced the VAIO NR Series, the cheapest laptops ever launched by the company and still baring that beautiful textured finish we have come to enjoy with VAIO. We can notice a pretty nice 15.4 inch display and a good enough widescreen resolution at 1280 X 800. The most powerful processor can be noticed on the NR’s most expensive model, an Intel Core 2 Duo platform.In any case, it is not the specs that draw attention with the Sony VAIO NR Series, but the fabric-like finishes. Sony is quoted …

There are a lot of rumors going round that the Sony PlayStation 3 will get an important price cut in the near future. While it would be great to get the not so popular PS3 at a cheaper price, it does seem that the rumors are not true, at least when talking to Sony about them. Recently, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe told GamesIndustry that all the speculation is simply not true. There will not be a $600 PlayStation 3 model sold in the United Kingdom. On the other hand, the …

Sharp and Hitachi are both trying to showcase some ultra-thin LCDs. This comes after Sony announced the incredibly flat, high contrast OLED TVs. So, we have Hitachi launching a 19 mm thin LCD television that stands at 32 inch. It was announced but not much will be known until the CREATEC event in Japan 2007. Although it is quite thin, it still pails in comparison with the crazy 3 mm Sony OLED. So we all need to wait for CREATEC to start so we can get some inside info on …

People have been talking about Amazon launching an MP3 download store for a long time, especially because it was considered to be DRM free. We have seen the company going back and forth on this. They even considered a team up with Apple on iTunes but later decided to do it all alone. Then, Amazon came to the conclusion that they could not compete with iTunes so they decided not to do it. After that, another change of heart brought the company to launching the download side because they thought …

According to the schedule, Mozilla should have launched the beta version for Firefox 3 this month but it looks like this is not going to happen. On the other hand, users can test a new alpha version if they want to. As with the previous alpha, Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 runs on Gecko 1.9 rendering engine and showcases many new features, although it still isn’t ready for wide public release.
When taking a look at the new release, the first thing we noticed stands in the beginnings of a UI for …

It looks like Google is also trying to cash in on the recently European sold as well iPhone. The company just launched two applications especially tailored for Apple’s mobile phone: Google Calendar and Google Reader. In order to check it out just visit calendar.google.com from your iPhone browser. Another possibility stands in downloading a Firefox add-on that makes it possible for you to update you UserAgent in order to make different web sites think you are utilizing one. Google Calendar appears with simplicity and at first look it is quite …

The long awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been finally released for beta testers, who have noticed some improvements and bug fixes. Some of the reported improvements include the Disk Defragmenter, logon, Hibernation and Sleep modes, battery life for laptops.
Hopefully, they will release it officially for all users so we get rid for at least a part of the current problems.

Microsoft really wants to take the game consoles crown back from Nintendo and their latest announcement seems to want just that. The company just released some statistics on the Xbox 360 and the Live online service. The fact is more Nintendo Wii game consoles were sold but the Xbox 360 still got the most software sales. It seems that gamers from around the world have purchased 24.3 million units of software for Microsoft’s console. The PS3 and Wii combined just gathered 19.8 million units. Xbox 360 also announced that there …

We can currently see a lot of electronic health records available on the market but a new one is catching attention because it is aimed towards the iPhone. Life Record launches a new service that can put your health records on your Apple mobile phone. The downside is that AT&T charges quite a lot for data transfer. On the other hand, the entire feature can prove useful. In the demo video launched we can see a doctor using a password to gain access to a Web site and then utilizing …

After we got to see many complains concerning this problem, it seems that Apple has finally admitted that some early shipped units of their quite popular although just launched iPod Touch have problems with defective screens. The company claims that only a small number of units were affected and that the problem is “being remedied”. Nobody really knows what this remedy is and we still do not know any estimate figure of how many iPod Touch units were affected. Also, there are different reports connected to the iPhone. Some customers …

Not a lot of details are known but according to PC World, Mark Bennett, Microsoft’s European HD DVD business director, announced that the company will start shipping a different XBox 360 HD DVD drive in 2008. Rumors had it that it has improved support for HD DVD’s HDi interactive features. Microsoft claims that this is actually “nine months” ahead of Blu-ray. Surely this is another move in the format wars we see with high definition DVDs vs Blu-Ray DVDs. It will be interesting to see the impact this will have …