NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world’s slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo ). Dubbed MEDIAS ES N-05D [JP], the handset will hit Japanese stores in February or March this year. [......]
I do not want my children learning math proofs on iPads. I simply do not see the value in it. iPads will not help with identifying sentence clauses or writing an essay. [......]
Apple and HTC are once again being accused of patent infringement, this time related to how the iPhone, iPad, and iPod transmit digital images. Eastman Kodak announced on Tuesday that it had filed lawsuits against the two companies both with the International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US District Court for the Western District of New York, hinting that it had already attempted to engage the two companies in licensing talks without success[......]
If you didn’t get everything you wanted this holiday and still have a few thousand left over, why not blow it on a box that you put next to your stereo that literally does nothing for the circuitry inside? This box by Less Loss is a "shield" that keeps "noise" out of your stereo. It costs (I’m not making this up) $1,323. [......]
You better overnight Santa an addendum to your Christmas list. [......]
Universal Music Group has responded to Megaupload's request for a temporary restraining order barring the music giant from further interference with the distribution of its "Mega Song." UMG insists that it had a right to take down the video—not under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as Megaupload had assumed, but under a private contractual arrangement between UMG and YouTube. [......]
Chances are you’ve already heard about the beef between Amazon and Penguin over the sales and lending terms of Penguin e-titles through Amazon’s Kindle lending program. [......]
The entertainment giant Viacom is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn last year's ruling that Google is not liable for copyright-infringing Viacom content uploaded to its YouTube site. Speaking Tuesday before a three-judge panel, a Viacom lawyer argued that the lower court erred in holding that YouTube was eligible for the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read the comments on this post [......]
Samsung is taking its surveillance game to the next level by introducing a new series of Full HD analog video products. [......]
Thank you Dennis Ritchie, for without you, our digital lives may have turned out far less awesome than what they are now. [......]
The ninjas at The Digital Reader have uncovered the names of two new Nook Color versions - the Encore, priced at $249, and the Acclaim, priced at $349. The Nook Touch (now called the Nook Smart Touch) will remain $139.[......]
The Philadelphia Media Network has had an ambitious summer: in July, the company announced their intention to sell subsidized Android tablets with subscriptions to the digital editions of Philly's two daily papers. [......]
Two Pirate Bay founders are ready to respect copyright takedown requests. They yesterday launched new one-click download site Bayfiles . Unlike The Pirate Bay, Bayfiles will directly host the content but will provide no search function; users must have a specific download URL to retrieve material[......]
Wacom has announced a pretty amazing product today, the Inkling . [......]
Boutique outfit Digital Storm is once again dipping its system building fingers into sub-zero territory with the launch of its Cryo-TEC Cooling System. This chilly cooler is essentially a redesigned version of Digital Storm's Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled system and is now smaller and more powerful than before by way of direct contact heat dissipation technology. Digital Storm describes the new model as a "radical leap forward in cooling technology," a claim made possible by placing the processor in direct contact with the thermo-electric cold plate[......]
