Toshiba to Launch No-glasses 3D TV This Year in Japan

From PC World: Toshiba is readying two 3D televisions that can produce images with the illusion of depth but don't require the user to wear glasses, it said Monday. It will launch the televisions in Japan in December. By dispensing with glasses, the TVs answer a key complaint of...

Splitting the Atom: Acer Aspire One goes dual-core

From CNET News.com: Netbooks don't change very much in terms of specs, at least compared to other laptops, but there has been one new wrinkle as of late: dual-core Atom CPUs.

Acer's 10.1-inch Acer Aspire AOD255 Netbook includes a new dual-core Atom N550 CPU for $350, along with 1GB...

Verizon to refund up to $90M in bogus data charges

From CNET News.com: This may well be the largest consumer telecommunications refund in history. Verizon Wireless said Sunday it will pay up to $90 million in refunds to some 15 million subscribers who were charged for data usage or Internet access, though they weren't on data usage...

T-Mobile Rolls Out 4G myTouch Android Smartphone

From DailyTech: The army of Android-powered smartphones continues to grow, and the latest addition is coming from the folks at T-Mobile. The new T-Mobile myTouch uses Google's Android 2.2 operating system.

When it comes to hardware specs, the myTouch is pretty comparable to other...

Best Buy Charging $30 for Free PS3 Firmware Update

From DailyTech: It's understandable that margins are often slim on certain items in the retail business, and companies look to offer additional services to help bolster the bottom line. However, Best Buy seems to take things to the extreme at times.

Best Buy's Geek Squad division...

ARM Microprocessors Set to Support Multithreading

From X-bit Labs: ARM, the company behind the absolute majority of mobile phones, will enable multi-threading capability on its chips. This will boost performance of it microprocessors and will boost ARM architecture in general.

"The company is looking to include multithreading...

Expensive Graphics Cards Will Continue to Exist - Analyst

From X-bit Labs: Graphics processors have been seriously undervalued by general consumers, which catalyzed Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp. to create processors with built-in graphics engines. But add-on graphics cards will continue to exist, says Jon Peddie, the principal of...

Mionix Naos 3200 Review

Last Monday, when I arrived at home and decided to check my mail, I was quite surprised to see a large FedEx package at my front door. At first, I could not remember what this package was for, nor could not recall from memory which company uses FedEx at this time to ship me a product for review. Therefore, before opening the box, I decided to do was to take a peek at the shipping invoice. To my astonishment, I discovered it was...

Google JPEG alternative aims to speed up the Web

From InfoWorld: In its continuing attempts to make the Web faster, Google is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65 percent of the bytes on the Web.

Google announced late this afternoon that it's releasing a developer preview of a new image format, which it's...

Samsung Drops Developer Support for Symbian

From PC World: Samsung is dropping support for Symbian from its Mobile Innovator developer support program, it said in a letter sent out on Thursday.

All Symbian developer activities at Mobile Innovator will end by Dec. 31, according to the letter.

Officially, Samsung has long...

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