Archive for: August, 2010

Now on Mac, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening

BioWare’s Awakening expansion for Dragon Age: Origins is now on the Mac thanks to TransGaming. Set after the events of the core role-playing game in a new area called Amaranthine, Awakening puts gamers in the role of a Grey Warden trying to rebuild, traveling to Vigil’s Keep to assume command of the Wardens there. Players […]

T-Mobile Adds Cities to HSPA+ and Plans to Reach 42Mbps in 2011

T-Mobile this afternoon said it had switched on its HSPA+ 3G access in several large cities. The 21Mbps access should be live in Boston, Miami, Fresno, Palm Springs, San Diego in California. Coverage should also be faster in Erie, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Spokane, Washington; and Topeka, Kansas. T-moible also announce that it now planned to […]

Music Still the Ruling Factor for iPhones and iPod Tocuhes

Despite all greats apps now out for phones, music still the dominant factor in how iPhone and iPod touch owners use their devices, the NPD Group discovered. While 99.9 of all iPhone owners have downloaded a free app at some point, 82 percent have been willing to pay for music.   Some 56 percent have […]

Onkyo Announces Its First Multichannel Audio Separates

Onkyo plans September shipments of a trio of Onkyo-brand THX-certified audio components that include the brand’s first multichannel preamp-processor, first multichannel component amplifier and a next-generation THX-certified Blu-ray player. The nine-channel amp and 9.2-channel pre-pro are the brand’s first multichannel component-audio separates, a spokesman said. The brand has offered stereo separates before. The pre-pro and […]

Cricket Launches Messager Touch Handset

Cricket and Samsung have announced the launch of the Samsung Messager Touch (SCH-r631). The slender touch screen device joins Cricket’s feature phone line-up and offers a choice of service plans with unlimited messaging and nationwide talk options at highly competitive prices. This latest addition follows two previous Samsung Messager devices launched by the value-driven wireless […]

Lincoln Adds New THX II Cartified Sound Systems

For 2011, Lincoln has added a THX II certified sound system to the Lincoln MKX Crossover. With most car audio systems, surround sound is restricted to a handful of hard-to-find, DVD-Audio titles. The THX II Certified system, featuring DTS Neural Surround, lets audiophiles rock-out with immersive 5.1 surround sound from hundreds of radio stations, including […]

Sansa Fuse+ Putting SanDisk Back into the MP3 Player Game

As rumored, SanDisk today finally updated its core MP3 players with the  Sansa Fuze+. The MP3 has an UI and drops the jogwheel of past models.  Replacing the the jogwheel is  capacitive touch directional pad. The new software interface look to be simpler and now uses “film strip” model which puts major categories at top […]

TI DLP Updates 4K Chips

Texas Instruments DLP  has announced that  it has started shipping DLP Cinema Enhanced 4K chips to its licensees, Barco, Christie Digital and NEC. Projectors with the DLP Cinema 4K chip are expected to be installed in Q1 2011 and several industry demos are anticipated between now and then by DLP Cinema licensees. With the availability […]

Olympus Releases New MFT Lenses and Black E-P2 Kits

Olympus did not wait for Photokina today by revealing a new version of the E-P2. The Special Black EVF and Flash Editions includes either a black viewfinder or flash add-on. In both cases, they come with a unique black 17mm f2.8 pancake lens with the “F” logo from Olympus’ 1963 Pen F camera. The two […]

Netbooks Share Dropping as Tablets Come to Market

Netbook market share is likely to keep falling over the next few years due in part to tablets,  Gartner found today. It noted the small portables not only lost market share in the first two quarters of 2010 but predicted that the category was on a long slide that would drop it to just 10 […]

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