Altec Lansing is now shipping the latest of its MIX digital boomboxes in the MIX iMT810. It can accommodate Apple’s iPods and iPhones, with newfound support for the iPhone 4. The box gets aluminum accents and grips and houses a 5.25-inch subwoofer and 5.25-inch passive radiator pump, along with horn-loaded tweeters and mid-range drivers. Music […]
Verizon ended one of the longer waits for its 4G smartphones by committing to a launch date for the LG Revolution. The Android LTE phone will ship May 26 for $250. The production version will also be the first phone to ship with Netflix for Android preloaded for movie viewing. Like other Verizon 4G phones, […]
May 25 2011 | Posted in
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Twitter on Wednesday discussed its buyout of TweetDeck with a promise the existing app would stay. Twitter planned to keep developing the app “that users know and love.” It saw the multi-platform client as a way of giving companies and power users a way to track conversations. TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth saw itself as occupying […]
May 25 2011 | Posted in
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AT&T CTO John Donovan this morning announced the cities involved in the company’s LTE service rollout this year. The launch will start off with five cities this summer and a strong focus on AT&T’s home state of Texas. Dallas, Houston and San Antonio would be covered with the faster speeds along with Atlanta and Chicago. […]
May 25 2011 | Posted in
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Nike has put out a new version of its Nike+ GPS app for iOS, v3.1. The update is comparatively major, making some feature additions and a number of refinements. The app should now run faster overall for example, and provide better accuracy in terms of accelerometer and GPS data. Audio has been improved to allow […]
Microsoft backed away from comments made yesterday by CEO Steve Ballmer, who had told Japanese software developers that the next version of Windows would be dubbed Windows 8, and that it would launch in 2012. “It appears there was a misstatement,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement the company issued Monday afternoon. “We are […]
May 24 2011 | Posted in
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Bang & Olufsen has just introduced its lastest in-ear headphones for Apple devices, the EarSet 3i. A successor to the EarSet 3, it has a four-pole mini jack and buttons for controlling volume, music playback and answering phone calls, hanging up or putting them on hold. A microphone is also built-in. The earbuds keep up […]
Apple has updated its pro-audio software Logic Pro and Logic Express to v9.1.4, addressing a number of minor issues and adding support for working with Garageband projects created on the iPad. The changes are identical for both the Pro and Express versions, and include a fix for an issue where a generic interface would appear […]
Amazon quickly followed on the heels of the new touchscreen Nook by unveiling a new Kindle 3G with Special Offers. It follows the same pattern as the Wi-Fi edition and drops the price down by $25, to $164, in return for ads on the home screen and the screensaver. The e-reader is already in stock […]
May 24 2011 | Posted in
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Apple tonight confirmed in a support document that it was patching the avenue for the MacDefender malware attack. The company promised a Mac OS X fix in “coming days” that would automatically detect and pull all known instances of MacDefender. Mac users would also get a warning if they downloaded it, the company said. In […]
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