Archive for November 1st, 2008

Western Digital quietly intros WD TV HD Media Player

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment Well, what do we have here? With no fanfare whatsoever, Western Digital has apparently strayed from its platter-based roots and delved into the wide, murky world of HD media streaming. The WD TV HD Media Player purports to "turn your USB drive into an HD media player, ...

New Xbox Experience load times compared: DVD versus HDD

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming You've already been given the skinny on Microsoft's New Xbox Experience -- you know, that stupendous, sure-to-be-life-altering dashboard update that'll hit 360 owners on November 19th -- but one aspect that still hasn't been adequately addressed is the difference in load times between the DVD and HDD. If ...

HP opens TouchSmart to third-party developers

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Filed under: DesktopsGot a touchy-feely idea you'd like to see on HP's TouchSmart PC? Then by golly, it's about time you got to work! HP has recently released its TouchSmart Application Developer Guidelines to third-party developers, enabling anyone with drive, ambition and skill (all three, not just one or two) ...

Panasonic and Sanyo change status to “it’s complicated”

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays, Misc. Gadgets, Home Entertainment You know you've heard it from two lovebirds in junior high: "we're not going out, we're just talking." In a completely bizarre way, that's about the best way we can sum up what's apparently going on between Panasonic and Sanyo Electric. According ...

Aspire One shipments on pace to beat Eee PC

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Acer's Aspire One has been somewhat overlooked in the face of a relentless barrage of Eee PCs and other netbooks, but slow and steady tends to win the race -- Acer says it's on track to ship six million machines this year, which is ahead of ASUS's target ...