ZAGG has been dropping a few hints about its ZAGGbox media center for a little while now, but it’s so far been keeping a relatively low profile — it even managed to slip under our radar at CES. It was at the show, however, and its now finally announced that the ZAGGbox is available to pre-order for $799. Not exactly the cheapest set-top box around, to be sure, but that price will get you a few fairly unique features, not the least of which is simultaneous transcoding of captured video for easy viewing on both your TV and the mobile device of your choice (it also comes with its own iPhone app). Otherwise, you’ll get an ample 1TB of storage, a full range of A/V inputs and outputs, built-in 802.11n WiFi, and some Slingbox-like streaming to any device, anywhere you like. Unfortunately, ZAGG still isn’t making any firm promises about a release date, although it will supposedly be out sometime in the second quarter of this year.
ZAGGbox media center / streamer now available for pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As hard as the world has worked to get away from styli and toward fingers, HTC — in all its quiet brilliance — decided that it’d still make a poker available for its mighty, capacitive HD2; after all, how else are you going to pinch and zoom with those adorable mittens on? After some delays, at least one British retailer now has those official HTC-branded units in stock — you won’t have any place inside the phone to stow it, of course, but we’re sure you’ll figure something out. Heck, even if you do end up losing it, they’ll be more than happy to charge you 17 quid (about $28) for another, so rest easy and keep those digits toasty.
Official HTC capacitive stylus for HD2 now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This next item’s for any rogue states out there that might be planning a comprehensive wave of cyber-attacks: It looks like Microsoft has admitted that indeed it was a security flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers based in China exploited in the
recent attacks on Google. As is often the case, the flaw is neatly summed up in the title of the advisory: “Vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow remote code execution.” According to news agency AFP, the incident (which targeted Chinese human rights activists) shows “a level of sophistication above that of typical, isolated cyber criminal efforts.” (Which is, evidently, how we like to think of our own cyber criminal efforts.) Microsoft has yet to release a formal software update. In the meantime, if you think your machine could be at risk, hit the source link for all the details. Or just switch to Firefox.
IE security flaw exploited in recent Google attacks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Well, what a difference a couple of months and a holiday season can make. Just after finding that the video game console market
shrunk by a fifth in October, NPD is now back with a new report that finds that December was the video game industry’s “biggest sales month ever.” Specifically, the group found that console sales jumped 4% compared to last December, with the Nintendo Wii unsurprisingly leading the way with 3.81 million units moved (up from 2.15 million the previous year). That’s followed by the collective DS offerings at 3.31 million and, somewhat surprisingly, the PlayStation 3, which racked up sales of 1.36 million (its first time cracking the one million mark) compared to the Xbox 360′s 1.31 million. Of course, no one’s expecting sales to stay at quite that lofty level, but NPD says that the spike in December sales might well indicate that 2010 could be a recovery year.
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A man who ran a file-sharing website from his Teesside home is found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud.
