Tag archive: MAX

Blessings come in small packages – especially if you are into the latest fad called tokidoki. (And let’s be honest: if you are into the goofy anime characters from Japan, you will probably not be attending any business meetings this decade anyway, so power and size are not huge factors.) Fujitsu, a company that has long trailed behind the Dell and HP dynamos in recent years, is expanding into unheralded markets. The first… Read More

Audio gear maker Altec Lansing is in the process of rebranding itself, rolling out a new logo and Web site to convey the company's “rich history of groundbreaking audio innovation.” We're sure that's what everyone's' going to pick out of black, white, grey, and gold…but in the meantime, the company has also unveiled a new desktop speaker system with a integrated subwoofers and three new iPod… Read More

For years, Nokia and Qualcomm have been engaged in a series of international legal battles over key mobile technology patents covering everything from CDMA and GSM to UMTS, HSDPA, and Wi-Max. The companies have filed suit against each other in multiple countries, sought to have each other's products banned from markets, and sparred over licensing terms, royalties, and other terms. The battle has been long and ugly, and was just… Read More

Business projectors may be optimized for PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and PDFs, but at the end of the day, everyone knows that they’re still going to be firing up a DVD now and then in the downtime. Samsung introduced a line of projectors tailored to both business use and movies on Tuesday with the A400 and D300 data projectors. To make it usable in brightly lit scenarios, the A400 gets a “high brightness” mode… Read More

Computer maker Acer has begun showing off a new version of its Aspire 5920 notebook computer with an integrated WiMax wireless broadband module. Acer plans to offer the WiMax-equipped model in the United States through Sprint, which is in the process of rolling out its Xohm WiMax service in major U.S. markets, as well as through other companies. According to Acer, the WiMax-enabled 5920 will be sold with a WiMax service plan in a manner… Read More

GPS newcomer Navigon has launched its Navigon 2100 and Navigon 2120 Max GPS models in the United States and Canada (respectively), offering a 4.3-inch antiglare screen, text-to-speech spoken directions, route planning, and a “reality view that provides 3D, photo-realistic views of complex exchanges and intersections, complete with road layout and the actual text that appears on road signs. And, if you get stuck or lost, a DirectHelp… Read More

3Dconnexion’s SpaceNavigator has already earned a healthy reputation among engineers, Google Earth explorers and others as an easy way to navigate 3D worlds, but its clunky weight of over a pound has always made it less than ideal for anywhere but a desktop. The company aims to fix that with a new notebook edition of the device, which cuts the weight by half for mobile use. The SpaceNavigator for Notebooks weighs just 0.55… Read More

At this year's CTIA trade show, Sprint has confirmed that it is delaying the rollout of its WiMax-based Xohm wireless broadband service until later in 2008. Sprint claims the delay has nothing to do with the WiMax technology itself—which the company already has up and operating in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area and Chicago—but a matter of making sure the commercial launch fully meets customer expectations. Sprint was… Read More

In an attempt to make its sub-compact CloudBook stand out in a crowd of similar-spec Asus Eee clones, Everex has taken the notebook to the next level of connectivity by adding built-in WiMax support. The new CloudBook Max, announced Tuesday, will connect up with Sprint’s upcoming Xohm network, offering wireless Internet access far beyond the average Wi-Fi hotspot. “Consumers and mobile workers want to experience the real… Read More

Navigon rounded out the budget end of its GPS line-up on Tuesday with the introduction of the 2100 max and 2120 max personal navigation devices. Both units offer the same standard features Navigon offered in the 2100, such as 3D Reality View, and tack on additional features. The biggest change: the old 3.5-inch screen on the 2100 grows to 4.3 inches on the 2100 max and 2120 max. The new models also feature DirectHelp, which lets users… Read More

Omnifone has announced MusicStation Max, a mobile phone application designed to provide users within unlimited access to mobile music from major labels to their pre-licensed music phones. LG will be the first manufacturer to bundle in MusicStation Max, with 3G and HSDPA handsets due to start reaching consumers in the first half of 2008. The basic idea behind MusicStation Max is this: handsets are pre-licensed to access the music, so… Read More

It's funny: some of LaCie's hard disk products keep getting bigger, adding more bays and more capacity, while others keep getting smaller. LaCie's latest update to its Little Disk form factor packs either a 30 or 40 GB 1.3-inch hard disk drive into a package that barely fills the palm of your hand, offering a solution for folks who need portable storage but don't have much room to carry it. The 30 and40 GB Little… Read More

These last two weeks have been interesting. Before CES, Warner Brothers basically gave up on HD DVD and Toshiba (in what was an amazing lack of good judgment) clearly putting HD DVD on the ropes (and the newly lowered prices came too late to make a difference). This was followed by CES which really lacked anything that I would call a true break-out new product of the iPod or iPhone caliber. This week we had MacWorld, and while it is… Read More

The Music Genome Project’s popular Pandora radio will finally break free of the desktop, now that AT&T has enabled the music service on many of its 3G phones. Although AT&T has long offered streaming music for subscribers, Pandora is unique in the way it allows users to select songs. Using an enormous database, Pandora catalogs the attributes of each song it carries, and can create an entire radio station of similar songs with just one… Read More

If the announcement of two new Gateway monitors plus an affordable 20-incher from Envision all in 24 hours wasn’t enough for the prospective monitor buyer, Samsung has one more for you. The company announced a new 19-inch LCD for consumer and retail applications on Thursday. The SyncMaster 942BW gets 1440 x 900 resolution and a quick 5ms grey-to-grey response time for watching movies or playing fast-paced games. It’s… Read More