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Chipmaking giant Intel and Finland's Nokia—still the world's largest mobile handset maker—have announced a broad new strategic partnership aimed at developing Intel-based mobile computing devices and platforms, all built around always-available mobile broadband connectivity and Internet access. The effort will see the companies collaborate on the open source Moblin and Maemo platforms, as well as open source efforts… Read More

Nikon has introduced its new top-of-the-line digital SLR camera, the Nikon D3X, a 24-5 megapixel FX-format DSLR that offers continuous 5 frames-per-second shooting at full resolution, along with a complete slate of high-end features sure to please professional photographers and simply wow the rest of us. The D3X can capture images at wieher 12-bit or 14-bit resolution to ensure high image quality…and at 24.5 megapixels, each RAW… Read More

Just yesterday Acer took the wraps off two WiMax equipped notebooks available for sale in Baltimore, the first city lite up on Sprint's planned nationwide Xohm WiMax network. Now Toshiba is getting in on the act, rolling out a WiMax-equiped version of its Satellite U405 notebook with a 13.3-inch display and combined WiMax/Wi-Fi networking. The Satellite U405-ST550W features an intel Core 2 Duo processor, an integrated Webcam with… Read More

Phone maker Sony Ericsson has announced that it has inked deals with 10 major music labels to offer their tunes using the company's over-the-air music service, PlayNow. According to Sony Ericsson, the deals include arrangements with the big major labels Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI, along with smaller distributors like IODA, The Orchard, The PocketGroup, Hungama, X5 Music, VidZone, and Bonnier Amigo. With the new additions,… Read More

Photo and video hosting site SmugMug wants users to get into the holiday spirit—and exploit more of the megapixels in their cameras—by offering new extra-large image sizes in its photo hosting option, and a new HD video hosting option that enables users to share 24p videos up to 1,280 by 720 pixels. "Since 2002, SmugMuggers have chosen us because their photos-and now videos-look outstanding here," said SmugMug… Read More

Some of you are really going to hate this column.             Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my future. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about what an energy-scarce future might mean for my career as a writer and my chosen subject matter. I write about the audio/video universe: surround sound, big-screen television, and all the other products and issues that attend… Read More

Square Enix and Buena Vista Games yesterday announced they'd shipped to retailers their new Kingdom Hearts II role playing game for the Sony PlayStation 2. Priced at $49.99, the game is rated "E10+" for ages 10 and up by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Kingdom Hearts II, said the two organizations, is the sequel to Kingdom Hearts, one of the top ten best selling PlayStation 2 titles of all times. In Kingdom Hearts II,… Read More

Skype has taken the wraps off Skype for PocketPC 2.0, enabling Skype users to make voice calls anywhere they can connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi and/or 3G mobile networks. The software is available as a free download, and supports a wide range of PocketPC devices, including HP iPAQ hw6900 series Mobile Messenger (plus hx2400, hx2700, rx3700 and hx4700 series devices); the Dell X3i, X30, X50, X50v, x51 and x51v models; and Fujitsu… Read More

ATP Electronics, a maker of flash digital media solutions, announced today a new CompactFlash card which they say is the fastest CF card out there today. The ATP ProMax CF cards will be available in starting in January with storage capacity sizes of 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB, with a 4GB following later in the quarter. ATP said their ProMax CF cards, which are water and shock resistant, are rated at 30MB/sec (150x). Targeted towards high end… Read More

In the last few weeks, digital camera makers Sony, Konica Minolta, Nikon (Europe and Japan), Olympus (Japanese only), Canon, Fujifilm, and Ricoh have all issued service advisories covering several of their camera models, citing the cameras' sudden failure to record images, or to snap distorted pictures or images with a strong purple cast. The failures effectively render the cameras useless. In classic “stealth recall” move,… Read More

NVIDIA's new 7800 GTX is not only faster than its predecessor the 6800 Ultra, but it requires 50% percent less power from your power supply, and that's quite an accomplishment. The new 7800 GTX has more than 300 million transistors making it the most advanced GPU to come out of NVIDIA to date. In some gaming benchmarks the new 7800 GTX showed up to a 2.3X the performance of a dual-slot SLI based GeForce 6800 Ultra system.… Read More

From the press release: Tiger has more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlightâ„¢, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to instantly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets. Spotlight is… Read More

The phones deliver realistic images and true-to-life sound, while the vibration it sends to the user's hand provides an extra sensation to the game experience. During an auto racing game, forexample, the mobile phone vibrates as the player's car bumps over gravel or other unpaved surfaces, adding realism to virtual reality. Samsung has also built in an industry-leading 1 million polygon*/second graphic accelerator chip. This device… Read More

Apple and BMW Group today announced the BMW iPod Adapter, the first seamless integration between iPod and a car audio system. The new system developed by Apple and BMW enables drivers to seamlesslyuse their iPod in BMW's 3 Series, Z4 Roadster, X3 and X5 Sports Activity Vehicles and MINI Cooper by simply plugging their iPod into a cable located in the car's glove compartment. With the iPodsafely located in the glove compartment and… Read More

From Intel's press release: In one of the most significant PC platform changes in a decade, Intel Corporation today announced products that usher in a range of audio, video and other capabilities previously found only on specialty PCs. In addition to making the PC experience more entertaining and productive, these technologies pave the way for such emerging capabilities as High Definition (HD) video, 7.1 surround sound and robust… Read More