January 26, 2011
Tapping into its repository of “thousands upon thousands of tech deals” posted over the past couple of years, DealNews made some seemingly bold pricing predictions for 12 different electronic gadgets for 2011. Here are some of the more interesting ones…
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January 24, 2011
In an effort to curtail piracy and thwart any damage that might result from the recent public posting of security codes for the PlayStation 3 console. Sony plans to introduce a serial key system for its games, TechEye reports.
Earlier this month, Georg…
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January 21, 2011
In the battle for browser market market share, Opera Software can claim victory in a skirmish to land a contract with Sony. As a result, Sony will shove the Opera browser into its Internet-connected Bravia televisions and Blu-ray disc players, the Swed…
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January 17, 2011
Netflix has made no secret of its intention to be primarily a streaming company. Although, much of the content out there is only available in disc form. Netflix’s recent decision to limit the ways customers can add those discs to their queue has caused…
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January 17, 2011
You got your Blu-ray drive in my NAS box!
Integrating a Blu-ray drive into a NAS box chassis is akin to mounting a rocket engine to the bed of a pickup truck: It looks impressive, but it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. So it is with LG’s N4B2ND4…
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January 17, 2011
Just like video killed the radio star, kiosks like Redbox could be spell doom for brick-and-mortar video rental stores. Consider this: for the first time ever, DVD and Blu-ray flicks rented from Redbox and other standalone kiosks claim a larger share o…
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January 9, 2011
Skype video conferencing on the PC has been the reality for a while now, and their recent expansion into mobile devices has helped turned the software client into a household name. With few places left to expand it should be no surprise that the VOIP …
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December 28, 2010
We’re not sure it’s the size of Blu-ray players that’s holding the high-definition format back from mass adoption the way VCRs and DVD players were accepted into homes, but if that is the case, Samsung has the answer. At the Consumer Electronics Show (…
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