The long-awaited 3D Blu-ray release of Avatar will arrive before 2011—but you’ll need a Panasonic Viera 3D TV if you want to own it this year. Panasonic has confirmed the extremely odd rumoured arrangement to Cnet, forging a deal that’ll see the 3D Blu-ray disc exclusively bundled with a select few Panasonic 3D TV models [...]
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Who says the Streak is the only game in town if you want a 5-inch Android device? Well, no one, actually — there are lots of generic options if you just want something with a 5-inch display running on Google juice — but regardless, we had a chance to check out just such a device [...]
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You can get extra Gmail storage pretty cheaply from Google, but eagle-eyed reader gthing lets us know that you have read access to that storage even after you cancel your subscription. You have read and write access to your storage for an entire year after paying, but if you choose not to renew, you still [...]
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YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work. Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB framework but also provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and support so “You don’t have to [...]
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Chinese telecom giant Huawei — which has been playing the Android game with major carriers around the world for some time now — has selected IFA to debut the Ideos, a new entry-level model running Froyo in a variety of colors. Huawei’s press release calls the Ideos “the world’s first affordable smartphone” — which seems [...]
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Canon’s PowerShot S90 managed to attract a considerable fan base with some stellar image quality and professional-level features, but it did have a few drawbacks — most notably a lack of HD video that’s hard to overlook these days. The new and improved PowerShot S95 promises to address that and other complaints, however, and according [...]
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The VMP74 is the flagship model in Viewsonic’s range of media players, boasting an array of internet-enabled bonus features including YouTube, web browsing, radio, RSS feeds and, soon, BBC iPlayer. It has no built-in storage so you’ll need to insert your own flash sticks or portable drives to either its USB or eSATA ports. Or [...]
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Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user’s browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake warning pages are very similar to the real thing; you have to look closely to realize they aren’t the real thing. The ploy is [...]
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When Six Apart launched Vox, a blogging/social network platform with strict privacy controls, in 2006, investor David Hornik had high hopes. Vox is an “amazing blogging platform,” he said, because “Finally I have a place where I can post pictures and video of my kids without concern about who is looking at them.” Vox will [...]
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Skype‘s Windows client is showing a bit of ambition today as its latest beta version now boasts a mighty 10-way video calling implementation. The earlier v5.0 beta threw up five-way vidchat, but it’d seem Skype kept its software engineers working through the summer and now we’ve got double the visual fun. Which would be awesome [...]
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