quotation: Smart Drives from U3 which are launched today sound like a cracking idea. Basically the company has taken so called dumb USB keys that are only used for storage and enabled them to also host applications as well as data. So for example you

quotation: Several manufacturers on Monday unveiled the first USB drives based upon the U3 standard, a method that enables users to carry, store and launch personal applications directly from a USB flash drive without installation. U3 smart drives host U3 smart applications, computer settings and data allowing people to carry their “personal workspace” with them […]

quotation: Canon, the world’s biggest seller of copiers and digital cameras, will start production of organic electro luminescent displays in 2007 and raise spending to develop products based on the technology. “We plan to put OEL panels on some of our products starting in 2007,” said Hiroshi Yoshinaga, a Tokyo- based spokesman for Canon, responding to […]

quotation: In an effort to gain the support of the huge Chinese market, the DVD Forum is studying the possibility of a Chinese-only format based on the HD DVD spec. The move was approved by the Forum’s 31st Steering Committee held in South Korea, September 14. The Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center, a Chinese […]

quotation: While PCs are the expected, and most obvious platform for DVD burning, non-PC platforms are rising in popularity for this activity, and DVD recording habits are evolving, reports In-Stat. An In-Stat survey shows that the greater flexibility provided by DVD playback (vs. VCR tapes) is resulting in changing consumer habits as they often play […]

quotation: Search engine leader Google Inc. is delving deeper into an unconventional business, offering an Internet streamcast of last week’s television premiere of Chris Rock’s new comedy. Other online outlets have made network prime-time shows available before, but “Everybody Hates Chris” marks Google’s most high-profile video offering so far. It comes as Google increasingly […]

quotation: NEW YORK - Here’s a lousy deal for you–give away your product, help a new business grow from zero to multiple billions and get nothing in return. That, in a nutshell, is what the music companies did with their promotional music videos more than two decades ago when they supplied then-upstart network MTV with […]

quotation: Researchers of Berkley University showed that a simple audio recording of the PC keyboard clicks can betray the text one has entered. The researchers were able to take several 10-minute sound recordings of users typing at a keyboard, feed the audio into a computer, and use an algorithm to recover up to 96 percent of […]

quotation: Oregon Scientific is a company that likes surprises. Last year it pulled off a bit of a coup with the first affordable underwater MP3 player. This year it has delivered wireless hi-fi system that could well be the best speaker system for the iPod so far. Its Music Sphere system features a curious round shaped […]

quotation: Here’s a world’s first product that I suspect we are going to be seeing an awful lot more of. Yep Morphy Richards has unveiled the first ever personal MP3 player with an integrated digital radio. On sale now the Morphy Richards DAB MP3 Player (they aren’t big on fancy names) features either 256 or […]

quotation: As Hollywood movie studios and consumer electronics manufacturers consider how to protect high- definition video entertainment from piracy, the Blu-Ray and HD DVD camps plan to adopt - partially similar - comprehensive content management schemes. The Blu-ray Disc Association has officially announced a content-protection scheme for its flavor of next- generation DVDs last month, in […]

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quotation: A company called Eptascape revealed a new surveillance camera at DEMOfall that obscures people

quotation: NEC Electronics has completed the development of an LSI system that supports the Wireless USB standard. The Wireless USB standard is backed by the Wireless USB Promoter Group (Microsoft, Philips, NEC, Samsung, HP, etc). The Group announced the specifications of the Wireless USB last May. According to the standard, PC and peripherals can be […]

quotation: So Thanko has gone and updated its Analog MP3 Watch