Archive for April, 2008

Space Wars 3D Screensaver [(universal) Demo]

Like a scene from your favourite sci-fi movie, watch fleets of space ships wage war among the stars in stunning real-time 3D. Now has missiles and torpedoes, cloaking devices, bigger explosions, and more.
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Alienware set to debut AlienNetwork with “special product announcement”

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Alienware sure does seem to like to generate a little mystery around its products (or at least attempt to), and it looks like it’s trying to have another go at it this afternoon, this time in conjunction with the launch of its new AlienNetwork “digital channel.” Unfortunately, there’s not much to go […]

LG pushes Scarlet LCD HDTVs with completely unrelated commercial

Filed under: Displays, HDTV

Some of you keen readers pieced all this together already, but that commercial you’ve been seeing about an “all new television series” dubbed Scarlet isn’t a new show at all; rather, it’s a risky move by LG to push its Scarlet LCD HDTVs. The sets themselves have been out and about already, […]

iPhone finally coming to Canada

Filed under: Cellphones

digg_url = \’http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_Finally_Coming_to_Canada_3\’; It seemed like it would never happen, but the impossible has occurred: Apple’s iPhone is coming to Canada. The news was quietly slipped into telecom giant Rogers’ latest earnings report, with the simple statement that the company was “thrilled to announce” a “deal with Apple to bring the iPhone […]

AMD says post-Phenom CPUs will be “completely different,” 100 laptops to launch with Puma

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Although most of the attention in the increasingly-competitive CPU market has been focused on Intel and newcomer NVIDIA lately, AMD’s still in it to win it, and it looks like it’s taking some bold moves. First up, the company says over 100 laptop designs based on the new Puma mobile platform are […]

Lenovo’s IdeaPad U110 available for order, shipping soon

Filed under: Laptops
Just as expected, Lenovo has updated its webstore with the shiny new IdeaPad U110. The 11.1-inch ultraportable is available for customizing right now in black or red, and both hues start at $1,899. Currently, the red variant touts a 3- to 5-day wait before shipment occurs, while the black model isn’t likely to […]

Apple Adds Java SE 6 to Leopard

Today, Apple issued a 57MB update to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), adding support for Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05.
This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing i…
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Disney and WowWee team up on cute, killer bots for the ironic uprising

Filed under: Robots

Need some irony with your angst-battered diet this morning? Swell, try some of this. Disney and Pixar are set to release their latest animated blockbuster, WALL-E, this summer. The premise of the film finds WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class) cleaning up the Earth’s trash after rampant, unchecked consumerism made the planet […]

Samsung intros ’smallest ever’ color laser printers

Filed under: Peripherals

We don’t normally get too excited about printers, but when a company claims to have introduced the “smallest ever” of anything, our ears prick up. Apparently, the Korean electronics-maker has distilled color laser printers into their purest, tiniest form with the CLP-315K and CLX-3175FNK, clocking in at 20- and 40-percent smaller than previous […]

TomTom intros ONE 130, XL 330 GPS units with new car mount

Filed under: GPS

TomTom may be having some profit troubles these days, but that’s apparently not stopping it from getting plenty of new products out the door, with it now announcing four new models in its TomTom ONE and TomTom XL series, along with a spiffy new car mount to go along with ‘em. As before, […]