Archive for July, 2009

DARPA’s CALO project, the militaristic Clippy, set to invade iPhones this year

Microsoft’s little Clippy, the uppity paperclip who just wanted to help, never got a lick of respect in the ten years he graced the Office suite. He’s long-since gone, but his legacy lives on through a DARPA project called CALO: the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes. It’s intended for use to streamline tedious activities […]

Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework

It seems we have yet another reason to volley complaints in Amazon’s directions. 17-year old high school student Justin Gawronski had apparently been taking electronic notes and annotations on his Kindle for a summer assignment on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yeah, you can probably guess where this is going — after the retailer remotely pulled […]

LG unveils new slim design LCD HDTVs due this fall

Sure it’s summertime in New York and not January in Las Vegas, but that didn’t stop LG from rolling out a couple new lines of LCD HDTVs today. The new SL80 and SL90 models don’t bring new high water marks on the spec sheets, but feature LG’s take on the “borderless” design trend that’s the […]

New Sony Reader PRS-300 and PRS-600 details leaked

You know the drill — service manuals get posted for new / unannounced products, the kids in the forums pounce, and then Sony makes ‘em disappear (the documents, that is — Sony doesn’t rub people out, at least not yet). In this case, user ‘berboris’ over at The Electronic Book found details for two Sony […]

Entelligence: Six is much too much

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels […]

Time Warner Cable reselling WiMAX later this year in Charlotte, Dallas, and two mystery markets

It’s not really that surprising given its investment in Clearwire, but Time Warner Cable is now ready to join in on the WiMAX fun. The company plans to resell the mobile broadband in four US cities by the end of the year, but so far it’s only revealed two of them: Charlotte, North Carolina, and […]

Apple Not Exhibiting at CES 2010

MacUser received word from the Consumer Electronics Association’s Jason Oxman that Apple is not exhibiting at CES 2010, confirming a report by Engadget debunking the original Wall Street Journal report.
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ViewSonic’s VOT120 and VOT121 nettops suck in their guts for the camera

Unsatisfied with only having the tall and slim 130 and 132 nettops, ViewSonic’s newly announced family of hardware also features a pair of even more diminutive options: the VOT120 and 121. Snapped in the wild for your delectation, these machines are small enough to be confused for a well-filled CD wallet and come with WiFi, […]

Audi’s next-gen R8 MMI recognizes handwriting, probably increases your insurance premium

There’s comes a time in every technology’s life when the envelope gets pushed just for the sake of getting pushed. For Audi’s already complex MMI, this is it. Right around this time last year, we were drooling quite profusely over the A8’s next-generation Multi Media Interface (which is basically a snazzy name for an in-dash […]

VUDU’s streaming service demoed live on an LG TV

We’ve seen it in the flesh, and we must say VUDU is doing things right with its move to a device-agnostic service. They haven’t chucked a single feature, and the interface is rather responsive for a TV-based video service (though not quite as flashy as its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts). Even with a bit […]