Freescale Collaboration with Epson to Integrate E-Ink Controller to Next Generation ARM SoC for e-Book Market

e-book is becoming popular with more and more manufacturers moving into this new business. However, the retail price could be still too high to be affordable for average users. Good news now, Freescale has been collaborating with Epson so that the new E-Ink technology can be integrated directly into the SoC (Silicon-on-Chip) to bring down BOM (Bill of Material) cost and eventually lowering the selling […]

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EnTourage eDGe with Dual Netbook and E-Book Reader Capability for Consumer Market

Nowadays technology convergence is a trend and have you ever thought of having both netbook and e-reader functionality combined into one? That is how this new machine is so unique about. Named as enTourage eDGe, it features basic functionality of a netbook while able to provide extra e-papar display targeted for consumers that can’t live without either one of them.

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TI Demonstrates Coin Cell Based Low Energy Bluetooth Wireless Technology

Bluetooth is one of the most common wireless technologies being deployed in mobile devices for short distance communication. While it stands a great advantage in terms of relatively low power consumption as compared to other longer distance communication protocols, but some manufacturers still see the needs to develop an even lower energy Bluetooth technology to make the technology even more popular in consumer electronics products. […]

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Livescribe Upgrades Pulse Smartpen to 4GB for Notes Taking and Audio Recording Electronically

Previously we mentioned about Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen which appears to be your good companion when trying to jot down lecturer’s notes electronically, now seems that the company has continued to upgrade its product line to include a much higher memory capacity up to 4GB.

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Samsung Unveils Its Own Brand MicroSD, SD and CF Cards With Up to 16GB

Samsung is famous for its LCD Panel, smartphones, processors and varieties of Consumer Electronics device and now seems that the giant Korean company is planning to put its own name on the memory cards that are commonly used in electronics devices as memory expansion.

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Dane-Elec USB 3.0 External Hard Drive and Solid State Devices

USB 3.0 is the newly defined standard by USB Org to bring a much higher transmission rate due to the increase demand from consumers. While it is still very new in consumer market space with only certain high end chipset and motherboard having this feature, there are some peripheral manufacturers that already started some initial work with actual working prototype demonstration. And among all those […]

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 with Android 2.0 OS Availability by End of Year

We have talked about Sony Ericsson First Android Smartphone initial specification leak earlier and now there are further details and confirmation of this upcoming device as the most powerful Android smartphone based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. Codenamed as Rachel, the new mobile device will be officially named as X3 as an additional model under its famous XPERIA family.

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Acer Aspire Revo Refresh with Intel Dual Core Atom 330 and Nvidia Ion Chipset

Previously we mentioned about Acer Aspire Revo which appeared to be the first Intel Atom based nettop that being designed with Nvidia’s Ion chipset, now seems that the Taiwanese PC maker has refreshed a newer and much more powerful Aspire Revo version targeted for middle range consumer PC market.

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Sony 250GB PS3 Console Availability in November at $350

Previously we mentioned about Sony PS3 Slim Version that potentially having 250GB Capacity hard disk drive, now seems that the news has finally confirmed with the new version expecting to reach consumer market by next month.

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Apple Inc Plans to Develop FM Radio Apps for iPhone Competing Against Microsoft Zune

If you are Apple’s iPhone users that would like to use the powerful smartphone device to listen to FM radio, then you will be glad to listen to this piece of news. The famous Cupertino based manufacturer is believed to be in the progress of developing an iPhone apps that will turn on its hidden capability so that users can tune to FM radio stations […]

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Wizpac Unveils Network Capable Txtr e-book Reader for Consumer Market

Nowadays e-book reader is a trend with more and more readers enjoy reading materials in electronic format instead of conventional printing materials. In view of the increasing demand, Wizpac, a Germany company has just unveiled a new e-book reader device named as txtr targeted for this new market.

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LockThis! Protects Running Programs from Being Viewed and Accessed by Unauthorized Parties

When you are in the midst of running some programs or editing your documents in your PC but suddenly somebody urgently seeking to borrow your system for quick usage, you probably don’t want any of them to interrupt the running program or be able to view the confidential documents. What we normally do is either terminate the running programs or close all confidential documents before […]

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