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Amazon announced a nice little software update for all Kindle (Global Wireless), Kindle (U.S. Wireless), and Kindle DX devices. Amazon says the firmware update improves Kindle battery life and adds a native PDF reader. As we near the arrival of the new Nook, Barnes & Noble’s ...
Gadgets
Kindle
Amazon
Sony
This edition of Travel Tech is probably most notable for what I didn’t manage to acquire prior to my Thanksgiving journey.
I was slow to act on picking up a refurbished Kindle for a low $150 to make my upcoming transatlantic flights a bit more palatable. By the time I got around ...
Gadgets
Apple
Kindle
As TiVo does, they fire off feel-good news (for investors) along most quarterly earnings calls – to possibly soften the blow of continued subscriber defections. Today, they’ve announced a deal in which Google will be mining our TiVo commercial viewing (er, skipping) behavior to ...
Home Theater
TiVo
Later today, Wikipedia movie content (and more) joins Rotten Tomatoes coverage on Vudu partner hardware. As a refresher, Vudu began life as a peer-to-peer movie streaming service via their dedicated hardware . After some layoffs , restructuring, and refinancing, they emerged with a hardware ...
Online
Wikipedia
Blu-ray
Need a Google Voice invite? Leave a comment and I’ll randomly pick at least 3 winners – hopefully tomorrow, before I leave on vacation. See our previous GV coverage here . If you’ve got invites you’d also like to share, let me know ( dave@zatznotfunny.com ) and ...
Online
Google Voice
Amazon
There’s nothing like the holiday season to get you in the gadget shopping mood. However, even if you’ve done all your homework on what to buy, sometimes it’s hard to avoid the impulse purchase, particularly when there are so many shiny toys in all the store windows. Earlier ...
Online
Apple
Roku makes good on the promise of multiple new content providers in 2009 via their App Store Channel Store, launching tomorrow. Once owners receive the free software update and link a web account, Roku’s existing Netflix, Amazon VOD , and MLB.TV video services will be joined by a ...
Online
Pandora
Flickr
YouTube
App Store
As we recently read, Mari’s beloved Asus netbook gave up the ghost . As they are wont to do . After a short period of some basic troubleshooting, she went the practical and conservative, perhaps costly, route of having a technician recover her data. It’s inevitable. Hardware ...
Software
I’ve been critical of DivX’s efforts to woo Hollywood in the past , but I’ve also got to give them credit for a win when I see one and I think they knocked it out of the park when it comes to Paramount.
Recently, Paramount announced that they were going to be distributing content on USB ...
Software
DivX
I’ve been critical of DivX’s efforts to woo Hollywood in the past , but I’ve also got to give them credit for a win when I see one and I think they knocked it out of the park when it comes to Paramount.
Recently, Paramount announced that they were going to be distributing content on USB ...
Software
DivX
There are so many lessons to take away from my recent experience in netbook hardware failure , it’s hard to know where to begin. A resounding vote for cloud computing and distributed risk? How about, beware of irony and over-praising your gadgets ? Or simply when it rains (first the ...
Hardware
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I’m not quite sure what prompted Google’s Chrome
OS briefing yesterday, as we could be up to...
a year away from retail delivery of their Linux-based cloudbooks. It’s also a bit puzzling that Google would simultaneously pursue ...
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Installing Google Chrome OS as a Virtual Machine
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Over at EngadgetHD , Ben Drawbaugh lays out a case (and wishlist) for the imminent release of new stand-alone TiVo DVR hardware. Given the recent TiVo price drops , upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, and long gestation period since the last hardware refresh (Summer, 2007), ...
Home Theater
TiVo
CES
zatznotfunny.com - 6 days ago
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We’ve looked at quite a few remote controls
in our day, but this is the first hand-powered...
one — no batteries required! The remote is a concept design by NEC and Soundpower , which obtains its power from the vibrations of your hand pressing ...
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Look Ma, No Batteries in my Remote!
Last month , Nokia published an official Netflix app to their Ovi store for a variety of Symbian handsets. (Joining the official Windows Mobile Netflix app , developed with Microsoft.) Of course you can manage your DVD rental queue, search for titles, and receive recommendations. But, using ...
Mobile
Netflix
Nokia
Symbian
Windows Mobile
Microsoft
Looks like DISH Network is next in line with an app store offering , following in the footsteps of rival DirecTV . EchoStar’s repeatedly delayed Slingbox-loaded 922s DVR , now slated for delivery “early next year,” will provide access to a variety of home grown and third ...
iPhone
App Store
Based on my personal experiences, and tales from the blogger elite , from where I’m sitting it appears that AT&T’s inferior 3G data network is oversold and oversaturated. When airlines are oversold, impacted customers are compensated. But when it comes to mobile access, ...
Mobile
Apple
iPhone
Sprint
zatznotfunny.com - 9 days ago
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I’d assumed Sezmi had gone the way of
the dodo Akimbo and Moviebeam . However, after speaking...
to president and co-founder Phil Wiser last week, it seems they’ve quietly been working deals, raising new capital , and refining the Sezmi ...
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Sezmi Launches LA Pilot, Lands $25M
I’ve been percolating a post on iPhone software enhancements I’d like to see rolled out as part of a 3.5 OS update. However, my requests are largely unchanged from the shortcomings I described back in January . And thanks to the Chumby One previews popping up across the ...
Mobile
zatznotfunny.com - 9 days ago
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As we collectively gear up for the holidays,
product purchase inquiries have started rolling in. Katie asks...
: Mino or Ultra !?!? Im getting one for x-mas and i need to tell my dad which one is the best but both sound good!!! Flip rocked the ...
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Question of the Day: Which Flip Video Cam?
