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Samsung ships QF20 camcorder with WiFi, toughened-up W300 pocket cam

Dave — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:11:18 +0000

Samsung’s CES blitz included a tease of five new camcorders, but precious little in the way of launch details. Some of the mystery has ended, as two of the camcorders — the QF20 and W300 — are at last hitting US stores. The QF20 caters to the Internet crowd and, for $350, will let you [...]

Analyst: ‘retina’ laptop screens available, not cheap

Dave — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:11:18 +0000

img align=’left’ src=’http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/ipadretina-sm.jpg’ border=’0′ width=’176′ height=’120′ /Rumors of a new line of Apple Macintosh MacBook Pros with an enhanced Retina Display are making the rounds this week. According to CNet, NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim said that super-high resolution 13.3 and 15.4 inch panels suitable for Retina Display usage are available now from component manufacturers. [...]

Updated: The Best Android Tips and Tricks

Dave — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:11:17 +0000

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NEC tablet with GSM and HSPA breaks cover at the FCC

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:15:45 +0000

Regular readers will know that the FCC is a bit of a virtual whistle-blower, alerting tech-hungry Americans to when new goodies might soon be landing on their shores. Other times it coughs up the odd thing we weren’t even waiting for. Today’s offering appears to be a 3G tablet from NEC. There’s little in the [...]

Book publisher’s subpoena for user data refused by Verizon

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:15:44 +0000

img align=’left’ src=’http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/fordummies-sm.jpg’ border=’0′ width=’176′ height=’120′ /Book publisher John Wiley and Sons has run into an unusual opponent in court — an ISP. Verizonis refusing to comply with a subpoena ordering the company to disclose personal details of subscribers whose IP addresses have been logged pirating their popular “For Dummies” series of self-help guides. All [...]

Get Ten Free Full-Length E-Books From Microsoft Press

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:15:44 +0000

If you want to supplement your collection of technical e-books, or you need in-depth information about Microsoft technologies, you may be interested in a set of works from Microsoft Press which are being offered for download free of charge. There are 10 books on offer including Office 2010, Windows Phone 7, SQL Server, Office 365 [...]

NVIDIA outs GeForce GTX 670 GPU: it’s Kepler without the mortgage

Dave — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:06:34 +0000

This’ll be old news for some lucky folks, but NVIDIA has just unveiled the GeForce GTX 670 graphics card. It aims to bring Kepler to gamers who don’t have off-shore bank accounts, with a price tag of $399 (or £329 in the UK, and €329 in Europe). What sacrifices will be made to reach that [...]

Fujifilm makes a splash with waterproof FinePix XP170

Dave — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:06:33 +0000

img align=’left’ src=’http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/fuji-xp170-sm.jpg’ border=’0′ width=’176′ height=’120′ /Fuji has taken the wraps off its new waterproof FinePix XP170 with wireless image transfer capabilities. The new point and shoot camera is waterproof to 10 meters, is built to support drops of up to 2 meters and can also operate in temperatures down to -10 degrees Celcius. It [...]

A Shameless Plug by Gizmo for one of our First Editors

Dave — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:06:33 +0000

Long time readers of Gizmo’s Freeware will fondly remember editor “Briard” whose long, funny articles on Linux were a delight to read as well as being highly original and informative. You won’t then be surprised to hear that Briard , whose real name is Kim Brebach has actually written several novels as well as running [...]

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: the Water Discus Hotel, magnetic LED bulbs and pig poo electricity

Dave — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:13:18 +0000

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Man-made islands; indoor ski slopes; temporary ice hotels. We thought we had seen it all in Dubai, and then the Middle Eastern city went and outdid itself with the Water [...]