Honda Unveils U3-X Personal Mobility Device- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- Segway's personal transporters may have (so far) failed to revolutionize personal transportion and take over the world, but that doesn't mean that companies aren't looking at developing and improving personal transportion in ways that don't involve c...
Int'l Trade Comm. Stops Import of Fake Cigarettes- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- The International Trade Commission has ordered U.S. customs officials to bar imports of counterfeit cigarettes bearing the trademarks of Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 tobacco company said Thursday.Philip Morris, owned by Richmond, Va.-based A...
Vodafone 360 H1 and M1 Mark First LiMo R2 Phones- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- Vodafone has launches its new 360 online services, taking over from its previous Live offerings, and is supporting the launch with new new handsets from Samsung: the Vodafone 360 H1 and Vodafone 360 M1. The new phones are the first handsets running L...
ATI Rolls Out Radeon 5800 Graphics with DirectX 11 Support- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- AMD has taken the wraps off its new ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of high-performance graphics cards: the controllers feature a whopping 2.72 teraflops of processing power, and (perhaps more importantly) are the first video cards to support Microsoft Dir...
Tokyo Game Show Kicks Off with Turnaround Hopes- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- The Tokyo Game Show, billed as the world's largest computer entertainment fest, kicked off Thursday with hopes that depressed sales of game consoles will enjoy a holiday resurrection.Hurt by the global recession and few blockbuster releases, the vide...
Baidu CEO Draws Big Crowd in Google's Backyard- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University — and it wasn't one of the guys that started Google Inc. just a few miles from the campus they once attended.About 600 students crammed into a ...
HP Re-brands EDS as HP Enterprise Services- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- Hewlett-Packard Co. is re-branding Electronic Data Systems as HP Enterprise Services, roughly a year after buying the company in a blockbuster $13.9 billion deal.The buyout of EDS, founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, more than double...
Intel Shows How It's Branching Out With Software- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- As Intel Corp. branches beyond its core business of microprocessors for laptop and desktop computers, the chip maker is doubling as a software company. The goal is to make sure many kinds of devices work well with Intel's chips.One example: Intel is ...
New Accounting Rules Mean Boost to Apple, Others- Digital Trends News - September 24, 2009
- Regulators approved changes to accounting rules Wednesday that in the short term will make sales and profits seem higher at technology companies selling certain gadgets that blend hardware and software.Under the old rules, companies like Apple Inc. h...
Life Magazine Goes Online Through Google Scan Project- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
- Decades of Life magazine have been scanned and posted online, giving the public the first comprehensive electronic access to the iconic publication's archives.Life already has made images available through the Life.com Web site and a partnership with...
JVC Previews Its New Products at the Digital Video Expo- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
- JVC unveiled a whole slew of new products today at the DV Expo. JVC’s new Blu-Ray and HDD recorders, the SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250, were previously revealed at CEDIA earlier this month and home theater enthusiasts rejoiced upon hearing they coul...
JVC Uneils Super-Slim GD-32X1 32-Inch LED TV- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
Gmail Adds Push Support for iPhone/iPod touch, Windows Mobile- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
- Folks who rely on Gmail—and on their mobile devices—may have reason to jump up and down today: Google has rolled out support for push email for both the Apple iPhone/iPod touch as well as Windows Mobile devices. The support comes by way o...
Best Buy Gets Behind iRex Digital Reader- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
- The electronic reader marketplace keeps getting more crowded: electronics retailer Best Buy has announced it will varry the DR800SG iRex Digital Reader in its U.S. retail locations this fall for a retail price of $399. The iRex Reader will compete wi...
Alienware Debuts New Gamer Notebook, Desktops- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
- Dell's boutique high-performance Alienware division has been a little quiet lately, but that silence has now ended with the introduction of five new high-end gaming rigs at the Tokyo Game Show&mash;led by a new 15-inch notebook computer sporting a mo...