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CNET: Plextor’s PX-HDTV500U Mini Digital HDTV Receiver may very well be the cheapest and easiest way to watch and record over-the-air HDTV on your PC. It’s also the smallest external tuner we’ve seen, making it a good fit for laptops. In addition to the tiny tuner that’s no bigger than a USB thumbdrive, the kit […]

Gizmodo: So what if you’ve got a fancy EV-DO card? Sierra Wireless‘ new AirCard 597E not only brings Sprint’s EV-DO Rev A to your laptop, but GPS as well.
It has a built-in antenna that supports GPS navigation through
Sprint’s network. There’s no pricing yet, but it’s expected to come out
mid-June with support for PCs […]

New York Times: Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now.
In a few years, it will be possible to make these items yourself. You will be able […]

ARS Technica: New Kardfisher trojan spoofs Windows Product Activation, asks for credit card By Joel Hruska | Published: May 08, 2007 - 10:48PM CT According to Symantec, there’s a new trojan in town with an interesting twist. Dubbed Kardfisher, the new virus spoofs Windows Product Activation by flashing the following screen at users […]

Gizmodo:Look and yearn folks. This here is Sony’s new OLED display. It’s an obscene 9mm thick yet it packs a 1080p resolution along with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Just as a recap, OLED displays are thinner and brighter than their LCD counterparts and they suck up less power. Sony was showing this beaut off at […]

Crave: The honeymoon is over for the iPhone.
It’s not that we’re sick of it already (well, maybe a bit), it’s just time for it to answer some questions. Otherwise, it may join the Sony PS3 in the realm of “tech that looks absolutely amazing but is far too expensive for most people to even consider […]

Engadget: Looks like AMD has a sweet new rig they’re readying for January launch, and word on the street is Bill Gates wants to launch it personally. It’s the IQ770 “Crossfire,” the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC we’ve seen, surely good for taking advantage of Vista’s integrated tablet functionality. The Vista Premium system, set […]

FierceGameBiz: A new teardown analysis of the PlayStation 3 gives major
kudos to Sony’s creation, saying the console delivers “supercomputer
performance at PC price.” In their eyes the Cell processor, Blu-ray
capability and other components make the PlayStation 3 “an engineering
masterpiece that sets a new high mark for computing price/performance.”
It’s not coming cheap, as we all know.
iSuppli predicts […]

Propellerhead: Fancy being an unpaid guinea pig? Well, the folks at Microsoft have just released the first truly public release of Windows Vista. This is the updated Beta 2 version, which industry insiders have been trialling for the past few months and now anyone can have a go. Be warned it’s a monster download, almost […]

Silicon Beat: Shares of Vonage, the Internet telephony company, plunged 12.6 percent on its first day of public trading today.Not like the company had any choice. It had to go public.
We’ve all been saying it is losing money, and its prospects looked really rough, and we all questioned whether it should go public. But […]