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Xceive Corporation has just released news that their next generation of Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick and Pinnacle HD Pro Stick product families will feature the XC5000 chip inside for a higher degree of performance without burdening the consumer with a more expensive price tag. To find out more on how the XC5000 is able to offer such promise, head on after the jump. Xceive’s industry-leading XC5000 hybrid tuner brings excellent receiver sensitivity and a superior feature set optimized for Pinnacle’s next generation of PCTV tuner applications. The XC5000 provides the ultimate viewing experience by ensuring HD-quality images via analog and digital TV reception, along with clear QAM reception for unencrypted digital cable TV broadcasts. (Read the full post about ‘Xceive Corporation uses XC5000 in Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Jun 3rd 2008 at 3:43PM Talk about being behind the eight ball. With the Eee PC 901 and 1000 getting official, not to mention the onslaught of potent competitors, GeCube’s 10.2-inch alternative isn’t likely to steal much of the spotlight in Taipei. Nevertheless, the seemingly unnamed machine is ready to fight the losing battle with a 1.6GHz VIA C7-D processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM (with an additional slot open), 1,024 x 600 resolution panel, 80GB SATA hard drive, stereo speakers, Ethernet, WiFi and three USB 2.0 jacks. (Read the full post about ‘GeCube’s 10.2-inch netbook gets stuck with VIA C7 processor’…)

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Okay, this is one of those devices that is so crazy that I had to report on it. What you are seeing isn’t some new type of printer with spool-like rolls of paper. These paper rolls are ones that we are all familiar with, as we use it every day in the bathroom. That’s right, someone finally invented a printer that uses toilet paper to print on. This isn’t just any printer, but the RSStroom reader is so named because it can print the latest RSS updates on toilet paper. I know people who live and die by these RSS feeds, so this is definitely something for them. Of course, if they want to keep a hard copy, you definitely don’t want to wipe with it. (Read the full post about ‘RSStroom Reader’…)

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Panasonic jumps onto the Olympics bandwagon with a special edition of its HDC-S7 camcorder, dubbed the HDC-SDK8. It will feature the following :- Full HD video recording SD/SDHC memory card slot CCD 1/1.6” with a 10x optical zoom Leica lens 2.7″ LCD displayThere will be a limited edition run of just 150 units, so grab them while you can. Each of these HDC-SDK8 Olympics camcorder will retail for €780. Tags: home cinema, electronic toys, gprs, gadgetry (Read the full post about ‘Panasonic HDC-SDK8 Olympics Camcorder’…)

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Seagate is proud to lay claim to the record of being the highest capacity, small form factor 2.5″ enterprise hard drive in the world with the Savvio 10K.3 model. Apparently, this model consumes up to 70% less power and has over 60% performance density when compared to standard 3.5″ hard drives. The list of firsts doesn’t just stop there as the Savvio 10K.3 drive is also the industry’s first 2.5″ self-encrypting enterprise drive with government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) data protection. It can hold up to 300GB of data, featuring a reliability rate of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6 Gb/sec data rate) interface. (Read the full post about ‘Seagate Savvio 10K.3 Hard Drive’…)

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This rather kludgy-looking iPhone add-on brings real GPS to the soon-to-be-obsolete original iphone. Consisting a Holux M1000b GPS unit, a custom dock-connector cable and some software (which requires a jailbroken iPhone to run). We’ve included the demo video below, in which the GPS seems to work fine, updating your position on the iPhone’s built in Google Maps application every second or so. What it also shows is that you’ll need a minimum of three hands to use it. Some more screenshots over at the company’s blog show the software turning the iPhone into a big compass, which would seem to be very useful if it, too, didn’t require the big cable and box hanging off the sleek slab. (Read the full post about ‘Dangling Dongle Brings GPS to The iPhone’…)

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Mio’s newest convergence device, a personal navigation device (PND) not only helps you find your way around, but it is also equipped with a digital camera as well to capture those perfect moments while you’re on the road. Among the features include a 3.5″ touch screen display and GPS navigation. Other than that, details are pretty scant, but it’d be a sure loser should Mio decide to drop audio and video playback - after all, most PNDs these days also double up as portable media players, so there isn’t any good reason for Mio not to follow in similar footsteps. (Read the full post about ‘New Mio PND has Camera’…)

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Yesterday, iLounge posted the winner of its Design the Next iphone contest — an aluminum keyboard equipped twist’n'flip concept. Better, and much closer to real Apple design, is this entry worked up by Umang Dokey.

We particularly like the quick access to the Wi-Fi and 3G settings.

(Read the full post about ‘Video: Slick Mock-Up of the IPhone 2 Interface’…)

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by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 3rd 2008 at 9:59AM
Look, we’ve always been fans of these low-cost ultra-portable computers which Intel dubbed “netbooks” long after they debuted. However, we never really saw them as anything more than a niche device. A niche initially filled by the not-quite $200 Eee PC much to the delight (and surprise) of ASUS. The success was in large part driven by the price (less than $300) and network centric design (small SSD, fast boot, simple OS, and WiFi) of these 7-inch ultra-portable laptops. Today, however, everything changed. Specs are on the move upward with pricing now firmly at $500 and beyond — retail ground currently held by full-featured, 15-inch, entry-level laptops from Dell and others. (Read the full post about ‘Poll: Have Netbooks already jumped the shark?’…)

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jun 3rd 2008 at 10:31AM We’ve seen this puppy in awful renders and blurry spy shots, but now we’ve finally got a chance to view Samsung’s SGH-i900 as intended. The latest entry in the touchscreen phone game doesn’t look too shabby when it comes to specs (240 x 400 display, 5-megapixel camera, 16GB of onboard memory, HSDPA, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0), but we get the feeling a lot of people will be springing for this for its looks. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung’s SGH-i900 comes clean in new photos, looks expensive’…)

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