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I swear, if there is some kind of hostile takeover and the world ends, at the root of the problem will be Hello Kitty sitting in pretty pink.  I’m not sure what started my deep and true hatred of all things Hello Kitty, so I fully admit that it is entirely random and not at all logic based.  The more hilarious part is that I know I’m not the only one bad about disliking all that is Hello Kitty.  My theory is, anything that has taken over the world as quickly as Hello Kitty has must be evil, especially if it appears innocent. (Read the full post about ‘The Hello Kitty HD-TV soon to be found in Japan’…)

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The Motorola W755 is a clamshell phone offering a 1.3 megapixel camera as well as the following features: * microSD memory card slot * external touch-sensitive music controls * support for Bluetooth - including A2DP support for stereo headsets * support for Verizon’s high-speed EV-DO network * compatible with Verizon’s VZ Navigator GPS navigation service * CDMA 800/1900MHz * 1.9″ 65k color TFT, 176×220 pixel resolution main display * 1″ 65k color cSTN, 96×80 pixel resolution external display Via MobileBurn. Tags: gprs, AAC, dap, DVD (Read the full post about ‘Motorola W755′…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jun 24th 2008 at 4:42PMSeagate has already made its intentions about jumping into the SSD game pretty clear, and one analyst now says he sees two clear options at the company’s disposal if it wants to seriously make a go of it, each of which involve Seagate shelling out a good chunk of cash. According to Lazard’s Daniel Amir, one option would be to buy out Intel’s 49% stake in the IM Flash Technologies joint venture it has with Micron, which would reportedly cost anywhere from $1 to $2 billion (not to mention put Seagate on the outs with Intel). More likely than that, Amir says, would be an acquisition of or partnership with SanDisk, which he says would be an ideal fit given Seagate’s expertise on the enterprise side and SanDisk’s retail knowhow. (Read the full post about ‘Analyst sees Micron joint venture, SanDisk as possible targets for Seagate’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jun 24th 2008 at 2:02PM While there’s no word on any plans to enter it into the Automotive X-Prize, it looks like the Antro Solo gas-electric hybrid here would at least be able to hold its own against the competition, with it promising to hit upwards of 150 miles per gallon on the highway. That takes a slight dip to a still impressive 117 mpg in city driving though, while the car’s top speed clocks in at a decent 87 miles per hour. To hit those numbers, the company took a couple of extra steps beyond the usual gas-electric hybrids, including putting some solar cells on the car’s roof to help charge the battery, and some pedals on the inside to keep it juiced up when the sun goes down. (Read the full post about ‘Antro Solo gas-electric hybrid promises 150 mpg’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Jun 24th 2008 at 9:29AMSigma Designs has been dabbling in wireless HD technologies for eons, so we aren’t going to get too excited until we see this here system-on-chip (SoC) actually hit some products that we care about. Still, the CoAir is a fairly sweet concept, wrapping integrated wireless, coax and gigabit Ethernet capabilities into one single chip aimed at whole home networking. Put simply (or as simply as possible), this chip is the world’s first to “simultaneously deliver multiple independent streams of video and data over coax cable, Ethernet cable and wirelessly without compromising quality of service and throughput.” Based on the WiMedia standard, it can reach speeds of up to 480Mbps with UWB (ultra-wideband) wireless streaming, and room-to-room linkage via UWB-over-coax can peg those same rates. (Read the full post about ‘CoAir: world’s first UWB chipset with wireless, coax and gigabit Ethernet’…)

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For those who are busy, outgoing and are often in meetings, using your laptop (however small) is often not very practical so you end up taking notes through the old fashioned, and lot cheaper method, the pen. However not only does that hurt your hand after a while, but you get a result that you cant search, send off instantly, or mess around with on Word. In fact you often end up re-typing it anyway to make it usable which is frustratingly time consuming, and makes you wish there was a better solution. Well here it is; the Dane-Elec Digital Zpen. This looks (for the most part) like a normal pen, and you use it just like a normal pen writing on normal paper in a normal way, but the reason for its $140 price tag is that it is far from ordinary. (Read the full post about ‘Pen-to-PC in a whole new way’…)

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Even though Verizon Wireless has announced its intention to acquire Alltel for US$28 billion that’s not slowing Alltel down from continuing with plans to upgrade its network. Alltel announced yesterday that it plans to move forward with upgrades to EVDO Revision A technology. The upgrades will give subscribers the ability to upload files five to ten times faster than before. The initial rollout will include 18 markets including Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa. In addition to planned upgrades the company also announced plans to expand its current EVDO network. The current Alltel network covers 76% of potential customers. By the end of 2008, Alltel hopes that its network will cover 82%. (Read the full post about ‘Alltel to upgrade and expand network’…)

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Even though Verizon Wireless has announced its intention to acquire Alltel for US$28 billion that’s not slowing Alltel down from continuing with plans to upgrade its network. Alltel announced yesterday that it plans to move forward with upgrades to EVDO Revision A technology. The upgrades will give subscribers the ability to upload files five to ten times faster than before. The initial rollout will include 18 markets including Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa. In addition to planned upgrades the company also announced plans to expand its current EVDO network. The current Alltel network covers 76% of potential customers. By the end of 2008, Alltel hopes that its network will cover 82%. (Read the full post about ‘Alltel to upgrade and expand network’…)

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What’s the point of having something new without comparing it to the old? Here’s an image of the upcoming 3G iPhone with the older version, courtesy of our friends at iLounge. Its front is almost exactly the same as the original model’s, now with an array of three sensors (two proximity sensors, one ambient light sensor) in a J shape to the left of the ear speaker, and a wider black frame around its 3.5” touchscreen. Whereas the previous iphone was narrower than a full-sized iPod, iPod classic or iPod touch, the iPhone 3G is now the same 2.4” width, and slightly taller than the iPod touch and classic at 4.5” versus 4.3” and 4.1”. (Read the full post about ‘3G iPhone Compared’…)

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Finally, the long awaited Nokia N78 has arrived on US shores, and it will retail for $560 a pop if you decide to pick one up from any of Nokia’s flagship stores. Among the more interesting features within include :- 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics HSDPA connectivity Integrated A-GPS Digital music player Integrated FM transmitter microSD memory card slot (max. 8GB) Bluetooth connectivityWill you still get this, or wait for less than a month more for the 3G iphone? Tags: pvr, consumer electronics, cellphone, audio (Read the full post about ‘Nokia N78 Hits US Officially’…)

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