In news that comes as little surprise, Asus has officially offered up the Eee PC 900. While we already knew the date, it is still nice to see that it came as scheduled, which means that anyone who was brave enough to pre-order will not have to wait any extra time.
The Eee PC 900 seems to be holding true to the expected $549 price tag, with availability just about everywhere we saw the pre-orders popping up. The Eee PC 900, so far seems to be available and in-stock at Amazon, Buy.com, ZipZoomfly, J&R and ExcaliberPC. The one exception seems to be at Buy.com where the retail seems to be just a little higher than the rest at $559.
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Olympus will be replacing its E-510 DSLR with the announced E-520, featuring a rather familiar functionality compared to the E-420 although being newer, it does come with a number of extras such as sensor-shift stabilization, a larger continuous-shooting buffer and a deeper grip. It will have the same sensor as the E-3, and all indications so far point toward a similar viewfinder and LCD as its predecessor. Face detection has also been thrown into the fray - now this is not something you see everyday where DSLRs are concerned. Wireless flash and tonal-range correcting Shadow Adjustment technology rounds off the list of features. The Olympus E-520 will begin to ship this July, where its body along will cost $599.99 while the full kit with an ED 14-42mm f3.5/5.6 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens (24-to-48mm equivalent) is tipped to retail for $699.99.
If your pad happens to have an extremely modern setting that leans more toward the abstract, then Duevel’s Planets would be the perfect high-end audio speakers to be placed within. These floorstanding omni-directional loudspeakers come with a 5? subwoofer and and a 1? horn loaded tweeter. You will be able to choose from black, white, silver, red, green or blue colors to suit the interior, although be prepared to cough up $1,295 for each pair. Sounds pretty expensive to me, but at least it is unique.
Claudio Sinatti was commissioned to shoot Italian footballer Marco Materazzi for the Nike “Art of Football” exhibition. He built a special frame to hang on the player to film from all angles while he kicked the pig’s bladder around.
Watching the beginning of this video is like watching the A-Team in action. A kind of wussy, intellectual A-Team, but a nut’n-bolt screwing, metal rod wielding, hardware hacking A-Team nonetheless. After ratcheting 48 cameras to the “360º Corset” though, it gets a little dull. Even the footballer Marco Materazzi looks bored, although for around $10 million a year he can afford a little grunt work now and then.
The final rig is a cross between the Matrix’s Bullet Time setup and Scorsese’s SnorriCam, the camera clamped to Harvey Keitel in the bar scene in Mean Streets. Imagine what you could do with all those megapixels of multi-angle video. Sadly, Sinatti didn’t bother with any whirling 3D action and instead stuck the whole lot up on a wall of screens. Still, full marks for the mix of high and low tech behind the scenes. And one demerit for the tedious focus-pulling in the edit.
2030 to me seems too far away, but I’ll take it. The report itself was over 200 pages, which indicates to me that they spent a ‘government’ god-awful amount of money to produce it. Ok, fine, but let’s see if they now spend the important money to make this a reality.
According to the report, it would $6/person/year to implement this. The Wired article wasn’t clear on whether this was every year or just for 1 year, but who cares? At that amount, I will gladly take a line-item tax on my 1040. Persons making less than $40k or so can get that waived.
Other stats - wind power could account for 300Gigawatts of power, reduce carbon emissions from coal and natural gas plants by 25%, drop water consumption by 4 trillion gallons per year. Yes, yes, this will all take some doing including infrastructure overhauls, but do we have a choice? BTW, a town in MO has already shown the way.
by Donald Melanson, posted May 12th 2008 at 12:48PM It’s not often we see laptop manufacturers boast of a one-hour battery life, but in the case of Eurocom’s new D901C PHANTOM-X “mobile server,” that spec is certainly hard-earned enough to warrant notice. The battery drain begins with a 2.8GHz Quad Core XEON X3360 processor, which gets paired with 1.5 terabytes of storage in the form of three SATA-300 hard drives (complete with various RAID options), 8GB of DDR2-800 memory, a Blu-ray burner, and a comparatively modest 17-inch display, to name but a few specs. All that, not surprisingly, takes just as big a toll on your back as it does on battery life, with the PHANTOM-X weighing in at a lugabble 12-pounds. No word on a price just yet, but Eurocom’s non-Xeon-based server laptops already easily push past the $3,000 mark, so you can probably take a pretty good stab at assessing the damage to your budget.
by Paul Miller, posted May 12th 2008 at 3:23PMWell, Microsoft finally got SP3 out the door for you stubborn Vista-resistant XP users, and we’re dying to know how you like it. That’s right, you. See, our resident guinea pig intern hasn’t felt any performance improvement, we’ve received tips from people who have seen a speed bump, and problems have cropped up as well — we’ve heard reports of sporadic reboots and crashes, some of them AMD-related. But hey, forget all of them… how has SP3 changed your life?
After announcing the launch of its latest BlackBerry handset - the BlackBerry Bold, Microsoft and RIM have announced an agreement that will bring Windows Live Messenger and Live Hotmail to all BlackBerry handsets. This would allow users to access both their Windows Live Messenger and Live Hotmail using their e-mail addresses and passwords, just once.
With Windows Live Hotmail and Live Messenger on their blackberry devices, users will be able to the following; set an automatic message delivery and message synchronization using push technology, utilize a dedicated inbox for Windows Live Hotmail messages delivered automatically to users’ handsets, display HTML e-mail with graphics, web links and contact photos, send instant message and join group chats, see status and preferences of Windows Live Messenger contacts, customize status message, save conversations, display avatars, send and receive picture and files, and use more than 60 emoticons.
Windows Live Messenger and Live Hotmail will be available for the BlackBerry beginning summer of this year in multiple languages.
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AT&T has just announced that it will be the first carrier to offer the recently released blackberry Bold 9000 this summer on an exclusive basis. Seems as though AT&T gets all the best phones so far, and their crown jewel is certainly the iphone. Subscribers on T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon need not fret though, as after summer the Bold will probably make its debut on the mentioned carriers, giving AT&T a few months to milk it for all it is worth. So far word on the street has it that the handset will come with a 2-year contract and a $300 price tag.
It’s not often we see laptop manufacturers boast of a one-hour battery life, but in the case of Eurocom’s new D901C PHANTOM-X “mobile server,” that spec is certainly hard-earned enough to warrant notice. The battery drain begins with a 2.8GHz Quad Core XEON X3360 processor, which gets paired with 1.5 terabytes of storage in the form of three SATA-300 hard drives (complete with various RAID options), 8GB of DDR2-800 memory, a Blu-ray burner, and a comparatively modest 17-inch display, to name but a few specs. All that, not surprisingly, takes just as big a toll on your back as it does on battery life, with the PHANTOM-X weighing in at a lugabble 12-pounds. No word on a price just yet, but Eurocom’s non-Xeon-based server laptops already easily push past the $3,000 mark, so you can probably take a pretty good stab at assessing the damage to your budget.
Well, Microsoft finally got SP3 out the door for you stubborn Vista-resistant XP users, and we’re dying to know how you like it. That’s right, you. See, our resident 
