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Global Qi wireless power standard released, Energizer and Sanyo announce products 03 September 2010 at 9:02 am by admin

It’s no good buying an eCoupled inductive charger if it won’t work with your Powermat , or your Touchstone . Non-standard chargers suck, so we’re glad to see that the Global Qi wireless power standard has been released, and the first products have been announced. A number of companies, Nokia and RIM to name but a few, have signed on their support, with Energizer stepping up first with the Energizer Inductive Charger.

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Global Qi wireless power standard released, Energizer and Sanyo announce products

+ Postage Stamps Go High-Tech With QR Code-Like Stamp Readable by Apps [IPhone Apps] By admin 03 September 2010 at 4:50 am and have No Comments

The UK’s Royal Mail may’ve been kicking around in some shape or form since 1516, but they’ve become the first postal service to create an ” intelligent stamp ,” readable like a QR code by an Android or iPhone app. More »

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Postage Stamps Go High-Tech With QR Code-Like Stamp Readable by Apps [IPhone Apps]

+ Epic talks Project Sword, Unreal Engine on iPhone, and Apple TV as a game console By admin 02 September 2010 at 12:30 pm and have No Comments

Following yesterday’s dramatic announcement of Project Sword for iOS — and the dramatic release of the free Epic Citadel tech demo — Gamasutra spoke to Epic’s Mike Capps about the games and the platform.

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+ Toshiba Folio 100 preview By admin 02 September 2010 at 11:21 am and have No Comments

We just got to handle the Folio 100 , after witnessing it bolted to a wall earlier, and we have to admit that it’s lighter and thinner than it looks at first glance.

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+ Harman AKG teams up with Quincy Jones on Signature Line of headphones By admin 02 September 2010 at 10:00 am and have No Comments

Gone is the day when headphones could be respectable without some kind of corporate tie-in or Lady Gaga endorsement .

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Harman AKG teams up with Quincy Jones on Signature Line of headphones

+ AMD makes Eyefinity easier with line of budget-minded active DisplayPort-to-DVI adapters By admin 02 September 2010 at 9:20 am and have No Comments

AMD’s Eyefinity technology is one of the best ways to fill every inch of your peripheral vision with pixels. However, it’s certainly not the cheapest, relying on DisplayPort -capable monitors — inputs that even some current models lack. This has left many gamers buying $100 DisplayPort-to-DVI adapters, significantly raising the cost of adoption, but AMD has announced an unusual plan to tackle that: cheap adapters

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AMD makes Eyefinity easier with line of budget-minded active DisplayPort-to-DVI adapters

+ Buffalo serves up USB-powered portable 3D Blu-ray player in Japan By admin 02 September 2010 at 8:47 am and have No Comments

Stuck with an ODD-less netbook or laptop, but can’t quite shake the urge to watch a Blu-ray Disc on your next flight?

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Buffalo serves up USB-powered portable 3D Blu-ray player in Japan

+ Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D megadisplay eyes-on By admin 02 September 2010 at 8:03 am and have No Comments

There are some things that you just long for irrationally in a sort of trade-your-next-10-years-of-Christmas-presents sort of way, and this new 3D Cinema 21:9 Platinum HDTV from Philips is one of those things. We just got a few too-brief minutes alone with the 58-inch set, where it proved itself quite an excellent 3D display — it’s hard to differentiate exact 3D quality without another display nearby for reference, but we didn’t see any issues or worry points with the image quality offhand.

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Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D megadisplay eyes-on

+ Skyfire submits iPhone browser for App Store approval, we wait for the Flash to hit the fan By admin 02 September 2010 at 7:44 am and have No Comments

There was a time when Skyfire on Windows Mobile meant full Flash all the time. The 2.0 version on Android reigned that in a bit, really only supporting Flash video and little else, something Android 2.2 users no longer need to worry about

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+ Google Responds to Steve Jobs’ Thinly Veiled Insults [Google] By admin 01 September 2010 at 6:11 pm and have No Comments

During today’s Apple event , Steve Jobs bragged about how many iOS devices are upgraded each day and remarked that he thinks “some of [Apple's] friends are counting upgrades in their numbers.” Google caught this thinly-veiled accusation and retorted: More »

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