24Jan2011
Microsoft announces new California store, obviously next to Apple
On their official Twitter profile, Microsoft announced their fourth store will be located at the South Coast Plaza mall in Southern California. Just like Microsoft’s other stores, this one will be a few steps away from an Apple Store and Microsoft will try to steal the spotlight with their ‘Answer Bar,’ big screens, glass front, wooden tables, and employees that wear different colored shirts, depending on their store job position.Microsoft’s second store, the one in Mission Viejo,
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Mac Bundle Pro announces iSkysoft Bundle of five Mac apps
Mac Bundle Pro has put together a bundle of five Mac applications from iSkysoft at 85 percent off the normal price. iTube Studio for Mac helps to download videos (HD videos supported) from YouTube, FaceBook, TNT, BREAK, Google Video, and many other video-sharing sites opened in Safari. The app allows users to convert the downloaded videos or FLV videos on hard drive to use with iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP and mobile phones; or to any video and audio format. The built-in Mac FLV player also enables
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Monster announces Major Youth Empowerment Initiative for 2011 at CES
At CES this year, Monster announced a major Youth Empowerment Initiative for 2011. It’s an initiative that includes partnerships with Nick Cannon and Co. at Ncredible Entertainment and Dean Kamen in support of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics program. It’s all to help encourage youth to become interested in science, technology, engineering and math, and help them become the leaders in technology. The partnership with Nick Cannon will result in
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Akai announces SynthStation49 keyboard controller for iPad
If you’re looking for a USB/MIDI keyboard usable with an iPad, it’s your lucky day. Akai showed off their latest USB/MIDI keyboard, the SynthStation49 at NAMM this week. It takes advantage of iOS CoreMIDI to allow an iPad to provide the brains to its keys. That means you can drive many audio apps already available on the App Store. It also has nine MPC-style drum pads and transport controls for ultimate control. It might prove itself to be quite the useful tool for iOS based musicians when
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Samsung and DIRECTV announces partnership
CES 2011 is the platform where Samsung announced their partnership with DIRECTV, and the result of this alliance is the birth of the first RVU-compatible production televisions, providing over 19.1 million DIRECTV subscribers with the ability to watch live broadcast and stored content from their DVR on Samsung smart TVs – and all this without requiring any more set-top boxes. Sounds like good news, don’t you think so, as there is one less thing to buy and have around your home. This is
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Jabra announces CRUISER2 hands-free kit and new Skype range
Jabra has revealed several new additions to its Bluetooth connectivity range. The new CRUISER2 is a hands-free combined mic/speaker for making and receiving calls on the go in a car. Also added to its range are two new Skype-certified speakerphones, the EXTREME for PC and the SPEAK410 for PC. The CRUISER2 uses Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and incorporates dual-microphones for noise cancelling. It is also able to stream audio to a car radio from the connected device via an FM transmitter. Talktime is
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Blue Microphones announces the Yeti Pro USB and XLR mic
Blue Microphones has announced Yeti Pro, with a recording resolution of 24 bit/192 kHz, making it the highest digital resolution microphone on the market. It connects over USB like the original Yeti, but also has an XLR output for expanded usability and a cool black exterior to set it apart visually. Now you can have the best of both the digital and analog worlds with one microphone. The Yeti Pro will be available in February at an MSRP of $249.The original Yeti mic was a very well received
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AMD announces first Fusion chips: 10+ hour battery life with DirectX11 graphics
Is this real? Is this happening? It's been over four years since AMD and ATI completed their $5.4 billion merger with the promise of Fusion hybrid CPU / GPU chips, and after what's seemed like nearly endless delays, the company's delivering here at CES 2011. And it's delivering in a big way -- the first Fusion chips are a direct assault on Intel's Atom and the netbook market, offering what AMD says is better CPU performance, vastly better GPU performance with DirectX11 support, dedicated 1080p
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Intel Announces ‘Sandy Bridge’ Core Processors
Today, Intel announced their next generation processor architecture known as "Sandy Bridge" (or 2nd Generation Core processor). The new processors are built on the 32nm process and integrate the processor, memory controller and graphics on the same die. In particular the new integrated graphics performance is significantly improved over previous Intel's previous chips. TechReport summarizes the changes: Sandy Bridge is, essentially, a next-generation replacement for Intel's primary CPUs for
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GEAR4 announces UnityRemote
Mention the name GEAR4 and chances are you will definitely have heard of it before, where this UK-based iPod and iPhone audio brand and case manufacturer has brought a bunch of its memorable creations to the world before, placing a strong emphasis on design. Well, they have just announced the availability of the UnityRemote in the US, which is available via Amazon (where else) – basically, the UnityRemote will be able to turn iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into a universal remote control. Sounds
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