Archive for March, 2008
Sony’s PIX brings full-length films to AT&T Mobile TV
Sony just revealed a bit more about AT&T’s Mobile TV service launching in May. We now know that one of the two exclusive AT&T channels will be called PIX, Sony’s new feature film channel for cellphones. The service is a first of its kind in the US… for good reason. Oh, it’s not that we […]
AMD brings DisplayPort to pros with ATI FireGL V7700
Hot on the heels of AMD’s Radeon HD 3000 graphics card receiving its oh-so-coveted DisplayPort certification badge comes the firm’s first DisplayPort-equipped card for the professionals in attendance. Hailed as the “first commercially available 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support,” the ATI FireGL V7700 sports a PCI Express 2.0 interface, 10-bit display engine, 512MB […]
BlackBerry Curve 8330 launching on Verizon in May
After seeing it kicked around the Net for a few months, it’s good to see the BlackBerry Curve 8330 finally go live on Verizon Wireless. Well, almost — you’ll have to wait until May to lay thumb to QWERTY while riding that cool EV-DO wave of data. It’ll cost you $270 after a $50 mail-in […]
Swede used 40Gbps internet connection to dry laundry
Chances are, you could think of a million and one ways to totally take advantage of having a 40Gbps internet connection installed in your abode, but for one Sigbritt Löthberg — who actually had such a setup — she chose to take advantage of it in quite a perplexing way. Reportedly, the 75-year old dame […]
ControlThink’s new Z-Wave USB Adapter is firmware-upgradeable
While we have interns to switch off the lights and regulate Engadget HQ temperature, plenty of folks rely on the the Z-Wave standard for home automation. Unlucky for them, most Z-Wave adapters need to be replaced every year or so to support new protocol features, so ControlThink built what it’s billing as the “industry’s first […]
HP’s Elite 3 megapixel webcam says “hello” in stereo
While it may look like an overhead projector without any hints to the scale, you’re actually looking at HP’s (relatively) tiny Elite Auto Focus Webcam. Compatible with all the major PC-based, video chat solutions out there (Yahoo, Skype, MS Messenger, AIM), the USB 2.0 cam clips onto your monitor and features a 3
Radeon 3830 is a China-only product
You might remember the hype about Radeon 3690, a product that never showed its face in E.U. or the U.S., and we can confirm that the new super hyped Radeon 3830 is again a China-only product.
What we learned is that the chip behind 3690 and 3830 looks to be the same thing. Both cards have […]
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The CPU contest lost, AMD seeks gains in graphics
AMD has lost the CPU benchmark war to Intel–for now. But theres another–possibly more important–fight brewing in GPUs. Here, AMD is in the thick of it.
First the bad news. The Phenom X4 processor reviews that followed the Thursday announcement made it clear that AMD will not catch Intel anytime soon. Though some reviews were couched […]
Alienware gets Intels QX9770
With the recent upgrade of Alienwares desktop Area-51 systems with 790i and Geforce 9800 GX2 graphics card, that same Area-51 is now available with Intels top of the line Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processor working at 3.2GHz.
With the introduction of this 45nm 3.2GHz processor with 12MB of L2 cache, the system also gets the 1600MHz […]
