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| Alaska Airlines In-Flight WiFi Tests Done, Pricing On The Way Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT  Alaska Airlines is almost ready to have an in-flight WIFI product for their customers. At this point, the testing is done and so far, early testers have said that the service was quite good, and that they would recommend it to their friends. Now Alaska is wondering how much the market can bear for such a feature. Hypothetically, $10 for an hour might sound painful, but $13 for a coast to coast flight or an international flight seems OK. Alaska should finalize its pricing and launch a product sometimes in 2009. Now there’s the issue of battery life… Permalink: |
| Not Good at Ceramics? Here Comes 3D Printing for Pottery Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:14 PM PDT
There’s nothing like the perfection of 3D printing to get stuff done nicely, on the first attempt. This version of pottery works very much like : the printer processes the objects layer per layer and can work on slices that are as thin as 0.003″. The slices are nor carves out from an object, but rather built by spraying a binder and powder for each layer. The final objects don’t have the same texture than traditional Ceramics, so additional work is required to make them capable of holding liquids and so on. Permalink: |
| Got an old gadget? Recycle it at RadioShack and get a gift card Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:34 PM PDT
 has been doing their part to help the environment by taking in your old electronics, and giving you some cash credit for it. Until recently, the trade-in program has been on a pretty limited basis, but now, RadioShack made it available in all of their 4,400 stores. In case you don’t have a participating RadioShack trade-in near you, you will probably have one to take advantage of now. Think about all the unused, old gadgets you have lying around the house. Wouldn’t it be great to turn them in for some money? Now, I understand some gadgets have sentimental value, but I think it’s great that RadioShack is taking the initiative to allow people to donate their old electronics. However, I’m not sure how selective they are and how much money they will give you in return, but here is how it works in a nutshell. Obviously, the product has to be able to turn on and function as advertised. If it doesn’t, then don’t even bother trying to give it to RadioShack. Next, you have to provide your name and address (this should be easy), and then show a valid Driver’s License, State ID card, Military ID, or Passport. Next, RadioShack’s trade-in program is limited to MP3 players, cell phones, gaming consoles and games, camcorders, digital cameras, GPS devices, chargers, cables, manuals, computer perihperals, computers, HDTV’s, and monitors. Since the program has been fairly successful, I imagine that RadioShack gives back a decent amount of money, otherwise people wouldn’t even bother with this. Also, RadioShack gives you a gift card the minute they accept your trade-in, so there is no waiting 6-8 weeks for your gift card to be processed. Lastly, it is always nice to help the environment, so if not for the money, give in your old electronics just for the warm, fuzzy feeling you get when doing a good deed.
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:24 PM PDT SlashGear was lucky enough to get sent a brand new HP dv2 and accompanying Blu-ray drive. The ultra-portable features a 12.1 inch screen, up to a 500GB hard drive, up to 4GB of RAM, and up to a 512MB ATI graphics card to work that Blu-ray magic. The dv2 is running on AMD’s new Yukon platform which is meant to compete directly with the Atom from Intel. The dv2 comes out at .93 inches thin, and will be very affordable for the offered features. The dv2 is running Vista Home Premium, and plays Blu-ray movies beautifully on the display. The dv2 has an HDMI port for making it easy to use the dv2 as your home Blu-ray player with your HDMI television.The machine is well built, perfect size for carrying around, and the 12.1″ screen is big enough to get some serious work done, but the weight and size are kept manageable. This laptop is a great consumer device, meant for the casual user camped out at Starbucks, who wants to watch movies, surf the internet, or manage photos. However, it has been promised to me that the dv2 will game with the best of them, thanks to the ATI graphics card. Fear 2, Call of Duty: World at War, and others are said to run amazingly well on this tiny device, showing the capability of a good GPU paired with a less power-intensive processor. We haven’t seen AMD processors in netbooks or ultra-portables until now, and the accompanying graphics power is promised to offer some serious boosts in speed. We’re in the process of benchmarking our dv2 against an Atom based machine, so we’ll have the results for you there. We got the chance to talk to AMD once they sent us the machine, and they had some good points about designing the Yukon for larger machines, and pushing it down into smaller portables. We’ll see how the Yukon delivers with the benchmark results. Until then, here’s a preview of the HP dv2 and the amazingly small USB Blu-ray drive.
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:12 PM PDT Well this is news! It seems like a few slides that were confidential to has them on display. So long as they’re out in the open, let’s take a closer look at what the CPU manufacturer has in store, shall we?
From what we can tell from the leaked slides, there will be a platform called Tigris that features a Caspian 45nm processor and DDR2 800MHz memory. The chipsets are to be AMD RS880M-series and SB710 plus support for 12 USB 2.0 connections along with 6 SATA connections and 2 USB 1.1 connections.
Also detailed is the Danube platform, set for a 2010 release with the Champlain processor, four cores, DDR3 1,066MHz RAM, AMD RS880M chipsets and a SB8xxM for the RAID interface, clock generator, 4 PCIe GPP slots and 2 USB 2.0 ports. The roadmap also featured details for the Sabine platform set for a 2011 release and will ahve the Llano Accelerated Processing Unit with 32nm integrated GPU, four cores, DDR4 1,600MHz RAM, an AMD SB9xxM chipset, 16 USB 3.0 ports and more. Engadget Relevant Entries on SlashGear |
| 26 Chance to win AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro - SlashGear is one of it Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:02 PM PDT SlashGear is joining 25 other websites to give away total of 26 unit of Pantech Matrix Pro for AT&T. The giveaway starts today and will end on the 14th of May. Each site will have its own terms and conditions for the giveaway. We will announce our own giveaway on the 18th of April and unveil the winner on the 22nd of April.
Below is the list of the sites participating on this giveaway. General conditions on this giveaway (apply to all sites) Winners are limited by geography to US residents only. This is due to the fact that the phone is locked to ATT's network and service credit/gift card is redeemable only within the US. Individuals who've won at another site are ineligible to win at another (see below for an explanation of what I mean by this) Relevant Entries on SlashGear |
| Samsung announces 8 new data projectors Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:59 PM PDT Samsung certainly was busy yesterday! They eight new data projectors across four different series. That’s enough to make our heads spin! But they’re all worth mentioning and span the gamut from classroom-sized to home media viewing capable.
First up is the , which are both great for conference or classroom use, featuring 2,200 lumens and 3,000 lumens, respectively. Also included is 3LCD light processing, stereo speakers, VGA and composite inputs and an HDMI input on the L300. Next up are the , which offer 3,000 and 4,000 lumens of brightness, respectively and feature HDMI, VGA, component and composite inputs. Both also have a 3,000:1 contrast ratio. There have also been additions to the A-series with the A400, A800 and A900 featuring 2,500:1, 10,000:1 and 12,000:1 contrast ratios, respectively. They all have VGA, component, S-video, composite and HDMI inputs. HD is supported. You can get several of these projectors now including the P400, D400, D300 and L300 priced at $700, $2,000, $1,000 and $1,100, respectively. We don’t know when the A400, A800, A900 or L220 will be released or how much they will cost yet but we’ll be sure to keep you posted. Relevant Entries on SlashGear |
| The Motley Fools call Palm Pre DOA, I call them fools Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:58 PM PDT The stock market experts and radio show hosts of the Motley Fool published an article today claiming that the Palm Pre, though fully featured and well designed, may be dead on arrival. This information is based off of a survey of 4,292 adult smartphone buyers by ChangeWave Research. The survey found that only 4% of smartphone buyers plan on purchasing the Pre, in contrast to 37% of them planning on purchasing a BlackBerry or iPhone. There are a few problems with this. First off, the survey is of smartphone buyers, whom I’m going to assume, are business-type individuals that aren’t necessarily up on the technology of emerging cell phones. The survey completely ignores the consumer market, of which the Palm Pre is also targeting. I am going to buy the Pre, and I have only ever owned “feature phones” up until I get my hands on some webOS goodness. My friends are all dumb phone buyers and have never owned a BlackBerry. Keep in mind, the majority of iPhone users were not smartphone users before converting to the iPhone. The Palm Pre is not a smartphone buyer device; , not just the crackberry owning, iPhone toting individuals who are more than likely already very please with their devices. The Palm Pre is not targeting current smartphone users; it’s targeting feature phone users who want to step up to something better such as Synergy and a fully functioning cloud feature. I am willing to bet every single Sprint subscribe will be more than willing to switch to the Palm Pre; and at the same time, I can’t name one person who I know that isn’t happy with their iPhone or BlackBerry. The survey is flawed because they asked people who already own smartphones. They should have asked the pro-sumers and internet savy folks like myself and my friends. Also, how can you ask if users will switch to a device they’ve never even held and has no known release date? The survey is flawed, and if the Motley Fools put a lot of stock into it, they are indeed fools.
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| Samsung S8300 Tocco Unboxing and hands-on Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:36 PM PDT We got a crate sent to us from Korea, and we weren’t sure what was inside. When I say crate, I mean wooden crate that required a hammer and crow bar to pry open. The precious cargo housed inside was worth the protection. A chorus of angels sang out in the middle of a Home Depot, and I laid eyes upon the Samsung S8300 Tocco Ultra Edition. The Tocco is a slider/touchscreen phone, featuring the Samsung TouchWiz UI, an 8MP camera, Bluetooth 2.1, microSD card slot, front facing camera for video calls and of course an AMOLED touchscreen display. The phone is beautiful, with red accents and a brushed aluminum facing. I was impressed not only by the packaging (It’s not every day you get a wooden crate) but by the sleek design of the phone, and fast response from the UI. We got it all on video for you, exploring the initial impressions of the phone. The Tocco is cool looking, it feels good, sounds good, and happens to be absent from U.S. shores. We don’t know when it’ll be hitting GSM carriers in the U.S., but keep an eye out for this sleek-slider, and until then, enjoy the unboxing!
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| LaCie Rugged XL external drive announced Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:01 PM PDT LaCie the latest offering in their Rugged series yesterday with the Rugged XL, an external hard drive than can hold up to 1TB of information–that’s double what the older model could hold.
This drive definitely lives up to its rugged moniker with a rubber sleeve to protect the aluminum casing, and a bumper inside to protect the components from dropping and shock. The Rugged XL supports both Windows and Mac operating systems It also has support for eSATA 30Gbps and USB 2.0. Various software is included as well like the Genie Backup Assistant for Windows, Intego Backup Assistant for Mac, and LaCie Setup Assistant. You can get the LaCie Rugged XL now for $159.99. Electronista Relevant Entries on SlashGear |
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