Remember back in May when Blu-ray sales were reportedly up 72 percent for 2009? Turns out the high definition disc business is doing even better than that. read more

Mercedes confirms plans for all-electric SLS ANG gullwing This one hasn’t exactly been the best kept secret in automotive circles as of late, but Mercedes has now finally come out and confirmed that it will indeed be producing an all-electric version of its new SLS AMG gullwing coupe. For those not immediately sold by the word “gullwing,” you may be slightly more impressed by the 48 kWh liquid cooled lithium ion battery pack at the heart of the car, which gets paired with an electric drive system tied to all four wheels that Mercedes says is “on the same high level” as the 6.8-liter V8 engine that’s in the non-electric SLS.

Remember back in May when Blu-ray sales were reportedly up 72 percent for 2009? Turns out the high definition disc business is doing even better than that. The Digital Entertainment Group is reporting a 91 percent sales increase year-on-year, totaling $407 million, for the first six months of this year — an impressive feat, especially in this recession climate. Blu-ray rentals, too, saw a 61 percent increase, and on the less tangible side of things, digital distribution rose 21 percent.

From Engadget -There’s a new Inspiron 13 on the Dell Singapore site and it’s thinner, lighter and appears closer to the Inspiron Mini and Studio lines. Specs include 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 graphics costs, an LED-backlit 1366 x 768 display, HDMI / VGA out, an ExpressCard/34 slot, and 1394, The best part is the price – it is just S$1,399 or around US$962.

iPhone World.ca writes : Now there are many odd things people will do with their iPhone but I assure you, this might just be the craziest you have ever seen – atleast for me. A group of fully-grown men decided to attach an iPhone 3GS to the underside of a Remote Control plane…I wonder how many of you will re-read this sentence.

Research in Motion hit a milestone today, only “achievement” wouldn’t necessarily be the best way to describe it. The BlackBerry maker has finally ended a long-running patent dispute with Visto Corp. , paying out $267.5 million to settle the matter — a much larger fee than the $7.7 million Visto got from Seven Networks , but conversely a fraction of the reported $612.5 million RIM paid to settle with NTP years back. With it, however, comes a fully paid license to use Visto’s patents, and some of the plaintiff’s intellectual property by way of transferred ownership.

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a Comment Remember back in May when Blu-ray sales were reportedly up 72 percent for 2009? Turns out the high definition disc business is doing even better than that. The Digital Entertainment Group is reporting a 91 percent sales increase year-on-year, totaling $407 million, for the first six months of this year — an impressive feat, especially in this recession climate. Blu-ray rentals, too, saw a 61 percent increase, and on the less tangible side of things, digital distribution rose 21 percent.

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentResearch in Motion hit a milestone today, only “achievement” wouldn’t necessarily be the best way to describe it. The BlackBerry maker has finally ended a long-running patent dispute with Visto Corp., paying out $267.5 million to settle the matter — a much larger fee than the $7.7 million Visto got from Seven Networks, but conversely a fraction of the reported $612.5 million RIM paid to settle with NTP years back.

We sort of saw the writing on the wall, but now Belkin has went and made it official: the FlyWire is dead. Originally showcased at CES 2008 and at practically every AV-related trade show since, the wireless HD-enabling FlyWire was seen as the poster child for wireless HD / HDMI by many, and the death of this product certainly doesn’t bode well for the technology as a whole.

We can’t say we’ve ever found the Inspiron 13 particularly compelling, but there’s a new model up on the Dell Singapore site right now and we’re this close to falling in love — it’s thinner and lighter, takes some nice design cues from the Inspiron Mini and Studio lines, and the configuration with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 graphics costs just S$1,399 ($962). Oh, and there’s also an LED-backlit 1366 x 768 display, HDMI / VGA out, an ExpressCard/34 slot, and 1394 — pretty great for under a grand.