http://prassunair.com King Of Shadows Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:56:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's three days until Christmas and you're looking for last-minute gift ideas for tech-inclined friends and colleagues. You decide on a USB drive, but how do figure out what's best to get -- attraction to hammers, ability to open beer bottles, or some other, clearly inferior metric entirely? Kristofer Brozio ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/23/usb-flash-drive-comparison-21-tested-and-compared/ Blu-ray/DVD one side of the world's first hybrid disk-February published the "Code Blue" adopted. Blu-ray/DVD one side of the world's first hybrid disk-February published the "Code Blue" adopted. 99% of DVD playback devices available in 99% of the DVD can be played on devices.Video of the world's first hybrid Blu-ray/DVD ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/20/blu-raydvd-one-side-of-the-worlds-first-hybrid-disk-february-published-the-code-blue-adopted-99-of-the-dvd-can-be-played-on-devices/ IBM Researchers announced that they demonstrated the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies, and achieved the highest frequencies reported so far using this novel non-silicon electronic material.This accomplishment is an important milestone for the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program sponsored by DARPA, as part of ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/20/ibm-scientists-develop-worlds-fastest-graphene-transistor/ Dell’s bundles have been selected to give you a great mix of music and movies. Music compilations start at $25 for a 50 song bundle or $45 for a 100 song bundle. Blockbuster movie bundle 3 packs from some of the hottest titles start at only $25. Start enjoying your favorite ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/new-offerget-music-and-movies-while-personalizing-your-new-dell-pc/ The Samsung YP-P3 is now official, and the images of the press are much better paint that leaked a few weeks ago and we promised a worthy successor to the Samsung YP-P2. It is not because they miss the show are many and from all angles, an almost perfect player ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/samsung-yp-p3/ It's not clear what has changed at this point, but a brand spankin' new firmware for the Storm versioned 4.7.0.83 has just leaked out onto the interwebs. The good news is that -- if our math is right, anyway -- 83 is a considerably higher number than 76, so we're ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/leaked-47083-firmware-for-blackberry-storm-is-08-higher-than-75/ Never mind those eBay prices for the Kindle, and don't pay any attention to the $399 sticker attached to Sony's Reader -- instead, feast your eyes on this gem. The $259 eSlick is expected to arrive courtesy of Foxit this January, and if you jump in early, you'll be able ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/foxit-takes-on-the-ebook-world-with-lower-cost-eslick/ Not that we haven't seen laptops with multiple screens before, but this is a ThinkPad, people. You know, an all-business, totally not flashy ThinkPad. Hidden deep within a Lenovo Asia-Pacific hardware announcement is something we'd swear was a prank if it were hosted anywhere other than IBM.com, but it looks ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/thinkpad-w700-surfaces-with-secondary-106-inch-lcd/ For the podcaster-on-the-go, there's always a need for a portable microphone to get through less-than-ideal situations. Clearly, Samson Technologies is lookin' out, as the simply titled Go Mic provides all that and a bag of chips. The "pocket-sized" USB microphone comes with a built-in mount for siting atop one's laptop ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/samson-introduces-highly-portable-49-usb-go-mic/ It's not clear exactly how widespread the problem is, but it looks like at least some Dell Mini 9s are shipping with smaller batteries than they should be -- a situation that, you may remember, also plagued some Eee PCs a little ways back. According to jkkmobile, while the all ... http://prassunair.com/2008/12/19/some-dell-mini-9s-said-to-be-shipping-with-smaller-batteries/