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Rumor Nintendo to have new Wii ‘by 2011′

31 Jul 2010

Some gamers, however, would most likely love to see a console from Nintendo that can offer high-quality graphics and HD capabilities, which is why any new Wii, such as the one talked about in these rumors, centers on that functionality.

So why would Nintendo want to put out a new console that would almost surely [...]

Cisco buying maker of Flip Video camera

31 Jul 2010

The Flip Video went from basically nothing to grabbing an outsize chunk of the video camera market in two years, inspiring more established electronics brands like Kodak and Sony to follow suit with their own small video cameras.

Pure Digital has discussed possible sale at least once before. CNET News reported in January that Sony [...]

Apple One million iPhones sold, 10 million App St

31 Jul 2010

And those long lines? A total of one million iPhone 3G units were sold. The millionth phone was sold on Sunday.
Despite the outages, shortages, and related hand-wringing associated with last Friday’s iPhone 3G launch and Thursday’s release of the
iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple says there were nevertheless 10 million downloads from its new App Store in [...]

Addicted to the Web Walk it off

31 Jul 2010

And here’s why the device doesn’t go far enough: It lets you expend your energy but doesn’t do anything with it. In an era of emerging environmental consciousness, I don’t know how it’s legal to build exercise equipment that doesn’t feed the energy that people expend working out back into the power grid, or [...]

VoIP comes to iPhone, gingerly

31 Jul 2010

Global IP Solutions, a company well recognized for its media-processing expertise in IP communications, announced on Monday its SDK, which enables Voice over IP applications to be made for Apple’s
iPhone.
So far, GIPS claims that its voice engines have been downloaded and used more widely than any other voice engine worldwide. GIPS’ voice engines enable [...]

Double Vision lets you watch Hulu in Excel

31 Jul 2010

See also: Ghostzilla
The browser itself is just a reworked version of Internet Explorer, although it won’t import any bookmarks from there. You can, however, enter in any Web address, or pick from a small selection of sites from Double Vision’s content portal.
What makes the software so special is that you can control the transparency of [...]

Splattering graffiti across Web with ShiftSpace

31 Jul 2010

In other words, ShiftSpace is mildly interesting, but I don’t (yet) see the point. Can someone enlighten me?
I will admit that I still don’t 100 percent understand what I’m supposed to be doing with ShiftSpace, an open-source “browser plug-in for collaboratively annotating, editing, and shifting the Web.”

Then there’s SourceShift, which allows you to re-tool a [...]

SodaHead.com slurps up $8.4 million

31 Jul 2010

The company’s previous round, with veteran investor Ron Conway and Tech Coast Angels contributing, had totaled $4.3 million.
Its name might be wacky, but some investors with deep pockets think it’s the real thing: SodaHead.com, a polling and answers site, announced Wednesday that it has raised $8.4 million in Series B venture funding. The money comes [...]

iPhone to ingest EA’s ‘Spore Origins’

31 Jul 2010

Apple has scheduled a music-related event for Tuesday that’s widely expected to involve iPod news.
The full-fledged Spore goes on sale Sunday in North America. Players get to design their own creatures before beginning on an evolutionary quest through the game’s many levels.
The company also has versions of Spore Origins for other iPod models and non-Apple [...]

Yahoo’s stock hits new 52-week low

31 Jul 2010

This post was updated at 1:12 p.m. PDT with the closing price of Yahoo’s stock and other related information.

“A DOJ approval would be mildly positive for the stock,” said Mark May, an analyst for Needham & Co. “It has a greater than 50 percent chance of being approved, so it’s already baked into the current [...]