Well it looks like Asus has decided to up the ante in the ongoing game of eBook reader development. Trying to compete with Amazon’s market leading Kindle and Sony’s highly anticipated Reader series, Asus is planning on a dual screen eBook reader to better simulate the two sidedness of reading an actual paper based book. [...]
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Tags: Asus, eBook, Eee, reader, Sony 
2 Comments »In case anyone was wondering about the validity of 3D TV after Sony’s release yesterday, Philips and Panasonic today both announced plans to begin incorporating high definition 3D technology into some of their upcoming products. The announcements came at the IFA 2009 consumer electronics show in Berlin. Panasonic is launching a cross country promotional tour [...]
Posted in 3D Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Emerging Technology, Technology, TV and Video Tags: 3D, Blu-ray, LCD, Panasonic, Philips, plasma, Sony, TV 2 Comments »We recently posted news of LG’s pending release of large format OLED TVs, in which it was suggested that anyone currently considering buying a new TV may want to wait for that technology to fully materialize (and come down in price). Well, today Sony, adding to its slew of recent new product releases in what [...]
Posted in 3D Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Emerging Technology, Technology, TV and Video Tags: 3D, Bravia, HD, LCD, Sony, TV 3 Comments »In what can only be described as a harsh reality check for Microsoft, Sony today made public its plans to ship all of its Vaio laptops with the Google Chrome web browser pre-installed instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has enjoyed unrivaled ubiquity since the demise of Netscape Navigator years ago and it being the [...]