Japan gets official on plans and details for world's fastest maglev

We'd already heard about Central Japan Railway Company's not-so-near-term intentions to deploy a speedy new maglev system in the country, but it looks like it's just now getting official with things, and it's still promising to have it up and running no soo... full story

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Windows 7 to get integrated touch features?

Regardless of how Tablet PCs have actually done in the marketplace, Microsoft has always been a staunch proponent of touch interfaces, and it looks like the next version of Windows, currently under the codename...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

ReplayTV changes hands again, acquired by DirecTV

DirecTV just did itself a solid and picked up the pre-TiVo DVR company, ReplayTV, from parent company D&M. We don't know what all bundle of valuable time-shifting IP and patents wound up being worth in th...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Activision blocking Guitar Hero III axes from working in Rock Band

We could tell by the tone of Mr. Charles Huang's voice that something just wasn't right, and now it seems the truth has finally emerged. According to the Harmonix team, Activision is the reason why Guitar Hero...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Sony's Stringer: OLED TV in US "next year"

So we had a bit of bad, OLED-related news this morning. Now for the good. Sir Howard Stringer just announced plans to launch their 3-mm OLED TV into the US market. While it's not coming this year as we had hope...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Nokia, like Apple, will seek its slice of the revenue sharing pie

The argument of the iPhone being an industry "game changer" repeatedly suffers the same pitfall: people end up arguing about the device, not the deal. Fact is, the oh-so-secretive, revenue-sharing model which A...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

B&O teams up with Aston Martin -- but that's not why we're smiling

Aston Martin and Bang & Olufsen just announced a new "creative partnership." No details were provided but we can assume that it means the introduction of some B&O audio into future Aston Martin automob...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Trigem's El breaks into GPS with style

We're not going to pretend to fully understand the machine translated text we've been given. However, we know this, that's one sexy SatNav and in-car entertainment device for S.Korea up there. In what looks to...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Toshiba's Satellite T31 arrives with Vista, Windows XP in box

Tired of fretting about which flavor of Windows will work best for you? Toshiba's apparently feeling your pain, and is looking to remedy said quandary by tossing in both operating systems with its new 15.4-inc...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

RealNetworks lays off a hundred employees

Around a hundred employees at RealNetworks are dealing with the news that their job is no longer available, and about 35 of those positions were in Seattle, Washington while the others were in Asia / Europe. Ac...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Dell XPS M1730 review roundup

If you're down with your "laptop" weighing some 10.6-pounds, and you don't mind shelling out copious quantities of cash in order to see those frame rates hold steady in the triple digits, the XPS M1730 has you...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Snag Vista Ultimate for free, in exchange for your privacy

Microsoft's been keeping its record pretty clean of late, but we suppose it couldn't end the year without a parting shot meant to cheese off the ultra-private, Microsoft-eats-children types. The company's lates...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

NVIDIA reveals GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB

Not even two months after NVIDIA tempted gamers on a budget with the GeForce 8800 GT, the outfit has loosed a new beast just in time for those eleventh hour holiday shoppers. Based on 65-nanometer fabrication,...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Xbox Live Video Marketplace launches in five new countries

Right on cue, the Xbox Live Video Marketplace has indeed launched in Europe today, and our neighbors to the north are being treated, too. Effectively immediately, Xbox Live users in Canada, France, Germany, Ir...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Tomato rolls out Tomato Video PMP

It looks like Korea's Tomato has trotted out yet another decidedly un-tomato like PMP, with its new Tomato Video player offering many of the same features of the company's U24 model in a slightly more streamli...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Hands-on with BetaBlue, JetBlue's WiFi-equipped Airbus

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updated Wed December 12, 2007

Samsung's BD-P1400 Blu-ray player dips to $270

Whoa, Nelly! Just three days after we saw Samsung's BD-P1400 crack the $300 barrier, the unit is now down below $270 at Amazon. More specifically, it can be had right now for $269.98, which certainly brings i...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Willcom shows off an Android prototype

Android might have launched last month in a cloud of vapor, but since then we've seen a couple of concrete developments from Google's mobile phone project. The latest comes courtesy of Japan's Willcom, which r...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

UPOP "PMP" treads dangerously close to UMPC territory

We've already seen some so-called PMPs that are seemingly secretly longing to be a UMPC, but none have tread quite so closely as UPOP's latest device, which likely won't let you ditch you laptop altogether but...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Live coverage of Google's Android Gphone mobile OS announcement

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updated Tue November 06, 2007

Engadget nominated in the 2007 Weblog Awards, voting still open

Yeah, we know you've been hearing a lot about the 2007 Weblog Awards in the last couple of days as your source(s) for news across a variety of topics have likely been shamelessly whoring for votes in a bid for...