Category: Hardware

Lenovo has become the first announced customer for Ericsson’s HSPA module, which includes a GPS receiver, and will start offering laptops with this embedded later this year. read more | digg story

NVIDIA announced its intent to buy physics processor company Ageia today and indicated it plans to adopt the company’s PhysX processor for use in next-generation GPUs. Given Intel’s recent decision to acquire Havok, physics seems to be the arena in which the next-generation of performance battles will take place. read more | digg story

Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND chip into their chubbier iPhone. The Surprise is a new 32GB iPod touch for the same $499.…

How do 200MBps reads and 100MBps writes in a storage device sound to you? Pretty sweet if you ask us. read more | digg story

Granted, it’s hard to put too much stock in just a week or two of data, but if this and the recent media sales numbers (85 percent) becomes a trend, maybe this won’t be such a slow death for HD DVD after all. read more | digg story

The first unboxing photos for the MacBook Air come from what appears to be a remote Macworld Expo presentation in Japan. The pictures show that they received their demonstration MacBook Air in the retail packaging. read more | digg story

With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting. read more | digg story

John Gruber wrote, “After using my iPhone for a few months, it started feeling weird that my PowerBook doesn’t have ubiquitous wireless networking. I’d pay for it.” Me, too. Unlike Wi-Fi, an AT&T wireless MacBook could go online almost anywhere. That’s something that could make consumers dump Windows. read more | digg story

1080p and QuadHD / 4K can take a step back, the Japanese government has announced plans to bring Super Hi-Vision (a.k.a. Ultra High Definition) to life as a broadcast standard by 2015. Damn those Japanese! read more | digg story

This in-car Wi-Fi router brings the Internet to the car by offering the first wireless broadband network for passengers (note the emphasis) to check e-mail, chat, surf the Web, game or communicate via any Wi-Fi-enabled device — from media player to laptops to Wi-Fi-enabled cellphones to gaming consoles. read more | digg story