ReadWriteWeb:
At the Macworld 2009 keynote today, Apple announced that by the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs available on iTunes will be DRM free (Digital Rights Management). As of today, 8 million songs will be DRM free, with the other 2 million done by end of Q1 09. This is long overdue, especially considering that Steve Jo (Read More)
: It's lame, you have to upgrade every song, at the same time, plus the quality of the DRM free songs is so much better, makes me frustrated I bought the other stuff, didn't now better.
Gizmodo:
The top end of Toshiba's new Regza LCDs will bring all of thie year's standard top-end specs—240Hz, LED-backlight with local dimming, with a sprinkling of other upgrades throughout the rest of the new line. Toshiba is also pushing hard on the sub-features sprinkled throughout the other two quality levels (including the XV64 (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Rand McNally has been in the travel biz so long, I wouldn't be surprised if they made maps of Pangaea. With that kind of history, you know you can trust their Navigon GPS travel guides. Specifically, Navigon has partnered with Rand McNally to bring Scenic Routes and City Guides to their GPS devices. Rand McNally’s Scenic (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Last CES, we wondered where Samsung's superb LED TVs were hiding. Here they are: Three new LED LCD series—all with uber-dark blacks, the high end with 240Hz, and each just over an inch thick. Whoa. The LNXXB8000, LNXXB7000 and LNXXB6000 all feature super-slim ("around an inch" for all three) Touch of Color bezels (the 8000 (Read More)
Gizmodo:
LG is picking up where they left off with the Netflix-juiced BD300 in their Broadband HDTVs and plasmas, as well as the brand new BD370 and BD390 Blu-ray decks and a slew of HTIBs. The supported TVs with Netcast are the 47 and 42-inch LH50 LCDs and 60 and 50-inch PS80 plasmas. Netcast also adds Cinemanow and YouTube, as we (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Lacie's 2big Quadra is half the RAID drive of its bigger brother the 4big, but still keeps all the connectivity with a nice design and a reasonable price tag. The 2big with its two bays and a max capacity of 3TB has four RAID modes including RAID 0, RAID 1, and a hot swap feature. Transfer rates can reach up to 165MB/s thro (Read More)
Gizmodo:
LaCie's 2big Quadra is half the RAID drive of its bigger brother the 4big, but still keeps all the connectivity with a nice design and a reasonable price tag. The 2big with its two bays and a max capacity of 3TB has four RAID modes including RAID 0, RAID 1, and a hot swap feature. Transfer rates can reach up to 165MB/s thro (Read More)