Designers of the pint-sized Chumby widget player have partnered with Samsung to bring the technology to digital photo frames and televisions.A Chumby features a 3.5 inch LCD touch screen embedded in a plush bean bag-like casing, along with a wifi adapter for internet access. More than 1,000 widgets...read more...

Pioneer didn't introduce any new plasma HDTVs or LCD TVs during its keynote during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), instead focusing on Blu-ray technology. The company introduced three new Blu-ray players, with prices ranging from entry-level to expensive. The entry-level Pioneer BDP-120...read more...

Sony officially introduced two new Walkman MP3 players the Japanese company hopes will help steal market share away from the dominant Apple iPod juggernaut. The most interesting Walkman, the X-Series, has a 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen display, WiFi Internet, and integrated noise cancellation. ...read more...

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) may have just kicked off, but there already is a growing buzz surrounding 3D TV -- a growing phenomenom with more companies slowly jumping on board, aiming for the living room and computer monitors. South Korean company LG thinks 3D TV is the "next big...read more...

Panasonic introduced what it says is the world's first portable Blu-ray Disc player during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) currently underway in Las Vegas. The Panasonic DMP-B15 has an 8.9-inch screen (1024 x 600 resolution), BD-Live supported, SD card slot, and has around three hours of total...read more...

The SD Association has unveiled a new generation of SD cards, dubbed SDXC. These "eXtended Capacity" cards are likely to provide 64 GB of storage at first and will eventually max out at a whopping 2 TB.Read/write speeds will start at 104 MB per second, but the SD Association plans to push...read more...

As more TV manufacturers begin to help blur the lines between TV and PC, Toshiba will enter the fray after releasing information about a new TV using the same microchip in the Sony PlayStation 3. Originally developed by Toshiba, Sony and IBM, the Cell chip will be used on the TV to have as many as...read more...

There's a joke in the journalism business that when something happens three times, it can automatically be dubbed a trend. If there's any truth to that statement, then this year's Consumer Electronics Show suggests a Year of the Slim on the horizon.First, Lenovo introduced the IdeaCentreA600, an...read more...

During its annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference, LG Electronics again demonstrated its efforts to add streaming content to standalone Blu-ray players. Specifically, two new Blu-ray players will have LG NetCast Entertainment Access support, which gives owners access to a...read more...

SanDisk today introduced the slotRadio music player during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), as a portable music player for users who aren't tech savvy. The slotRadio Player has a die-cast aluminum casing with a 1.5-in. OLED screen that shows which channel is being played, and what FM radio...read more...

New market research shows a sizable jump in the online viewing habits of Americans.Last November, Americans viewed 34 percent more online video compared to the same month in 2007, according to a press release from ComScore. Thanks to YouTube, Google was the juggernaut of online video providers,...read more...

Samsung has introduced a new 100GB 2.5-inch single-level cell solid state drive designed specifically for servers using applications including video on demand, online transaction processing, or streaming media content. Announced during the Storage Vision 2009 Conference, Samsung is promoting its...read more...

Two companies are using the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as a platform to demonstrate storage devices based on the new USB 3.0 format. Seagate and Symwave worked together to have the first application of the "SuperSpeed" USB 3.0 technology in a real...read more...

Samsung has unveiled its latest series of Full HD camcorders which offer a major improvement in optical image stabilisation, according to Dvice. As camcorders are very prone to hand shake when filming by hand, image stabilisation plays a very big part in reducing erratic motion during...read more...

Power Quotient International (PQI) plans to show off a new range of solid state drive (SSD) hard drives this week during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas. The company based in Taiwan plan to display the 1.8-in. S518 microSATA SSD, and the 2.5-in. S525 SSD, with...read more...

During the opening keynote of the Macworld Conference & Expo, Apple announced a change to its pricing strategy used for the popular iTunes online music store. Apple traditionally has charged $0.99 for each song, but the new plan will charge $0.69, $0.99, or $1.29 per song, depending how...read more...

Since its launch in November 2005, Microsoft has sold more than 28 million Xbox 360 through the end of 2008, Microsoft joyfully said in a statement. The company also has sold 8 million Xbox 360 units during the Christmas holiday shopping season, with Xbox 360 2008 Christmas sales doubling over the...read more...

Roxio has launched Toast 10 Titanium, the company's latest burning software aimed specifically at Macs. Although Toast 10 can still of course burn data, music and videos to CDs and DVDs, Roxio is shifting towards moving the information around instead of burning data. New features include...read more...

Samsung and Yahoo will team up to bring the "Internet@TV" Yahoo-powered widget interface to select models of Samsung TVs in the company's latest line of HDTVs, which will be unveiled during CES later this week. TV owners will be able to share pictures, check news and stock portfolios,...read more...

As the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) quickly approaches later this week, Samsung is prepared to unveil what is said to be the world's slimmest LCD TV ever shown. The South Korean made TV is just 6.5 millimeters (0.26 in.) thick, and is thinner than any competing TVs available on the market...read more...

Amazon has announced its Video on Demand service will head to the Roku Netflix Player sometime in 2009, becoming the first non-Netflix channel through Roku. Amazon VoD will add more than 40,000 movies and television shows to the Roku Player, with Netflix adding around 12,000 titles for...read more...

Despite the newer next-generation video game consoles available today, the Sony PlayStation 2 remains the most used console, the latest Nielsen Media Research study reports. The PS2 takes up 30.2 percent with the Microsoft Xbox 360 console in second place with 18.3 percent. The...read more...

For many years, the RIAA has been using the company MediaSentry (now SafeNet) to find people illegally sharing music. To date, MediaSentry has helped the largest music labels file lawsuits against about 35,000 people. Just before the end of 2008, the RIAA decided to finally do away with...read more...

Netflix and LG have announced that LG will introduce TVs that can directly access Netflix movies without the need for a separate set-top box. Netflix subscribers with one of these TVs would be able to access movies and TV shows directly from the TV for instant viewing via their broadband...read more...

Verbatim recently introduced two new Quad Interface Desktop hard drives with storage capacities of 500GB and 1TB, as more companies begin to increase the storage capacities of external HDDs. Both drives will support USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and eSata II -- and both drives will have 32MB...read more...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) wanted the Federal Communications Commission's permission to use a controversial anti-piracy technique in which the FCC would grant a waiver for blocking selected video outputs. "I'm not supportive of moving forward with this MPAA proposal at...read more...

LG is set to fire the next shot in the television Hertz war with plans to unleash a 480Hz LCD TV in 2009.Due to be on display at CES in Las Vegas next week, the "Trumotion 480Hz" set will feature a 4 millisecond response time and a "scanning backlight" technology that turns the...read more...

Research firm The Information Network indicates hard disc drives (HDD) continue to lose market ground to flash memory technologies, and the trend will continue in the foreseeable future. "The HDD market already lost the battle in the small form factor market such as MP3 and cameras to...read more...

Despite the growth of digital music sales in 2008, the music industry suffered as compact disc music sales continued a downward slide. The Nielsen SoundScan year-end figures also revealed CDs are the most profitable and common medium for all recorded music, as it still snaps up 85 percent of...read more...

Microsoft won a battle in the overall war against piracy in China, after the ringleaders of a large-scale Chinese counterfeiting ring were handed jail sentences after being busted in 2007. "Microsoft greatly appreciates the work of China's PSB and the FBI in taking strong enforcement action...read more...