Remember that smattering of new FinePix cameras that leaked late last month? Turns out that Fujifilm had a bunch more in store that were missed, and we’re bringing the whole lot to you tonight.
Late last week, I wrote a post about how netbooks running Chrome OS and the iPad were on a collision course . Some people took exception to that, noting the iPad was only a touchscreen device while Chrome OS was created to be used with more traditional computing form factors, like netbooks and laptops.
Still plagued by the annoying screen flicker on your precious 27-inch iMac , even after the previous update ? Try this second attempt by Apple .
As you may have heard by now, many of Apple’s new 27-inch iMacs are more like iLemons . While the systems themselves are fine (and fast) there have been a ton of reports about problems with the screens (including mine and at least one other TechCrunch writer).
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We’re sort of loving Acer’s new bad-boy vibe — not only have company execs recently gone on record saying that US PC manufacturers will be dead within 20 years and that the ” change the Microsoft-Intel environment ” but now they’re standing firm while everyone else races to do a tablet. At least that’s the word from Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin, who told Digitimes that while Acer can certainly produce a tablet device, it doesn’t fit into the company’s business model.
Netflix adds hundreds of independent films to their streaming Watch Instantly section, iTunes gets a minor update, Chromium nightly builds automatically translate foreign-language web pages, and we stick a few needles in the IE voodoo doll. Netflix Adds Hundreds of Indie Films That Can Be Watched Instantly Through a String of New Streaming Deals Netflix keeps pushing forward its Watch Instantly streaming content, and so far, users win. [PR Newswire] Tutorial: Making the IE Voodoo Doll Really hate IE6?
In the movie Contact , when revealing to main character Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) that there is actually a second space travel machine that was being built at the same time as the first one, but in secret, S.R. Hadden (John Hurt) says, “ why build one when you can have two at twice the price? ” Apple, it seems, may have the same line of thinking.
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Last time we saw the 10-inch EROS tablet it was powered down and pouting about its two hours of battery life, but the tablet’s pulled itself together and powered up to show off its skills. he performance is pretty much what you would expect of a Intel Atom-powered Windows 7 Home Premium netbook with its keyboard chopped off, and f rom what we’ve been able to glean from the 11 minute video below the touchscreen seems responsive to writing with a stylus and to flicks of photos and pages in a comic book.