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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:22:59 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Sony Ericsson to do first Windows phone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Handset maker Sony Ericsson is announcing plans for its first Windows Mobile device, a move aimed at boosting the company's presence in the North American smartphone market.

The first product is a business-oriented phone with a QWERTY keyboard, but a family of devices is expected. Over time, Microsoft hopes Sony Ericsson will leverage its camera and music expertise to help build more consumer-oriented devices.

"They've really got some great consumer brands that we'd love to partner with...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:22:59 PST</pubDate>
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<title>OpenFrame: ‘The iPhone of home phones’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The OpenFrame is a home phone envisioned by John Sculley, former Apple CEO â that resembles Apple's iPhone. Designed to be used with services like Verizon's FiOS. It features a large, bright touch screen with a very iPhone-like interface of cuddly icons and touch keypads, as well as some standard phone handsets you can use to just make calls.

The various devices are built on Freescale MX31 processors "with two 600-MHz ARM11 chips doing the heavy lifting" for features like streaming video,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:13:46 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Maxian's E900T PMP / GPS navigator offers endless possibilities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Maxian E900T is a multi-functional personal media player from Korea. Lately weâve seen a lot of new gadgets with similar features from Korea but Maxian E900T at least has a slightly different form factor. It has a 4.3â³ TFT touch screen, but also features interface buttons on each side.

It comes in two versions - 30GB and 60GB - and it has support for almost any multimedia file you can think of. It even has a memory slot that accepts SD cards, and a Li-Ion battery that has 4000mAh...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:39:29 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Hello Kitty Expands Upon Arsenal With AR-15 Rifle</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world would be a much happier place if we could all get along and all the wars would see their end. But who would think something as cute as Hello Kitty would be on such an unlikely object such as a rifle?! According to the designer: "in the "spirit" of the California Assault Weapon Ban I decided to do my best to alleviate the fears of my fellow citizens and gun-banning legislators when I put together a new AR-15 for my wife."

Just imagine anyone using this in a real war. I bet the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:50:50 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Toshiba announces entry into SSDs with 128GB drives</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Toshiba has announced their entry into the rapidly crowding market for NAND-flash-based solid-state drives with nine products ranging in storage capacities from 32GB to 128GB in three form factors: an embedded module, and both 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch notebook friendly drive enclosures.

Toshibaâs SSDs are based on multilevel-cell NAND flash memory chips, which allows for large amounts of storage in such small devices. The drives will use a SATA interface with a transfer rate of 3Gbps to reach...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:25:37 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Hasselblad rolls out 39 megapixel H3D II DSLR</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hasselbladâs H3D line of products achieve a new level of digital maturity and integration with the launch of the H3D-II, the fourth iteration of the camera system and one that can now justifiably lay claim to be the worldâs finest digital SLR camera. Offering unsurpassed image quality delivered through an outstanding combination of hardware, software and lenses, the H3D-II is the clear leader in the high-end DSLR category, now a recognized segment of the photographic market. The H3D-II is...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:19:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Sony Officially Announces Rolly</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There were rumors on the Rolly crawling the internet for a while now, and today Sony finally unveils the truth about this new robotic toy, the ROLLY.

Essentially the ROLLY is a kind of wireless speaker/audio player with 1GB of internal memory, you can interact with it and select the tracks you want to listen to. The Rolly is an autonomous audio player and has a battery life of 5h when it plays music from its internal memory and 4h 30m if the music it streamed to the ROLLY via Bluetooth...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:50:15 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>HD VMD: $150 1080p HD player to Battle Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) trade show in Denver, a company promoting a new high-definition optical disc format demonstrated set-top players and high-definition movies that cost far less than ones that use the competing Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD formats. The only faux pas: Arriving late to a two-party format war that consumers are already reluctant to support.

Next month, New Medium Enterprises' 1080p set-top players, which use the HD VMD (Versatile...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:19:59 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Hello Kitty Robot For Lazy Parents</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This robot ($6,299) can communicate with your using the Hello Kitty's voice. It can chat with you in 3 different situations: 1 As a close friend; 2 With the family; 3 Guessing game. Featuring face recognition through a CMOS sensor and voice recognition through a microphone.

"This is a perfect robot for whoever does not have a lot time to stay with child. Hello Kitty Robo can help you to stay with your child to keep them from being lonely. "]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:12:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Japan unveils iPhone killer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sophia Mobile has stepped up to challenge Jobs' creation with a device called the Nani.

In Japanese, "nani" (literally translated means "what?") is usually what you'd say to someone taking on Cupertino's favorite hippie-mogul. But Nani has a few things going for it: a large, 4.3-inch touchscreen (yes, a touchscreen!), video playback at 800 x 400 pixels, a MicroSD card slot, Wi-Fi capability, a camera and a TV tuner.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:28:34 PDT</pubDate>
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