If you are a DirecTV subscriber, a new gadget might be on the way that will liberate all of that content you have on your DVR at home and allow you to watch it from mobile devices. The box is rumored to be called the Nomad. There has been no official announcement of the device at this point from DirecTV. The existence of the device surfaced on a teaser page spied on the DirecTV website simply noting it was coming soon.
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Archive for August, 2011
DirecTV Nomad device rumored to stream movies and TV to mobile devices
HP offers Quickoffice update allowing editing of documents and more
We had some issues with the HP TouchPad back when it first landed and we reviewed the tablet. I had always thought that the chances of a third OS making it in the tablet market were slim. Most tablet shoppers go for the iPad and the ones that don’t go iPad were looking for Android tablets. WebOS just never had a chance I think.
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GM OnStar RemoteLink app gets update for navigation on iPhone and Android
OnStar has announced a new update for the iPhone and Android versions of the RemoteLink app. The app will work with any RemoteLink-enabled vehicle. The new update is cool because it allows the driver to select a destination using their smartphone and then shoot that destination over to the car for turn-by-turn driving directions.
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Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale packs a serious punch
In the world of Italian exotic sports cars, a few names stick in my mind. Those names are Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini. All three have a penchant for producing some seriously fast cars. Compared to Ferrari and Lamborghini, Maserati often has almost as much focus on luxury as performance. Maserati has a new version of its sweet GranTurismo sports car called the GranTurismo MC Stradale.
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iPhone 5 dual mode device shows up in usage logs
There has been a huge amount of rumors swirling around the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S. Several rumors point to the launch of the device in October, but we still know nothing concrete on the launch date. New reports are coming in that the iPhone 5 dual mode is showing up in usage logs. According to reports, the listing for a device believed to be the iPhone 5 showing two different sets of mobile country codes and mobile network codes used to identify mobile carriers has been showing up in the logs.
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LG to show off new Roboking VR6180VMC robotic vacuum with cameras and smartphone control at IFA 2011
LG will show off a cool new robotic vacuum cleaner at IFA 2011 called the Roboking VR680VMNC. It remains me more than a little of the Toshiba robot vacuum that I talked about a few days ago. The LG offering has three cameras and a host of sensors that help it to navigate your home and clean things up. The coolest thing is that the LG Roboking vacuum can be controlled remotely.
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WiFi Certification for Samsung GT-I9220 Super AMOLED HD smartphone spied
There was a photo floating around earlier this month that was originally said to be the Samsung GT-I9220 smartphone. That photo was later shown to be of a different device and that could have raised doubts in the minds of some as to whether or not the Samsung smartphone actually existed. The GT-I9220 does exist and as of yesterday, the smartphone had its WiFi certification.
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Ken Block’s Hybrid Function Hoon Vehicle gets sync tech
Ken Block is the master of hoon, the art of driving fast in small spaces. Block is the guy laying waste to tires and varied locations in the Gymkhana video series. The best of the videos all was the last one Gymkhana Four. It's hard to beat gorillas, flames, and sharks all in one video laced with awesome driving. Ford has announced that block's awesome Fiesta has gained Ford sync tech inside.
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Epson offers new app for direct printing from Android smartphones and tablets
Epson has offered an app for iOS devices called PrintJinni for almost a year now to allow the smartphone user to print photos and other items using the smartphone. Epson has now announced that it has a new app on the Android Market that will allow the Android smartphone or tablet user to print directly from their device as well. The Android app is the called Android iPrint.
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Active Media Products unveils SaberTooth M1 Mini SATA SSD
Active Media Products has a ton of SSDs for all sorts of products and uses that are in its SaberTooth line. The last of the products we talked about was the SaberTooth ZF SSD that was aimed at use in small notebooks and other devices. Active Media Products has rolled out another new SSD in the series called the SaberTooth M1. This storage drive is very small and made to slip into an mSATA port.
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iZON Remote Room Monitor streams live audio, video to iOS app
Here's a neat little wireless network camera from Stem Innovation called the iZON Remote Room Monitor that can stream both audio and video to your iOS device. It comes in handy if you've been trying to figure out which of your two dogs keeps leaving puddles indoors while you're away at work. And of course, for those with small children, it'll be a great way to keep an eye on them and have overall peace of mind.
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Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T Join Forces for $100M NFC Investment
There's some big money floating around right this minute, all of it aimed directly at NFC venture Isis, a soon to be rival of Google's NFC service known as Google Wallet. Mobile payments will be the way of the future if Japan is any indication, a mobile payment piece of hardware a MUST in every smartphone (and quite a few feature phones too) on the islands if you want to sell a single unit. Bloomberg has some "people with knowledge of the project" who are saying that this investment is set to be a big step toward what Juniper Research says is a $670 billion dollar market by 2015.
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