Tag Archive for 'internet'
If you want to see all the NBC season premiers before anyone else, you’re going to want to point your web browser to Hulu. NBC Universal has decided to premier their season openers on the online video site, which was created by the company in partnership with News Corp.
After several hours running Chrome and exploring its functionality, hands-on reports are coming in from all over the web. As you might expect for the first release of beta software - even software Google claim has been in development for two years and tested thoroughly at the Googleplex - there are various bug sightings and [...]
Google’s Chrome browser is now available for download. The Chrome site now has details of the browser’s functionality, including video interviews with the development team and video demos of each major feature. However this first beta release is only available for Windows XP and Vista; Mac and Linux owners will have to wait.
First impressions of [...]
Google have announced plans to take on Microsoft and Firefox with their own open-source browser, codenamed Chrome, by releasing a specially drawn comic by Scott McCloud explaining the app. Based on the existing Webkit rendering engine, Chrome will integrate not only tab-based browsing but Google Gears and a newly integrated search and address system called [...]
Seemingly taking a leaf out of B&O’s design book, Grundig’s Audion 8 hifi server is the company’s first networked media hub. Combining a CD recorder, internet radio, 250GB hard-drive and UPnP server, the Audion 8 connects to your network via either WiFi or wired ethernet and can serve up and manage your digital media collection.
PURE has just announced that they’ll be releasing an Internet radio device that makes listening to your favorite stations a breeze. And get this: you don’t have to be near a computer to enjoy them.
The Pure Evoke Flow radio will be released in the UK next month. The radio works by connecting wirelessly to a [...]
Archos started hinting at new products last week, and the curtains have finally been drawn on the company’s new Internet Media Tablets. Three new models have been introduced, the Archos 5 and Archos 7, which both include high-resolution touchscreens, WiFi, up to 320GB storage and slender casings, and the Archos 5g which adds 3G HSDPA [...]
Scientists at the University of Oxford are experimenting with ways to increase internet speeds by, ironically, slowing down the light used in fiber optic communications. The boost would come through replacing the existing system required to separate and route different signals to different destinations. Using so-called metamaterials, that can be engineered to slow light down, [...]
Nikon have taken the wraps off of their latest digital camera, the COOLPIX P6000. Bearing a 13.5-megapixel CCD, the seriously-dressed P6000 also hides a GPS receiver in its casing, to geotag photos. There’s also a 4x Zoom-NIKKOR lens and a wired LAN connection that allows you to upload images directly to an internet file store [...]
I don’t spend all that much time watching TV anymore. In fact, while I spend more time than ever in front of the computer, I hardly ever sit for hours straight in front of the TV. And I’m okay with that. And though we have a DVR and all of that, I still don’t get [...]
